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HOMUEOPATHY:: i \ '7 j4a
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ITS DIFFICULTIES AND SOME OF THE
PRINCIPAL ERRORS AGAINST IT.
WITH
HINTS ON DIETETICS, VIEWED IN RELATION
TO THE LAWS OF DIGESTION;
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The Practice of Homceopathic Medicine Simplified,
FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES,
AND
A HISTORY OF THE


CINCINNATI HOM1EOPATHIC MEDICAL DISPENSARY.
BY J. A, CLOUD, M. D.
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN,
Formerly Surgeon of the First Division Hospital, Sixth Army Corps.
CINCINNATI:
V. C. TIDBALL, PRINTER, 61 WEST FOURTH ST.
1869.








JOMOEOPATHYI
PREFATORY NOTE.
"When so much has been necessary heretofore, in cases precisely
similar, how can such an imperceptibly small dose have any
effect?" is thp question. This is a mighty objection to the unthinking; and to clear away the rubbish of ignorance and misrepresesentation, and give truth a fair field, and to show the
strength and truth of the system by pointing out some of the
many difficulties it has already overcome, as well as to set the
people-friends and foes alike-to thinking-for this is the only
way of arriving at truth to one's own satisfaction-is the object
for obtruding upon the public the poor efforts of an unskilled pen.:PAIRT I.
OMCEOPATHY has had many difficulties to
Sovercome, and many crosses to bear, since its
-institution, by Samuel Gottfried Hahnneman,
nearly a hundred years ago. The extremely radical
change its theory taught, and practice wrought in
the administration of drugs as remedial agents in
disease, was, and is, its greatest obsticle. Added to
to this we have systematic misrepresentation and
ignorant misconception to contend with.
To live is the strongest desire of the human heart;
it is the foundation of all earthly happiness. Without health, life becomes a burden, and no amount




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of wealth, love, fame, power, and all other desirable
earthly possessions, can bring u- happiness; with it
our greatest burdens are easily borne, and dark
things seem bright.  In proportion as life and
health are dear and precious to us, will be our wariness in adopting any new mode of preserving, or
restoring them; and especially so if this new mode
be moderate in its pretensions, and modest in introducing itself.
This does not invalidate the saying that "the
greater the humbug, the greater his success," for a
time. There always have been, and it is to be feared,
always will be, dupes enough, who forget that
supernatural agencies have nothing to do with the
every day affairs of our lives; that miracles are not
of their day; to support the host of shameless unconscionable traveling frauds, who profess, loudly,
to make the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the dumb
to speak, the lame to leap and run, and to drive
disease and death from their presence forever. This
species of humbug is called upon, however, only in
chronic and nondescript cases, where the "regular"
physician has been tried and tried in vain; he is
tried only as an experiment, upon his own boasting
recommendation.   Of course he fails, he would
have been very much surprised if he had not. His
stay is short; he knew it would be; he had had his
calculations made accordingly. Yes, your successful
humbug is a sharp knave. IIe knows his loudmouthed pretensions cannot bear the test of time
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truth, while they are the enemies and discoverers of
falsehood.  lie knows a chimera will not stand.
Being a wise knave, he knows himself and the
weakness of his pretensions; he knows, too, the
constitution of society; he knows its wheat and its
chaff.
He makes much noise to begin with, and makes
for himself of words a great reputation; he advertises himself, his wonders, his panaceas; he blows,
and scatters his chaff broadcast, and it mingles with
the chaff of society. After a sufficient blowing, he
changes the current, and sucks, and the chaff all
comes together, and is taken in. He makes money,
which was his object; nor did conscience or selfrespect stand in his way. But he is soon found out.
As to reputation, he entered the large end, and must
of necessity come out at the small end of the horn;
pecuniarily, his dupes followed him.
I do not propose here to give the history of the
discovery and utilization of the law governing the
H-omceopathic administration of remedial agents in
disease.
Not but that it would be well worth the reading,
however, as showing the inevitable triumphal emergency of truth, clogged as it was by self-interest
and thirty years of educated error, from the pathless labyrinth of dogmatic prejudice and bigoted
intolerance; and the final triumph of its champion,
by the raising of a monument to his memrory, in the
self-same town where thirty years before his house
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away in the night, and all for the very same reason-advocating the cause of ý-omceopathy. But
is not this the history of all greýifand real discoveries?
Nature's laws will not be shaped and controlled
by human prejudice and will; and, though Gallileo
was imprisoned, and his persecutors insisted on decreeing that the earth should not go round; yet, stilB,
no more nor less, we have our diurnal and yearly
revolution.
In contradistinction from quacking, when a Homneopathic physician locates in a community where
the system has never been introduced, he unostentatiously opens his office, tacks on the shutter his un-'
pretending shingle, and sits quietly down to wait for
patients, after having advised the people of his presence; and exercises what patience he may have beyond the possibility of dyspepsia in waiting, knowing the power of truth, and having full faith in
time and trial, he waits with assurance.  He is
scanned at first with a kind of wondering curiosity
by those who have never heard of his kind before.
By those who have heard just enough to render them
wise in their own conceit, be is ridiculed, and his
profession mentioned with scorn and a curl of the
lip, born of ignorance by conceit. And by the "regular" (self-styled) physician, he is forthwith pompously denounced as a humbug. All this without their
knowing anything comparatively of his school. No one,
even when curiosity prompts, or when urged by the
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one, I say, cares to call down upon himself the
anathema of Madam Grundy by being the first to
try the "sugar pills,"
At length some independent individual, probably
of New England extraction, a friend of progress,
and who does his own thinking, and who knows
that progress and novelty go hand in hand, wanting
to know for himself the truth or otherwise of these
charges, seeks their sources.
Ie asks the slanderers:-Is Homceopathy a humbug? "Why, yes." " How do you know?" "Oh,
there can not be anything in it." "How do you
know? have you studied it thoroughly? have you
mastered its theory? have you faithfully tried it
practically? In order to try it fairly you must have
spent years in its study, and have you done this?"
"No!" ''But don't you think it is unfair to condemn
-what you know almost nothing of?" Our friend finds
he can learn nothing there, and his desire being
stimulated by repulse, he detertines to try it for
himself in the first trifling ailment he may suffer
from. The result generally is that he is made to
feel its good effects, and is convinced and tells his experience to others.
It may be, however, as is too often the case, that
fortune does not favor us with such a friend, and we
must lay our foundation without his aid. Then we
must wait until the novelty has worn off, when some
poor sinner, suffering from a chronic disease which
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heard that such men as Wm. H. Seward or U. S.
Grant believed in and were treated by Homoeopathy,
ventures in at our persevering Homceopath's back
door, (he is even yet in dread of Mrs. G.,) and asks
if anything can be done for him.
After taking all the morbid symptoms of the patient, he generally finds a hydra-headed monster
compounded of the original disease and a drug disease corresponding to each course of treatment to
which he has been subjected. Nothing daunted, he
takes charge of the patient, and studies out his
case. lie is not satisfied to use the prescription of
an hundred years ago, knowing that the same disease,
so called, may assume a different form each year, and
must be combated by a different remedy. HIe selects his remedy, (not a compound of half a dozen
drugs of whose chemical effects, one upon the other,
he has comparatively little knowledge). He selects
it, too, with scientific precision, if he has made the
best use of the means furnished by the Homceopathic Law; and administers it to the patient, who
" laughs in his sleeve" at its sweet diminutiveness,
saying in said sleeve, " Ihave no faith."  The patient
is surprised to find, after taking a few doses, that he
has been neither purged, vomited, blistered nor salivated, nor poisoned in any way; and is not sure that
he will receive no benefit; because not having been
made worse in any way, he cannot be made better.
He forgets that medicine, as such, should never make ill.
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processes, the patient, after a sufficient time, finds
himself better; he has improved he knows not how.
He has experienced no shock in any way, as has
heretofore been his experience when under the
hands of a doctor, and his bettered condition is unaccountable to him.
It is so hard to get rid of old, even self-destructive notions. He forgets that nature, in all of her
progress, moves by imperceptible degrees-never by
shocks-and in our best efforts we but imitate her;
we can never set her a copy.
