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T A K I N G C O L D
(THE CAUSE OF HALF OUR DISEASEs);
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lature, Causes, prebention, & Curt;
ITS FREQUENCY AS A CAUSE OF OTHER DISEASES,
AND THE DISEASES OF WHICH IT IS THE CAUSE,
WITH THEIR DIAGNOSIS AND THEATMENT.
Jºº.
JOHN W. HAYWARD, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.S.A.,
Author of “Allopathy and Homoeopathy Contrasted"; “The Vale or
Conway Spa’”; “The Guide to Trefriw”; “Some of the Sanitary
Necessities of Housebuilding ”; and joint Author with
Dr. Drysdale of “Health and Comfort in
Bousebuilding.”
“ The knowledge of the cause of the disease is the key to the
symptoms and treatment.”
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C O N T E N T S.
PREFACE.
PART I. — DESCRIPTION, SYMptoms, CAUSFs,
MEANs of PREVENTION, AND TREATMENT OF A
CoLD. :-
The number of diseases.—The causes of disease:
predisposing, exciting.—Taking cold the most pro-
lific cause of disease.-Nature of a cold.—Stages of
cold.—In a cold the weak part suffers.-Example of
partial exposure.-Example of general exposure.—
Explanation of the results of taking cold.—Physio-
logy of a cold.--Causes of taking cold: insufficient
and improper clothing, falling to sleep in waking
clothing, draught of air, cold air, damp air, chill
after exertion; damp clothes, boots, seats.-The
causes of cold are constantly in operation.— All
persons exposed to them.—It is a wonder we are
ever free from cold.—Diagnosis of a cold.—Evidence
of having taken a cold.—Sameness of all the primary
effects of taking cold.—Pathology of a cold.—De-
ranged nervous tension.—Check of cell-growth,

iv. CONTENTS.
Check of nervous circulation.—Check of blood cir-
culation.—Congestion. — Inflammation.— Fever.—
Nature's cure, vis medicatria natura.-Same treat-
ment required for all the primary effects of cold.—
Key to the symptoms and treatment of the majority
of diseases.—Leading idea to be kept in mind.-
Single diseased state requires a single remedy.—
Results of taking cold.—Taking cold the cause of
most diseases.—List of diseases caused by taking
cold.—Prevention of taking cold.—Means of pre-
vention.—Proper clothing.—When to alter clothing.
—The parts to be covered.—Proper food.-Not to be
exposed when hungry.-Washing in cold water.—
Turkish baths.-Respirators: best, improper.—The
medicine to be used as a preventive after exposure.
—What to do after exposure.—What to do when a *
person's peculiar illness shows itself—The prevent-
ive medicine or antidote.—Treatment of a cold.-
Domestic treatment.—Professional treatment.—Two
stages of a cold.-The medicine that corresponds—
The proper medicine.--The medicines that do not
correspond.—Improper medicines.—Aconite is the
medicine.—Symptoms and pathology of aconite and
of a cold compared.—Dr. Hempel's recommendation
of aconite.--Dr. Reil's explanation of the sphere and
power of aconite.—The treatment recommended.—
Advice to use aconite at once and alone.—To use
aconite for the beginning of all diseases.—Benefit of
this advice.—One pathological state should be met
by one medicine.—Dr. Dudgeon's eulogy of aconite.
–Tribute to Hahnemann.--Supplementary direc-
tions for treatment, ‘. . . . ;

CONTENTS. V
PART II.-DESCRIPTION, SYMPTOMs, AND TREAT-
MENT OF DISEASEs BROUGHT ON By “TAKING
JoDD.”
Catarrh : description of parts involved, varieties,
symptoms, and treatment.*–Cold in the eyes.-
Jold in the nose.--Influenzal catarrh.-Specific in-
fluenza.-Cold in the throat: description of regions
and parts involved, varieties, symptoms, and treat-
ment.—Common sore throat.—Faucial catarrh.-
Pharyngeal catarrh.-Quinsy.--Diphtheria.-La-
ryngeal catarrh. — Acute laryngitis. – Croup.–
Tracheal catarrh. — Asthma. – Consumption. —
Pleurisy.— Peritonitis. – Gastric catarrh. — Diar-
rhoea.—Bilious attack.--Jaundice.—Tabesmesenteri-
ca.-Mesenteric disease.-Glandular enlargements.
—Diseases of bones.—Congestion of the kidneys.-
Congestion of the bladder.—Suppression of menses,
checked monthly.— Mammary abscess.-Rheuma-
tism, rheumatic fever. —Erysipelas. – Congestion
of the brain, infantile convulsions.—Hydrocephalus.
– Dropsy. — Sciatica. — Chilblains. – Cough. —
Hoarseness.-INDEX.
* Mucous membrane; serous membrane ; fibrous mem-
brane, localities and description of, and effects of inflam-
mation of.


PREFACE TO FIFTH EDITION.
& wººxºsºwºw:3&
THIS Essay was
originally published under the convic-
tion that, by attention to the direc-
tions it contains, persons may not
only very frequently avoid taking
cold, but may themselves frequently
cure a cold at its onset, and thereby
prevent the development of many
of those serious diseases that would
otherwise follow. The favourable
reception it has met with is a suffi-
cient testimony that it has been found
useful.
The present edition has been care-
fully revised, and several typogra-
phical errors have been corrected.
G Rove STREET, LIVERPool.
December, 1874.














PART I.
DESCRIPTION, SYMPTOMS, CAUSES, MEANS OF
PREVENTION, AND TREATMENT OF A COLD.
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DISEASES AND THEIR CAUSEs.
The health of man-
kind is deranged and destroyed in a
great variety of ways, and by a vast
number of means.
The ways in which
the health is deranged are termed
“DISEASEs,” and the means producing
these derangements are the “CAUSEs "
of disease. -
DISEASEs.
The general recog-
nised diseases are about ninety in
number; and these produced, in Eng-
2 TAKING Cold As A CAUSE OF DISEASE.
land alone, in the year 1861, 427,460
deaths. The causes of these ninety
kinds of disease are, of course, various,
and not always single ; sometimes
many causes contribute to produce
one disease, and sometimes many dis-
eases result from one cause.
THE CAUSEs of DISEASE.
The causes of dis-
ease are of two kinds, viz., predis-
posing and exciting.
sº The predisposing
causes are those which induce a pre-
disposition or susceptibility to disease,
and are such as hereditary constitu-
tion, general weakness, weakness of
some particular organ, unhealthy
states of the air, irregular and per-
nicious habits, and so on.
are those which excite the disease into
activity, and are such as infection,
fright, mental emotions, fatigue, im-
proper diet, taking cold, and so on.
Now, of all the





DISEASES CAUSED BY TAKING COLD. 3
causes of diseases, the most important,
the most general, and most prolific, is
TAKING COLD.
Taking cold is, in fact, the cause of
more numerous and more serious dis-
eases than is any other single known
cause ; indeed, it alone is the cause
of one-half the diseases that afflict
Olli’ I’a C6.
To give an idea of
how frequently taking cold is the
cause of disease, and of what a great
number, and of what serious ailments
it is the cause, I need only refer to
those very common diseases, catarrh,
influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia, con-
sumption, asthma, quinsy, sore-
throat, croup, pleurisy, rheumatism,
erysipelas, neuralgia, tic-douloureux,
toothache, headache, and the like,
which form the bulk of the daily work
of the physician, and which plainly
arise from taking cold; and many
other diseases also, in which the cause
is the same, though less evidently so;
for taking cold acts not only as an

4 DISEASES CAUSED BY TAKING COLD.
exciting, but also as a predisposing
cause ; that is, it not only brings on
disease immediately in a person pre-
disposed, but it reduces the power of
resistance, and thereby predisposes a
person to become the victim of epi-
demic and other diseases. Of
some diseases, as pneumonia, it is
always the cause ; of others, as ery-
sipelas and diarrhoea, it is sometimes
the cause. Of some, as catarrh and
bronchitis, it is the sole cause; of
others, as phthisis, tabes, and dropsy,
it is only a partial cause. Of some,
as rheumatism, erysipelas, and dia-
betes, it is an exciting cause ; and of
others, as asthma, diabetes, and the
fevers generally, it is a predisposing
cause. Indeed, of all the numerous
and varied influences that throw man
into a state of disease, none are more
potent or more general than those
that induce the state known as § 3. … . ;
ğ. “ A. CoLD.” .
This brings us to the consideration of

THE NATURE OF A COLD. B,
THE NATURE OF A CoID. ^
“A cold '' is a dis-
eased state brought on by the body
being exposed to cold, or having its
heat abstracted suddenly by cold air,
a draught of air, damp, or other
means. The precise nature of this
condition is, primarily, check or arrest
of the vital processes going on either
in some particular part of the body or
of the body as a whole, inducing chills
or shivering ; and, secondarily, exces-
sive and perverted action, inducing
inflammation or fever.
Localised excessive
and perverted action constitutes in-
flammation ; in this case the part
becomes hot, red, swollen, and pain-
ful, as in erysipelas, or the commence-
ment of a boil. General excessive
and perverted action constitutes fever;
in this case the whole system appears
to be in commotion and out of order;
there is, as it were, general heat, red-
ness, and painfulness, and feeling of
6 THE SYMPTOM'S AND STAGES of A cold.
general swelling, as in the beginning
of rheumatic fever, typhus fever,
scarlet fever, measles, smallpox, &c. … ?
THE SYMPTOMs AND STAGES OF A Cold.
The symptoms and
stages of a cold are—after the cause,
after exposure to cold—first, the
direct LOCAL effect, viz., a check or
obstruction of the vital processes
* going on in the cells of the part, with
constriction or diminution in size of
the blood-vessels, diminishing the
supply of blood and producing pale-
ness, with chilliness and diminished
sensibility; then the direct CONSTITU-
TIONAL effect, viz., general chills,
shivers or rigors, with “goose-flesh”
condition of the skin, and a disposi-
tion to put on extra clothing, to creep
towards the fire, to have stimulants,
and to drink hot drinks; this is the
stage of depression : after these there
the blood-vessels relax, open, and







THE SYMPTOMS AND STAGES OF A COLD. 7
enlarge, and admit too much blood;
this stimulates the cells to renewed
and excessive action, and there result
redness, heat, swelling, and increased
sensibility; then the indirect CONSTITU-
TIONAL effect follows, viz., flushes of
heat, with thirst, loss of appetite,
headache, &c., and disposition to
throw off the clothes, and to seek
cool places, and to drink cold water;
this is the stage of reaction. This
constitutional depression and reaction
recur again and again ; like a dis-
turbed magnet of a compass oscillat-
ing over the magnetic meridian first
to the east and then to the west, and
only by degrees settling with its point
to the north ; so these vital actions
keep oscillating from chills to heats
and from heats to chills, inducing the
state called fever ; the heart at the
same time beats quickly, laboriously,
and perhaps somewhat irregularly.
* ..w . If the part exposed
be sufficiently strong to recover its
natural action shortly, or if it be

8 THE PARTS AFFECTED IN A cold.
assisted by appropriate treatment to
do so, and no other organ be so weak
as to be excessively deranged by the
commotion, there will be a gradual
settling down to the state of health ;
but if any particular organ be so weak
that its vessels remained relaxed and
enlarged, it will become hot, red,
swollen, and tender, in fact, inflamed,
and a local disease will be the result ;
if it be the nervous system generally,
or the vascular system generally, that
is morbidly weak, then the constitu-
tional chills and heats will continue,
and the morbid action will continue
general, without settling in any par-
ticular organ as inflammation, and the
state known as a “fever” will be in-
duced.
THE PARTS AFFECTED IN A Cold.
By exposure of the
whole body to cold, a draught, or
damp, a person’s weak part or organ
will be very likely to suffer; and there-
ore, after any and every exposure, a


THE PARTS AFFECTED IN A COLD. 9
man should fear and be on the look-out
for the evil consequences, and be ready
to combat them promptly and appro-
priately. Should anyone have put on
damp boots, or coat, or other clothing;
should he have forgotten to put on his
neck-tie, or flannel; should he have
sat in a draught, or stood still whilst
perspiring after exertion; should he
have fallen asleepin his waking clothes;
should he have got his clothes wet
with rain ; or should he have been sub-
jected to any other kind of exposure,
he should be on the look-out for the
appearance of the ailment to which he
is most liable—he should fear that his
weak part will suffer, and he should
be prepared promptly and efficiently
to assist it to recover its natural state:
for here emphatically “a stitch in time
saves nine;” and prompt attention
may prevent the onset of a most dan-
gerous illness; but, if neglected, a cold
may end in the most serious conse-
quences.
10 ILLUSTRATIONs of TARING cold.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF TAKING Col.B.
º, ; : : º º º
- The following case
affords an example of the effects of
a partial exposure producing a local
disease:–A lady riding home in the
evening felt the wind through a
broken window of the car beating on
the right side of herface, which became
thereby cold, and slightly numb and
stiff; but, as the journey was short,
she did not alter her position. After
being in a warm room a short time, the
right cheek and side of the face began
to prick and burn; these increased
during the night, and ended in an
attack of erysipelas of the face and
head. This was cured by aconite and
The following case
affords an example of the effects of a
leneral exposure producing a local
ase:–A gentleman walked home
from a
- a dance on a cold night; he felt
chilled, and shivered a good deal, and
had a contracted sensation about the







ILLUSTRATIONS OF TAKING COLD. 11
chest. After having got home he
became hot, and suffered headache; in
the morning feverish symptoms were
present; cough supervened, and an
attack of inflammation of the lungs
was the result. This was cured by
aconite and phosphorus. --
. And the following
case gives an example of a general ex-
posure producing a general disease—a
continued fever:-A married gentle-
man, aged thirty-five, a cotton-broker,
had been much overworked both bodily
and mentally for three years, and kept
in continual mental strain by the ex-
cited state of the market, was exposed
to wet and cold one morning going
from Liverpool to Manchester; he felt
chilly during the day, and in the
evening had some headache; next day
he went to his office, but felt occa-
sional chills and heats, had but little
appetite, and was rather thirsty.
These symptoms gradually increased,
and on getting out of bed during the
next night he had a distinct shiver or
12 THE PHYSIOLOGY A COLD.
rigor; after getting into bed again
this was followed by a great heat of
body and intense throbbing headache,
with much thirst. A severe attack of
typhus fever followed, and he died on
the thirteenth day. In this case the
nervous and vascular systems, espe-
cially the former, were the weak parts,
from having been exhausted by con-
tinual strain.
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF A CoI.D.
- - An explanation of
these results of exposure to cold will
be found in the following facts, namely,
“All the processes of life result from
the operation of the nervous fluid;
the nervous fluid is analogous to the
electric fluid—some philosophers think
them identical—it acts in similar ways
, and under similar conditions, that is,
as positive and negative, and under
the stimulus of heat and cold. The
application of heat attracts the positive
and repels the negative, and the appli-
cation of cold attracts the negative


IMPROPER CLOTHING AS A CAUSE. 13
and repels the positive. The surface
of the body is generally positive, and
the internal parts negative (taking the
body as a whole). Therefore exposure
to cold deranges the state of the ner-
vous fluid, throwing the skin, which
ought to be positive, into a negative
state, and thereby some internal part,
which, in reference to the skin, ought
to be negative, into a positive state.”
Hence the derangements in the vital
processes, and the shivering, the con-
gestion, the inflammation, and the
fever, that result.
THE CAUSES OF A COLD.
The causes of “a
cold" may be classified under three
heads, namely, clothing, air, and water.
IMPROPER CLOTHING AS A CAUSE.
The clothing may
be either insufficient or improper; and
this insufficiency or impropriety may
be either constant, as in leaving un-
covered the abdomen, thighs, and legs
14 IMPROPER CLOTHING As A CAUSE.
of young children, and the neck, -
chest, and arms of children and young
girls, and in the neglecting to put on
flannels and extra clothing in winter;
or it may be only occasional, as in the
adoption of muslin and low-bodied
dresses by ladies, and thinner neck-
ties, vests, and boots by gentlemen
for evening parties; and in the neg-
lecting to add more clothing during
sleep. . x
The frequency
with which disease results in children
from the insane practice of leaving
their digestive, genital, and respira-
tory organs, and their extremities,
exposed to the chilling blasts and
varying temperatures of our atmo-
sphere, is unfortunately too well
known to need that I should enter
into any proof; nor need Imore than
protest against the cruelty, to say
nothing of the absurdity, of leaving
those parts naked in children that we
find it absolutely necessary to clothe
the most warmly in adolescence and





IMPROPER CLOTHING AS A CAUSE. 15

adult life; and more especially when
we reflect that in childhood the
bodily growth is in progress, and that
growth is retarded and checked by
cold and favoured by warmth; and
still more especially inasmuch as there
is absence of reason and experience
to teach how to keep up the warmth
of the parts exposed; whilst in
adolescence and adult life the growth
is complete, and reason and expe-
rience possessed. For myself, I am
convinced that very many of the
cases of infantile diarrhoea, cholera,
constipation, remittent fever, dropsy
after scarlatina, marasmus or tabes,
consumption, catarrh, bronchitis,
pneumonia, quinsy, sore-throat,
hoarseness, and ophthalmia, result
from this exposure; and that many a
lovely child has been sacrificed to
its mother's pride and her tyrant,
Fashion.
:* Very many cases of
bronchitis, phthisis, pneumonia, and
rheumatism, result from insufficient
16 THE AIR AS A CAUSE.
clothing, especially the want of flannel
in the winter.
y And a great number
of cases of catarrh, bronchitis, phthisis,
sore-throat, quinsy, neuralgia, head-
ache, and toothache, result from the
alteration of the dress for evening par-
ties, concerts, and theatres.
And a still greater
number of cases of neuralgia, head-
ache, toothache, rheumatism, sore-
throat, catarrh, quinsy, and bronchitis,
result from sleeping in the waking
clothes, as, for instance, in the after-
noon nap. On this last cause I wish
to lay particular stress, because I have
myself known it to induce and keep
up, in spite of all treatment, neuralgia,
rheumatism, catarrh, and bronchitis,
to the induction of confirmed paralysis,
asthma, and consumption. It is a
very dangerous practice.
THE AIR As A CAUSE. … ... : ... ." §
The atmosphere may
be the cause of taking cold under


THE AIR AS A CAUSE. 17
three conditions, namely, when too
cold, when in too rapid motion, and
when too moist. The air may be too
cold though sufficiently still, as in a
cold room without a fire in winter; at
formal morning calls, especially when
wanting food or flannel clothing; or by
going into a cold bedroom to dress or
sleep ; from breathing too cold air
when the bronchial mucous mem-
brane is irritable and susceptible, as in
bronchitic, emphysematous, and asth-
matic subjects; in these cases it may
be avoided by the use of a respirator.
I need not ask how many young ladies
have suffered from these causes, bring-
ing on catarrh, bronchitis, phthisis;
painful, difficult, and suppressed
“ monthly; ” and the various neural-
gias. The air may be too much in
motion, though ordinarily warm, as
when coming in a current from an
open window, door, or ventilator
towards the fireplace. The air may
be suitably still and warm whilst
the body is driven through it too
2
18 WATER AS A CAUSE,
Tapidly, as when riding in an open or
partially open carriage, inducing face-
ache, erysipelas, rheumatism, &c.
The air may be of ordinary warmth
and stillness, but the body too warm, as
after a Turkish or other hot bath, and
after too violent exercise, as running,
cricket, &c. The air may be ordi-
marily still and warm, but the body too
still, as sitting a long time in one
posture, as reading, writing, drawing,
painting. Or the air may be damp,
as in a mist, a damp house or room,
or a house with a damp cellar; espe-
cially amongst the poor, who rushinto
new houses even before they are
finished building.
WATER As A CAUSE.
cause of cold by being applied to the
body either wholly or partially, as
damp air, mist, rain, snow, damp bed-
ding and clothing, especially boots and
coats not properly dried from the pre-






THE DIAGNOSIS OF A COLD. 19
on a damp seat, as in a car, railway
carriage, or on the ground at pic-
nics, &c. * :
Now, these unfa-
vourable states of the clothing, air,
and water, being in constant opera-
tion, and no person being exempt
from them, it is not to be wondered
at that they should be such frequent
and prolific causes of disease. The
wonder is, not that we should so fre-
quently take cold, but that we should
ever be free from it.
THE DIAGNOSIS OF A CoED.
. The symptoms or
the evidence of having taken a cold is in
most cases the occurrence or coming
on of the peculiar derangement, illness,
or disease to which the individual is
liable; if, for instance, a person liable
to bronchitis finds himself with rough-
ness, scraping, or dryness in the
throat, he may be sure he has taken
cold, even though he cannot remember
a cause or discover a reason. Does a

20 THE DIAGNoSIs of A cold.
person subject to catarrh find himself
sneezing and sniffing P he has taken
cold, though he cannot tell how or
when. Does a person subject to quinsy
find his tonsil swollen and his throat
painful on swallowing P he has taken
cold, though he may protest ever so
against the possibility. Does a person
subject to rheumatism find pain and
stiffness in the back or one or more
joints P he has taken cold most cer-
tainly. Does a person subject to diar-
rhoea find his bowels suddenly relaxed
without a dietetic cause P. he has taken
cold in all probability. Is a person
attacked with headache, toothache,
tic-douloureux, or other neuralgia?
ninety-nine chances to one he has
taken cold, though he may not think
so, and may attribute it to his stomach,
his liver, or his bowels. In short,
whenever the peculiar weakness of the
individual shows itself, he may con-
clude he has taken cold, and ninety-nine
times in the hundred he will be right.
In the early stages