The art of the physician is only to aid nature,
either by stimulating the vital forces when they have
been rendered torpid' by some of the many pernicious artificial habits of imperfect man, or by removing obstructions that hinder their free action. When
man presumes to do more than this, he gets beyond
his light, and flounders in the darkness of ignorant
presumption. Upon such cases the Homceopathic
physician must build his practice and reputationcases the Old School have given up, many of which are
incurable. And many are unjust enough to consider
such cases a fair test of Homoeopathy. If it fails,
they say: "Pooh! there's nothing in it, we've tried it."
Probably in a case of epilepsy or St. Vitus dance of a
score of years standing. If he succeeds in spite of
all, ten to one they say, "we would have got well
any how."
Another difficulty is, almost every family has its
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to health, &c., is regarded as beyond question. His
opinion is asked in regard to this iew fangled doctor and his medicines, and of course being set in
his own course, with his eyes closed to its precarious
and unsatisfactory results, and that course being as
different from the one in question as health is from
disease, as up-hill isfrom down, as medicine is from
drug poison, he ignorantly, though. probably with
honesty, asserts in substance, that Homceopathy is a
humbug; that all who practice or believe in it are
either fools or knaves; knaves for knowingly practicing a deceit, or fools for being deceived; and
nine in ten of those thus instructed believe all and
more. The tenth, who is the thinking one of the
lot, resolves if he ever has occasion, in a mild case,
to give this novelty a trial. Thus, the poor Homceopathist has less than one chance in ten, even for a
trial! It is well for him that he has the might of
right on his side.
Many reasons, potent with the ignorant, less so
with the educated thinkers, are urged to support
these decrees. First and most prominent, is the objection of all our opponents,- and even some of our
friends, to the smallness of the dose. Taking allopathic practice as a criterion, our dose does seem
very small. But the dose has nothing whatever to
do with the law governing the Homceopathic system
of medicine, as comprehensively expressed by " similia, similibus curantur --"like cures like."  The
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speak forceable and truly in favor of their respective notions and experience in practice. But there
is entire unity upon the fundamental law itself.
All agree upon that, however widely they differ in
regard to minor questions; just as the various denominations of the Christian church, while they
unite upon Christ as their head, have various notions
about modes and means. Yet some of the ablest
men of this very intelligent community urge the
smallness of the dose as an insuperable objection to
the Homceopathic Law. Why? Because, however
bright they may be naturally, and however well
versed in their own immediate calling, and in matters of general interest and discussion, they are
'withal comparatively ignorant of Homceopathia pura.
It seems to me presumptuous and unfair, to say the
least, for such persons, who have the confidence of
the community on other matters, and can therefore
do the more harm if wrong, to condemn unreservedly, without first having acquainted themselves thoroughly with its every part, especially anything so
important as a system of medicine, and that system
believed in, sanctioned and adopted into their families by a large proportion of their equals, in their
own community, and by hundreds of thousands of
the brightest men of this and other enlightened
countries; and they having advantage, too, of practical experiment; having seen and felt its good effects.
Men do not, as a general thing, trifle with the lives
and heallhs of their families. It is certainly assuming a grave responsibility without sufficient warrant.




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It would be scarcely less presumptuous for "Blind
Tom " to criticize Michael Angelo's greatest efforts,
or for a (leaf person to pass judgment upon a symphony of Beethoven. For the sake of learning
something, however, let us entertain this question
of dose: We do advocate and use small--infinitesinally small doses; doses just sufficiently large to
effect the cure, but leave behind no bad drug sequele.
Our friends have approximated this desirable result by patient, pure experiment, not for the purpose
of bolstering up a pet theory, but that they might
arrive at a very important truth. They began with
the crude drug, but found in practice that the remedy given in the gross material frequently aggravated'
the complaint, and that, too, in proportion as the
drug symptoms, (discovered by experiment upon
the healthy body,) more perfectly corresponded with
the symptoms of the patient to whom it had been,
given. This led to the diluting, potentizing or dynamizing of the drugs, by means of penetrating
non-medical substances, and a more prompt curative action was produced without the aggravation.
By this means the 30th and higher poteincies were
reached, tried and found curative; not, however, with
all drugs nior in all cases. Before pronouncing a dose
too small to be of use because of its smallness, one should know and be able to demonstrate
precisely how and through what medium the various influences, curative or otherwise, act upon the
human organism.




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But who knows this? The effects are patent to
all: but who knows precisely how they are produced? If this action were chemical or mechanical,
as the old school seem to suppose, we might learn
approximately.
But is it reasonable to suppose that the violent
convulsions and death produced by arsenic poisoning are the results of merely mechanical or chemical action upon the stomach, bowels, or blood?
Does it not seem as though there was some more
subtle dynamic power at work, through the nervous
system upon the seat of life.
Who can explain that horrible disease, hydrophobia, from its inception, perhaps months previous
to the distressing convulsions and dreadful death?
"Who understands and can tell us the mode of operation, of distressing news, suddenly divulged, as it
produces disease, even unto death? Life is, as yet, a
mystery, even to the most advanced in knowledge.
Discussion upon this subject, must, of necessity,
therefore, be negative; and I will endeavor simply
to show that the popular objections to Homceopathy
cannot be sustained.
In answer to the small dose objection, it may be
asked: How much of the hydrophobia poison could
remain upon the tusk of a mad dog after having
passed through several thicknesses of clothing, and
in some cases the boot-leg? Certainly sufficient to
produce disease and death in its most terrible form!
but could it have been seen, tasted, and felt? How
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was carried hundreds of miles upon a note written
in the room of the patient, but not by the patient
himself? Enough to infect thip distant recipient,
to be sure; but was there any mechanical or chemical effect? Still less material was there in the painful emotion which induced disease and death, or, in
the pleasurable emotion which restored health and
strength! How much less than our smallest dose
was either or all of these-yet how decided their
effects!
Matter is indestructible, and if we have a certain
amount of given substance in a vessel, and dilute
this by adding, repeatedly, quantities of a penetrating, non-medical material, which is known to produce no radical change in the substance itself, but
simply operates in dividing and sub-dividing its
mass, thereby developing its latent power, as seen in
the case of silex, salt, gold, graphite, charcoal, etc.,
which are inert in the crude state, but which trituration and dilution render our most potent curative
agents:, who shall say where'the component particles exist, and where they do not exist? Who can
say that in each and every drop of the 30th or whatever potency, there are not particles of this substance.
It being a scientific fact that matter may be divided and subdivided ui:til the most powerful magnifier known to art fails to discover the particles, what
means have we of knowing when this subdivision
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action. Each subdivision but exposes more surface, and
it is the surface only of a substance that acts upon externalobjects. Like a cubic foot of wood, for example,
here we have six feet square of surface; saw it into inch slabs, and each division gives us two additional feet square of surface-twenty-four feet in
all. Cut it now into inch blocks: this gives us again
twenty-four feet additional of surface. IIere we
have added forty-eight feet of surface to the original six, without increase of bullk or material, and
were this an odorous substarnce, just forty-eight
times more of odorous particles would be given off
than before the division. In short, whatever intrinsic properties the substance was endowed with,
would be increased just so much, and would continue increasing as long as we should continue to
separate the particles.
But it has been shown that we are unable to know,
even when our natural senses are aided by the finest
power of art, when this subdivision ceases; therefore it is absurd to say "it ends there," or "it is not
here."  When on exhibition it fails to produce its
known legitimate effect, then, and not till then,
may we deny or doubt its existence.
In this manner each drug has been diluted to its
highest effective point, step by step, until its curative action ceased, the object being to find the smallest possible curative dose.
As all drugs are, in a normal condition of things,
in direct antagonism to animal life, and when in
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drive off disease-a lesser evil introduced to expel
a greater; just as war was administered to cure us
of rebellion, as law was instituted to prevent crime,
-why, the less we take, compatible with cure, the
better.
A grain of musk will scent a large room for years
without sensible diminution of material; yet we
know that material particles of that musk must
have come into contact with our olfactory nerves in
order for us to become aware of its existence.
A drop of our highest attenuations would be
massive in comparison; and if the effect is to be
measured by the quantity of material, that would
be proportionably great. All we can say about the
matter only goes to show that the only satisfactory
argument is practical experiment. We are eager
for the test.
Again: our opponents say, when we are successful, that our patients would have recovered without aid, and required only good nursing, or what is
called the "expectant" treatment. This question
had been unsatisfactorily discussed in the hospitals
at Vienna, and resort was had to practical experiment, (a theory is of no use unless it can be demonstratedpractically,) in this wise:
Three wards were opened in one of the Hospitals, into which patients were received alternately,
without regard to ailment, for a specified time: one
ward was placed under Homceapathic treatment, another under Allopathic treatment, and a third under
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tality in these three wards.  At the end of the
term, a comparison showed that there was a larger
per centage of deaths under the old school treatment than under the "expectant," and a larger per
centage under the latter than under the Homeopathic treatment. Facts are strong friends and stubborn enemies! and these are public facts that cannot
be gainsaid. They settle the question in dispute.
Other facts and statistics speak loudly in favor of
Homceopathy, as contrasted with other schools and
meet another objection to its use, viz: that the doses
are too small to be of use in violent diseases, as
cholera, small pox, malignant fevers, etc. It is in
such diseases that she appears to the best advantage
-though she does not receive the credit due her for
destroying many of those pests in embryo, which,
under other treatment, develop, grow to their full
stature, (and higher from the weakening of their natural
opponent, the vital forces, by depletive treatment, and "run
their course."
Some years ago, wide-awake capitalists, in the
life insurance business, in London, with nothing in
view but the pocket and wherewith to fill it, bethought themselves that it might be well to examine
into the results of the various systems of medical
treatment as affecting life and health, and of course
their business. They did so, and after a careful
comparison of statistics, found the result would justify them in assuring the lives of applicants treated
by the Homoeopathic system at ten per cent. less than
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less often sick, their attacks were shorter and less
violent, and their general heb-ith was better and
their average life longer.
_ Many companies have been started upon the same
basis since, at least four of which are in the United
States. One of these Companies says:
"This Company has been founded with this name,
and on this plan of discriminating in favor of a certain school of medical practice, not merely in the
spirit of partisanship, nor entirely for the purpose
or with the expectation of making more money
than by following some other system, or no system. at
all.
"The motive is a higher one, and reaches farther
than the triumph of a party, or the pecuniary benefit of a few individuals. Our purpose is to popularize the vitally important facts and arguments
that have convinced us of the truth and the inestimable value of the Iornceopathic practice. We
wish to show the people the dreadful consequences
which flow, and always have flowed, to our race,
from the universal use of drugs in great quantities,
as administered in the old school practice. We
wish to convince men and women that the new
school administers no drug in such quantities as to
produce the well known "drug disease," which an
old English Allopathic (Dr. Farre) declared, comprised "nine-tenths of all the diseases physicians
were called to treat."  We aim to teach that instead of bloodletting and dosing, the sick need to
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by removing all unfavorable influences, by eschewing whatever is unwholesome, breathing fresh air,
and cultivating cleanliness and a cheerful spirit.
These are part of the new system, and all good Homceopathists teach them as conditions of a sound
and comfortable life.
"And in order to sustain our position, we exhibit
the statistics, which have been carefully collected by
both sides, of the results of their respective systems.
"Besides these we point to the honest confession of
those who, while still maintaining their relations to
the old school practice, are too candid to deny what
they can not but see to be true.
"We content ourselves, of necessity, in this place,
with comparatively few of the more striking statistics on these subjects, but at the office of the Company we are prepared to present more at length the
evidences of the great superiority of the Homceopathic practice.
" A writer in the Medical Times (England) says:
'There is a wonderful difference between our treating ourselves and the public. You seldom see a
long line of empty bottles in a medical man's bedroom, addressed to himself. Many of our patients
know that the drug-sender is not the drug-taker.' "
"This is a statement well calculated to awaken
thought. Dr. James Johnson says: 'I declare it to
be my most conscientious opinion, that if there
were not a single physician (Allopathic) or surgeon,
or apothecary, or man-midwife, there would be
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"On the 4th of May, 1863, thq Surgeon-General
of the Army of the United Stat-as ordered calomel
and tartar-emetic to be struck from the list of army
supplies.
"Dr. John Forbes, physician    (Allopathic) to
Queen Victoria, says that Nature often cures in spite
of the doctor, and adds: 'things have come to such
a pitch that they must either mend or end.'
" According to Dr. Routh (a distinguished Allopathic physician) the statistics of diseases treated
homceopathically and allopathically are as follows:
DEATHS UNDER     DEATHS UNDER
HOM(EOPATHY.      ALLOPATUY,
Inflammation of the lungs 5 in 100  23 in 100
Dysentery           3 in 100         22 in 100
Pleurisy            3 in 100         13 in 100
Inflammation of the bowels 3 in 100  13 in 100
According to a document ordered, on 21st of
May, 1855, by the House of Commons, to be printed, and which ought to be in the library of every
Elomceopath and every philanthropist in the world,
the comparative death rate during the fearful epidemic of Asiatic cholera, in 1854, was, under HIolncopathic treatment, 16.4 in every 100 cases; while
uinder Allopathic treatment the mortality was 59,2
in every 100 cases.
"Although the statistics relating to the treatment
of Asiatic cholera at the Homceopathic hospital were
certified by Dr. Macloughlin, Allopathic physician
and Medical Inspector of the General Board of
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resolution of Dr. Paris, the President of the Royal
College of Physicians, and the other members of
the Medical Council. Lord Robert Grosvenor,
(now Lord Ebury), aware that Dr. Macloughlin had
inspected the Homoeopathic hospital in Golden
Square, and observing that the statistics of this hospital were not included in the general returns made
to Parliament, moved for 'copies of the returns that
have been rejected by the Medical Council.' The
motion was agreed to by the House of Commons,
when the above revelation --astounding to those
who were not previously acquainted with homceopathy--was made. Dr. Homer pronounces this proceeding on the part of the Royal College of Physicians, as a 'conspiracy against the truth and against
humanity itself.'
"The importance of Homoeopathy is not found
solely in its tendency to lengthen life. Its effect in
diminishing the frequency and duration of sickness,
is of vast moment, especially to the working classes,
to whom a lost day is a serious calamity.
"By a careful calculation, giving every doubtful
point to the Allopathic system, it is shown to be
plain, that the habitual adoption of the Homoeopathic system may be relied on, in the average, to
save each of us from 394 days of sickness between
the ages of 16 and 56, and from 1271 days of sickness between 15 and 85 years."
"At St. Louis, in 1864, reports were made of the
results of treatment in two hospitals, one of which,
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for all sorts of ailments, and lost 120, or a little over
12 per cent; while the other, uder I-Iomoeopathic
charge, treated 883 cases of the same diseases, but
lost 5, or six tenths of one per cent.
Average length of time in Allopathic hospital,
Nineteen Days: in the Homoeopathic, Twelve Days.
These facts naturally lead to the startling question:
If the homoeopathic physician does nothing, what
in the name of suffering humanity, does the Allopathist accomplish, according to their own showing?
In the same breath that they say I-omoepathy is
nothing, that "there's nothing in it, that it can effect
nothing," they acknowledge, especially those in the
large cit.es, where are our best representatives, and
where the practice has made such inroads upon the
old school as to command their unwilling respect and
attention, that it is owing to theexample of Homoeopatthy that bleeding was discarded as barbarous and
inexcusable; that their dose of crude drugs were reduced from twenty, thirty, or fifty grains, to one, five,
or ten. Although there are still legions of practitioners in the old school who bleed, and who measure
out their drugs on the (to their minds) good old way of
a hundred years ago, still, in the best Allopathic
Colleges in Philadelphia or New York, a student
will not be granted the degree of Doctor of Medicine who advocates bleeding. These are certainly
radical changes-great results; and, though a miracle has not been wrought, they have come of nothing
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Many honest and intelligent persons object to the
system because, they say, "its practitioners are not
educated as thoroughly as those of the old school;
they were never taught, have never learned, and
know nothing about surgery, anatomy, physiology,
and obstetrics; all they know is to retail out little
pellets, in accordance with the prescription of the
little 'domestic physician,' written only for family
use."  To be sure there are many quacks-selfstyled doctors-flourishing under the wing of Iomoeopathy, but for which she is no more responsible than is the Christian church for depradations
of the wolves in sheep's clothing that operate
among her members. The very fact that many of
these illiterate ignoramuses (and ~ am sorry to say
we have by far too large a number of them here in
our very midst) are eminently and undeniably successful, is a potent argument in favor of the system
for if such good success attends its ignorance-clogged administration, how much better results may we not
hope for with educated intelligence at the helm? If having quacks and boobies sailing under its colors, condemns a system, what, long ere this, would have
been the fate of Allopathy, which has the obloquy
of a hundred such to bear for each one that HIomoeopathy suffers for. A mill-stone about her stiff
neck would not sink her half as deep.