THE PATHOLOGY OF A COLD. 21
of all these various diseases the pa-
thological state is the same, namely,
congestion or inflammation; and the
symptoms are those of these states,
namely, a feeling of coldness, chill,
creepings or rigors, followed by or
alternated with a feeling of warmth or
flushing of heat or feverishness; and
it is only afterwards that a specific
disease makes itself manifest.
THE PATHOLOGY OF A COLD.
The diseased states
produced by taking cold are—local
congestion and inflammation, and
general fever. The first effect of a
general exposure is to derange the
nervous tension of the skin and some
internal organ ; the second to check,
arrest, or pervert the cell-growth of
the parts affected, and thus obstruct
the circulation of the nervous fluid,
and produce a recoil of the nerve-
wave, and thereby the chill, shiver, or
rigor, and the coldness and numbness
of the part. At the same time the
22. THE PATHOLOGY OF A COLD.
capillaries of the part are constringed;
this diminishes the supply of blood to
the part, hence pallor and shrinking.
After the withdrawal of the chilling
constringing influence the capillaries
relax, open, and admit too much
blood; this stimulates the cells to
renewed and excessive action, and
there result redness, heat, swelling,
and pain, with flushes of heat, thirst,
loss of appetite, headache, &c.
If the ganglionic nervous centres
remain intact, their influence, as a
regulating force, is sometimes suffi-
cient to overcome this check and re-
store the normal action—this is
Nature's cure, the vis medicatria,
Naturae—sometimes it is only able to
un the action off, at a tangent, as it
were, and produce some perverted
action, hence the different inflamma-
tions and fevers (see p. 5). Such I








THE RESULTS OF TARING CorID. 23
congested and inflamed state is at the
bottom, whatever the disease be, whe-
ther bronchitis, catarrh, rheumatism,
erysipelas, toothache, or tic-doulou-
reux; whether convulsions, diar-
rhoea, tabes, amenorrhoea, chlorosis,
or fever; that the beginning of all
that result from taking cold is the
same, and requires the same treat-
ment.
This is the key to
the symptoms and treatment of the
majority of the diseases that afflict
humanity; and this is the leading
idea to which I wish to draw the
attention of the public, namely, that
as there is one common cause and dis-
eased state, we should trust to one com-
mon remedy. This single remedy I
will presently mention.
THE RESULTS OF TAKING COLD.
The effects of tak-
ing cold, or the diseases produced,
are many and various, and frequently
serious and incurable, and not seldom
24 THE RESULTs of TARING cold.
fatal. Taking cold is mostly, if not
always, the cause of the following
diseases, namely, catarrh, bronchitis,
pneumonia, pleurisy, emphysematous
asthma, phthisis, and almost all other
lung diseases; laryngitis, quinsy, sore-
throat, and croup; rheumatism and
lumbago; inflammation, hypertrophy,
and dilatation of the heart; erysipelas,
tic-douloureux, headache, toothache,
sciatica, and other neuralgias; convul-
sions, hydrocephalus, and paralysis;
diarrhoea, dysentery, jaundice, bilious
attacks, infantile cholera, and cholera
morbus; ophthalmia, ozaena, polypus,
otorrhoea, and deafness; ascites, and
dropsies generally; inflammation of
the liver, peritoneum, and kidneys;
tabes; difficult, painful, and sup-
pressed menstruation; abortion and
chlorosis; almost all inflammations,
properly so called; and many fevers,
as bilious, catarrhal, rheumatic, infan-
tile remittent, and milk fever, and
sometimes puerperal—a rather formid-
able list of diseases to result from one


THE RESULTS OF TAKING COLD. 25
cause, and a very serious list too,
seeing that these diseases caused, in
round numbers, 339,000 of the
427,000, that is, eight-tenths, of the
whole number of deaths given in the
last report of the Registrar-General;
and those of them that resulted exclu-
sively from taking cold caused 73,399
deaths, that is, nearly one-sixth of
the whole number; this is the number
of deaths; but the number of diseases
resulting from taking cold bears a
greater proportion to the whole than
do the deaths, because many of these
diseases never do end in death ; for
instance, chilblains, tic-douloureux,
headache, toothache, and other neu-
ralgias; Ophthalmia, Ozaena, polypus,
deafness; dysmenorrhoea, and other
disorders of menstruation. .
Having examined
all the cases I treated during one
month, I find that those which
without doubt resulted from taking
cold form very nearly one-half of the
whole.

26 CLOTHING AS A PREVENTIVE,
| THE PREVENTION OF TAKING CoID,
º, º ſº. The means of pre-
venting taking cold are the following,
namely, clothing, food, baths, and
exercise, and the avoidance of the
causes mentioned at pages 13–19. º.
CLOTHING AS A PREVENTIVE.
tº or At all times of the
year, the clothing should be sufficient
to protect from the influence of va-
riations of the climate, and to keep
the body up to a comfortable degree
of warmth, and should be varied
according to circumstances. Increase
of clothing is always required in the
evening and at night, both winter
and summer, especially if the gir is
damp; also when an east wind is
blowing, and on going out of a warm
room into cold air; and in this case
extra clothing (overcoat, for in-
stance) should be put on a few mi-
ites before going out, in order that
it may become warm, and not have to
º . º
















BATHS AS A PREVENTIVE. 27
abstract heat from the body after hav-
ing got out, by which it would assist
to bring on a shiver; also invariably
before falling asleep. A woollen gar-
ment ought always to be worn next to
the skin; always flannel in the winter;
and the clothing should always over
not only the vital regions—throat,
chest, and abdomen—but the extre-
mities also; and they should always
be well-dried and well-aired.

FooD As A PREVENTIVE.
The food should
be sufficient and varied, and con-
tain flesh once or twice a day. Per-
sons should never be exposed to cold
or infection whilst hungry, for then
there is a much gaeater susceptibility,
the system being in a receptive, ab-
sorbent condition, and less resistent
to evil influences. : * :
BATHS As A PREVENTIVE.
, º, . *The daily use of
cold water to the skin, all over, is per-
28 RESPIRATORS AS A PREVENTIVE.
haps the most effectual means of pre-
vention, if possible in the form of a
shower-bath; also an occasional Turk-
ish bath has a wonderfully invigorat-
ing effect. Persons who cannot bear,
or are unable to react after a cold bath,
may substitute the daily use of a
cold wet towel or sponging.
ExERCISE As A PREVENTIVE.
Also regular out-
door exercise; a portion of every day
should be spent out of doors.
RESPIRATORS As A PREVENTIVE.
-- » Much of the risk
from the atmospheric causes may be
avoided by the prudent use of a respi-
rator, especially in persons subject to
asthma, bronchitis, quinsy, or catarrh.
I am convinced that I have prevented
many attacks of bronchitis by order-
ing a respirator to be put on before
going out on a cold day, and before
going into a cold bedroom.


RESPIRATORS AS A PREVENTIVE. 29
Whilst on the sub-
ject of respirators, I will record my
testimony in favour of those manufac-
tured by Jeffrey, and enter my pro-
test against that shameful abuse of
the name, to the deception, disap-
pointment, and injury of the public
by the so-called respirators, made of
cork, hair, and such-like substances;
and I would refer to the necessity of
medical men enquiring of their patients
what kind of respirators they use. I
once asked a girl, and she said it was
one of her own making, of layers of
muslin ; and another that hers con-
sisted of two small side-combs, co-
vered with black muslin The ab-
surdity and evil of all such appliances
must be self-evident to every intelli-
gent person.
The object of a re-
spirator is, not to retain the foul air
that has been breathed, that it may be
drawn in again, but to warm the fresh
air as it is being drawn into the
lungs: it must therefore be composed
30 THE ANTIDOTE TO TAKING Cold.
of a material that will quickly take
the warmth from the foul air that is
being breathed out, and quickly give
it up again to the fresh air that is
being drawn in. This material is
metal, and metal only.
A respirator should
afford a large surface of metal, and
still it should be light, and should not
obstruct the breathing; it must there-
fore be composed of layers of very fine
metallic wire; as is Jeffrey's. º
THE ANTIDOTE TO TAKING CoID.º.
as a If, however, not-
withstanding every possible precau-
tion, a person should unfortunately b
exposed to any of the causes of cold,
he should immediately and without
hesitation take the antidote—ACONITE,
a S. a precauti




ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 31
may prevent a sore-throat, a quinsy,
a bronchitis, an inflammation of the
lungs, a pleurisy, a rheumatic fever,
and even a consumption, which a few
hours' neglect might render in-
evitable, as I have myself frequently
witnessed. No person ought to be with-
out a bottle of this invaluable pre-
ventive, nor to neglect to take it on
the slightest suspicion of cold.
As taking bella-
donna will prevent the development of
scarlet fever, though a person has been
exposed to the infection; so taking
aconite will prevent the development
of a cold, although a person has been
exposed to its causes. It is a true
antidote or prophylactic.
ILLUSTRATIVE CASEs.
The cases of pneu-
monia and fever, given at pages 10,
11, show the dangerous consequences
of neglecting the above-mentioned pre-
caution. Had the persons, immedi-
ately on arriving at home, taken aco-


32 ILLUSTRATIVE CASES.
nite for a few hours, I feel sure neither
of them would have had either pneu-
monia or fever. -
And the following
case illustrates the advantage of attend-
ing to this precaution:—A gentleman,
recently married, was detained late in
town one winter evening, and he rode
home, a distance of four miles, on the
outside of an omnibus. There was a
cold, heavy rain falling; and before
getting home, his clothes became wet
through, and he felt cold and shivery.
On arriving home, he told his wife
that, from past experience, he felt sure
he would be laid up with an attack of
bronchitis, or rheumatism. She, being
a homoeopath, prevailed upon him to
go to bed, and to take aconite every
hour. Though he had no belief in
homoeopathy, he did so, as he said, to
please her; and, having no appetite,
he took only a cupful of tea and a
little bread and butter. He perspired
during the night, slept heavily, and
rose next morning without any com-


THE TREATMENT OF A COLD. 38
plaint whatever. And so convinced
was he by this evidence of the power
of aconite, that he has ever since been
a staunch homoeopath.
I could relatescores
of such cases, from the various causes
of taking cold; but this one will suf-
fice as an illustration, and illustration
rather than detail is my object. I
could also furnish scores of cases in
which even rhus, nux vomica, dulca-
mara, bryonia, mercurius, and many
other medicines have failed; and
where stimulants, hot baths, hot
drinks, &c., have not only failed to
throw off the cold, but undoubtedly
rendered that a very serious disease
which might otherwise have been of
little consequence.
… Another recom-
mendation of aconite is that, in the
preparation and dose above-named, it
is perfectly harmless to a healthy per-
son ; and therefore it cannot do harm
even if the person has not taken cold,
although he should take it for some
3
34 THE TREATMENT OF A COLD.
hours; and another is that its use is
not confined to those who believe in
homoeopathy, but may be taken ad-
vantage of by the allopath, hydropath,
and every other path as well, with like
success and safety.
2. It has been objected
that aconite has a lowering effect on
the system ; so it has when taken in
large doses, such as a drop of p, or
even of 1 if frequently repeated and
continued for some days; and par-
ticularly if the person has no inflam-
matory or febrile condition for it to
remove ; but it has not any lowering
effect when taken in the doses here
recommended, or even in much larger
doses when there is inflammatory or
febrile condition to absorb its action.
Of course, if it has no diseased con-
dition to absorb its action, and it is in
sufficient dose, it must produce its own
diseased effects.
As, however, from
neglect or delay, colds generally run
on to the second stage, it is necessary




THE TREATMENT OF A COLD, 35
now to consider the management of
a fully developed cold.
THE TREATMENT OF A CoID.
The treatment of a
cold, or the effects of taking cold, is
either domestic or professional.
The domestic treat-
ment has for its object the restoring
the “positively” nervous state of the
skin, and the urging of nature to en-
force the return of the cells and capil-
laries to their normal action, and con-
sists in the use of a hot bath, or wrap-
ping up in flannel, or some brisk ex-
ercise; and increasing the power of
the nervous centres by the use of sti-
mulants and other forcing appliances,
such as hot spirits-and-water, hot tea,
gruel, wine whey, or posset; and such
means do sometimes succeed in re-
moving the obstruction and conges-
tion, and preventing the return of the
chills or collapse, and thus they cure
the cold and restore health; but they
are attended with considerable risk,
36 THE TREATMENT OF A COLD,
and they not unfrequently do great
harm. It is a kind of “hit or miss,”
“kill or cure” practice.
The professional
treatment must, of course, consist in
the use of the medicine or medicines
whose symptoms and pathology corre-
spond most closely with those of the
case to be treated at the time the
treatment is put into force. What,
then, are the symptoms and pathology
of a cold 2 . . . . . . *
* * * * * * With respect to the
treatment of colds, we may distinguish
two stages—namely, first, the onset of
the disease—the simple cold—pre-
vious to the development of any spe-
cial nosological (nameable) disease;
and second, the particular nosological
disease developed. Each stage is
easily distinguishable by its own symp-
The treatment here
recommended is only for the first stage
of a cold, as it ordinarily shows itself—
the simple cold—leaving the details of

THE SYMPTOMS OF A COLD. 37
the after treatment of the nosological
disease, and of the exceptions to the
general rule, to be regulated by the
symptoms presented and the constitu-
tion of the patient: this must not be
forgotten.
THE SYMPTOM'S OF A COLD.
What, then, are the
symptoms and pathology of a simple
cold P. They are—whether the effect
be general or only local—the symp-
toms of depression of vitality followed
by reaction. There is, first, check or
arrest of the cell-growth and nervous
and capillary circulation, producing a
chill, shiver, or rigor or cold creeping,
with pallor and shrinking of the part
or parts; and then, secondly, excess
of cell-action and capillary circulation
in or around the part or parts, pro-
ducing heat, pricking, tingling, with
redness and swelling. The main and
primary impress of the cause is felt by
the nerves and capillaries of organic
life, producing collapse. Against this
38 THE IMPROPER MEDICINEs.
the organism reacts, the reaction
being principally vascular (in the
blood-vessels), and generally running
on to fever, with inflammation of some
distinct part (see p. 5).
Now what medicine
is it that most closely corresponds
in its symptoms and pathology with
this picture?
Unquestionably it
1s ACONITUM, ACONITE, MONKSHOOD.
* . . . . . . . It is certainly not
belladonna, for its main impress is not
on the ganglionic or sympathetic nerve,
but on the cerebral nervous system,
and especially the sensory sphere; and
its primary action is excitement, its
secondary depression, and its reaction
is principally nervous (in the nerves),
not vascular. It is not nur vomica–
though unfortunately this is the medi.
cine recommended by Curie, Laurie,
others—for its main impress is on the
pinal system of nerves, and its action
§º
ilant and secondarily










THE PROPER MEDICINE. 39
exhaustive; and its reaction principally
nervous, and specially of the motor
sphere. Neither is it mercury, for its
main impress is on the glandular and
lymphatic system of nerves, and its
reaction and fever nervous, not vas-
cular. Nor is it bryonia, nor dulca-
mara, nor tartar emetic, nor even cam-
phor, nor any other medicine that does
not expendits main force on the nerves
of organic life distributed to the cells
and capillaries, and that first as depres-
sion and afterwards as reaction, princi-
pally vascular.
# A medicine to be
curative of the effects of cold must ope-
rate on the same parts and produce
similar symptoms, in the same order
and with similar conditions and con-
comitants; this is the very essence of
homoeopathy.
Now of all the prov-
ed medicines that operate on the same
parts and produce similar symptoms as
the causes of cold, none does so more
characteristically than ACONITE, and no
40 THE PROPER MEDICINE.
other medicine presents such a perfect
resemblance to the picture presented
by a cold; for aconite does not only
operate on the same parts in the same
way, and produce similar symptoms
and pathological conditions, but these
are presented in the same order and
follow the same course and progress,
and have the same conditions and con-
comitants. The main action in both
cases is on the nerves and capillaries of
organic life, producing congestion, in-
flammation, and fever; and the main
symptoms those of these states. In
both cases they resemble those of
fright; the first symptom in each
case is a chill, shiver, or rigor,
with depression of vitality or col-
lapse, and then reaction or flushing
of heat, inflammation, and fever, with
increase of vital action; in both cases
the attendant fever begins with severe
rigors, and is of an inflammatory cha-
racter; in both cases the pains are as
of a bruise; in both cases the symptoms
are worse in the evening, in the open



THE ACTION OF ACONITE. 41
air, by alteration of temperature, and
by movement, and are relieved by rest
and warmth; and in both the results
are similar, namely, more to light up
the diseased tendency of the individual
than to produce any particular disease.
In fact, I believe the correspondence
between the action of aconite and of
“cold "-producing influences is closer
than it is between these influences and
the effect of any other drug. As Dr.
Hempel says, in his “Materia Medica,”
“The first stage of an inflammatory
fever is not a full and bounding pulse,
a hot and dry skin, flushed face, and
so forth. An opposite group of symp-
toms occurs; the patient experiences
a chill or cold creepings along the
back; he looks pale, hollow-eyed; the
hands and feet are cold; the pulse is
thin, feeble, rather slower than natu-
rally, or at any rate not much accele-
rated. This condition is soon super-
seded by the opposite group of phe-
nomena generally designated as fever.
The chill is the primary effect of the
42 THE ACTION of AconſtE.
ºšš
disease; the fever constitutes a secon-
dary effect, or the reaction of the
organism. In selecting a remedial
agent for this derangement, it should
be homoeopathic not only to the pri-
mary chill, but also to the secondary
group, fever. Aconite is such a remedy.
Aconite is homoeopathic to the chill
which marks the first invasion of the
disease, and to the fever which marks
the beginning of the organic reaction.
We are seldom called to a patient
during the primary invasion of the
disease : the organic reaction is gene-
rally fully established when we first
see the patient. Nevertheless we
prescribe aconite, knowing full well
that the inflammatory stage must have
been preceded by a chill. . . . The
primary action of aconite upon the capil-
lary nervous network of the intestinal
mucous membrane is to induce torpor
such as might be considered analogous
to the torpor induced by cold.” And
Dr. Reil, in his “Monograph on Aco-
2
nite,” says—“Wherever the various




THE ACTION OF ACONITE. 43
forms of the preparations of aconite
may be applied, the effect is every-
where the same. There follows no
particular pain or swelling, or, at most,
a feeling of itching or pricking—a
little like pain; but, instead of the
feeling of pain there arises, soon after
the itching and pricking, a sensation
of dulness, and numbness, and local
paralysis of the nerves of the affected
parts. . . . . . Aconite's sphere of
action is manifested principally in the
ganglionic system, and exercises here
its special influence upon the nerves
of the capillary vessels, exciting fevers,
congestions, and inflammations.”
“Among the drugs
of our Materia Medica,” says Dr. Mey-
hoffer, “aconite, administered in large
doses to a healthy individual, induces
effects identical with those produced
by section of the sympathetic cervical
trunk on the arterial system, i.e.,
increase of caloric (dry, burning heat),
dilatation of the capillaries (swelling,
redness of the skin), frequency of

44 THE ACTION OF ACONITE.
the pulse, local congestion and inflam-
mation.” w
Aconite is therefore
THE remedy for the commencement of
a cold, and the beginning of all dis-
eases that result from taking cold;
and it is in most cases of itself quite
sufficient to remove all the evil and re-
store health, and thus prevent the ne-
cessity for any other medicine. Dr.
Dudgeon, in the “Hahnemann Materia
Medica,” says of aconite—“It may be
looked upon as specific in catarrhal
fever, and in the catarrhal symptoms
occasioned by cold, damp, or the like,
which it will even cut short.” ºn
tº “Aconite,” says Dr.
Meyhoffer, in the “Monthly Homoeo-
pathic Review,” “administered in the
beginning of any febrile affection, such
as that caused by cold, will check the
progress of the disease, and prevent
the morbid localisation by re-establish-
ing normal circulations; if, however,
any organ be already the seat of in
flammation, as was the case with our





FIRST AND SECOND STAGE. 45
patient, this medicine will even then
seldom fail in a few hours to relieve
the febrile symptoms, reduce the fre-
quency of the pulse, diminish the
burning heat of the skin, and favour
perspiration.”
And Dr. Russell, in
his “Lectures on Fever,” says—“Aco-
mite is always successful in checking
every case of pure fever, when the .
blood is untainted.”
If the treatment be
commenced in the chill stage, whilst
the patient is more shivery than fever-
ish, ACONITE alone should be given,
in the 3rd centesimal dilution, in dro
doses, a dose every two hours; this
will always moderate, generally com-
pletely prevent, excessive reaction;
and mostly obviate the development
of any noSological disease what-
ever, even though such had al-
ways been the result following a
similar onset before. And if excessive
reaction has already set in, and the
patient is feverish or in a high state of
46. TREATMENT OF THIRD STAGE.
fever, with rapid, full, and bounding
pulse, a hot, dry skin, flushed face,
throbbing headache, and so forth,
aconite alone should still be given; it
will even then almost always have the
same happy effect : in this case use
the 1st decimal dilution; a drop every
hour or two. *
% All drugs have two
effects—rapid or primary, and chronic
or secondary; and as medicines they
meet these two stages of disease, but
with different doses.
- º And even if some
definite form of disease is already de-
veloped, still use aconite, if the aconite
symptoms are the most prominent and
important, and perhaps alone even
then for a short time, though more
generally alternating with it some
other medicine indicated by the other
circumstances, as phosphorus for pneu-
monia; belladonna for congestion and,
inflammation of the brain, or throat; %
mara or veratrum, or some other
Mia for
med