I would, however, inform such as hold this objection, that we have Colleges-chlartered institutions,
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medical and surgical education are as thoroughly
taught as in either of the above 7i-istitutions; and
by men whose knowledge, intelligence and experience, conscience-guided, as made public in their
medical writings and in the lecture room, are second
to none in the land.
We have at least eight of these institutions in
the United States, and their attendants are increasing in numbers and intelligence every year, notwithstanding our enemies say, in the face of every item
of true evidence bearing upon the question, that
Homoeopathy is dying out. It may not be increasing as fast as it might, for want of physicians to supply the demand, but that it is dying out is unwarrantably false. On the contrary it is steadily and
rapidly on the increase, despite the mass of bigoted
and unscrupulous opposition.
Homceopathy is not yet fully developed, and is of
course far from perfect, but it is only the imperfection of the child as compared with the man in his
prime-a lack which time will supply.
There is a wholesome revolution going on as well
in medicine as in other matters important to humanity; and the time will come when crude drugs,
lancets, setons, &c., will be almost unknown as remedial agents in the sick room; when all conscientious and intelligent practitioners will stand upon
the same scientific and comparatively sure basis,.and
come out from groping in the darkness, or an endless agglomeration of disconnected, disorderly and
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preceptors, grand, great-grand, great-great-grand
preceptors, which afford so little satisfaction  to
themselves, and so much misery, with little relief, to
their patients.
The time will come when the only difference between the schools will be in name, and "there's
nothing in a name."   But there may be in the idea
it conveys; and time often loses the name in the
idea. Thus, Nero expresses to-day as much the
idea of cruelty as it does the name of an individual.
" Judas" presents to our minds the idea of selfish
treachery as readily as it does the name by which a
certain man was known in history. And "Hahnemann,"a name that shall live until is heard the death
knell of disease itself, will present to the minds of
generations yet unborn, not only the image of a divine old man, with bent and thoughtful brow, toiling in want and exile for the development of a natural law to guide us in the healing art; but it will
also call to mind more strongly the idea of the inception of a God-sent revolution in the practice of
medicine that has stripped disease of its terrors, and
robbed afflicted man of half the ills his flesh is
heir to.
"The feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms,
On some tall light-house dash their little forms;
And the rude granite scatters for their painsThose small deposits which were meant for brai
Yet, the proud fabric in the morning sun
Stands all unconscious of the mischief done;
Still the red beacon pours its evening rays
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For the lost pilot with as broad a blaze;
Nay, shines all radiances o'er the scattered fleet
Of gull and boobies, brainless at its feet.
" See, where aloft its hoary forehead rears
The towering pride of twice a thousand years I
Far, far below the vast incumbent pile
Sleeps the broad rock from art's AEgean isle;
Its massive courses, circling as they rise,
Swell from the waves, and mingle with the skies;
There every quarry lends its marble spoil,
And clustering ages blend their common toil.
The Greek, the Roman reared its mighty walls,
The silent Arab arched its mystic halls;
In that fair niche, by countless billows laved,
Trace the deep lines that Sydenham engraved
On yon broad front that breast the changing swell;
Mark where the pondrous sledge of HInnter fell,
By that square buttress where Louis stands,
The stone yet warm from his uplifted hands,
And say, 0! Science, shall thy life-blood freeze,
When fluttering folly flaps on walls like these.
"Yes, here, ' Aloft its hoary forehead rears
This towering pride of twice a thousand years;'
The work of Grecian, Roman, Arab hands,
(Where Hunter, Sydenham wrought, where Louis stands,)
Above the reefs that wreck the human race,
It sheds its beacon rays-to mark the place;
From jaggard rock and yawning quicksand-grave,
Gleaming to warn-but impotent to save.
"Around this towering pile so proud and old,
The countless wrecks of hapless men behold,
Who, pressed by blinding storm and tossed by wave,
Fled to the light for help and found-a grave.
Yet 'the proud fabric in the morning sun,
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"No trusty pilot, though most sore bested,
Would this way turn for aid his vessel's head,.But, hauling off and tautening every brace,
Prefer the winds' and ocean's worst, to face,
To sink, if must be, or a hulk to swim;
But shun, at' any risk, this light-house grim.
"This boastful science of two thousand years,
"Which mocks men's hopes and doubles all their fears;Traces their maladies with fingers sure,
Shows how and why they die-but, cannot cure"Who seek its portal, hoping cure thereat,
Are 'gulls and boobies,' and deserve their fate I"




PART II.


7/Te Principles of ZDietetics Vieved in Sel.alion to the Iaaws of     zigestion.
THE TWELVE GOLDEN RULES,
"Which should be observed by every body, but more particularly
by persons who are under Homocopathic Treatment, or
"who habitually resort to it in sickness, or generally favor the Homceopathic doctrines
and mode of practice.
In all acute diseases, the diet and general treatment of the patient is, of course, strictly regulated
by the attending physician or nurse, agreeably to
the exigencies of the case; the following rules are
designed only for persons in health, or for chronic
patients whose general health seems satisfactory, or
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RULE I.
Rise early, and make it a point to retire at ten
o'clock; seven hours' sleep should suffice; although
less may do in some cases, and, in others, more may
be required.
RULE II.
Wash your whole body from head to foot, with
cold water, every morning, winter and summer, immediately after leaving the bed; and rub yourself
well with a flesh-brush or coarse towel, immediately
after washing.
RULE III.
Never sleep in a warm room, or in a room that has
not been properly ventilated in the day-time.
RULE IV.
Never sit or sleep in a draught of air; this rule is
almost universally violated, but a draught of air is
generally hurtful, more in one case than in another,
and more especially when persons are over-heated,
or covered with perspiration.
RULE V.
Dress according to the season; but be careful not
to leave off your winter clothes before the warm
weather has fairly set in. This rule should be particularly observed by persons who are subject to sore
throat, bronchitis, chronic cough, and such like
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RULE VI.
Avoid all kinds of heavy and indigestible food,
such as rich pastry, fat, heavy farinaceous diet, warm
bread; spices, mustard, pepper, etc.
RULE VII.
Avoid all stimulating drinks, brandy, beer, wine,
and content yourself with cold water, milk, light
and unspiced chocolate, weak black tea, and syrups
made of currants, raspberries, strawberries, or other
kinds of wholesome and unmedicinal fruit. Never
use tobacco in any shape, except for medicinal purposes.
RULE VIII.
Never keep on wet or damp clothes, stockings,
etc., and never sleep on damp sheets.
RULE IX.
Do not expose yourself to keen, sharp winds, and
avoid the raw and damp evening air.
RULE X.
Live as nearly as possible in the same temperature; keep your room moderately warm, and make
it a point never to sit near the fire.
RULE XI.
Eat your meals at regular hours; eat slowly;
chew every mouthful well, and do not swallow it
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ble, take about an hour for each meal, and never
eat so much as to leave the table with a sense of repletion and oppression; do not forget to clean your
teeth with a soft tooth-brush after eating, and never
indulge in the abominable habit of picking them.
RULE XII.
'Avoid every kind of food or drink which naturally disagrees with you; take a little exercise in the
open air every day, but not in any kind of weather;
select particularly fine, bracing or balmy weather
for a walk or ride; exposure to rainy, windy, raw
or damp weather never does any body any good.
TABLE SHOWING THE MEAN TIME OF DIGESTION OF THE
DIFFERENT ARTICLES OF DIET.
Mode of   Time required
Articles of Diet.          Preparation, for Digestion.