THE ALTERNATION OF MEDICINEs. 47
lumbago or rheumatism; and so on,
according to the symptoms; but as
soon as the aconite symptoms have
disappeared or become subordinate,
relinquish the use of aconite, and con-
tinue only the medicine homoeopathic
to the particular disease. I think it
a mistake to give up the use of
aconite immediately on beginning the
use of the more specific medicine, just
as I think it wrong to withhold the
appropriate medicine immediately any
of its symptoms become at all promi-
ment; for instance, in the case of a
cold running on to pneumonia, one
part of the lung may have advanced
to the stage of phosphorus, whilst
another has become invaded by the
aconite stage : as, therefore, it would
be wrong to withhold the phosphorus,
so it would be wrong to relinquish
the aconite. This is the key to the
advantage derived from alternation in
SOIme CaSeS. . .
& But to return : so
convinced am I that ACONITE is the
48 THE MEDICINEs For THE PUBLIC.
medicine for the beginning of all colds,
whatever form they assume or are to
assume, that I impress on all my
friends the necessity of always giving
it at once and alone, on the least sus-
picion of cold; and so confident am I
the majority of diseases that afflict
humanity result from taking cold, that
I impress upon them the wisdom of
always using aconite for the first signs
of illness of any and every sort; and
if that does not afford relief or check
the symptoms, then to call in a pro-
fessional man; and I am certain I
have witnessed the beneficial results
of this injunction, for it has prevented
them from trifling with the use of
mercurius, nua, vomica, pulsatilla, cha-
momilla, belladonna, or arsenicum.
3. For the prima
shivering stage of a cold, and indeed
for rigors from whatever cause, Hah-
nemann recommends camphor. And
truly it is, for this condition, the most
homoeopathic, and therefore the most
effectual remedy known. . º,





THE MEDICINES FOR THE PUBLIC. 49
mere chill stage of a cold, without
reference to the reaction stage, it is
the most homoeopathic remedy; and
when given early enough will fre-
quently so restore the cell-action and
the nervous and blood-circulation as to
prevent any excessive reaction. When,
therefore, the treatment can be begun
at the commencement of the chill stage,
and especially when that threatens to
be very marked or severe, camphor
should be given, five drops every quar-
ter of an hour on a bit of lump sugar
until the shivering appears to be pass-
ing off; then watch, and if the slightest
appearance of reaction occur, give aco-
mite, every hour or two.
Though camphor is
truly homoeopathic to the chill stage
of a cold it is not so to the reactive
stage, and it may well be asked: Why
use a remedy that is only homoeopathic
to one half of the symptoms and patho-
logical condition, when we have one
that is homoeopathic to the whole F
Nua vomica is recommended when
4.
50 THE ADVICE TO THE PUBLIC.
there is marked irritation of the mu-
cous membrane of the nose, producing
sneezing, &c.; but this symptom is
quite a characteristic symptom of
oconite. Arsenicum is recommended
where there is much excoriating dis-
charge from the nose and eyes; but
this symptom also is quite a marked
symptom of aconite. Though arseni-
cum corresponds in many respects,
both in primary depression and se-
condary reaction, still its reaction does
not sufficiently represent inflammatory
fever or acute inflammation to indicate
it for the general results of cold; there
is also a marked periodicity about the
action of arsenicum that there is not
in the symptoms of a cold; and it is
more suited to chronic diseases than
acute diseases, such as result from
taking cold.
Having always one
and the same cause for the morbid
taste, and the earliest pathological
condition and symptoms being always
the same, and having one truly

THE CURATIVE SPHERE OF ACONITE. 51
homoeopathic remedy, why should
patients be allowed to lose time, and
allow any serious disease to be deve-
loped, whilst dallying with a long list
of medicines amongst which they may
be lost in choice? Why not recom-
mend them to be content with one old
and well-tried friend that will never
betray their confidence?
“In acute inflam-
mation,” says Dr. Meyhoffer, “we can
never have any doubt as to the medi-
cine necessary to subdue it; the action
of aconite on the arterial system has
pointed to it since the time of Hahne-
mann as the antiphlogistic par eacel-
lence.”
I cannot more ap-
propriately close this part of my essay
than with the excellent remarks of Dr.
Dudgeon in the “Hahnemann Materia
Medica.” He says of aconite—“It
may be looked upon as specific in
catarrhal fever, and in the catarrhal
symptoms occasioned by cold, damp,
or the like, which it will often cut

52 TRIBUTE To HAHNEMANN.
short. . . . . Inflammation of all parts
of the respiratory apparatus is espe-
cially under its power, including croup,
laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, pneu-
monia, and pleuritis. In fact, to enu-
merate the diseases for which it is
suitable would be to mention the acute
inflammations of every possible organ
and tissue in the body; and if it be
not for all of these the sole remedy, it
is almost always useful, either pre-
vious to or in alternation with another
remedy which has perhaps a more
specific relation to the part affected.”
The giving to this
wonderful remedy its proper place
amongst medicines, and so accurately
demonstrating its true curative sphere,
is of itself sufficient to add an immortal
crown of glory to the head of Hahne-
mann; and had he done nothing more,
he would have earned the thanks and
blessings of millions of his fellow-
creatures throughout all time, and have
been the instrument under Providence







SUPPLEMENTARY DIRECTIONS. 53
one of the greatest blessings a bene-
volent Creator has conferred on his
frail and mortal creatures. He very
justly places it the first and at the
head of all medicines in his “Materia
Medica,” not because of its name
beginning with “A,” but because of
its majestic power and important and
extensive sphere of usefulness. He
calls it a “precious plant,” whose
“efficacy amounts almost to a mi-
racle.” -
The aconite, Nos. 3
and 1, both pilules and tincture, and
the camphor tincture, may be obtained
from any homoeopathic chemist at from
ninepence to one shilling a bottle, and
should always be in the house ready
for use.
SUPPLEMENTARY DIRECTIONs.
M- . Desiring to be per-
fectly understood in the subject of
treatment, and with the object of mak-
ing the matter as plain and complete
as possible, I append the following

54 DIRECTIONS FOR TREATMENT.
remarks, in addition to the directions
given at pages 38, 48, et seq.
I. The treatment during exposure to
any of the cold-producing causes.
- If a person is so
unfortunately situated as to find him-
self unavoidably exposed to cold-pro-
ducing causes, he may very likely
prevent them taking effect by the use
of Aconite. In this case he should
take Aconite No. 3, a pilule every two
hours during the whole time of expo-
sure, and for four or six hours after-
wards. He may place the pilule dry
on his tongue and let it dissolve there.
II. The treatment after exposure to
cold-producing causes, but before
the appearance of any symptoms
whatever.
º In this case the
person should take Aconite No. 3, a
pilule every two hours for six or eight
}. ; if no symptoms show them-
selves within that time he may cease

DIRECTIONS FOR TREATMENT. 55
taking the medicine, and conclude he
has warded off a cold.
III. The treatment for the first ap-
pearance of any of the symptoms of
a cold; whilst the person is more
shivering than feverish.
In this case the
person should take Aconite No. 3, one
pilule or one drop of the tincture,
dissolved in a dessert-spoonful of cold
water, every two hours for twelve to
twenty-four hours. If after that time
no fever, pain, or inflammation shows
itself he may cease the medicine, and
conclude that he has prevented a cold
from becoming developed. In this
stage camphor is a truly homoeopathic
remedy, and may be taken instead of
aconite, five drops on a bit of lump
sugar every quarter of an hour, until the
chilliness disappears. (See pp. 48, 49.)

IV. The treatment for a fully developed
cold: after the symptoms have exist-
ed some time, and heat, fever, pain,
or inflammation has supervened.
56 DIRECTIONS FOR TREATMENT.
* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In this case the
person should take Aconite No. 1, a
pilule or a drop of the tincture, dis-
solved in a dessert-spoonful of water,
every two hours: he should go to bed,
and keep himself quiet ; he should not
take much food, but he may drink
freely of water, if thirsty. This treat-
ment may be continued for from six to
twelve or even twenty-four hours. If
perspiration breaks out, the other
symptoms will usually soon disappear:
if the heat, fever, headache, and pain
disappear, the same treatment may
be continued for four or six hours
longer, and then given up, with the
satisfaction that a cold has been cured;
but if these symptoms continue or be-
come aggravated, or other symptoms
supervene, send for a homoeopathic
physician; and send for him before
the time of his leaving home for his
visiting work, and before the morning
visiting if possible: because, if busy,
neighbourhood twice in one day, and

DIRECTIONS FOR TREATMENT. 57
he may go that way in his morning
round. Do not put off applying to
him till evening, if you can possibly do
so in the day, for he may be tired or
otherwise unable to attend, and then
time will be lost : nor put off until
Sunday anything you can do on Satur-
day, for a doctor likes to have a Sab-
bath as well as do his patients, and
though your case may not occupy him
many minutes, yet half a dozen such
would effectually spoil his day of rest.
W. The treatment after the development
of a specific disease, evidenced by the
continuance or aggravation of the
fever, or pain. 3.
-. This should always
be left to a professional man, if one
can be obtained. If, however, a phy-
sician cannot at once be obtained, the
following observations should be re-
ferred to. .
PART II.
DESCRIPTION, SYMPTOMs, AND TREATMENT OF
DISEASEs BROUGHT ON BY TAKING COLD.
*ºns -
- Should a cold either
have been neglected or have pro-
gressed in spite of treatment, it will
most probably induce one of the
following morbid states, viz., catarrh,
influenza, sore throat, laryngitis,
quinsy, croup, bronchitis, pneumonia,
pleurisy, rheumatism, rheumatic fever,
lumbago, erysipelas, toothache, face-
ache, bilious attack, diarrhoea, jaun-
dice, suppression of urine, checked
monthly, &c. I have therefore thought
it advisable in this edition to make a
few remarks on the diagnosis and
treatment of these morbid states.



CATARRH. 59
In doing this I
have endeavoured so to describe them
that most persons may recognise each
and determine the proper manage-
ment of its early stage; and I have
indicated, as liberally as I dare, the
length to which a domestic prac-
titioner may trust himself with safety,
and I have pointed out the symptoms
that warn him to relinquish the
management into professional hands.
By following these directions, many
diseases may be cut short and pre-
vented from becoming at all serious,
and by attending to the indications of
obstinacy or danger, the domestic
practitioner may avoid running any
great risk of fatal delay.
CATARRH.
The “mucous mem-
brane” is the part involved in common
catarrh. The eyes, nose, mouth,
throat, larynx, windpipe, bronchial
tubes, air-cells of the lungs; the
Oesophagus, stomach, bowels, liver,
60 THE KINDS OF MEMBRANES.
kidneys, bladder, and womb, are all
lined or covered inside by a thin,
smooth, transparent skin, of a light
crimson or dull pinkish red colour; in
health, always kept moist and soft by
its secreting on its own surface a
clear, bland mucus, hence it is called
the “mucous ” membrane.*
* There are three great “membranes” subject to
inflammation—the mucous, the serous, and the
fibrous; and inflammation manifests peculiarities
according to the membrane inflamed. emucous
membrane covers internal surfaces that have an
opening to the external surface, as in the breath-
ing, the alimentary and the urinary passages; and
it secretes “mucus” to keep soft and protect its
surface. The serous membrane lines the closed
sacs, thus it covers the lungs and lines the inside
of the chest walls, covers the bowels and lines the
inside of the abdominal walls, covers the brain and
lines the inside of the skull, and covers the heart
and lines the inside of the heart-bag or pericar-
dium ; and it secretes serum to keep its surfaces
lubricated that they may move easily on one an-
other. The fibrous membrane sheathes the muscles
and attaches them to the bones. In the joints the
fibrous and the serous membranes are blended to-
ether. Inflammation of the mucous membrane
s increase and perversion of the mucous se-
n, even to the extent of the production of pus
lstead of mucus, as in the case of nasal and oph-
thalmic catarrhs. Inflammation of the
º
membrane causes increase and perversion of the











THE MUCOUS MEMBRAN.E. 61
The mucous mem-
brane is made up of cells held together
by meshes of fibres: the cells make the
mucus, and for this purpose they are
supplied with nourishment in the form
of blood by the vessels, and animated
or energised to use this blood for this
purpose by the nervous influence con-
veyed to them by the nerves. Its blood-
vessels, which spread everywhere
throughout it, are only faintly visible.
This mucous membrane is the part
on which a cold most readily fastens;
particularly that of the eyes, nose,
throat, larynx, windpipe, lungs, sto-
mach, or bowels; in one person one
part, in another a different one, accord-
ing to the susceptibility of each per-
son ; sometimes two, or three, or more
of these parts may be attacked in


serous secretion, even to the extent of the produc-
tion of fibrine instead of serum, as in the case of
pleurisy, hydrocephalus, dropsy, &c. Inflamma-
tion of the fibrous membrane gives severe pain, as
in lumbago and muscular rheumatism. And in-
flammation of the fibro-serous membrane gives
both pain and swelling, as in rheumatism of the
joints.
62 CATARRH.
succession; or, in severe cases, alto-
gether. A cold settling on the mucous
membrane produces the morbid state
known as “a catarrh,” so called from
the Greek word, katarrheo—“I flow
from ‘’; because the mucous secretion
then flows away in excessive quantity.
According to the part affected this
morbid state receives the name of
cold in the eyes, cold in the nose, cold
in the head, influenza, cold in the
throat, or sore throat, cold in the
windpipe, croup, cold in the chest or
bronchial tubes, bronchitis, cold in
the lungs, pneumonia, catarrh of the
stomach, bilious attack, catarrh of
the bowels, diarrhoea, catarrh of the
liver, jaundice, catarrh of the bladder,
&c. &c. A cold may begin in one of
these parts and subsequently extend
to others; for instance, it may begin
in the nose and gradually creep down
the throat and bronchial tubes to the
lungs. The progress of the cold in
these cases follows strictly the course
described at p. 6. The first effect


CATARRH. 63
of a cold settling on the mucous mem-
brane is a check or arrest of the
nervous and cell-action of the part,
with constriction of the vessels and
check or arrest of the secretion ; this
check and constriction, however, soon
give way and the vessels relax, and
they and the cells run to the opposite
extreme and produce excessive secre-
tion ; and this “excessive ’’ soon be-
comes also “perverted ” secretion; it
first becomes thin, watery, acrid, scald-
ing, and excoriating, and is accom-
panied by general febrile symptoms,
as already described when enumerat-
ing the symptoms of a cold (p. 6..);
then these symptoms pass off and are
succeeded by the symptoms of debility
and exhaustion, the secretion becomes
thick and yellow or green, and in
some cases the continuity of the
mucous membrane gives way and
ulcers result; these have to heal up
by the ordinary process of growth,
and must necessarily occupy some
time, the length of which will of course
64 COLD IN THE EYES,
vary with the reparative power of each
individual.
CoLD IN THE EYEs—OPHTHAIMIC
CATARRH. º
in cold in the eyes is the mucous
membrane covering the eyeball and
lining the inside and covering the
edges of the lids. . . . . .
Symptoms. – The
first sign of a cold having settled
in the eyes is a sensation of dry-
ness, with irritation, tickling, itch-
ing, and burning, as if sand were
in them; and then very shortly the eyes
begin to water and smart and look
red; the discharge at first is thin and
clear, acrid, scalding, and excoriating;
the lids and cheeks are scalded and
reddened by it, there is continual
winking, with some dislike of light;
the tear sac in the inner angle of the
eye and the duct into the nose may
be invaded by the inflammation and
become blocked up so that the tears
The part involved






COLD IN THE EYE8. 65
cannot pass into the nostrils, which
therefore become dry. There may be
some shivering alternating with flushes
of heat, dull, heavy, frontal headache,
thirst, loss of appetite, &c. After
two, three or four days the feverish
symptoms subside and the discharge
becomes thick and yellow, and per-
haps green, and less irritating. Pus-
tules or ulcers may form on the eye-
ball, and if not properly managed may
perforate the eye and destroy the
sight. If this disease be neglected
chronic ophthalmia may result.
Treatment.—The
best treatment for a cold that has
settled in the eyes, as a general rule,
is to continue the aconitum being
given for the general cold, and give
euphrasia 1 as well, a dose, two drops,
every two hours alternately so long
as the feverish symptoms remain and
the discharge is thin and acrid; as
soon as the febrile symptoms have
subsided and the discharge has begun
to assume the yellow colour, the
66 CoLD IN THE EYEs.
aconitum and euphrasia should be relin-
quished and mercurius corrosivus 3.
be given in their stead, a dose, two
drops, every two hours until the dis-
charge has almost ceased; and then
sulphur 6 should be given, two drops
five times a day for a week or two,
to bring up the tone of the parts to
its natural degree. Bathing the
eyes with hot water during the first
day or the first and second days will
afford great relief and expedite the
cure, especially if a few drops of aconi-
tum p be added to the water, after-
wards bathing them with a weak
solution of zincum sulphuricum. / (gr.
ij to 8 oz. water). This latter should
be used with an eye-glass and the eye
opened into it, or the eyes may be
sprayed with it. Currents of air, cold
draughts and strong light should be
avoided. Milk diet and no stimulants.
If the aconitum and euphrasia do not
check the inflammatory symptoms




COLD IN THE NOSE. 67
the discharge within three days of its
use, or if any spots or pustules appear,
it will be better to call in professional
aid than run any further risk of
serious or chronic ophthalmia, as there
may be something peculiar in the
case requiring argentum nitricum, kali
bichromicum, or some other medicine
not usually supplied in domestic
medicine chests.
NASAL CATARRH.
In nasal catarrh
the part involved is the mucous mem-
brane lining the nostrils and frontal
sinuses (the cavities in the bone at
the root of the nose) and covering the
soft and convoluted bones and the
cavities occupying the space between
the face and the throat. &: 3
Symptoms. – The
first sensation is that of dryness, with
heat, irritation, tickling and itching.
The dryness soon gives way to
moisture, to “running nose,” with
feeling of obstruction as from internal
CoLD IN THE NOSE
68 COLD IN THE NOSE.
swelling, soreness of the nostrils, and
frequent sneezing, loss of smell, nasal
voice, headache at the root of the
nose, thirst, shivering, flushes of heat,
pain in the back and limbs, and a feel-
ing of weakness. The discharge is at
first thin, clear, watery and acrid, ex-
coriating the nostrils, which become
red and perhaps ulcerated; in mild
and well-managed cases the discharge
soon becomes thick, yellow, and per-
haps green, and less irritating, and
the feverish symptoms pass off; but
in severe or neglected cases ulcers of
the bones may occur, producing a
thick, offensive, green discharge, and
establishing the diseasecalled “ozaena.”
: Treatment. — The
best treatment of a cold that has settled
in the nose is, as a general rule, to
continue the aconitum being given for
the cold, and give arsenicum 6 as
well, a dose, two drops, every two
hours or every hour alternately
as long as the feverish symptoms
remain and the discharge continues


COLD IN THE NOSE, 69
thin and acrid. As soon as the febrile
symptoms have subsided and the dis-
charge begun to assume a yellow
colour the acomitum and arsenicum,
may be relinquished and mercurius 6
given in their place, a dose, two drops,
every two hours until the discharge
has almost ceased; and then give
hepar sulphuris 6, two drops, five times
a day for one or two weeks, to bring
up the tone of the parts to its natural
degree. During the first day or two
steaming the head and face will afford
great relief, especially if a few drops
of acomitum p be added to the water;
and whilst giving the mercurius in-
ternally the same medicine may be
used as spray,” warm (5 gr. of
trituration 1 to 8 oz. of water); the
patient should be kept to one
room, and the air should be kept
warm, 65°, and moist by having steam
continually escaping into it.
If aconitum and
* For the manner of using the spray see illus-
trations at pp. 70, 71.
70 STEAM SPRAY PRODUCER.
arsenicum do not check the inflam-
matory symptoms within two or three
days, or mercurius do not diminish
the discharge considerably within three
days of its use, or if the discharge
come streaked with blood or offen-
sive, call in professional aid, for t






VULCANITE SPRAY PRODUCER.
71
§
THE IMPHoved vulcanite spray producer, with
INDESTRUCTIBLE RUBBER BELLOWS.