H. M.
Rice................................................... Boiled  1
Sago............................................. Do.  1  45
Tapioca..........................................  Do.  2
Barley...........................................  D o.  2
M ilk.............................................  Do.  2
Ditto.......................................Ra...   w  2  15
Gelatine....................................... Boiled  2  30
Pigs' feet, soused............................  Do.     1
Tripe, soused.................................  Do.   1
Brains...................................  Do.     1  45
Venison  steak................................B... roiled  1  35
Spinal marrow.................................Boiled  2  40
Turkey, domestic............................   Roasted  2 30
D o.     do..........................Boiled    2  25
Do.    W ild................................Roasted  2  18
G oose........................................  Do.  2  30
Pig, sucking.......................   Do.              2 30
Liver, beefs, fresh...........................Broiled  2
Lamb, fresh.................................  Do.   2 30




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Chicken, full-grown......................... Fricassee      2 45
Eggs, fresh...............................Hard boiled         3 30
Do.    do.............................. Soft  do.       3
Do.    do................................Fried             3 30
Do.    do..................................oasted          2 15
Do.    do...................................Raw          2
Do.   whipped.................................  Do.        1  30
Custard....................................... Baked        2  45
Codfish, cured, dry....................... Boiled             2
Trout, Salmon, fresh.................... Do.                  1 30
Do.        do...........................Fried          1  30
Bass, striped, fresh........................ Broiled         3
Flounder,       do................Fried                  3 30
Catfish,       do........ Do.                               3 30
Salmon, salted............................ Boiled            4
Oysters, fresh............................Raw                 2 55
Do.    do...............................R.. oasted       3 15
Do.    do.................................. Stewed    3  30
Beef, fresh, lean, rare...................Roasted             3
Do. do. dry............................ Do.                  3 30
D o.  steak..................................... roiled  3
Do. with salt only.........................Boiled            2 45
Do. with mustard, &c...................  Do.                3 30
Do. fresh, lean.........................Fried                4
Do. old, hard, salted.......................Boiled           4 15
Pork-steak................................... Broiled       3  15
Pork, fat and lean.......................Roasted              5 15
Do. recently salted..................... Boiled              4 30
Do.          do.........................Fried          4  15
Do.          do......................Broiled           3  15
Do.          do......................... aw            3
Do.          do........................ Stewed          3
Mutton, fres................................. Roasted         3 15
Do.    do................................. Broiled       3
Do.    do................................Boiled           3
Veal, fresh....................Broiled               4
Do. do..............................Fried                   4 30
Fowls, domestic................... Boiled               4
Do.     do........................  Roasted             4
Ducks.    do........................   Do.                 4
Do.     wild............................... Do.           4 30
Suet, beef. fresh..........................Boiled            5   3
Suet, mutton............................. Do,                 4 30
Soup, beef, vegetables and bread........Boiled               4
Do. marrow-hones................... Do.                      4 15
Do.  beanrs...............................  Do.           3
Do. barley.................................. Do.         1 30
Do. mutton..............................  Do.                3 30




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Butter..........................................Melted   3 30
Cheese, old, strong..R..........  aw                 3 30
Green corn and beans.................... Do.           3 45
Chicken soup.............................. Boiled  3
Oyster  soup..................................  Do.      3  30
Hash, meat and vegetables................VWarmed        2 30
Sausage, fresh..............................Broiled   3 20
Heart, animal..................................Fried    4
Tendon.....................................   Boiled  5  30
Cartilage............................. Do.             4 15
Aponeurosis.............................. Do.        3
Beans,  pod.......................................  Do.  2  30
Bread, wheaten, fresh.............. Baked              3 30
Do.  corn......................................  Do.   3  15
Cake,  do....................................  Do.  3
Do    sponge...................... Do.-         2 30
Dumpling, apple............................... Boiled   3
Apples, sour and hard........................Raw        2 50
Do.   do.     melow.................... Do.           2
Do. sweet        do............. Do.              1 30
Parsnips...................................... Boiled   2  30
Carrot, orange................................  Do.      3 15
Beet................................................  Do.  3  45
Turnips, flat....................................  Do.  3  30
Potatoes, Irish...........................  Do.          3 3.0
Do.    do....................oasted          2 30
Do.    do.............................. Baked    2  30
Cabbage, head....................... Raw               2 30
Do.    with vinegar................... Do.           2
Do.        do......................Boiled       4 30
This table is very interesting, but the results must
not be too much relied upon, or regarded as representing the uniform rate of digestibility.
THE APPETITES.
HUNGER AND THIRST, WHAT THEY ARE.
It is needless to waste words in attempting to describe what hunger and thirst are; every one has
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out such experience, any more than sweetness or
sourness could be understood without tasting sweet
or sour objects. Their end is manifestly to proclaim
that farther nourishment is required for the support
of the system, and our first business is therefore to
explain their nature and seat, in so far at least as a
knowledge of these may' be conducive to our welfare.
The sensation of hunger is commonly referred to
the stomach; and that of thirst, to the upper part
of the throat and back of the mouth, and correctly
enough to this extent, that a certain condition of
the stomach and throat tends to produce them.
But in reality, the sensations themselves, like all
other mental affections and emotions, have their
seat in the brain, to which a sense of the condition
of the stomach is conveyed through the medium of
the nerves. In this respect, appetite resembles the
senses of seeing, hearing and feeling, and no greater
difficulty attends the explanation of the one than
the others. Thus, the cause which excites the sensation of color, is certain rays of light striking upon the nerve of the eye; and the cause which excites
the perception of sound, is the atmospherical vibrations striking upon the nerve of the ear; but the sensations themselves take place in the brain, to which,
as the organ of the mind, the respective impressions
are conveyed.
In like manner, the cause which excites appetite
is an impression made on the.nerves of the stomach;
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which that impression is conveyed. Accordingly,
just as in health, no sound is ever heard except when
the external vibrating atmosphere has actually impressed the ear, and no color is perceived unless an
object be presented to the eye; so is appetite never
felt, except when, from want of food, the stomach
is in that state which forms the proper stimulus to
it, and the brain is left free and unobstructed.
But as in certain morbid states of the brain and
nerves, voices and sounds are heard,-bpi colors and
objects are seen, when no external cause is present
to act upon the ear or the eye, so, in disease, a
craving is often-felt when no real want of food exists, and where, consequently, indulgence in it can be
productive of nothing but mischief. Such an aberration is common in nervous and mental diseases,
and not unfrequently adds greatly to their severity
and obstinacy.
In indolent, unemployed persons, who spend their
days in meditating on their own feelings, this craving is very common, and from being regarded and
indulged in as if it were a healthy appetite, is productive of many dyspeptic affections..
It is, then, no idle whim of the physician to insist
on active exercise as the best promoter of appetite
and digestion. Exercise is, in fact, the condition
without which, exhalation and excretion can not go
on sufficiently fast to clear the system of materials
previously taken in, and when no waste is incurred
there is no need of a fresh supply, and consequently,
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can exist. It is therefore not less unreasonable than
vain for any one to insist on possessing, at the same
time, the incompatible enjoyments of luxurious indolence and a vigorous appetite, sound digestion of
a hearty meal and general health of body, and no one
who is aware of the relation subsisting between
waste and appetite can fail to perceive the fact, and
to wonder at the contrary notion having ever been
entertained.
Appetite, it ought to be observed, may, like other
sensations, be educated or trained to considerable
deviations from the ordinary standard of quantity
and quality, and this obviously for the purpose of
enabling man to live in different climates and under
different circumstances, and avoid being fixed down
to one spot and to one occupation.
The most common source, however, of the errors
into which 'we are apt to fall in taking appetite as
our only guide, is unquestionably the confounding
of appetite with taste, and continuing to eat for the
gratification of the latter long after the former is
satisfied. In fact, the whole soience of a skillful
cook is expended in producing this willing mistake
on our part, and he is considered decidedly the best
artist whose dishes shall recommend themselves
most irresistibly to the callous palate of the gourmand, and excite in it such a sensation as shall at
least remind him of the enviable excellence of a natural appetite. If we were willing to limit the office of taste to its proper sphere, and to cease eating
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be a much rarer occurrence in civilized communities
than it is observed to be.
THIRST, like appetite for food, is intended to direct us when and in what quantity we ought to drink;
and so long as we confine ourselves to the fluids
with which nature provides us, there is little chance
of our going far wrong by listening to its calls. But
when we come to the use of fermented and stimulating liquors, which excite a thirst not recognized
by nature, the principle ceases to operate.
TIMES OF EATNG.-If we look to the exposition
of the objects of eating already given in treating of
appetite, it will be obvious that nature intended us
to regulate our meals by the demands of the system,
and not to eat at stated hours as a matter of course,
whether nourishment were required or not. If we
are engaged in exercise which induces a rapid expenditure of material, or if growth is going on so
rapidly as to require unusually ample supplies, food
ought to be taken both more frequently and in
larger quantity than when we are differently circumstanced; or in other words, food ought to bear a relation to the mode of life and circumstances of the individual, and not be determined by a reference to time
alone.
As a general rule, five or six hours should elapse
between one meal and another-longer if the mode
of life be indolent-shorten if very active. Digestion occupies from three to four or five hours, and
the stomach requires an interval of rest after the
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before it can again enter upon the vigorous performance of its function. Appetite, accordingly, does
not begin to show itself till some time after the
stomach has been empty, and if food be taken before it has recovered its tone, the secretion of gastric
juice and the contracting of its muscular fibers are
alike imperfect, and digestion consequently becomes
impaired.
The interval between each meal ought to be longer
or shorter in proportion to the quantity eaten, and
to the more or less active habits of the individual;
and it would be absurd to fix the same standard for
all. A strong, laboring man, whose system is subjected to great waste from being engaged all day in
hard work, will require not only more frequent, but
more copious meals than an indolent and sedentary
man, and those who eat very little will require to eat
at shorter intervals than those whose meals are
heavy.
Nature, then, has fixed no particular hours for eating, but has left us to adapt our reghmen to our respective ages, constitutions and modes of life.
Where the mode of life is uniform, fixed hours may
be adopted; where it is irregular, we ought to be
guided by the real wants of the system as indicated
by appetite.
According to this principle, meals ought to be
early or late in proportion to the habits of the individual. If, adhering to the order of nature, we
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undoubtedly be the most conducive to sound digestion and the enjoyment of health. But if, against
the laws of nature, we rise from bed late in the forenoon, reserve our activity till late in the afternoon,
and do not go to sleep till two or three hours before
daybreak, then, assuredly, the late breakfast and
dinners of the fashionable society of the present
day are the best for our comfort that can be devised,
and the chief error lies in the practice of those who,
while they in other respects live in conformity with
nature, adopt the hours which are suitable for those
only who turn night into day, and day into night.
The proper time for taking breakfast depends a
good deal on the individual, constitution and mode
of life. Those who eat supper ought not to breakfast till one or two hours at least after rising, but
persons who dine late and eat nothing afterward,
require breakfast sooner.
Individuals of a delicate frame are often unable
for either bodily or mental exertion in the morning,
and are invariably injured by any attempt at exercise or serious thinking before breakfast. Experience is the only sure guide in such cases, but, as a
general rule, breakfast about half an hour or an
hour after rising, will be found most benefical, and
those who rise very early will do well to follow the
French custom of taking a small cup of coffee or
tea and bread on getting up, and reserve their appetite for a more substantial breakfast three hours
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seriously impair their digestive functions by studying for hours in the morning, regardless of the
craving of the system for nourishment and support.
If exposure of any kind is to be incurred in the
morning, whether to the weather or to the causes of
disease, it becomes a matter of much importance
that breakfast should be taken previously.
It is well known that the system is more susceptible of infection, and of the influence of cold, miasma, and other morbid causes, in the morning, before eating, than at any other time, and hence it has
become a point of duty with all military and naval
commanders, especially in bad climates, always to
give their men breakfast before exposing them to
morning dews and other noxious influences..Sir
Geo. Ballingall even mentions a regiment quartered
in Newcastle, in which typhus fever was very prevalent, and in which of all the means used to check its
progress, nothing proved nearly so successful as an
early breakfast of warm coffee.
In aguish countries, also, experience has showvn
us that the proportion of sick among those whoare exposed to the open air before getting anything
to eat, is infinitely greater than among those who
have been fortified by a comfortable breakfast.
Where there is any delicacy of constitution, the
risk is of course increased.
In setting out early to travel, a light breakfast
before starting is a great protection against colds
and subsequent fatigue or exhaustion. I am quite
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much active exercise before breakfast, with apparent impunity, if not benefit, and I have often done
so myself; but experience ultimately taught me
that I became sooner exhausted on continuing the
exertion through the day, than when I began by
eating a little.
During the first winter of my studies in Philadelphia, I regularly attended the surgical visits at the
Penn Hospital, which began at half-past six in the
morning, and lasted till eight, or frequently half-past
eight. Not being then aware of the principle under
discussion, I ate nothing till my return home; but I
felt more weariness before the day was done than the
mere exertion ought to have produced
At last on noticing for a time the regularity with
which many of the working people passing along
paid their respects at a small shop, the only one then
open, where fancy rolls were sold, along with coffee
and tea, I thought of following their example, and
trying how far a roll would add to my comfort, and
impart additional vigor to the system. I soon found
great reason to be pleased with the expedient, and
discovered that I was not only less exhausted during the day, but more able to follow the lecture
which concluded the visit, and in possession of a
keener appetite for breakfast at my return, and ever
since I have acted on the principle now inculcated,
and with marked benefit.
During the prevalence of cholera, both here and
on the continent, it was often remarked that a large
proportion of the attacks occurred early in the
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morning, in persons who had gone to bed apparently well. Chronic invalids and persons of a delicate habit of body, are also familiar with the fact of
the animal heat and general vigor diminishing towards morning.
From these facts, the general inference is clearly
warranted, that delicate persons ought to have some
kind of food soon after rising, and that even those
who are healthy will act wisely in.not exposing
themselves unnecessarily to fatigue, infection, or
other morbid causes, without having previously supplied the wants of the system, either partially by a
cup of coffee or tea, or entirely by a regular breakfast.
Where fever, for example, is in a family, the danger of infection will be much greater to a person
going directly from his own bed to the bedside of
the patient, than to one who first takes the precaution of drinking, were it only a cup of coffee.
In boarding-schools for the young and growing,
who require plenty of sustenance, and are often
obliged to rise early, an early breakfast is an almost
indispensable condition of health.
In recommending what I conceive ought to be
the general rule, let me not be understood as wishing to extend it so far as to advise those whose constitutions admit of two or three hours' activity before breakfast, to abandon what experience proves
to be beneficial to them.
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of advantage, and to relieve those who are already
suffering from ignorance.
As a general rule, thein; not more than five hours
ought to intervene between breakfast and dinner. If
the mode of life be such as involves great activity
in the open air, or the period of life be one of rapid
growth or filling up (as during youth or convalesence from illness) the interval may, with propriety,
be shortened; whereas, if the mode of life be sedentary, and unattended wvith much activity of nutrition, the interval may be considerably protracted
without inconvenience.
Supposing nine o'clock to be the hour of breakfast, the natural dinner hour would thus be two
o'clock; and such, accordingly, is that sanctioned
by the most extended experience, and which ought
to be adhered to by all whose occupation will admit
of its observance, and who wish to enjoy the highest
health of which they are susceptible.
Artificially arranged, however, as society now is,
whole classes of the community find it impossible to
dine till much later in the day. The question then
comes to be-as we cannot follow the system laid
down by nature, what is the next best thing to be
done?
Ought we to eat nothing till we can find time to
dine at five, or six, or seven o'clock? or ought we
rather to take a light meal at the natural time, about
one or two o'clock, and reserve our appetite chiefly
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When dinner cannot be taken earlier than seven
or eight hours after breakfast, most people will find
it advantageous to partake of some slight refreshment in the meautime-enough to blunt the keenness of the appetite, but not entirely to destroy it.
If business admits of it, and the person can then
command two hours of relaxation, the best plan unquestionably, is to dine about five or six hours after
breakfast. But if this be impossible, and active exercion of mind or body must be continued for several hours longer, it will be far better to eat some light
refreshment in the forenoon, and to postpone dinner, not only till business is over, but till half an
hour or an hours' repose has allowed its attendant
excitement or fatigue to subside.