72 INFLUENZAL CATARRH,
may be something in the case requiring
rhus, kali bichromicum, cinnabaris, or
some other particular drug.
A cold may settle
not only in the eyes or nose separately,
but on both together. The attack is
then named .
INFLUENZAL CATARRH–COMMON
INFLUENZA. : 3
In this case there
is a combination or mixture of the
symptoms of both ophthalmic and
nasal catarrhs in different proportions
in different cases; at one time the
eye, at another the nose, symptoms
predominate; in others both are about
equally prominent; and in very severe
cases the throat and windpipe, and
even the chest, may be involved, and
then the disease becomes serious, and
closely resembles the specific or epi-
Treatment. — Here
the treatment likewise must be varied
or alternated, according to the pre-

INFLUENZAL CATARREI, 73
dominant symptoms. The acomitum
should be continued, and euphrasia 1
should be alternated with it when
the eye symptoms predominate, and
arsenicum 6 when the nose symptoms
are more prominent, and when both
parts are pretty equally affected re-
linquish the acomitum at once and give
euphrasia and arsenicum alternately
every hour until the discharge becomes
yellow, and then give cinnabaris 6.
every two hours until the discharge
has almost ceased, and then give hepar
sulphuris 6, two drops five times a
day for a week or two. Steaming and
spray impregnated with one of the
medicines being given internally are,
if possible, more indicated here than
in either of the other diseases, and it
is still more necessary to keep the air
of the room warm and moist.
If the symptoms do
not give way rapidly, or if the throat
or chest be implicated, or the breathing
be much affected, hand over the case
to professional management at once,
because it may require rhus, kali
hydriodicum, kali bichromicum, or
tartarus emeticus.
INFLUENZA (specific).
Besides catarrhal
influenza, which is simply a cold
settled in the eyes and nose, there is
also a special, specific, or real in-
fluenza; this affects not only the eyes
and nose, but the throat and chest
also,and it does not necessarily depend
upon taking cold, but it results from
a special and peculiar state of the
air, and it attacks a majority of the
persons of a town or district sud-
denly, almost simultaneously, as an
epidemic, and it is perhaps less or
more contagious, and in some cases
ends fatally. . .
- Symptoms. – Spe-
comes on, not slowly as
ld, but sud d at
er and bain
influenza












SPECIFIC INFLUENZA. 75
and nose red and watery, hot and
stinging, with heat about the throat,
hoarseness, cough, and oppression of
the breathing accompanied by sudden
and extraordinary loss of strength,
great debility, and much depression of
spirits; pulse soft and weak, great
thirst, diminished appetite. -
Treatment. — The
best treatment for epidemic influenza
is first arsenicum 6, two drops every
hour so long as the discharge from
the eyes and nose remains watery and
acrid, and then mercurius corrosivus
6, two drops every two hours until
the discharge has almost disappeared,
and after that give hepar sulphuris 6,
two drops five times a day for a week
or two. If symptoms of bronchitis
or pneumonia supervene give tartarus
emeticus 6, two drops every two hours;
if the tonsils be much implicated, or
rheumatic symptoms be very promi-
ment, give rhus 1, two drops every two
hours. Steaming the head and face
and using the warm sprayimpregnated


76 FACEACHE, ETC.
with the medicine being given inter-
nally are also beneficial, and the air of
the room should be kept warm, 65°, and
moist, as directed for nasal catarrh.
This disease should,
however, always be under the manage-
ment of a professional man.
When a cold at-
tacks or extends to the mouth or ear,
or face, it may produce GUMBOIL, or
Tooth ACHE (particularly if there are
decayed teeth), INFLAMMATION OF THE
PASSAGE OF THE EAR, EARACHE, or FACE-
ACHE,TIC-DOULOUREUx, &c. These affec-
tions generally require the same treat-
ment as that required for the early
stage of quinsy (see Quinsy, p. 86);
at least, this is the case in gumboil
and inflammation in the ear passage,
because they both, when unchecked,
run on to suppuration in the same
way. For earache, faceache, tooth-
ache, and tic-douloureux, if aconitum,
belladonna, and mercurius do not cure
them, give pulsatilla 3 for the earache,
phosphorus 6 for the toothache, and

COLD IN THE THROAT. 77
chamomilla 3 for the faceache if
stomach symptoms are prominent, and
Thus 3 if in a rheumatic subject, coffea 3
if nervous and wakeful, and colocynthis
3 if the pain be very sharp, darting.
If none of these
cure the case, consult a medical man.
CoLD IN THE THROAT—SORE THROAT.
Parts involved. —
The “mouth '' terminates behind in
the “fauces” or arched opening into
the throat. This opening is formed
by what is called the “veil or curtain''
of the “soft’’ palate (the “hard ”
palate is the bony roof of the mouth)
—a fold of mucous membrane which,
hanging down from the top and sides,
divides the mouth from the “throat,”
protects and hides from view the back
nostril and directs the food and drink
downwards towards the stomach.
From the centre of this curtain hangs
the “uvula,” or little tongue; the
curtain itself terminates on each side
in two folds of mucous membrane
78 PARTS AFFECTED IN
called the “pillars;” these commencing
at the side of the arch, gradually
separate as they pass downwards,
one coming forwards and the other
going backwards, until they are
lost in the sides of the mouth and
throat. Between these pillars on each
side is a “tonsil "-a glandular body
about the size and shape of an almond
—placed point upwards between the
pillars of the palate just inside the
angle of the jaw; they are scarcely
visible when of natural size, the space
between the pillars being only just a
little rounded. The cavity behind this
arch (more exposed to view by at-
tempting a deep inspiration and lifting
the veil and uvula) and occupying the
space between the back nostrils above,
the fauces in front, and the entrances
of the windpipe and oesophagus below,
is called the “pharynx.” The passage
from the pharynx to the stomach lies
against and in front of the spine, and
* ” and the
ſo the
is called the “oesophagus;
passage from the pharynx
º










COMMON SORE THROAT. 79
lungs lies in front of the oesophagus,
is visible in the front of the neck, and is
called the “windpipe ’’ or “trachea; ”
at the pit of the throat the trachea
divides into two, which take the
names of “bronchial tubes; ” these
divide and subdivide again and again,
until they form minute capillary ter-
minations which are called “bronchial”
or “pulmonary cells,” and these, with
their connecting membrane, make up
the substance of the “lungs.” The
entrance into the windpipe is just
behind and below the root of the
tongue; this entrance is expanded
into a kind of box, the inside of which
is called the “larynx,” and the out-
side the “Adam's apple.” Across the
inside of the larynx are stretched cords
or strings with muscles to tighten or
slacken them ; these form the human
lyre or musical instrument and organ
of voice, the opening or passage
through which these muscles can draw
or close into a mere slit or chink—this
entrance is called the “glottis,” anditis,
80 PARTS AFFECTED IN
guarded or covered by a flap or lid of
cartilage called the “epiglottis,” epi,
“upon,” which is lifted up during
breathing to allow the air to enter and
escape, but is pressed down during
swallowing to prevent food or drink
entering the windpipe. All these parts
are lined or covered with mucous mem-
brane, which, when healthy, is thin,
smooth, soft and moist, and of an almost
uniform colour throughout, a pale
crimson or dull pinkish-red, only faint-
ly showing its blood-vessels. On the
outside the “lungs” are covered by
or enclosed in a membrane coarser
and stronger — serous membrane —
called the “pleura,” which also lines
the inside of the chest walls or ribs.
* In settling in the
throat a cold may affect principally
the fauces, or the pharynx, tonsils, or
larynx, or all of these together. In
any of these cases it is called common
or catarrhal sore throat. If it falls
principally on the larynx in a severe
form it is a serious disease, and then’

COMMON SORE THROAT. 81
receives the name of “laryngitis;” if
it affects principally the tonsils it pro-
duces “quinsy;” if it goes lower down
and attacks the windpipe it produces
“ tracheal catarrh ; ” if still lower and
attacks the bronchial tubes it pro-
duces “bronchial catarrh or bron-
chitis;” and if lower still, to the sub-
stance of the lungs, it produces
“ pneumonic catarrh or pneumonia.”
COLD IN THE THROAT—COMMON SORE
THROAT—FAUCIAL CATARRH.
When it is on the
mucous membrane of the fauces or
arch that a cold settles principally
there is first a feeling of dryness,
burning, stinging, and roughness at
the back of the mouth, with a sensa-
tion of swelling and contraction as if
the uvula and curtain were hanging
down too low, or as if something were
there that had to be hawked up or
swallowed. There is sharp pain on
swallowing; the uvula and arch are
red or scarlet and somewhat mottled,
82 common sonE THROAT.
and the blood-vessels are plainly
visible; the uvula may be elongated
and cause cough by reaching down
into the throat on leaning backwards.
At first the parts look dry and excori-
ated, but afterwards there is a viscid
clear mucus secreted, causing con-
tinual hawking and scraping, which
may cause the mucus got up to be
streaked with bright red blood. The
febrile symptoms of the cold will still
be present during this stage. In
favorable cases, after a day or two the
febrile symptoms subside and the
secretion becomes thick and yellow,
and perhaps green, and less difficult
of detachment; ulcers may form, soft,
superficial and irregular, especially
on the edge of the arch or on the
uvula, and the phlegm in this stage
may also be streaked with blood from
the ulcers. The appearances within
the throat differ greatly from those
seen in diphtheria, where there is
whitish-yellow substance upon the



FAUCIAL CATARRH. 83
mucous membrane, especially of the
tonsils. In severe cases, or when the
inflammation has not been checked
early, abscess may form in the arch
or pillars; this will produce a state
much resembling quinsy, and will
require much the same management
(see Quinsy, p. 86).
w Treatment. — The
best treatment for inflammation of the
fauces, as a rule, is to continue the
aconitum being given for the cold
and give belladonna 3 as well, two
drops alternately every hour or two
as long as there are feverish symp-
toms, or dryness, or clear tenacious
phlegm, even although there be abra-
sion or excoriation of the mucous mem-
brane; after the subsidence of the fe-
brile symptoms, or the phlegm changes
to yellow, stop the aconitum and
belladonna and give mercurius 6, two
drops every two hours until the ulcers
are healed and the discharge of phlegm
stopped; after this give sulphur 6, two
drops five times a day for a week or

84 common SoBE THROAT.
two to restore the strength of the
parts. Much present relief may be
obtained in the early stage whilst the
parts are dry, or the secretion is clear
and viscid, by breathing steam through
the mouth, especially if a few drops of
aconitum p be added to the water;
and after the discharge has become
yellow or green the cure may be expe-
dited by spraying the throat with a
weak solution of mercurius (5 gr. of
1st trit. to 8 oz. of water). Ordinarily
the patient should be careful to breathe
through the nose, and to keep in one
room with the air warm, 65°, and
moistened with steam ; he should also
apply a hydropathic compress round
under the chin from one ear to the
other, fastened with a handkerchief
tied on the top of the head.
. If the feverish and
inflammatory symptoms do not give
way within two or three days, or if the
mercurius does not heal up the ulcers
within three or four days of its use, it
will be better to call in a professional


PHARYNGEAL CATARRH. 85
man than run the risk of abscess or
chronic sore throat; the casemaybe one
requiring someless usual medicine, such
as rhus, apis, lachesis, tartarus emeticus,
kali bichromicum, or calcarea carbonica,
and which it would want a practi-
tioner's knowledge and tact to select.
CoLD IN THE THROAT—CoMMON SORE
THROAT—PHARYNGEAL CATARRH.
When the mucous
membrane of the pharynx is the part
principally affected the symptoms are
very similar to those enumerated as
occurring when the fauces are affected,
but they feel farther back, and the
desire to swallow is more predominant
than the desire to hawk; there is also
sensation as of Something hanging
from the back nostrils that had to
be detached by forcible inspiration
through the nose. On inspection the
back of the throat will be seen to be
in much the same state as that of the
fauces just described.
Treatment. — The
86 COMMON SORE THROAT.
same treatment is required here as in
faucial catarrh, except that the mer-
curius may be resorted to a little
earlier. The steaming, spraying, and
hydropathic compress are also equally
useful here. And the same remarks
apply as to the calling in of profes-
sional aid; some of these cases require
pulsatilla, acidum muriaticum, tar-
tarus emeticus, or kali bichromicum.
CoLD IN THE THROAT—CoMMON SOR
THROAT—QUINsy.
When a cold set-
tles principally on the tonsils they
become tender, painful, swollen, and
plainly visible, filling up the space
between the pillars on the sides of the
lowing and yawning, sticking or
striking into the ear; and there is
tenderness on pressure at the angle of
the jaw. This affection is called
“quinsy,” and that whether it go on
wing and yawning is a very





QUINSY. 87
marked symptom in quinsy, much
more so than in any other affection of
the throat, particularly when both ton-
sils are inflamed—double quinsy—and
the pain is much more aggravated
by swallowing fluids than solids, and
still more so on empty swallowing,
to which there is a constant tendency
caused by the tenacious mucus and
the increase of saliva. There may
also be redness and swelling of the
mucous membrane covering the ton-
sils and pillars of the palate, giving a
general swollen and red appearance to
that side of the throat. The symp-
toms of fever will still be present.
There may be much thirst, headache,
and alternation of shivering and heat.
If the inflammation continue, or be
neglected for two or three days, the
tonsils will very likely suppurate, and
then the matter must be discharged
by bursting. In this case the febrile
symptoms continue, and the throat
symptoms grow worse, the swelling
and painfulness of Swallowing in-

88 QUINSY.
crease, the breath becomes offensive,
and speaking becomes difficult and
swallowing almost impossible in
double quinsy. This state may last
one, two, or three days. When the
bursting takes place the relief is
immediate and marked, and the swal-
lowing free and almost painless at once.
Treatment. — The
best treatment for quinsy, as a rule,
is to continue the acomitum being
given for the cold, and give belladonna
1 as well, two drops every hour or two
alternately as long as the febrile symp-
toms and the dryness or heat continue
marked; after the fever has somewhat
abated stop the aconitum but go on
with the belladonna and give mer-
curius solubilis 6 as well, two drops
every two hours alternately. After the
tenderness and swelling are gone give
sulphur 6 five times a day for a week
or two, to restore the tonsils to their
natural state. If the tenderness and
swelling continue or increase after
the fever is somewhat subdued, and

QUINSY. 89
particularly if renewedshivering occur,
it is probable that suppuration is
taking place; in this case cease the
belladonna and mercurius and give
silicea 6, two drops every two hours
until the abscess bursts; and then give
hepar sulphuris 6, two drops every
two hours for a couple of days, and
then five times a day for two weeks,
in order to reduce the tonsils to their
natural size and to prevent chronic
enlargement. Breathing steam or
holding very hot water in the back of
the mouth will give considerable assist-
ance and help to prevent the begin-
ning of suppuration, and after suppura-
tion has begun they will help the
matter to the surface, and so will
the hydropathic compress at the
angle of the jaw covered with oil-silk
with a handkerchief tied over the
head, as recommended for faucial
catarrh. In severe cases of inflamed
tonsils it is better to call in profes-
sional advice at once, because cases
differ so much, and to check them
90 DIPHTHERIA.
and prevent suppuration, or chronic
enlargement, often requires, not bella-
donna and mercurius, but baryta car-
bonica, mercurius iodatus, lycopodium,
or some other drug.
DIPHTHERIA.
Besides quinsy
there is another inflammation of the
tonsils not altogether dependent on
taking cold, but of a specific character
and infectious. In this case the attack
is ushered in by a feeling of having
suddenly and somewhat unaccountably
taken a bad cold. There are much shi-
vering and fever, severe pain in the
back, limbs and head, as if threatened
with rheumatic fever. In many cases
the attack may be traced to a wetting
the day before, or exposure to a foul
odour, as from a drain. At the first
there is no complaint made about the
throat being sore, but on inspection
after about twelve hours from the
beginning of the illness the throat
one of the tonsils. After about


DIPEITHERIA. 91
twenty-four hours, however, there is
pain on swallowing, and tenderness
on pressure at the angle of the jaw of
the affected side, and on inspection
the tonsil may be seen to be swollen
and red, and to have a mottly appear-
ance as if yellow spots were coming
through the mucous membrane; and
within a few hours more yellow spots
do show themselves at the surface, as
if little points of cheese were issuing
from the substance of the tonsil.
These increase in number and size
until by the third day they meet and
coalesce into one patch or coating.
This gradually increases, so that by
the fourth day it has invaded the
pillars and part of the arch and
become much thicker by addition to
its under surface ; this addition would
appear to be at the expense of the
substance of the tonsil and neigh-
bouring parts, for on forcibly remov-
ing it a red excavation remains, with
angry dark red edges, somewhat in-
verted. Though removed it will form
92 DIPHTHERIA.
again as long as the disease remains
in the system; it is not the membrane
that forms the disease but the disease
that forms the membrane, and so
removing the membrane either by
forceps or acids or solvents does
nothing towards curing the disease.
This must be done by constitutional
means, by internally administered
specifics. If left to itself, in mild
attacks and vigorous constitutions, the
exudation will, as a rule, not spread
much further, but will remain much
the same for the fifth and sixth days,
and then gradually fall off, and the
parts will gradually recover more or
less perfectly. During the third day
of the illness the same process shows
itself on the other tonsil, and this
goes through the same course. The
tonsils become in some cases very
large and very prominent at the
angles of the jaw, and the whole
fauces look very red, swollen, and
angry, and swallowing is then very
painful. In mild cases, and in most

DIPHTHERIA. 93
cases under homoeopathic treatment,
the febrile symptoms disappear during
the third day, and the patient feels
much better of himself, even though
the throat looks worse and both ton-
sils have become affected, for, as
before stated, the throat affection is
rather the result of the disease than
the disease itself. By the end of the
third day or the beginning of the
fourth the tonsil first attacked begins
to clean and heal; there is no true
ulceration ; and on the fifth or sixth
day amendment is visible in the other
tonsil. In severe, neglected, or im-
properly managed cases the progress
is more rapid than that mentioned
above, and all the symptoms more
grave; the parts assume a boggy and
livid appearance, and the exudation
extends so as, in some cases, to in-
volve the whole arch and uvula and
invade the larynx and trachea; it also
becomes tough, leathery, and mem-
branous; indeed, the case assumes
the aspect and characters of putrid
94 DIPHTHERIA.
diphtheria, which is very serious
and often fatal, at least in children.
This disease is very prevalent in damp
weather, and damp and badly drained
situations, particularly badly drained
houses, or where the drains are defec-
tive or damaged, and there is escape
into the house or foundations. It is a
constitutional or blood disease, some-
what resembling scarlatina, and may
attack several members of a family at
once or in succession.
---. --> --> Treatment.—If the
attack has followed a wetting, give
rhus topicodendrom, 1 ; if it has followed
exposure to a foul odour, give acidum
muriaticum 1, two drops every hour
until the fever symptoms disappear;
then give mercurius biniodatus 2, two
grains dissolved in water every two
hours until the exudation has been
removed; and then give hepar sul-
phuris 6, two drops five times a day -
for a week or two to restore the
natural tone. During the time the
exudation is present spray the throat

LARYNGEAL CATARRH. 95
frequently with warm muriatic acid
spray (5 drops p to 8 oz. of water),
and keep the hydropathic compress
applied as recommended for faucial
catarrh and quinsy. Isolation and
ventilation are very necessary. It is
much the best, however, to call in a
medical man on the first appearance
of exudation, because any case may
turn out serious, and not to be
checked except by croton, tartarus
emeticus, kali bichromicum, apis,
lachesis, or crotalus, or some other
drug requiring the knowledge and
tact of the physician to select.
CoLD IN THE THROAT—COMMON SORE
THROAT—LARYNGEAL CATARRH, IN
ADULTS. When a cold set-
tles on the mucous membrane of the
larynx, as it is very apt to do in
public speakers, singers, actors, and
children, the result is laryngeal
catarrh, or laryngitis, or croup. The
parts involved in laryngeal catarrh
are the vocal cords, the chink of the
96 LARYNGEAL CATARRH,
glottis, and the epiglottis; also in
some cases the neighbouring parts of
the pharynx and root of the tongue.
In laryngeal catarrh of adults, some-
times called singer's or clergyman's
Sore throat, the earliest and most
marked symptoms are hoarseness and
loss of voice, with frequent, irritable,
dry, tickling cough and difficult
breathing, especially in inspiration;
tickling, pricking, dryness, and burn-
ing behind and below the root of the
tongue and at the upper part of the
windpipe in the region of the Adam’s
apple ; there may be some difficulty
and pain in swallowing, and the food
and drink may be apt to get into the
larynx and produce spasmodic cough ;
febrile symptoms will still be present.
As in other regions, when the mucous
membrane is inflamed it is at first
dry; this is, however, soon followed
by secretion of viscid tenacious
mucus, which causes continued hawk-
ing to clear it away. Though the
principal part inflamed is out of the


LARYNGEAL CATARRH. 97
range of sight, except by the aid of the
laryngoscope, so much accompanying
dryness, redness, and swelling, may
usually be seen about the lower part
of the fauces as to indicate the state
of the parts below. In favourable or
well-managed cases the febrile symp-
toms will subside within three days,
and the mucus become thick and
yellow, and less difficult to detach ;
as in the fauces and pharynx, how-
ever, ulcers may form, these tend to
keep up a continuous tickling, prick-
ing, and coughing. In severe attacks,
or if the inflammation be not speedily
checked, the case may turn out to be a
very serious disease, acute laryngitis
or true croup, both of which are very
dangerous diseases; or ulcers and
granulations may remain and prolong
the case into one of chronic laryngitis.
Treatment. — The
best treatment, as a rule, is to con-
tinue the aconitum being given for the
cold, and give spongia 1 as well, two
drops every hour or two alternately
98 LARYNGEAL CATARRH.
as long as the febrile symptoms or the
dry irritable tickling cough or the
viscid secretion continues. After the
febrile symptoms have subsided, or
the secretion has become yellow and
easily detached, relinquish the aco-
nitum and spongia, and give hepar
sulphurus 6 instead, two drops every
two hours until the cough and ex-
pectoration cease. Breathing steam
during the early stage is a great help,
especially if a few drops of aconitum p
be added to the water; and using the
warm spray, impregnated with aco-
nitum (10 drops of 4 to 8 oz. of water),
whilst taking aconitum internally;
and spray containing hepar (5 grs.
of 3rd trituration to 8 oz. of water)
whilst taking this medicine internally;
or a spray containing argentum
nitricum (10 grs. 1st decimal to 8 oz.
of water) if ulcers or granulations
become chronic, and having the
throat encircled with a hydropathic
compress changed every six hour:
º








ACUTE TARYNGITIS. 99
warm, 65°, and moist, as directed for
laryngeal catarrh in children (p. 103).
If the symptoms do not speedily
subside under this treatment, call in
professional assistance, because the
case may require apis, causticum, kali
bichromicum, lachesis, iodium or bro-
mium, or some other drug. If the
difficulty of breathing be at all a
prominent symptom, call in profes-
sional aid at once, because it may be a
case of acute laryngitis from the
beginning; this is a serious disease,
and under the old system frequently
fatal, though under homoeopathy
nearly always, I may say always,
curable. With the object of prevent-
ing mistake or fatal delay I give a
description of this disease next. .
CoLD IN THE THROAT—ACUTE
LARYNGITIS.
This disease
occurs most frequently in adults;
it involves the same parts as common
laryngeal catarrh, and the symptoms.
100 ACUTE TARYNGITIS.
are very similar to those described
under that heading, but much more
severe; there are much more difficulty
and pain on breathing and swallowing;
inspiration is peculiarly protracted
and wheezing or struggling, evi-
dencing that the opening into the
windpipe is much narrowed; the
swelling is of an oedematous or puffy
character, like that produced by the
sting of a wasp when it has taken
place in the mouth or throat. The
cough has a peculiarly harsh, stridu-
lous, husky, and abortive sound. The
epiglottis being swollen and stiffened,
does not properly close the glottis,
and food and drink frequently pro-
duce spasmodic cough by getting into
the windpipe. Speech is a whisper
with the lips, and there are great rest-
lessness and anxiety about the patient,
and great dread of falling to sleep
because of the struggle for breath.
intense is the inflammation in some
and so dangerous the swelling
is locality, that there is risk of







ACUTE LARYNGITIS. 101
rapid and complete closure of the
glottis and speedy death by suffocation
unless averted by tracheotomy, that is,
cutting an opening into the windpipe.
Treatment. — This
should in every case be resigned into
professional hands; but should such
not be immediately possible, pursue
the following plan :—Continue the
acomitum and give apis 3 as well, two
drops every half-hour or hour alter-
nately, and steam the throat continu-
ally with water impregnated with
aconitum p ; also encircle the throat
with a flannel lifted out of boiling
water, and cover this with several
folds of dry flannel. Keep the air of
the room warm, 65°, and moist, as
recommended for croup (p. 103). After
the symptoms have subsided consider-
ably, spongia may be required, or iodium
or kali bichromicum or some other
drug, but these cases should always
be resigned to a practitioner. If suf-
focation appear imminent tracheotomy
must be resorted to ; this prevents

º º . . . . . . . . , ºr s ſ sº
time for the medicine to operate.
º Cold IN THE THROAT—LARYNGEAL
CATARRH, IN CHILDREN-CROUP.
tles in the larynx in children, as it is
very apt to do during the prevalence
of east winds and in damp situations,
particularly in some children, it rapidly
produces what is called croup. After
a day or so of the symptoms of a
common cold, such as sneezing, cough,
hoarseness, sometimes so slight as
scarcely to be noticed, the child may
rent I
amiss, but about midnight it
at, and will start up as if from a
h, dry, hollow, barking cough,
rough a tin tube; it will throw
le bed apparent
great distress, repeating this cou






















CROUP. 103
and inspiration almost incessantly,
apparently struggling for breath in
danger of immediate suffocation. The
countenance will be anxious and dis-
tressed; the eyes looking wild and the
face flushed; the head and skin burn-
ing, dry, and hot ; the pulse will be
rapid and strong; and there will be
considerable thirst and fever.
Treatment. — Aco-
nitum is almost all the medicine that
is required, at least for some hours.
Drop thirty drops of acomitum 1 into a
teacup, and add thirty teaspoonfuls of
clean cold water to it, and then give
the child, however young it is, a tea-
spoonful every five minutes. Take up
the child and carry it into a warm
room, free from draughts; keep the
room at or above 65° by a good fire,
and keep the air moist by having
steam continually escaping into it by
keeping water boiling and frequently
pouring some of it in a long stream
into a tub or bath, and dipping flannels
into this and raising them up into

104 CROUP.
the air. Tear a strip of flannel two
inches wide and about a yard long,
wring this out of boiling water, and
wrap it quickly round the neck, as hot
as the child can bear it, and imme-
diately wrap outside this dry flannel
four inches wide and about a yard and
a half long, and then wrap the child
altogether in a warm blanket or shawl
close up to the chin, and let the nurse
keep it on her lap. Do not give the
child a general hot bath, or undress it,
or expose it in any way, or even
change or remove the flannels from
the neck for some hours; the flannels
should remain until the cough is quite
: . . . . . . loose and the fever gone ; then they
may be removed, and the outer one
made dry and hot and wrapped round
the neck by itself. Continue this
treatment until the fever is consider-
ably diminished and the skin moist,
free and easy, and then give the aco-
nitum only every quarter of an hour
for two hours, and if improvement
the cough loose, and the inspiration









TRACHEAL CATARRH, 105
continues after that give it only every
hour for two hours more, and then
stop it altogether and give spongia 1,
two drops every two hours for twenty-
four hours. Should a loose cough
remain after that, give hepar sulphuris
6, two drops every two hours until it
is gone. A medical man should be
sent for as soon as possible, for some-
times in predisposed children and the
prevalence of east wind, or other un-
favourable weather, unless promptly
well managed, the parts do not
thoroughly recover their healthy state,
but remain weak and disposed to
secrete plastic exudation, which ad-
heres to the surface and forms a skin
or membranous lining, constituting
chronic or membranous croup, which
is a serious and obstinate and often
fatal disease.
CoLD IN THE THROAT—CoMMON SORE
THROAT—TRACHEAL CATARRH.
- --- When a cold settles
on the windpipe it produces rough,
106 TRACHEAL CATARRH.
ºgº
loud, deep, hollow cough, with hoarse-
ness and roughness of voice, dryness,
irritability, and tickling in the wind-
pipe, and rough rasping breathing;
then secretion of viscid mucus, which
produces much plaguing, fatiguing
cough, and hawking and scraping;
the mucous membrane soon gives
way, and ulcers result, and the secre-
tion becomes yellow or green, with
much rawness and Soreness on cough-
ing. There are feverish heats and
chills, and some obstruction and diffi-
culty in breathing. In favorable and
well-managed cases the fever subsides
in three or four days, and the expecto-
ration becomes easy; but in severe or
mismanaged attacks the inflammation
gradually extends downwards to the
bronchial tubes, and perhaps to the
lungs, producing bronchitis, or pneu-
Treatment.— The
best treatment of tracheal catarrh, as
a rule, is to continue the aconitum
being given for the cold, and give


TRACHEAL CATARRH. 107
spongia 3 as well, two drops every
hour or two alternately until the
fever disappears or the phlegm be-
comes yellow, and then relinquish
these and give kali bichromicum 3,
two drops every two hours until the
ulceration heals, and the expectora-
tion ceases, and after that give hepar
sulphuris 6, two drops five times a
day until the natural tone of the
windpipe is re-established. Here,
also, great benefit will be derived in
the early stage from breathing steam,
particularly if impregnated with aco-
nitum p, and from the hydropathic com-
press round the throat (not under the
chin from ear to ear), and a warm
moist atmosphere, and afterwards
spray impregnated with kali bichro-
micum (5 grs. of 1st trit. to 8 oz.
water). If the feverish symptoms do
not give way within three or four days,
or if the inflammation extends to the
bronchial tubes, call in professional
aid, because tartarus emeticus, mer-
curius, phosphorus, iodine, or some

108 BRONCHITIS,
:*
other drug, may be required to check
the disease or complete the cure.
CoLD IN THE CHEST — BRONCHIAL
CATARRH–BRONCHITIs.
- The next portion
of the respiratory organs a cold is apt
to attack is the bronchial tubes, and
here the affection receives the name
bronchial catarrh or bronchitis (from
bronchos, throat, and itis, inflamma-
tion), and this is one of the most
common results of taking cold. It
may attack the large tubes alone, and
then it is properly named bronchial
catarrh ; or the small tubes — ordi-
nary acute bronchitis; or the capil-
lary terminations — capillary bron-
chitis, or all these together. The
danger bears a direct proportion to
the fineness of the tubes attacked,
capillary bronchitis being a really
serious disease, especially in children
and old people. Bronchitis may occur
in only one side of the chest, but it
usually attacks both. : >






BRONCHITIS. 109
A cold is known to
be assuming the character of bron-
chitis by the occurrence of tightness
across the chest, and oppressed, diffi-
cult, and rapid breathing, with feeling
of heat, dryness, rawness, Soreness,
and irritability within the chest, espe-
cially to cold or dry air, which pro-
vokes dry, spasmodic, fatiguing cough.
There is considerable fever, with
thirst and headache and rapid pulse,
and dry, sonorous, whistling respira-
tion. Within a day or two the dry-
ness of the mucous membrane gives
way to a viscid, clear, mucous secre-
tion, difficult to get up, and the
coughing and exertion to get it up
mix it with air, so that it is dis-
charged as frothy expectoration, per-
haps streaked with bright red blood;
the breathing has then acquired a
moist sound, but the whistle is re-
placed by a wheezing or rattling.
In mild or well-managed cases the
fever subsides by the third or fourth
day, and by the fifth or sixth the
110 BRONCHITIS.
expectoration begins to assume a
yellow colour and thick consistence,
and to be less difficult to detach; it
may even be greenish and streaked
with blood from ulceration of the
surface of the membrane. In severe
cases, unless very well managed, the
symptoms increase, the difficulty of
breathing becomes greater, the voice
becomes a whisper, the face assumes
a purplish and puffy appearance, great
prostration supervenes, and cold per-
spiration; the mental faculties be-,
come dull, and death closes the scene
within a week or ten days, as a rule.
Even cases mild at first require prompt
and energetic treatment, or they may
become severe, or they may run on
into “chronic bronchitis,” and keep
up a perpetual cough, or induced
asthma or consumption; neglected
bronchitis is a very frequent cause of
consumption and asthma.
º -----
- § §
the early stage of “ bronchial catarrh”
t treatment, as a rule, is toº





BRONCHITIS. 111
continue the aconitum being given for
the cold, and give bryonia 3 as well;
for the early stage of acute bronchitis
aconitum and kali bichromicum 3, and
of capillary bronchitis in old persons
acomitum and tartarus emeticus 3, and
in children aconitum and phosphorus 3,
two drops every two hours or every
hour alternately so long as the fever
persists and the expectoration remains
clear and viscid. After the fever has
subsided, and the expectoration be-
come yellow, cease the acomitum, but
continue the bryonia, kali bichromicum,
tartarus emeticus, or phosphorus, re-
spectively, until the expectoration is
considerably diminished and free from
blood; and then give hepar sulphuris
6, five times a day for a week or two,
to restore the tone of the parts.
Breathing steam impregnated with
acomitum p during the fever stage, and
a large hot bran or oatmeal poultice
should be kept on the front of the
chest, or the chest enveloped in one,
or in a hydropathic pack, and the


112 ASTHMA,
patient should be kept in bed, and the
air of the room kept warm (65°) and
moist, as recommended in laryngeal
catarrh. Steam or spray impregnated
with the medicine being used inter-
nally in the later stages will also
assist the cure; talking should be
avoided as much as possible. If the
fever does not subside by the fourth
or fifth day under the aconitum,
bryonia, kali bichromicum, tartarus
emeticus, or phosphorus, respectively,
or if the breathing continues oppressed
or short, call in professional assist-
ance, because some other medicine
may be required to meet the peculiari-
ties of the case, such as belladonna,
hyoscyamus, mercurius, in order to
prevent it running into chronic bron-
chitis, asthma, or consumption.
Asthma. : ;....: '... . . . . .
Attacks of bron-
chitis frequently repeated, if they
produce asthma and heart disease.


ASTHMA. 113
Besides weakening the heart and
lungs generally, bronchitis produces
thickening of the mucous membrane
lining the fine air-tubes leading to the
air-cells of the lungs; this, less or
more, closes these tubes and thereby
obstructs the escape or expulsion of
the air from the cells after inspiration
has filled them, and this obstruction
is increased by the phlegm that is
secreted. The effort to expel the air
in expiration stretches the air-cells,
and this effort has to be increased to
expel the phlegm by the act of
coughing. The fine bronchial tubes,
which are about the 1-50th of an inch
in diameter, are composed of an ex-
tremely thin layer of fibrous, elastic,
and muscular tissues blended together,
and lined with a very thin layer of
transparent mucous membrane, the
whole forming a membrane like very
thin transparent tissue-paper. The
walls of the air-cells are still thinner,
being without any muscular substance
at all. Between the mucous mem-
8
114 ASTHMA.
brane layer and the fibro-elastic layer
of the cells is spread (like the net of a
balloon) the network of extremely fine
blood-vessels that convey the blood
through the lungs to expose it to the
air contained within the cells. Cough-
ing is the main cause of the over-
stretching of the air-cells; the sudden
inflation and the forced effort to
empty the cells tend to destroy the
resilient power of the fine elastic
membrane, and, indeed, they do
really destroy it eventually in some
cases, leaving the cells permanently
stretched and inelastic, so that instead
of being about 1-200th of an inch
in diameter they are made to be
about 1-50th, or even very much larger,
constituting permanent dilatation of
the air-cells—emphysema of the lungs.
This over-stretching also obliterates
the fine capillary blood-vessels which
envelop the cells, and so it prevents
the blood from circulating through
them, so that the blood does not
become properly aerated, hence the






ASTHMA. 115
feeling of want of breath—the asthma.
This obstruction of the circulation
throws extra work upon the heart in
its endeavour to force the blood
through the lungs, so that the same
effect eventually becomes produced in
the heart by its extra forcing to expel
the blood that has already been pro-
duced in the air-cells in their extra
effort to expel the air—thinning and
dilatation. Hence the pain and the
palpitation of the heart that asthmatic
persons suffer from, and the inability
to bear exertion that exists, and the
dropsy that follows. Every attack of
bronchitis increases the susceptibility
to future attacks; and when the
attacks are brought on by much less
exposure than usual, and are marked
by more wheezing and difficulty of
breathing, and are more prolonged and
less amenable to treatment than usual,
and the cough has more of a spas-
modic character, and the cough and
difficult breathing have a tendency
to wake up the patient in the small

116 Asthma.
hours of morning, the supervention of
asthma may be dreaded. Subjects of
bronchial emphysematous asthma are
extremely liable to have bronchitis
brought on by the least exposure to
cold, cold air, night air, damp air, fog,
damp clothes, over-exertion, &c., and
especially so during the prevalence
of east or north-east or south-east
winds. They should, therefore, be
very careful to avoid all these ; they
should never venture out of doors
when the air is at or below 45°
without wearing a Jeffery's respirator
or pneumo-clime; and when they do
take cold they should lay up at once
and commence the treatment recom-
mended under “Bronchitis.”
. Treatment. — The
treatment of bronchial emphyse-
matous asthma resolves itself into the
treatment during the attack and the
treatment during the interval. Dur-
ing the attack the treatment is simply
that of bronchitis, and requires
aconitum, alternated with or followed

PNEUMONIA. 117
by bryonia, phosphorus, belladonna,
tartarus emeticus, kali bichromicum,
ipecacuanha, &c., according to the
prevailing phase and the stage of the
attack. The selection should, how-
ever, be made by a physician. The
treatment during the interval consists
in the use of the means of bracing up
the nervous and muscular systems
and the digestive organs, and includes
change of air, mineral waters, cold
baths, regular habits, regulated diet,
and the administration of sulphur,
hepar sulphuris, calcarea, ferrum, mua.
womica, pulsatilla, arsenicum, &c. But
the most suitable medicine and the
special course in each case requires
the knowledge of the physician for its
selection.
CoLD IN THE CHEST-PULMONARY
CATARRH–PNEUMONIA.
When a cold settles
on the substance of the lungs the
disease is called pneumonia, pneu-
monitis (pneuma, the lung, and itis,
118 PNEUMONIA.
inflammation). The bronchial cells
are usually involved in this inflam-
mation, particularly in children, and
then it is named broncho-pneumonia,
and the pleura, or outside covering, is
frequently implicated, particularly in
rheumatic adults, and then the disease
is named pleuro-pneumonia. Inflam-
mation of the lung usually attacks the
lower part: when it occupies a part
only of a lung it is “partial” pneumo-
nia, when it occurs in only one lung
it is “single” pneumonia, and when
in both lungs “double” pneumonia.
§: 3 gº The commencement
of pneumonia is announced by the
occurrence of a deep-seated dull pain
in the part of the lung attacked,
usually the side towards the back,
accompanied by a feeling of tightness
and inability to expand the lung there
as if a weight lay on it, and every
attempt to do so causes severe pain.
There is at first a short, continuous,
deep, hard, dull, dry cough, and by
applying the ear to the part affected


PNEUMONIA. 119
the breathing may be heard to be
crepitant, and the part will be painful
to pressure, and it will give out a
dull, solid, non-resonant sound on
being tapped, because the lung there
is filled with blood instead of air, and
the chest does not expand on that
side equally with the other. At first
there is no expectoration, but about
the third day some mucus is secreted,
and it is of a reddish colour from some
of the blood oozing out also, making
what is called “prune-juice ’’ expecto-
ration ; this is somewhat difficult to
get up. There are considerable fever
and thirst, so much so as to give the
name “lung fever * to this disease.
In broncho-pneumonia the breathing
is more interfered with, and in pleuro-
pneumonia pain is much more promi-
nent. In mild and favourable cases
the fever gives way by the fifth or
sixth day, the pain subsides, and the
expectoration becomes yellow and less
difficult to detach, and the breathing
becomes free and easy, the appetite re-

120 PNEUMONIA.
§ º
turns, and the health is re-established
within a fortnight. In severe or neg-
lected cases, however, all the symptoms
increase, and breathing becomes very
short and painful, and the strength
fails rapidly, and the patient may die
merely from the loss of lung room in
the acute stage; or the lung may pro-
ceed to suppuration or gangrene and
wear away the strength by exhausting
expectoration; or it may induce con-
sumption, which, indeed, it is very apt
to do if it occur in the upper part of
the lung; pneumonia is, in fact, more
frequently the cause of consumption
than is any other disease.
Treatment. — The
best treatment for broncho-pneumonia
is to continue the aconitum being
given for the cold, and give phos-
phorus 3 as well, and for pleuro-pneu-
monia aconitum and bryonia 3, two
drops every two hours alternately
until the fever has been subdued and
the expectoration begun to assume
a yellow colour, and then cease the



CONSUMPTION. 121
acomitum, but continue the phosphorus
or bryonia respectively until the expec-
toration is considerably diminished,
and then give sulphur 6, two drops
five times daily until healthy action is
completely restored. In all cases of
pneumonia the patient should be kept
in bed in a warm room with moist
air, and a large hot poultice or a
partial hydropathic pack kept con-
tinually applied to the affected side, at
least so long as it is necessary to con-
tinue the acomitum ; talking should be
avoided as much as possible. If the
fever does not give way, or the pain
does not subside, or the expectora-
tion turn yellow, or the breathing
become easy and free, within six days,
call in professional assistance, because
the case may require veratrum viride,
tartarus emeticus, lobelia, lycopodium,
or sulphur, or perhaps sanguinaria.
CONSUMPTION.—PHTHISIS.
- Some persons have
what is called a “consumptive consti-


122 CONSUMPTION.
tution,” that is, they are liable to have
consumption developed if much ex-
posed to unfavourable conditions, such
as deprivation, watching, constant
anxiety, taking cold, &c. Such lia-
bility is indicated by the presence of
what is called a “nervous tempera-
ment”—large nervous and small bony
and muscular systems; small chest,
nose, and throat ; whiteness, fineness,
or clearness of skin; flaxen, or yellow,
or brown hair; blue, or grey, or hazel
eyes; and small, weak, and excitable
pulse. Such persons are peculiarly
liable to take cold, and this in them
usually falls on the breathing appa-
ratus — nose, throat, chest. These
persons should be extremely careful
to avoid all causes of exhaustion and
debility, and to avail themselves of
every means of husbanding their
bodily strength and of bracing it up,
and, if possible, of increasing it, for
they have received but a small stock
from their parents. They should very
carefully avoid all the causes of taking
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CONSUMPTION. 123
cold (see p. 13), and adopt every pos-
sible means of prevention (see p. 26);
and when they do take cold they
should not neglect it even for a day,
but attend to it at once, as directed at
page 30. Whenever in such persons
a cold shows unusual symptoms, or
takes an unusual course, or lingers
longer than usual, or produces more
debility than usual, the beginnings of
consumption should be suspected.
And if in addition to these there is a
short, dry, tickling cough, worse in
the evening and aggravated by deep
breathing, laughing, talking, or exer-
tion; more hurry of the breathing
than usual by exertion; a feeling as if
smoke had got into the windpipe; a
feeling of weight on the chest beneath
the collar-bones; some little feverish-
ness in the evenings, or burning of
the palms of the hands; unusually
quick pulse; tendency to perspire
towards morning in bed; loss of
appetite for breakfast; marked failure
of strength, or perceptible loss of


124 CONSUMPTION.
flesh, very grave suspicions may be
entertained, and no time should be
lost before seeking competent profes-
sional advice. . .
.. Treatment.—Imme-
diately there is the slightest suspicion
that consumption threatens, seek pro-
fessional advice at once; lose no time,
for it is only in the early stage that
absolute cure is to be looked for; if,
however, homoeopathic treatment be
adopted and well directed and well
carried out, before any great amount
of deposit has taken place, complete
cure may be expected, and restora-
tion to perfect health anticipated.
There is a marked contrast here be-,
tween the activity of the new system
of medicine and the supineness of the
old—between the help rendered to the
patient by homoeopathy and by the old
system. Under the old system all
that can be done is to take care of the
patient and administer cod-liver oil /
Allopathy has not one single medicine
of any value whatever in checking the