By this means the stomach will enter upon its
duties with vigor and the dinner be digested with
greater comfort and dispatch, than if we sit down
to table the moment our work is finished.
In this way the tedious quarter of an hour preceeding the announcement of dinner is far from
being lost to the subscquent digestion.
Very few people, indeed, can eat a good dinner
and return immediately to bodily and intellectual
labor with continued impunity.
On this account, actors, for example, whose vocation requires exertion of both mind and bodyalmost all either dine very early, or take their chief
meal at night, on their return home; the latter
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are very apt to damage themselves by neglecting
relaxation at and after meals.
The time for dinner ought, then, to vary according
to the constitution, occupation and mode of life of
the individual; and the nearer the whole of these
can be made to approximate to the intentions of nature, the more vigorous will be the powers of digestion, and the more complete the nutrition of the
body.
It would be a waste of time to discuss gravely
whether tea and coffee ought to be allowed in the
evening.
Custom has already decided the point, and experience has shown that, taken in moderntion, they rather promote than impede digestion. When the
dinner is early-say one, or two, or three o'clock-a
light meal of tea and bread in the evening, is very
suitable, as it saves the necessity of eating a heavier
supper.
If the individual be accustomed to much active
exertion in the afternoon, so as to cause considerable
waste in the system, and especially if he be young,
a small addition of animal food may be made with
great propriety to the evening meal.
But, on the other hand, when the dinner is late,
or little exertion is incurred after it-tea or coffee
ought to be used more as a diluent than as a meal.
A great deal has been said and written about the
properties of tea and coffee as articles of diet. At
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sion of the other branch of the subject to a future
opportunity.
Now, to sum up the whole, the grand rule in fixing the number and periods of our meals is, to proportion them to the real wants of the system, as modified
by age, sex, health and manner of life, and as indicated
by the true returns of appetite, and, as an approximate
guide, to bear in mind that under ordinary circumstances of activity and health, three, four, or five
hours are required for the digestion of a full meal,
and one or two hours more of repose before the
stomach can again become fit for the resumption of
its labors.
Among the circumstances which favor digestion,
the observance of bodily rest and mental tranquility for some time before and after every meal, is
perhaps the most important; its influence depends
on a well-known law of the animal economy, viz:
-whenever any living part is called into vivid action, an increased flow of blood and of nervous
energy towards it immediately commences, to enable it to sustain the requisite degree of excitement, and continues till some time after the activity
has ceased. In accordance with this law, whenever
food is swallowed,the lining membrane of the stomach
becomes suffused with blood, and owing to the
greater distension of its vessels, its color changes
from a-pink to a deep red hue. After digestion is
completed, and the unusual supply of blood is no
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It is obvious, however, that the grand afflux of
blood which takes place towards the stomach and
intestines during digestion, cannot occur without a
corresponding diminution in the quantity circulating on the surface and in other distant parts of the
body, attended, of course, with a diminished power
of action in them.
Hence, for some time after a full meal, there is an
inaptitude for vigorous thinking and bodily exertion, a depression of respiration, and, in delicate
persons, a degree of coldness and chill felt over the
whole body. But, under ordinary circumstances,
this depression is not of long continuance.
After the requisite secretions have been provided
for the solution of the food and the formation of the
chyle, a re-action and change in the distribution of
the blood, now partially renewed by admixture of
nutritive chyle, ensues, and by the stimulus which
they afford, soon fit the person for the active resmmption of his ordinary duties.
That this impaired activity of the other functions after a full meal is natural, and intentionally
arranged by the Creator, is plain, both from its universality among all kinds of animals, and from the
"mode in which it is produced. Among the lower
creatures, the sluggishness'induced by eating increases in proportion to the degree, in which they gorge
themselves with food. The boa constrictor, after a
splendid repast, slumbers for a week, and the glutton of our species, in similar circumstances, drops
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exertion immediately after a full meal be rendered
compulsory by any external cause, such as the
presence of danger urging to flight, the aliment often
remains for hours in the stomach undigested. Again,
the very distension of the stomach inseparable from
a hearty meal necessarily impairs the activity of several of the functions, by directly pressing upon the
vessels which supply their organs with blood, and
consequently diminishing the stimulus essential to
their activity.
The obvious practical inference to be deduced
from a consideration of the principle under discussion is, that rest of body and tranquility of mind
for a short time both before and after eating, are
necessary, and conducive to healthy digestion. And
yet the same man who would unhesitatingly dismiss his groom for feeding his horse immediately
after a fatiguing chase or a gallop home, would
probably think nothing of walking into the house
and ordering dinner to be instantly served for himself in similar circumstances. In the army, the
difficulty of managing recruits, on a march, in this
respect, has often been remarked. Fatigued with
days' exertions, they are impatient for food, and,
when they get it, can scarcely refrain so long from
devouriiig it as to admit of its beiug even moderately cooked. They consequently labor under the
double disadvantage of eating before the system is
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The old campaigner, on the other hand, instructed by former experinece, restrains his appetite, systematically kindles his fire, cooks his victuals, and
makes his arrangements for the night, with a coolness of deliberation which surprises the recruit; and
he is amply repaid for his temporary self-denial, by
the greater enjoyment and support'which he derives from the very same materials, which the impatience of the other has caused him in a great
measure to waste.
Many a valuable horse has been killed by being
prematurely fed after fatiguing exercise, and man
himself is no exception to the rule.
Again, the state of the mind, indeed, exerts a
powerful influence not only on the stomach, but on
the whole process of nutrition, and greatly modifies
the quantity which may be safely eaten. If the
mind be gay and joyous, appetite will be comparatively keen, digestion effective and rapid, and nutrition complete. Examples of this kind abound
in childhood, and among an easy-minded, well-fed
peasantry.- Whereas, if the mind be harassed by
care and anxiety, or devoured by grief, envy, jealousy, or other troubles and disquieting passions, the
healthy calls of appetite will be scarcely known, and
digestion and nutrition will be equally impaired.
This fact is exemplified on a la-ge scale in every
commercial country, and especially in times of public distress and political change.
Shakspeare obviously had the principle in view
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"Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights,
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
Be thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Anthony-Fear him not, Cmsar, he's not dangerous,
He is a noble Roman,and well given.
Ccesar- Would he were fatter, but I fear him not;
Yet if my name were liable to fear,.
I do not know the man I should avoid
So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much.
He is a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men I he loves no plays,
As thou dost, Anthony I he hears no music,
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit
That could be moved to smile at anything.
Such men as he be never at heart's ease
"While they behold a greater than themselves,
And therefore are they very dangerous."
In denouncing active exertion of mind or body,
immediately after eating, as inimical to digestion, it
is not meant that we should go to sleep, or indulge
in absolute listlessness. A weak constitution may
require something like complete repose, but a person in ordinary health may indulge in a leisurely
saunter or pleasant conversation, not only without
injury but with positive benefit, and perhaps there
is no situation in which digestion goes on so favorably, as during the cheerful play of sentiment in
the after-dinner small-talk of a well-assorted circle.
On the subject of drinks two questions naturally
occur: Where ought we to drink? and what ought
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As a general rule, the desire for liquids will in itself be an indication of their propriety! but in
gratifying it, we should be careful not to drink so
fast as either to distend the stomach beyond proper
bounds, or to disturb the process of digestion by undue dilution too soon after eating.
The question of drink is of little importance as
regards breakfast.
During the night, the chief expenditure of the
system-by perspiration, urine, and exhalation from
the lungs-is of a fluid nature, and hence there is a
marked and general preference of fluids as a part
of our first meal. In this country, tea, coffee, and
chocolate are in almost universal use for breakfast,
and no other liquid is required merely as drink. If,
firom the mode of life, or other causes, thirst be excited in the forenoon, no valid objection can be
urged against its moderate and reasonable gratification.                                         'i
The tenperature at which liquids are taken, is a
matter of perhaps greater consequence than it is
usually considered.                         -
As regards the teeth, they being living parts, and
at the same time endowed with a mechanical function, are liable to injury in both capacities. 