CONSUMPTION. 125
deposit of tubercle, or in assisting its
absorption | Whereas, under homoeo-
pathy, besides the necessary care and
protection and the exhibition of cod-
liver oil, absolutely effective remedies
can be made use of Homoeopathy
provides active remedial measures and
absolutely curative medicines—medi-
cines that can not only check the
deposit of tubercle but also cause its
absorption and removal—calcarea,
hepar, sulphur, iodium, lycopodium,
phosphorus, pulsatilla, kali, Sangui-
maria, &c. &c., offer a powerful and
effective armamentarium against many
of the onslaughts of this dreadful foe to
our race and fell destroyer of many of
its most lovely and gifted representa-
tives. It is probable that before any
suspicion of incipient consumption has
dawned upon the mind of the patient
or his friends the aconitum will have
been supplemented by belladonna, or
byronia, or phosphorus ; at all events,
in the absence of professional advice,
whatever medicine is being adminis-
126 CONSUMPTION.
tered (unless it be calcarea) it must
be relinquished, and calcarea carbonica,
6 must be given in its place, two
drops every two hours. The patient
must be kept in one room, well-venti-
lated and kept at a temperature of 65°,
day and night : he must absolutely
avoid all cold draughts and all alco-
holic stimulants; he must have very
little tea and no coffee; have milk, oat-
meal gruel, beef tea, eggs, and other
light, nourishing, and easily digested
food, and some cod-liver oil; his drink
must be black-currant tea, lemon-juice
water, toast water, milk and water, or
barley water. If the cough be very
troublesome in the evening he may
inhale steam or spray impregnated
with belladonna ſp.
- In all cases of
threatened consumption have the
assistance of a homoeopathic physician
as soon as possible; possibly calcarea
may not be the best medicine in any




PLEURISY. 127
CoLD IN THE CHEST-PLEURISY.
x The next part of
the respiratory organs on which a
cold is apt to settle is the pleura—
the serous membrane covering the
outside of the lungs and the inside of
the ribs.
. The onset of acute
pleurisy is announced by the occur-
rence of severe stitching pain in the
side in the region of the ribs, i.e., the
side of the chest, not in the soft part
below the ribs. It is discovered in
breathing, especially by taking a deep
inspiration, which, indeed, it prevents
and causes the hand to be placed on
the part to prevent the lung from
opening. (In health the two smooth
moist surfaces of the pleura move
easily on each other during respiration,
but when inflamed they stick together,
hence the sharp, stitching, tearing
pain on attempting to move them on
each other by breathing.) The sur-
faces of the pleura first become dry,
128 PLEURISY,
and then they pour out a fibrinous
secretion which glues them together;
or in some cases an immense quantity
of serous fluid is poured out, forming
“water in the chest,” particularly
when the inflammation comes on slowly
—“chronic pleurisy” (see Dropsy, p.
164). Hence, at the commencement
of pleurisy, by placing the ear on the
affected side a dry rubbing sound may
be heard; when the parts have stuck
together this ceases, and when fluid
has appeared it bulges out the side
and gives out a dull sound on being
tapped. At the beginning there are
usually severe shivering, great thirst,
and considerable fever, so much so
that this disease has received the
name of “pleurisy fever.” This is a
disease that requires prompt and
skilful treatment, for even slight
attacks are apt otherwise to do
serious or permanent damage to the
breathing apparatus, by either per-
manently gluing the surfaces of
the pleura together or pouring out






PLEURISY. 129
fluid or pus between the lung and
the ribs. §
Treatment. — The
best treatment for a cold that has run
on to inflammation of the pleura is to
continue the aconitum being given for
the cold and give bryonia 1 as well,
two drops every hour alternately
until the fever and pain have been
subdued, and then give sulphur 3
every two hours until the breathing
is quite free and the chest can be
expanded to the full extent. A large
hot oatmeal poultice with a little
mustard powder sprinkled on the
surface applied to the affected part as
soon as possible will not only afford
temporary relief to the pain, but will
really assist the cure; there should be
two poultices in use at the same time,
one to replace the other immediately
it loses its heat; or the chest may be
encircled in a hydropathic pack. If
the febrile symptoms and the pain do
not give way within two days, or the
breathing do not become free within
130 PERITONITIS.
four or five days, resign the treatment
into professional hands, or it may end
in one of the serious or permanent
lesions before mentioned; that particu-
lar case may require mercurius, senega,
apis, arsenicum, or some other drug.
CoLD IN THE ABDOMEN-PERITONITIS.
a As the lungs are
covered outside and the ribs or chest-
walls are lined inside with “serous ”
membrane, so also are the bowels
covered outside and the abdominal
walls lined inside with serous mem-
brane. In the chest this membrane
is called the “pleura” and in the
abdomen it is called the “peritoneum”
(see p. 60). In both places it forms
a bag which in the healthy state is
empty, with its sides pressed together,
like the sinuses of the brain (see
Hydrocephalus). The peritoneum, like
the pleura, is liable to become in-
flamed when a person takes cold, and,
like it, is then apt to pour out serous
fluid, sometimes in very large quan-





PERITONITIS. % 131
tities, forming “dropsy of the abdo-
men.” When a cold runs on to
peritonitis the abdomen becomes ten-
der to pressure, and hot even to the
touch, and the patient is inclined to
lie quite still on his back, and draw
up his knees, and to breathe with his
chest instead of his abdomen, and the
breathing is short and rapid; there is
great fever, with intense thirst, and
perhaps vomiting, and the pulse be-
comes very rapid and wiry, and the
patient may die within two or three
days, from the mere severity of the
inflammation. When these symptoms
come on suddenly or rapidly it is
called “acute’” peritonitis, and when
they come on slowly it is called
“chronic ’’ peritonitis, and the acute is
apt to degenerate into chronic if ne-
glected or improperly treated. It
is in the chronic form that dropsy
most generally takes place (see Dropsy,
p. 164). .
Treatment. — Im-
mediately there are signs of peri.


132 GASTRIC CATARRH.
tonitis the patient should be confined
to bed and the abdomen should be
continuously fomented with very hot
water, or a hydropathic compress
applied and wrung out every eight
hours. Continue the aconitum being
given for the cold and give bryonia 3
as well, two drops every two hours
alternately, so long as there is either
fever, pain, or tenderness, and then
give sulphur 6 every three hours for
about a week to remove the effects of
the inflammation. If the fever, pain,
and tenderness do not disappear
within thirty-six or forty-eight hours,
call in a physician, or the patient may
soon be beyond recovery, or dropsy
may supervene.
CoLD IN THE STOMACH-GASTRIC
CATARRH.
When a cold settles
ncipally on the mucous membrane
the stomach, the result generally is
nausea and heartburn, and perhaps.
incessant vomiting of mucus and of
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GASTRIC CATARRH. 133
all food and drink; disgust of food,
feverishness, headache, tenderness of
the pit of the stomach, and intoler-
ance of tight clothing—this is called
“gastric catarrh.” The disease may
spread through the small end of the
stomach to the gall-duct and liver,
and produce catarrh of those organs,
which may either irritate the liver to
excessive secretion and bring on
bilious vomiting or diarrhoea (Eng-
lish cholera), or the swelling may
block up the gall-duct and produce
jaundice.
Treatment. — The
best treatment for gastric catarrh is
to continue the aconitum being given
for the cold, and give kali bichromicum,
3 as well, two drops every two hours
alternately as long as any feverish
symptoms continue, and then stop
the aconitum and continue the kali
bichromicum alone every two hours.
Drinking hot water, as suggested by
my friend Dr. Gibson, of Stirling, is a
very effectual help; the water should

134 GASTRIC CATARRH.
be as hot as it can be drunk; a pint
of it may be drunk every hour for
four or five hours. Sucking or swal-
lowing ice is not to be recommended;
it may afford temporary relief, but it
is only such relief as is afforded to a
burn by the application of cold water,
or to frost-bite by the application of
heat, and at the risk of prolonging
the disease. Hot fomentation to the
stomach, mustard poultice, or hydro-
pathic compress will not only afford
temporary relief but really assist the
cure. Like every other inflamed
organ, the stomach should be left as
much as possible at rest, the food
should be seldom and in small quan-
tities, and consist mainly of warm
oatmeal gruel, diluted white of egg,
skim-milk, roasted potato, and such
nausea do not subside and the appetite
somewhat return within three days,
or if the symptoms of bilious vomiting
call in a professional man, because



DIARRHOEA. 135
the case may require arsenicum, phos-
phorus, mercurius, or chamomilla.
CoLD IN THE BOWELS-DIARRHOEA.
When a cold settles
on the bowels “diarrhoea’’ is the usual
result, and the stools become watery,
or mucus and slime and sometimes
blood, with much straining. Diar-
rhoea may result also from many other
CallS6S.
Treatment. —When
diarrhoea results from a cold, and when
there is much chilliness or shiver-
ing, give camphor q, four drops
on sugar every quarter hour until
the shivering has disappeared, and
then resume the aconitum and give
dulcamara 3 as well, two drops every
two hours alternately. If there is no
considerable amendment within thirty-
six or forty-eight hours, call in a phy-
sician, or it may run into dysentery;
the case may require chamomilla,
ºveratrum, arsenicum, or mercurius.

136 BILIOUs ATTACK.
CoLD IN THE LIVER AND STOMACH-
º BILIOUS ATTACK.
A cold frequently
settles on the liver and stomach, con-
gesting them and checking their
action, and then there are loss of
appetite, nausea at sight of food,
thirst, headache, lassitude, foul tongue,
bitter taste, jaundiced skin, fever,
fulness at pit of stomach, constipation,
stools dry and whitish colour, urine
depositing sediment like clay or pow-
dered brick. If neglected or im-
properly treated complete jaundice
may follow, or bilious vomiting and
diarrhoea (English cholera) supervene.
Treatment. — The
best treatment for a bilious attack
brought on by taking cold is to con-
tinue the aconitum being given for the
cold and give bryonia 3 as well, two
drops every two hours alternately
side and the headache and nausea
are considerably diminished; if after
this foul tongue and constipation
until the feverishness and thirst sub-



JAUNDICE. 137
remain, give nua, vomica 3 every
two hours for three days; and if
health be not then re-established, con-
sult a medical practitioner in order to
prevent jaundice or worse evil. Re-
frain from aperients.
CoLD IN THE LIVER—JAUNDICE.
When a cold falls
principally on the liver, as it frequently
does, it then generally produces catarrh
of the gall-duct; this checks or prevents
the escape of the bile, which cannot,
therefore, pass into the bowels, and
the stools, not being changed by it, are
white and offensive; the bile is ab-
sorbed into the blood and taken by it
to the eyes and skin, which it colours
yellow; the kidneys separate a large
quantity with the urine, which there-
by becomes of a very dark colour,
sometimes like porter. There are
nausea, headache, want of appetite,
constipation and feverishness, and
yellow foul tongue, and the liver is
generally swollen and tender. -
138. MESENTERIC DISEASE.
Treatment. — The
best treatment for jaundice brought on
by taking cold is to continue the
aconitum being given for the cold and
give mercurius 6 as well, two drops.
every two hours alternately. If the
symptoms do not give way, as shown
by improvement in the stools and
urine, within three or four days, call
in a physician, because the case may
require bryonia, nua, vomica, chamo-
milla, or china. -
CoLD IN THE ABDOMINAL GLANDS—TABES
MESENTERICA—MESENTERIC DISEASE.
bowels are held together and held in
their places by a thin transparent skin
or membrane called the “mesentery.”
This mesentery holds between its two
layers the glands through which the
digested food has to pass in its way
m the stomach and bowels to the
the pabulum in its progress from
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MESENTERIC DISEASE. 139
these glands, inflaming them, espe-
cially in children, and particularly in
scrofulous children—that is, children
one or both of whose parents have
been or are consumptive or scrofulous.
Such children are known by their
having either light hair, tending to be
dry and stiff, grey eyes and pasty-
looking skin; or by their having
blue eyes and florid complexion, with
yellow or reddish hair. They are
often pretty and fat children. In such
children, between one and five years
old, a cold is very liable to bring on
disease of the abdominal glands.
These glands are much more liable to
become inflamed if they are over-
worked, as they are in over-fed chil-
dren, and in some of these cases it may
be preceded by ulceration of the glands
of the mucous membrane of the bowels.
Hence it is no uncommon thing to see
a very fat child suddenly lose flesh
and become very thin, from the in-
flamed glands not allowing the food
to pass into the blood—it consumes


140 MESENTERIC DISEASE.
away from disease in the abdomen,
hence the disease is called consumption
of the bowels. If during a cold in a
child with a constitution such as that
referred to, the child becomes remark-
ably irritable and cross, the abdomen
becomes very hot and tender, the
stools become putty-like and offensive,
the urine of a deep saffron colour, and
the tongue very foul, and the fever
continues intense, though the breathing
is free and there is little cough,
mesenteric disease may be suspected;
and this becomes a certainty if the
constipation gives way to diarrhoea of
light, offensive, undigested stools, and
the abdomen becomes large and tym-
panitic, and the child rapidly loses
f esh At the onset the appetite is
poor, but it soon becomes ravenous,
and still the child loses flesh.
Treatment.—Imme.
aly mesenteric disease is suspect-
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MESENTERIC DISEASE. 141
with, although under well-directed
homoeopathic treatment it is usually
curable; indeed, it is in this disease
that homoeopathy has gained some of
its best laurels, for it has cured an
immense number of otherwise hopeless
cases. One of the highest authorities
in the old system, Sir Thomas Watson,
says—“This is not only a very com-
mon but a very fatal disease in chil-
3 *
dren. If professional aid be not
immediately obtainable, the best plan
to pursueis the following:—Relinquish
the aconitum and give belladonna 1 and
mercurius 3 alternately every two
hours, and cover the abdomen with a
hydropathic compress, wrung out of
warm water every eight hours. So
long as constipation exists give thin
well-sieved oatmeal gruel and Liebig's
cold-made beef tea for food; after
diarrhoea has supervened give only
skimmed milk, white of eggs, and
Liebig's beef tea. Procure professional
attendance as soon as possible. It is
very improper to attempt to remove

142 GLANDULAR ENLARGEMENTs.
the constipation by aperients or check
the diarrhoea by astringents.
CoLD IN THE GLANDs of THE NECK–
GLANDULAR ENLARGEMENTs.
- ~~ The same children
that are liable to mesenteric disease
are also liable to having the glands of
the neck inflamed by taking cold. In
such constitutions, even up to adult
life, it is no uncommon thing to find
the lymphatic glands of the sides of
the neck inflamed during a cold; they
become tender, painful, and large, and
unless well managed not unfrequently
proceed to suppuration, and in that
case often leave ugly marks. *
Treatment.—Imme-
diately the glands are found to be in-
flamed a hydropathic compress should
be applied to them and worn con-
stantly, being wrung out every eight
hours. The aconitum being given for
the cold should be relinquished and
jelladonna 3 and mercurius 6 given in
ace alternately every two hours








GLANDULAR ENLARGEMENTS. 143
until the tenderness and enlargement
hove disappeared. Unless all tender-
ness and painfulness subside within a
week professional advice should be
sought, in order to prevent suppura-
tion. If the glands remain large after
the subsidence of the painfulness and
tenderness, cease the belladonna and
mercurius and give silicea 6 instead,
two drops every two or three hours
until the glands are reduced to their
natural size. Should suppuration take
place it should be allowed to proceed
until the whole gland is softened, but
it should not be allowed to burst, it
should be opened with a lancet; a clean
straight cut with a lancet leaves
scarcely any visible trace, but a burst
makes a ragged opening which leaves
a jagged and puckered scar, very
unsightly in the neck, particularly in
that of a young lady.
144 DISEASE of Bones.
CoLD IN THE BONEs—DISEASE OF THE
BoNEs.
The same children
that are subject to mesenteric disease
and glandular swellings are also
liable to have disease of the bones
brought on by taking cold. In such
children a cold may bring on inflam-
mation and ulceration in the hip-joint
—“hip-joint disease;” or inflamma-
tion . suppuration, or softening of
the knee—“white swelling;” inflam-
mation, suppuration, and ulceration of
the ankle—“scrofulous disease of the
foot;” or inflammation and ulcera-
tion of the bones of the spine—
“spinal disease.” The occurrence of
each of these diseases is announced by
weakness, pain, and tenderness in the
part affected, aggravated & by move-
ment. Whenever, therefore, a child
of this description complains of weak-
ness or pain in the back, or joints,
aggravated by movement or walking,
disease of the bones should be sus-

CONGESTION OF KIDNEYS. 145
pected and professional aid sought.
Early appropriate treatment may save
a joint, or limb, or even a life, that a
little neglect would inevitably sacri-
fice.
3. Treatment.—Imme-
diately inflammation of the bones is
suspected, absolute rest of the part
must be enforced, and it must be
maintained strictly until the inflam-
mation has entirely subsided. No
medicine can cure inflammation of a
joint unless it be kept at rest. Mer-
curius and phosphorus are the most
generally indicated medicines, but the
treatment should in all cases be placed
in professional hands. …
CoLD IN THE KIDNEYs—CONGESTION OF
THE KIDNEYs.
When a cold falls
principally on the kidneys the result is
congestion, with suppression of urine.
The onset is marked by pain and
tenderness in the back, in the neigh-
bourhood of the lowest rib, not below

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146 CONGESTION OF BIADDER.
the ribs, as in lumbago. The urine is
scanty and high coloured, or it may
be totally suppressed. There are
considerable fever and headache, and
perhaps vomiting. . . . .
- Treatment. — Con-
tinue the acomitum being given for the
cold, and give terebinthima 3 as well,
two drops every two hours alternately;
hot fomentation, or hot bran, or hot
oatmeal poultice to the region of the
kidneys, or a hot bath, will materially
assist recovery. Should the action of
the kidneys not be restored within
twelve or twenty-four hours, call in
professional assistance, because brain
affection, or dropsy, or even death may
be induced; the case may require
dulcamara, byronia, apis, or arseni-
cum. &
CoLD IN THE BLADDER—CoNGESTION OF
THE BLADDER. º
and produce retention of urine. In



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CHECKED “ MONTHLY.” 147
this case there is great pain in the
region of the bladder, with feverish-
ness, restlessness, and anxiety.
Treatment. — Con-
tinue the aconitum being given for the
cold, and give cantharis 3 as well, a
dose every half-hour alternately. A
prolonged hot sitz-bath will afford
great assistance. If the symptoms
do not give way within twelve hours,
call in professional aid, or great mis-
chief may result.
SUPPRESSION OF MENSEs—CHECKED
“MONTHLY.”
- A very common
result of taking cold, in women, is
check or suppression'of the “monthly.”
Should a cold be taken shortly or
immediately before the “period,” the
flow may not appear at all, and if
a cold be taken during the period,
the flow may be arrested or injuri-
ously diminished. In any such case
very agonising pain may result, and
severe headache, and perhaps con-

148 CHECKED “ Month Ly.”
gestion of the brain, vomiting of blood,
or haemorrhage from the lungs, or
consumption, or some other danger-
ous malady. º
:: *- : * ~ * Treatment.—If there
is great chilliness or shivering, admin-
ister camphor tincture, four drops
every quarter-hour until the shivering
has passed off, and then give aco-
nitum 3, two drops every two hours
for at least two days unless the flow
should be well established before
that time. Bathe the feet in very
hot water for some hours, and if
convenient, apply Dr. Chapman's ice-
bag to the spine below the loins (to
the spot where the weakness and pain
are usually felt). If aconitum be un-
successful, give bryonia, two drops
every two hours for the three suc-
ceeding days; and if still no success,
be content to allow that time to pass
over, and direct the efforts towards
the production of natural action fiext
time; for this purpose give pulsa-
tilla 3, night and morning, all the


GATHERED BREAST. 149
interval. If matters are not all right
at the next period call in professional
help, or some serious disease may be
induced. -
COLD IN THE BREAST-MAMMARY
ABSCEss—GATHERED BREAST.
w When a mother
suckling takes cold, a very usual re-
sult is abscess in the breast. After
the reactive fever (succeeding the
shivering stage of the cold) has set
in, the breast feels tender and pain-
ful, particularly in a small spot, which
also feels hard; here, unless proper
measures be adopted, a lump forms;
this becomes painful, hard, hot, and
throbbing, and after a few days a
second shiver or rigor occurs; this
indicates that suppuration is taking
place, that is, that matter is forming;
the formation of matter goes on,
and the breast swells, the matter
works its way (so to speak) towards
the surface [that is, in the way of the
least resistance], and, if left alone

150 GATHERED BREAST.
even, will in time burst itself an
opening and escape; if then it be
properly managed the abscess will be
gradually emptied and the place
healed up—the whole process occu-
pying from one to three months.
§ Treatment.—If after
treating a cold with camphor and
aconitum, inflammation of the breast
set in, the best treatment is to con-
tinue the aconitum and give bella-
donna 3 as well, two drops every hour
or two alternately until the fever is
checked; at the same time avoid ex-
:- posing the breast; let the child or
the nurse keep it from being distended
with milk; foment it with flannels
wrung out of hot water, to which
some belladonna p has been added.
If when the fever has subsided, the
breast still remains painful, stop the
aconitum, but continue the belladonna,
and give bryonia 3 as well, two drops
every two hours alternately. If,
notwithstanding this treatment, the
second rigor should take place,



RHEUMATISM. 151
change the bryonia to silicea 6 and
apply hot oatmeal poultices. After
the abscess has burst or been opened,
give phosphorus 3 every two hours.
It is, however, best to call in pro-
fessional assistance immediately it is
found that the cold has settled in the
breast.
CoLD IN THE FIBROUs MEMBRANEs—
RHEUMATISM-RHEUMATIC FEVER.
One of the most
common results of taking cold is
rheumatism. Some persons have a
rheumatic constitution, and every cold
they take brings on rheumatism in
one form or another. Rheumatism is
inflammation of the fibrous or fibro-
serous membranes; its onset, there-
fore, is evidenced by pain about the
attachments of the muscles to the
bones, or pain and swelling of the
joints. When it attacks many of the
large joints at once it produces con-
siderable fever, and is then called

152 RHEUMATISM.
rheumatic fever; the joints become
painful, swollen, and red; when it
attacks the large sheet of fibrous
membrane attaching the muscles of
the back to the haunch bones, it is
called lumbago; in this case the pain
occupies the loins or lower part of
the back, below the ribs, and the at-
tack is generally discovered in the
morning on attempting to get out of
bed or to straighten the back after
putting on the stockings or boots; it
gives a sudden catch, as if the back
were broken. In all cases of acute
rheumatism there is a great tendency
to constipation and acid perspiration,
and to the urine becoming dark colour
and muddy. Whenever, therefore,
these symptoms show themselves
during the onset of a cold, it is well
to look out for rheumatism. This
muddiness of the urine does not indi-
cate disease of the kidneys, but rheu-
matic material in the blood, which the
kidneys are separating and so over-
the urine with it that it









RHEUMATISM. 158 .
Settles out on the urine standing and
becoming cold.
Treatment. — The
best treatment for the early stage of
acute rheumatism, whether in the
form of muscular rheumatism, lum-
bago, or rheumatic fever, is to con-
tinue the aconitum being given for the
cold and to give bryonia 3 as well,
two drops every two hours alternately
so long as there is feverishness, and
then give rhus topicodendron 3 if the
remaining rheumatism is relieved by
motion, belladonna 3 if brain symp-
toms arise, spigelia 3 if the heart be-
come affected, and pulsatilla 1 if
stomach symptoms become promi-
nent. In every case of acute rheu-
matism, however, it is much the best
to commit the treatment to profes-
sional hands as soon as possible, in
order to avoid the risk of it settling
on the heart, or brain, or stomach.
Under well-managed homoeopathic
treatment rheumatism very seldom
indeed does affect these important
154 ERYSIPELAS.
ºf .
usually headache, thirst, and increa
of fever. This disease should never
organs, and rheumatic fever is only a
matter of two or three weeks; under
old-school treatment, however, the
heart is very commonly attacked, and
rheumatic fever is generally a matter
of “six weeks, sir.”
CoLD IN THE SKIN–ERYSIPELAs.
º - When erysipelas is
brought on by taking cold, it generally
begins on the face or the ear, most
frequently it begins on the bridge of
the nose with a burning, stinging
sensation and stiffness, and the part
looks red and swollen, and there are
º
be left without treatment, because it
is apt to spread over the whole face
and neck, ears and scalp, and may
strike inwards to the brain, and in
this case may end fatally.
ent. — The
Treatm
best treatment for erysipelas - brought
taking cold is to continue the aco-
:0 d, and gi ſ
in being given for the













CONWULSIONS. 155
belladonna 3 as well, two drops every
two hours alternately. Arrow-root
or flour is the best local application.
If this treatment do not diminish
the feverishness and check the inflam-
mation within thirty-six hours, call in
a physician, because the case may
require some other medicine, such as
Thus towicodendrom, veratrum viride,
apis, or podophyllum, and, perhaps, the
external application of veratrum viride
in glycerine.
CoLD ON THE BRAIN–CONGESTION OF
THE BRAIN–INFANTILE CONVULSIONS.
A very common
result of infants taking cold during
teething is convulsions—fits. The
irritation produced by the teeth cut-
ting through the gums keeps up a kind
of febrile state that renders a child
very susceptible to taking cold; a very
little exposure is then sufficient. And
the brain being proportionately the
largest and most active and suscepti-
ble organ at this time of life, a cold is


156 CONVULSIONs.
very apt to produce in it congestion,
and this brings on convulsions. This
susceptibility is particularly marked in
children of the nervous or cerebral
temperament, that is, in children with
large, rather square heads; thin,
silky, scanty and light-coloured hair,
and light blue or hazel eyes; great
intelligence and precocity; strong
mind, but weak body. After a day or
two of the symptoms of a cold, with
irritability of temper, and, perhaps,
vomiting of food, twitching of the
limbs and starting or sudden crying
during sleep, the child suddenly goes
off into convulsions; the thumbs are
turned into the palms and the fingers
clenched over them; the mouth, face,
and eyes are twitched and worked
about and distorted; and the limbs
and even the whole body are jerked
about. This enerally continues
few minutes and then passes
º his state gen
only a few minutes and then pass
frightened, with head hot and body
out. T














CONVULSIONs. 157
sure to return unless active measures
be taken to prevent that occurrence;
they may even return again and again
after minutes, hours, days, weeks, or
months, until the brain acquire a con-
vulsive habit and true epilepsy be thus
established. .
* Treatment. — Here
again may be seen the vast superiority
of the homoeopathic over every other
kind of medical treatment. I have no
hesitation whatever in saying that for
one cure of infantile convulsions by
any and every other method of tréat-
ment, homoeopathy can boast at least
one hundred, and that even including
pre-homoeopathic history.
3: First, what not to
do :—Do not be alarmed; do not get
into a hurry; do not straighten the
fingers or limbs; do not put the child
into a hot bath.
. . . . . . . Second, what to
do :—Act coolly, and with self-posses-
sion; let the child’s limbs give way to
the convulsions, only preventing them

15 CONWULSIONS.
from being injured; let the nurse
hold the child lying on its back with
its head over the side of her knee,
hold a wash bowl under the head, and,
holding a jug of cold water about a
foot above the head, pour the water
in a continuous stream on to the
forehead; at the same time order two
pieces of flannel, each about a foot
square, to be wrung out of boiling
water and mustard, wrap up each
foot separately in these, then put the
feet together and fold them in an
adult's flannel petticoat, dry and
warm. As soon as the convulsions
have passed off cease the cold stream.
For medical treatment, immediately
convulsions threaten, cease the aconi-
tum being given for the cold and drop
twenty drops of belladonna 1 into a tea-
cup, add twenty teaspoonfuls of cold
water and give the child a teaspoonful
every five minutes, and at the same
time send for a medical man. Cut a
piece of rag nearly circular and of size
sufficient to cover the head, dip this



convulsions. 159
in spirit and cold water (one part to
ten) mixed in a saucer, and cover the
head with this on ceasing the cold
stream ; have another little bit of rag
in the spirit and water, take this out
every half minute and trickle fresh
spirit and water on the rag on the
head; continue this as long as the
head tends to become hot, the evapo-
ration cools the head ; of course, a
bladder of ice would be preferable.
Renew the application to the feet, that
is, keep it hot. Continue the evapo-
rating lotion, or ice, until the head
becomes cool, unless convulsions re-
turn ; in that event repeat the cold
stream. Continue the belladonna, but
if no convulsions return within an
hour give a dose only every quarter
of an hour for another hour, and then
only every hour or two hours, that
is, in the absence of professional ad-
vice.

160 HYDROCEPHALUS.
HYDROCEPHALUs—DROPSY OF THE BRAIN
š. —WATER IN THE HEAD.
* - The same children
that are liable to convulsions are also
liable to have hydrocephalus brought
on by taking cold, and still more so if
they are also scrofulous. Within the
head are certain cavities called “si-
nuses ;” these are lined with serous
membrane analogous to the perito-
neum lining the abdomen and the
pleura lining the chest, and like the
peritoneum and pleura this membrane
is subject to inflammation by taking
cold, and like them also it sometimes
pours out fluid when inflamed (see
Dropsy, p. 164, and Pleurisy, p. 127).
In the healthy state the sinuses have
nothing in them ; they are flattened
into mere slits by their sides lying
together, but when distended they are
capable of holding several ounces of
fluid; the distension that takes place
in some cases of hydrocephalus either
causes the head to increase in size or


HYDROCEPHALUS. 161
it compresses the brain and brings on
fits, or stupor, and ultimately death.
The brain is also invested externally
with serous membrane, which when
inflamed pours out fluid on the upper
surface and beneath the brain. Dropsy
of the brain, like dropsy of the abdo-
men and chest, shows itself sometimes
rapidly as an acute disease, and some-
times slowly as a chronic disease, and
unless properly treated, the acute is
apt to run on into the chronic. The
symptoms of the onset of acute hydro-
cephalus are the same as those of
acute congestion of the brain usher-
ing in convulsions (see Convulsions,
p. 155):-After the chilliness of the
onset of a cold, especially in children
teething, and particularly if they are
scrofulous, or if they have an erup-
tion on the scalp, there may be noticed
an increased sensibility to external
impressions, such as light and noise,
causing the child to close its eyes and
knit its brows, and to start on being
quickly spoken to ; it is excitable and
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162 HYDROCEPHALUS.
peevish, fretful, irritable, cross, and
sleepless, and when it does fall asleep
there are twitchings, startings, grind-
ings of the teeth, or moanings, or
waking up suddenly screaming as if in
a fright; there is evidence of pain in
the head of a sharp, shooting cha-
racter, causing sudden and apparently
causeless screaming; the head is hot
and the scalp tender to the comb and
brush ; there is vomiting of food
shortly after taking it, especially if
moved or made to stand upright.
After these symptoms have existed
from a few hours to a few days, the
increased gives way to the diminished
sensibility to external impressions, and
the excitement and vivacity to listless-
ness and torpor, and there may be
some unsteadiness of gait, apparently
from either heaviness of head or un-
certainty of step ; there may be some
squinting and some boring of the
perhaps some convulsions or paralysis,
great loss of appetite, and marked




HYDROCEPHALUS. 163
flattening of the abdomen. The
invasion of chronic hydrocephalus is
marked by similar symptoms, but
they come on slowly and insidiously.
It is especially in “ chronic hydro-
cephalus” that large quantities of fluid
are poured out, forming the ordinary
“water in the head '' (see Dropsy,
p. 164).
Treatment.—Imme-
diately there is the slightest reason
for suspecting the approach of hydro-
cephalus send for a physician at once,
because this is a very serious and
formidable disease. At the same time,
endeavour to keep the head cool and
the feet warm, by the means detailed
under “ Convulsions. ' And if the
symptoms are those of the acute form,
continue the aconilum being given for
the cold and give belladonna 3 as
well, two drops every quarter-hour
alternately until the arrival of the
physician; if this be delayed, continue,
the aconitum and belladonna as long as
there is fever or heat of head. After

164 x DROPSY.
the subsidence of the fever cease the
aconitum and give belladonna alone
every hour as long as there is in-
creased sensibility or other sign of
excitement. After the symptoms of
excitement have been removed, cease.
the belladonna and give helleborus
niger 1 instead every hour. If the
symptoms come on with little or no
fever cease the aconitum being given
for the cold, and give belladonna in-
stead, two drops every half-hour as
long as there is increased sensibility
or other sign of excitement; and after
the subsidence of all the symptoms of
excitement, cease the belladonna and
give helleborus niger instead, a dose
every hour. 2.
As soon as possible
procure the assistance of a physician,
either personally or through the post.
DROPSY.
. . Dropsy is an accu-
mulation of fluid in a place or in a
quantity that is not usual or natural.




DROPSY. 165
Generally speaking, it is not itself a
disease, it is only a sign or result of
disease ; of disease of the kidneys, for
instance, or of the heart, or liver, or
of the serous membranes—the peri-
toneum, the pleura, the lining mem-
brane of the ventricles of the brain, or
of the bag of the heart—the peri-
cardium, &c. (see p. 60); and we
notice it in this essay only because it
is almost always, if not directly, at
least indirectly, caused by taking cold.
Scarlatinal dropsy, for instance, results
directly from taking cold during or
after scarlet fever ; general dropsy
results from disease of the kidneys pri-
marily brought on by taking cold, or
from rheumatic disease of the heart
brought on primarily by taking cold,
so does dropsy of the pericardium ;
abdominal dropsy results from peri-
tonitis, especially in the chronic form,
so does dropsy of the chest from
pleurisy, and dropsy of the brain from
inflammation of the serous membrane
within the head. But, in fact, dropsy


166 DROPSY.
is sometimes a direct result of a chill
checking the power of absorption of
the fluid naturally secreted to lubri-
cate the serous membranes, or of the
reactive congestion following the chill
producing morbid increase of the
secretion, or by both of these. The
same results follow in mucous mem-
branes on taking cold, as of the eyes,
nose, lungs and bowels; but then
the fluid passes off as discharge, or
phlegm, or diarrhoea, and does not
accumulate as it does in serous sacs.
In these cases, therefore, dropsy is as
truly a disease as is catarrh, bronchitis,
or diarrhoea. z
-- Treatment.—Imme-
diately on the appearance of symptoms
of dropsy anywhere, call the physi-
cian's attention to it, for dropsy is not
a matter to be neglected, or the treat-
ment of which can be managed by a
non-professional. Of course in the
case of dropsy following other diseases
a medical man will already have been
in attendance; call his attention to

SCIATTCA, 167
the first dropsical appearances; and if
he has ceased attendance, re-summon
him at once; do not lose any time, for
dropsical symptoms are always of very
serious import.
SCIATICA–NEURALGIA OF THE HIP.
Besides facial neu-
ralgia, earache, toothache, and tic dou-
loureux, many other neuralgias result
from taking cold. The large nerve of
the leg, coming from the lowest part of
the spinal marrow and running down
just behind the hip-joint and along the
back of the thigh and leg to the foot,
is frequently congested or inflamed
by taking cold, especially when one
side of the body is exposed to a
draught of cold air, as in a person
standing or sitting at a desk or table
near an open door or window, or
ordinary ventilator. In this case the
pain in the course of the sciatic nerve
is sometimes extremely severe; it may
be worst about the hip-joint, or about
the thigh or the calf; it may be con-


168 SCIATICA.
tinuous or intermittent, burning,
aching, bruised, gnawing, shooting,
tearing, or, in fact, of any kind; it
may be worse in the day or worse in
the night, worse by warmth or by
cold, or relieved by warmth or cold,
or worse by movement or by rest,
or relieved by movement or rest;
in fact, its phases are infinite.
The treatment, therefore, of fully
established sciatica must accordingly
include a considerable number of
medicines, and must, therefore, of
necessity be handed over to the
physician. The treatment of the
onset of sciatica, however, is similar
to the treatment of the onset of other
neuralgias. .
- - Treatment.—When
it is evident that a cold is settling on
the sciatic nerve the patient should
relinquish his employment, have ab-
solute rest, and foment the lowest
part of the spine and the region of
the hip-joint, and perhaps the thigh
also, with water as hot as he can bear,


CHILBLAINS. 169
and with as much patience and per-
severance as he can command. He
should continue the aconitum being
given for the cold and take belladonna
3 as well, two drops every two hours
alternately for at least two or three
days; after this, the medicine must be
selected according to the prevailing
characteristics of the attack; for in-
stance, byronia 3 if the parts are very
tender to pressure and the pain is
aggravated by movement and relieved
by rest; rhus topicodendron 3 if ag-
gravated by rest and relieved by
movement; colocynth 3 when the pain
is of a sharp, shooting character, and
arsenicum 6 when of a burning cha-
racter, and so on. But all cases of
fully established sciatica should be
handed over to the physician, for it
will require much knowledge and ex-
perience to select the truly homoeo-
pathic remedy in such cases.
CHILBLAINs.
Chilblains are an-
170 CHILBLAINS.
other result of exposure to cold.
Their predisposing cause is not, as
Some people suppose, poor or weak
circulation of the blood, but weakness
of the organic, ganglionic, or sym-
pathetic nerve, which controls the size
of the blood-vessels. This nerve
being weak, a cold, to some extent,
• paralyses the branches supplied to the
blood-vessels of the extremities, espe-
cially the toes and fingers, so that
the vessels enlarge, too much blood
lingers in them, and the part becomes
swollen and red or purple—congested;
this results, in some cases, in inflam-
mation, ulceration, and even mortifi-
cation.
Treatment. — Per-
sons subject to chilblains should adopt
every means possible for bracing up
the nervous system, such as cold
bathing, outdoor exercise, good food,
regular habits, sufficient but not too
much sleep, &c., and should avoid
fatigue, late hours, depressing emo-
tions, enervating habits, indulgence in
- sº

CHILBLAINS. 171
stimulants and smoking, &c. They
should also adopt local bracing means,
such as frequent friction of the hands
and feet, dipping them into cold
water followed by prolonged friction;
protection with woollen stockings and
clothes, and by warming the hands and
feet by dipping them into cold water
and rubbing them with a warm dry
towel rather than warming them with
fire or warm water. In cold weather,
when chilblains threaten, besides the
above means the person should oc-
casionally (after extra exposure, for
instance) pour a little aconitum 1 into
the palm of the hand and rub the
threatened parts with it, also take a
dose of aconitum 3; this may be done
several times a day. The above is
also the best treatment for the chil-
blains themselves, so long as they
remain red; but if they become purple,
hamamelis 1 is to be preferred, used
in the same way; when mortification
threatens secale cornutum 1 should be
taken, two drops every two hours, and

172 COUGH-HOARSENESs.
the parts should be rubbed with the
strong tincture every two hours.
Cough.
• Cough is one of the
most frequent results of taking cold,
but it is not itself a disease, it is merely
a symptom of disease; it is a symptom
of a cold having fastened on some part
of the respiratory apparatus, and its
treatment is that of the disease of
which it is a symptom (see Bron-
chitis, Pneumonia, Sore Throat, &c.)
HoARSENEss–Loss OF WOICE.
Hoarseness is a
very common result of taking cold,
but, like cough, it is not itself a dis-
ease; it is merely a symptom of laryn-
gitis, and its treatment must be sought
for in the treatment of that disease.


173
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
From the British Journal of Homoeopathy. Vol. 32, p. 160.
“This work originally appeared some years ago as a much
smaller volume. It was then entirely devoted to the subject
of ‘taking cold' as the most frequent cause of illness, and to
the recommendation of aconite as the one specific remedy for
this casualty. Its scope is more enlarged, to take in the
diseases of which “taking cold’ is a cause, with their diag-
nosis and treatment. This addition has rather spoilt the
structure of the title, as may be seen above, but it has enhanced
the value of the book. It is now one of the best manuals we
have of the treatment of acute diseases, so far as this can be
safely conducted by amateur hands. We think that both doctor
and patient will have reason to be thankful to Dr. Hayward
if he can impress upon all who follow homoeopathy the primary
importance of aconite in these disorders.”
From the Monthly Homoeopathie Review. Vol. 17, p. 711.
“We gladly welcome this fourth edition of Dr. Hayward's
brochure, not only because it is full of information, but because
the information it contains is concisely put, and thoroughly
adapted in its scope to the laymen to whom it is addressed.
Dr. Hayward's first endeavour is to prevent disease, or rather,
its cause, viz., ‘ catching cold,’ and we trust his wise words
may prove truly prophylactic to all his docile readers. His
remarks on the unwise methods of dressing children, on the
foolish exposure or partial protection of delicate organs in so-
called “evening dress,” and on the habit of ‘forty winks’ after
dinner, will commend themselves to all thinking persons. . .
Another point in which we think this little work excels is in
the careful way in which professional advice is always insisted
on wherever the effect of taking cold is passing out of the
region of simple catarrh. Too often we find in works addressed
to the laity, a complete diagnosis and treatment, say of acute
hydrocephalus or malignant scarlet fever, without a word of
counsel as to the paramount necessity of summoning profes-
sional aid. . . . . The second part of the work consists of
plain directions for the preliminary treatment of diseases
arising out of “a cold.” Its brevity and simplicity commend it
to both the professional and non-professional reader, the latter
of whom is not puzzled with a complicated psu.edo-scientific
diagnosis, nor bewildered with a long list of remedies. A
copious index completes the work, and enables the reader to
consult, without loss of time, the page that interests him.”

From the North American Journal of Homoeopathy. Vol. 4
(new series), p. 419.
*** Fourth Edition.” Thus this little volume has reviewed
itself: the reading public has been the judge, and has given
the credit practically. And, indeed, we cannot recommend it
enough, as it shows the public some of the diseases which will
be brought about by taking cold.” .

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From the Guernsey Mail, Nov. 8, 1873.
“A more useful medical work than the one before us could
not be offered to the public, and we are not surprised at a
fourth edition being called for. In our variable climate, colds
lay the foundation of a formidadle array of diseases, whose
name is ‘Legion.” In the Registrar-General's last report the
number of deaths resulting exclusively from taking cold was
set down at 73,399; and this represented only a fraction of the
actual mortality from the same cause. In writing a manual
for popular use, Dr. Hayward has treated his subject in a
thoroughly practical manner. The causes from which colds
result are enumerated, and the physiology and pathology of a
cold described in intelligent terms. Advice on the prevention
of colds is given, and the most effectual method of curing the
complaint if it has been contracted. ‘ Prevention is better than
cure,” and by following Dr. Hayward’s advice the reader may
in most instances check the development of a threatened
cold. From the first stages of catarrh and coryza, Dr. Hay-
ward prescribes aconitum, which he regards as the most appro-
priate remedy. Other remedies are indicated for the various
.# ments produced in the system by taking cold. In the
second part of the work, the author treats, on the diseases
originating in colds—sore throat, quinsy, diphtheria, asthma,
pleurisy, rheumatism, &c. In every case the limits of amateur
treatment are clearly defined; and as the services of a profes-
sional man cannot always be immediately obtained, the do-
mestic practitioner is instructed how to treat the first stages
of the more serious disorders. The price of this invaluable
little work is 1s. 6d., bound in cloth.”
From the Liverpool Daily Courier, Oct. 13, 1873.
“In the light of these facts a popular and practical treatise
such as that before us becomes really valuable. Its object is
to show how people may not only frequently avoid taking cold,
but by curing a cold at its onset, may prevent the development
of many of those serious diseases which would otherwise fol-
low. It contains much that cannot fail to commend itself to
the judgment of all, and in nothing will the author have more
fully the sympathy of all persons of common sense than in his
denunciation of the cruel absurdity of sending children into
the streets half clad, in obedience to the requirements of
fashion or for the gratification of parental vanity.”



IN DE X.
PAGE
Abdomen, cold in . & # # # # & . 130
treatment of . & & {} . 131
Abscess in the breast . & & & # * . 149
treatment of # # # . 150
Aconite, a precious plant . # $. # # . 53
action of . 42, 43
advantage of the public keeping to it alone 48
antidote to taking cold . & & # -
an old and well-tried medicine # # . 51
alone necessary for the early stage of a cold. 44
best medicine for the beginning of a cold 45–48
inflammatory fever 52
after taking cold . # #
can cut short a cold, catarrh, inflammation,
and inflammatory fever . # • ‘io,
causes chills, congestion and inflammation,
and fever . # g § # . 41–
comparison of effects, and those of a cold 39–43
Dr. Dudgeon on . * # # . 44, 51
says it is the specific for
catarrhal fever . . 44, 51
will cut short catarrhal fever 44, 51
Dr. Hempel on # # # # . 41
Dr. Hempel's comparison of it with inflam-
matory fever $ # # # $ . 41
Dr. Meyhoffer on . § & # & . 4:
t
&
Dr. Reil on # # # # # . 42
the sphere of action of # . 43
Dr. Russell on & . 45
dose of, for the chill stage of a cold . . 45
hot stage—stage of reaction. 46
efficacy of, amounts almost to a miracle .. 53
effect of, is to light up a person's peculiar ill-
11688 . # § & # # % . 41
effect of, on capillaries . # § # . 43
1191" We S . # # # 3. . 43
using it for chill stage of a cold . 45
> ot }} , 48
for inflammatory fever , , , , , 41
176 INDEX,
PAGE.
Aconite, Hempel on its chill and reaction or inflam-
matory fever . # & § • *
Hahnemann on . # # • * * . 52
in alternation with other medicines . . . 46
necessity of giving at once on supervention
of any disease # §
always. # & & . 48
on first feeling of illness . 48
no medicines equal to it for the beginning of
a cold $ # § § # • *** *
not to be given up at once on adopting
another medicine. § • . .
one of our greatest blessings. . # . 52
placed at head of Materia Medica . § . 53
primary symptoms of, are chills . . 40, 41
produces inflammatory fever . . . . 41
reaction of, is inflammatory fever . § . 41
º symptoms of, are heat and conges-
LIOII . § # # & # § #
sphere of action of . # & # # . 43
sufficient of itself, for the early stage of a
cold, catarrh, inflammation, or inflam-
§
the antidote to the effects of cold . • .
the medicine for the beginning of all diseases
that result from taking .# # § .”
the medicine for simple fever . . . § . 44
use of, prevents the necessity for other
medicines . . . . * : * # &
§ when to alternate it with other medicines, 46, 47
Action of Aconite . " * * * . . 41–43
. sphere of . . . . . . 43
Belladonna . . . . . . . .38
Mercurius § % # # § % . 39
nervous fluid . . #. # . . 12, 13
º Nua, vomica . . & # * * . . 38
Air, damp, evil effects of . . . . . . 17
cause of cold . . . . . . § &
All diseases resulting from taking cold are the same
matory fever . 44, 52
#
at first . # * # . . 21
Antidote to taking cold . . . . . . . . .30
Application of cold, effects of , . # , ºr . . . . . # . 12
. heat, effects of . . . #. . 13
Arsenicum not the medicine for a cold. . . . 50
41
*

INDEX. 177
PAGE
Arsenicum, sphere of action of . * # # . 50
Asthma. # & * & # * # # . 112
treatment of . # # & # & . 116
Bath, the cold, as a preventive of taking cold . . 27
Turkish * * » # . 28
Baths as preventives of taking cold . # # . 27
Belladonna, action of . # # * $ # *
not the medicine for a cold . $ . 38
Beginning of a cold, the nature of * # & . 21
pathology of . & & . 21
Bilious attack & & § & {} & # . 136
treatment of . # & # § . 136
Bladder, congestion of . & § & § § . 146
treatment of . & # . 147
Body, the, electric condition of . * # # . 13
is a magnet # # # & # . 12
Bones, diseases of . º # $ º # # . 144
treatment of . * tº # . 145
Brain, congestion of . § & & # . . 155
. treatment of 4% # % . 157
dropsy of . $ # § # & # . 160
- treatment of . & # # . 163
Breast, gathered . # # # + # # . 149
treatment of . * # # , 150
Bronchial catarrh. & * # 4. # # ... 108
treatment of . * # # . 110
Bronchitis, description of . # 8. # # . 108
prevention of . & # # & 28
results from cold . 4. # . 3, 15, 16
treatment of . # # # # . 110
Bryonia for lumbago and rheumatism. # # . 46
not the medicine for a cold . # § . 39
Camphor for diarrhoea from cold. # # & . 135
is º medicine for the chill stage of a cold
OI) # { # # # # # %
not º medicine for a cold . # # . 49
Capillaries, effects of cold on . 4 4 * . 37
Cases illustrative. * # # & & . 10, 11, 32
Catarrh . # # . 59
bronchial. $ # # & # # ... 108
faucial . & # # $ # * . 81
gastric . # & # # # # . 132
12
178 INDEX.
x- PAGE
Catarrh, influenzal . § # # & & . 72
laryngeal, in adults. . $ . . . 95
in children . # § & ... 102
nasal # & & # & § # . 67
ophthalmic # # & § #. * *
pharyngeal . & & 3% & . . 85
pulmonary . # § & % # . 117
. tracheal . # # § # & # . 105
Causes of a cold . 13, 18
those connected with the atmosphere 16
clothing . 13, 16
water or dampness 18
we are all constantly exposed to them 19
disease are numerous . § $ § ... 2
the most general and prolific . . 3
the one here treated of ... 3
Cell-growth, check of . # & § § . 21, 37
Cells, the growth of . § § # § . 21, 37
Chilblains § # # . 169
treatment . # # § • * . 170
Children, clothing of # # 3% # & #
- require as much clothing as adults . . 15
Chill is the primary effect of Aconite . &
inflammatory fever 40, 43
resulting from taking cold . . . . 21, 37
. sign of having taken cold . . . . 21, 37
Clothing, flannel, when necessary § . . 27
damp, a cause of cold . . . . . . . 18
improper, a cause of cold . § .13, 14, 15
disease . § .13, 14, 15
insufficient, a cause of disease . .13, 14, 15
preventive of taking cold . . . . 26
should cover whole body § # , §
waking, sleeping in, a cause of cold . . 16
K.--& when extra to be put on . . . . .
Cold bath, a preventive of taking cold . . . 27
effect of application of . . . . 13, 14

on capillaries . #. . . . . . § # . .. 6, 37
exposure to, changes the electro-nervous condi-
tion of body . . . g . . . . . . … à . . . . § 2. . . . . . # %
. what to do after § % . 9, 30
a, causes, of . . % # . . . . . . . * * . 13–18
condition of a part in . . . . 5–8, 21
§ system in $ # # … # § 5, 6
INDEX.
179
Cold, evidence of having taken
how to know we have taken
may end in most serious consequences .
nature of & g
beginning of
parts affected in # *
pathology of beginning of
PAGE
19, 20
19, 20
9, 25
. 5
21
8
21
simple
stages of
treatment of
key to
first or chill stage.
second or stage of reaction .
a, treatment of, domestic .
object to be accomplished by . 35
remedies for
professional 4. º
object to be accomplished by, 36
of first stage .
second stage
two stages of
what it is # &
Cold in the abdomen #
abdominal glands
bladder # #
bones
bowels.
brain
breast .
chest
eyes .
e8. PS & # #
fibrous membrane
fibro-serous membrane
º of the neck
idneys # #
liver . # #
liver and stomach # *
in the mucous membranes .
Ił080 . § § &
serous membranes
stomach # #
stomach and liver
skin . # #
. 37
g 6, 37
.35 et seq.
. 23
42, 45, 45
42, 46
35
35
36
.42, 45, 49
42, 46
. 36
... 5
. 130
. 137
. 146
. 444
. 135
. 155
. 149
... 108
64
. 76
. 151
. 151
. 142
. 145
. 137
. 132
59
. 67
. 165
. 132
. 136
. 154
180 INDEX.
- º - PAGE
Cold in the throat # # & § § & . 77
taking, antidote for . . . 30
necessity of possessing . . 31
collapse, as a result of . . # . 37
effect of, is to light up the person's pe-
culiar disease # # # 9, 20, 41
evidence of having taken. 4. # 19, 20
taking, evidence of, its frequency as a cause of
& other diseases % 3, 24
is the cause of half our diseases & 3, 25
most prolific cause of disease ... 3
list of diseases that result from . 3, 25
means of prevention of $ %
prevention of # # . .
pleurisy, pneumonia, consumption,
bronchitis, &c., the result of . . 24
results of . § # # # #
Collapse the result of taking cold . . . . 37
Coming on of person’s peculiar illness an evidence of
having taken cold . # # # * . 19, 20 :
Condition, electro-nervous, of the body . 13
surface of . # . 13
internal parts of . . 13
Condition of the system in a cold . . . 5, 6
part in a cold . $ # . 5, 6, 12
Conditions necessary for the curative action of a
medicine & # * * * . . . 89
Congestion . . # * * # # # . 21
at bottom of all diseases that result from
having taken cold - # *
of the bladder . . . . . . 146
treatment of . . . . 147
brain # § § # # - * $ 155
treatment of . . . . 157
. . 145
kidneys . . . #
treatment of . . . 146
produced by Aconite . . . . . 40
- º - - . cold & # - $. # a # 40
Constitutional condition in a cold . . . . 5, 6
Consumption. . . . . • * * * #
‘. . . . . * *. the result of taking cold . . . . . 24
revented § { * • * .
treatment of . . . . . . 124 -
Convulsions, infantile . . . . . . . 155 *


INDEX. 181
PAGE
Convulsions, infantile, treatment of . Ż & . 157
Cough . # & # É & & # § . 172
treatment of # § & & § # . 172
Croup . § § & § & # § & , 102
treatment . § & # # 3% § . 103
Curative action of a medicine, the condition neces-
sary for . § § &
Damp air, evil effects of . § £ & # . 17
clothing, evil effects of & $ & § . 18
seats, evil effects of . § & & Ž . 19
Diarrhoea as evidence of having taken cold. & . 20
from cold & # & 3% % . 135
3. treatment of. & & & (§ § . 135
Directions for treatment . # & % 35, 51
Disease of the bones & 3. & # § . 144
treatment of & § % . 145
joints . # # § 144
treatment of 145
Diseases brought on by taking cold, description of . 58
list of, that result from taking cold . 3, 25
most frequent and prolific cause of # #
that result from taking cold . . . § 3, 25
. number of, that result from cold . § 3, 25
Diphtheria. . . . . . . . . . 90
: treatment of & § § 3. § . 94
Domestic treatment of a cold . § & & • 35
object to be accom-
plished by . § 3% & š. $ § 35
remedies for a cold 3
§ § § & . 35
Draught of cold air, evil effects of . § ... 10, 17
Dropsy . § # & % § § $ # . 164
treatment of . É. 3% # § & . 166
of the brain . § # % § & . 160
x treatment of . § 3. § . 163
Dudgeon, Dr., on Aconite 44, 51
recommends Aconite for a cold, a ca.
tarrh, and all inflammations . 44, 51
Dulcamara, a remedy for diarrhoea from cold . . 135
Ear, inflammation of passage of . # * *
treatment of .
Earache # # # § # § # * . 76
treatment of . * # # # #
182 INDEX.
PAGE
Effects of application of cold . # . . 13, 14
taking cold . . . . . . 21—25
is to º up the person's pecu-
liar illness . # .19, 20, 41
Electric condition of the body & & # . 13
Erysipelas . . # * * * & . . 154
produced by taking cold . . . 10, 154
treatment of. # & & # # . 154
Evidence of having taken cold 19,20
Evil results of dallying with improper medicines 33, 51
damp air § & # # § "
damp clothes, boots, coats, &c. . . 18
draught of cold air # # #. #
having several medicines to select
#
FOIn , # § § * § - s
leaving part of the body uncovered,
13, 14, 15
. - sleeping in the waking clothes . 16
Exposure to cold changes electro-nervous condition
of the body # * * * * § # & # &º
general, example of effects of, 10, 11, 19
partial § § . 10
what to do after . . . 30, 54
during # * : # . 54
Faceache . . . . . . . 76
treatment of . . § {} § # . 76
Faucial catarrh . % § § § # § ... 81
treatment of . . . . . . 83
Fever, the medicine for. . . . . . . 45
inflammatory, Hempel on . . . . . 41
the medicine for . . . . 42
the result of having taken cold . . . . 11.
rheumatic, prevention of . % • • - 31
a sign of having taken cold . . . . 11
Fever, simple, the medicine for # # * * * * * *
Fibrous membrane. . # # § , footnote 60
First effects of having taken cold. . . . 21, 37
stage of a cold . § # % § * , 37
professional treatment for. 36, 45
Fits § • 3 & # * § • # § § 155
treatment of . . . . . . . . 157

gastric catarrh . . . . . . . . 182
. treatment of . . . . . . 133
INDEX. 183
PAGE
Glands of abdomen, cold in . . . . . . 138
treatment . # * . 140
neck, enlargement of . . . 142
treatment of . . 142
Glandular enlargements . . . # . . 142
treatment of . . . . 142
Growth, warmth necessary for . . . . . 15
Gumboil # 76
treatment of . . 76
Hahnemann's services to mankind, one of . § . 52
opinion of Aconite. # & . 52, 53
Head, water in . $ & * # # % . 160
treatment of . * * * & . 163
Heat, effects of application of . º . . . 12
Hempel, Dr., on Aconite . # # * & . 41
* * inflammatory fever . # # . 41
Hip, neuralgia of . # $ º 4. $ % . 167
* treatment of . % & 4% . 168
Hip-joint, disease of . # # {} & # . 144
treatment of. & # # . 145
Hoarseness . # # & * * * 4. . 172
treatment of # & º & . 172
How to cure a cold . & % # . 30, 36,48, 53
know we have taken a cold § . . .19
Hydrocephalus . * & # % * # . 160
treatment of . º & & $ . 163
Illness, the coming on of a person's particular illness,
an evidence of having taken cold . # . . . . .
Illustrations, spray producers . 70, 71
Illustrative cases § . 10, 31, 32
Infantile convulsions . # # º º * . 155
treatment of . # # . 157
Inflammation of ear passage . . º . . 76
treatment of # . 76
at bottom of all the diseases that result
from taking cold # # & & 4. 4. %
prevented # # * 4. * . 31
produced by Aconife . * . 40, 41
result of taking cold . & * . 21
of lungs, prevented % {} . 31
Inflammatory fever, chill the primary symptom n . 41
Dr. Hempel on , * y . 41
184 . INDEx.
PAGE
Inflammatory fever, the medicine for . . 42
Influenzal catarrh * * # * , , § . 72
treatment of . § % § . 72
Influenza, common . § # § § & . 72
treatment of . # & & . 72
specific # # . . § # . 74
treatment of . & # & . 75
Internal organs, the nervous condition of . § , 13
Jaundice from cold . & § & % & . 137
treatment of . & # # . 138
Joints, diseases of § § # & & & &
3. treatment of . §§ & § . 145
Key to the symptoms and treatment of a cold . . 23
. of the majority of diseases . 23
Kidneys, congestion of & # $ & # . 145
x treatment of § § . 146
Laryngeal catarrh, in adults . . . . . . 95
:::: g § -- treatment of . # . 97
in children . § % § ... 102
º treatment of . ... 103
Laryngitis, acute § § # 99

gº & treatment of . & § . § §§
List of the diseases that result from taking cold . 24
Loss of voice # #. § 3%
treatment of . # & # § & 172

Magnet, the body analogous to a & § & . 12
Mammary abscess # § § & § # §
º treatment of & # # . 150
Means of preventing taking cold
%
# %. # . 26
Medicine that corresponds with inflammatory fever 38, #
the, for a cold § # &
for inflammations generally # # . 52
inflammatory fever 3. # § . 41
º simple fever . § $ § § . 45
Mesenteric disease . . . . . . . . 138
treatment of . § # § . 140
“Monthly,” check of . • * * % # . 147
suppression of 147
treatment of 3. 148
INDEX. 185
PAGE
Mucous membrane & # * & . footnote 60
Nasal Catarrh . º # * * # # . 67
treatment of § % $% & . 68
Nature of a cold . # # & & * & . 5
the beginning of a cold . {} & . 21
- nervous fluid . * * & # . 12
Nature’s cure for a cold . 22
congestion, inflammation and fever 28
Negative condition of internal organs * # . 13
derangement of 13
- the skin 33 21
Nervous fluid, action of # º * * g . 13
nature of & & w • * . 12
Neuralgia . § # # º # & # . 76
treatment of & & º # # . 76
of hip . & # & º * # . 167
treatment of . * 4. * . 168
Nux vomica, action of # % & & * . 38
not the medicine for a cold . & . 38
Ophthalmic catarrh . # * 4. & * . 64
treatment of . * # # . 65
Organ, the one that suffers in a cold . # & 8, 20
Organs, internal, the nervous condition of $ . 13
Part that suffers in a cold . % * & & 8, 20
Pathology of a cold . & * * * & 5, 21
the beginning of a cold . §: § . 23
Peritonitis . * * # * - * * . 130
treatment of & 8: & & 4. . 131
Pharyngeal catarrh . . . . . . . . . 85
- treatment of w 4. #. . 85
Phosphorus for pneumonia or inflammation of the
lungs g # & # # 4. & . 46, 120
Phthisis § g # # & & # & . 121
treatment of . # * & * º . 124
Pleurisy * * * * * 127
prevented $ & % {} * § . 31
- treatment of . * * º # . . 129
Pneumonia # # # º & 117
prevented
. . . . . . . 81
produced by taking cold . . . 11, 117
186 INDEX.
PAGE
Pneumonia, treatment of . . . . . . . . 120
Positive electro-nervous condition of surface of body 18
Prevention of a cold . # # . . . . 26
Preventives of taking cold . . . . . 26, 30
Primary effect of Aconite is a chill . . 40, 41
in inflammatory fever is a chill . . . 41
stage of a cold, treatment for * 42, 45, 49
Professional treatment of a cold . . . 86, 44
objects of # . 36
of first stage of a cold 42, º, #
Pulmonary catarrh . . . .
treatment of . . . . 120
Quinsy % % & # & & § # . 86
: treatment of . . . . . . . 88
Remedies for a cold, domestic . & # . . ;
professional # # ... 3
Respirators, the advantages of . . . . 28, 29
composition of # & # # ... 3
improper kinds of . % g § . 29
necessity for . . . . . 17, ;
objects of # § # $ w
persons for whom necessary . # . 28
proper kind of . # & # #
time for using . . . . . 17, ;
uses of .
Results of taking cold. . . . . . . . 23, 37
w-...--> --> explanation of g . 5–12
Rheumatic fever . * # # # # # 151
º treatment of . 4. $ & . 153
Rheumatism # # # # º # & . 151
--- treatment of . # # # # . 153
Same treatment required for the beginning of all the
diseases that result from taking cold . . 23
Sciatica • * $ § # # $. # . 167
treatment of . # # & $. # . 168
Secondary effect of taking cold . . . . . . . . 21
Serious consequences of taking cold . . . . . 24, 25
Serous membrane . . . . . footnote 60
Simple cold, a . . . . . . . . . . . .35
. treatment for 35
Skin, derangement of nervous condition of # , 13


INDEX. 187
PAGE
Sore throat . . . § {} § # # . 77
Spray producers (illustrated) . § % . 70, 71
Stages of a cold . & g § § & & 6, 2
Supplementary directions # & § #
Suppression of menses § & # § § . 147
treatment of . $ § . 148
urine . & § § # # . 145
treatment of . . . . 146
Suspicion of having taken cold, the medicine for . 48
the treatment for . 48
Symptoms of a cold, key to the . # # & . 23
Tabes mesenterica, # § & § . 138
treatment of . & § § . 140
Taking cold, antidote against . . § § . 30
is the most frequent cause of the disease 30
list of diseases that result from 24
part that suffers in . # # # ... 8
prevention of . # § $ & . 26
Tartar emetic not the medicine for a cold . $ . 39
Tic douloureux . § & # & # & . 76
treatment of . # & # . 76
Toothache . $ & § & § # % . 76
treatment of # § & # & . 76
Tracheal catarrh . § & # # § # ... 105
. treatment of . § & § ... 106
Treatment for the beginning of a cold. . 36, 44, 45, 54
a cold . # § & § § . 35
domestic . § § § . 35
professional # # # . 36
for the first or chill
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Two stages of a cold, the . & # § § 6, 21
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