Being composed chiefly of earthy matter, such as
phosphate and carbonate of lime, the contact of
strong acids decompose their substances, and leads to
their rapid decay. Hence, the whiteness produced
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also great caution is necessary in swallowing the
acid diops so frequently prescribed by the old school
physician, which ought never to be allowed to come
in contact with the teeth.
Being constantly moistened with saliva, the teeth
have a tendency to become incrusted,with the tartar, or earthy matter, which it contains in solution,
and which is separated from it partly by the evaporation of the more fluid constituents in breathing,
and partly by chemical decomposition. As this incrustation not only destroys the beauty of the
teeth, but also promotes their decay, it becomes an
object of care to remove it as soon as it is formed,
and the most effectual mode of doing so is to brush
the teeth regularly twice a day, especially in the
morning, when the quantity is greatest-with a
brush dipped in soft water, till every particle is removed.
The addition of any soft impalpable powder will
assist in the effect; but nothing capable of acting
chemically on the teeth, or of injuring them by
friction, ought ever to be resorted to. Washing the
mouth after every meal is also a good preservative,
and should never be neglected.
Considered as living parts, the teeth require some
additional care. In that capacity they are exceedingly apt to suffer from sudden changes of temperature. Being from their solidity rapid conductors of
heat, their internal nerve speedily becomes affected
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ges from a warm to a cold atmosphere. It is a not
uncommon practice, for example, to take a glass of
cold wine or water immediately after finishing a
plateful of very hot soup; and it is quite usual to
take tea and coffee, and every kind of meat, as hot
as they can possibly be swallowed--than which
practices it would be difficult to imagine anything
more hurtful to the teeth.
For the same reason, in going out at night from
a warm room to the cold air, it is desirable to protect the teeth from the influence of the sudden
change, by breathing through two or three folds of
a silk handkerchief, or through a woolen comforter.
When the teeth and lower part of the face are left
exposed in such circumstances, rheumatism  and
toothache not unfrequently ensue from the direct
impression of the cold air upon parts rendered more
susceptible by the preceding heat.
As regards the temperature of liquids taken into
the stomach the same principle holds true, and when
we consider the multitude and intricacy of its nervous connections with other vital organs, we cannot be surprised at even sudden death being frequently caused by drinking ice-cold water when the
body is weakened by profuse perspiration.
When great thirst has been excited either by
bodily labor or by external heat, it will generally be
more effectually, as well as safely, quenched by
drinking moderately of tepid than of cold fluids.
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immediately absorbed, supplies the deficiency of
fluid without changing the balance of the circulation; whereas, cold drink, by the suddenness of its
impression, disturbs the balance of the circulation,
and excites a degree of reaction which increases the
original discomfort. If the system  is at the same
time weakened by fatigue, cold drinks are always
injurious.
On the subject of the kind of drinks which ought
to be taken a great deal might be said, were it necessary to discuss here the qualities of all the liquors
that are in use. But as my purpose is very different, a few general remarks will be enough.
Water is a safe drink for all constitutions, provided
it be resorted to in obedience to the dictates of
natural thirst only, and  not of habit, and with
the precautions already pointed out; but unless
the desire for it is felt, there is no occasion
for its use during a meal, for the mere purpose of
obeying a general rule. Toast and water, whey,
beer, barley water, rerated and soda water, and other
liquids of similar kind, which are little stronger
than pure water, may be used, according to the
same general principle, by those who prefer them
and find them agreeable to the stomach. But with
regaird to such fermented liquors as porter, ale,
spirits and wine, mucll greater restriction is necessary, because much good or evil may be done'by
them when properly or improperly administered.
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In all conditions, therefore, in which the action of
those requtres to be increased or supported, they
are calculated to be useful; and, on the contrary,
where it requires to be soothed and abated, they are
sure to be prejudicial.
As the sole object of Part Second of this volume
is to make the reader acquainted with the natural
laws of the animal economy, and with the means by
which aberrations from them may be prevented and
health preserved, I shall not enter at all upon the
discussion either of the morbid conditions of the
bowels, or of the remedies by which these may be
cured, but will take them up in alphabetical order in
Part Third.
As to the choice of different articles of food it
would be easy to fill many pages with disquisitions
about the preference due to individual articles of
food, were such the purpose which I had in view.
But books devoted to this branch of the subject
abound, and are already in general circulation, and
as I have nothing new to add to what is contained
in them, it would be makiug a needless demand on
the patience of the reader merely to repeat what is
to be found in so many other works.
My object is the exposition of practical principles
rather than of minute details; if I have succeeded
in the attempt I shall be greatly pleased.




IPAIRT III.


7/7e f'ractice of Jlomceopat/hic XMedicine Sinzplfed for the zuse of.Families.
It is often remarked that the domestic works on
Homceopathy seem to contain every phase and symptom of disease except the particular one which it
is required to treat, and from the plan upon which
most of the Domestic Treatises are written, it is
necessarily difficult to embrace many of these features of disease which commonly arise, without being very lengthy, and therefore perplexing in the
direction given. With a view of obviating this difficulty I have compiled from the various Homoeopathic works at my command the following pages.
The medicines are mentioned in the order of their
well known curative properties, and only the principal or "key notes" are given, so as to avoid confusion and delay in selecting a remedy.
BOILS. BELL.-in repeated doses and of a low dilution if you commence in the inflammatory
stage and before matter has formed; if they
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locally, which is a surgical matter, but suppuration may be favored by a few doses of HEPAR or SIL.
SUL.-where there is a constitutional tendency.
CATARRH. ACT.-once followed by CAMP., but
if the fever has already set in, and the temperature is still rising, ACT. alone should be given.
If it is a running cold with pains in the bones,
MER. may be alternated with ACT.
DuLC.-when the Catarrh is brought on by
exposure to dampness.
ARs.-where it rages as an epidemic, and if
the bone pains are very distressing'a few doses
of EUPAT. in alternation, would be of advantage.
CHAPS OF THE SKIN. CAL. CARB.-Rough and
dry skin, most suitable to persons who work in
water.
HEPAR-cracks and chops. Unhealthy skin.
MER.-cracks deep and bleeding; it is also
advisable to anoint the hands at night on retiring, with Althea Ointment.
COLIC-from indigestion, brought on by either overloading the stomach or from improper or unhealthy nourishment.
Nux-after coffee, brandy and large meals.
PULSAT.-after fat food, pastry and flatulent
food.
IPEC.-after sour and acrid fruits and salads.
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COLIC--flatulent, characterized by distention of the
abdomen, gurgling in the bowels causing pain
and shortness of breath.
BELL.-a tendency to congestion of the head.
CARB. VEG.-sour belching which affords no
relief.
CHAM.-abdomen drum-like, with small quantities of wind passing off which afford no relief.
Nux-when there is great pressure upward.
COLIC-rheumatic, follows upon suddenly taking
cold or getting wet.
AcT.-after exposure to sharp north-west
wind, suppressed perspiration.
COLocY.-hot or cold skin, contracting, pinching, cutting pains, causing patient to sit doubled
up.
DUL.-the cramp is attended with nausea in
stomach followed by diarrhocea.
RHus.-getting wet all over.
CONSTIPATION, ACUTE. OPir.-where there
seems to be an accumlation of foeces and a sluggishness of the peristaltic action.
CONSTIPATION, CHRONIC. SuL.-a few doses
at the commencement, following this with BRY.,
if the person leads a sedentary life-is subject
to rheumatism; or Nux if the patient is subject to piles, and abuses the use of spirituous
liquors.
Pnos.-in consumptive and old people.
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COUGHI. ARS.-asthmatic subjects, worse in the
evening, and at night after lying down.
BELL.-dry spasmodic cough with determination of blood to. the head, also second stage of
hoopin g cough.
BRY.-cough dry, worse in the day-time, tickling and soreness behind breast bone, stitches
in side and pain in head.
IPEC.-spasmodic cough, causing blueness of
the face, with retching and vomiting and mucous expectorations.  First stage of hooping
cough.
MER. Viv.-excited by tickling, or a feeling
of dryness in the throat, a disposition to perspire, worse at night.
RHUS.-cough on awaking in the morning,
with bitter taste, and vomiting of food taken.
SPONG.-dry, hollow, barking cough day and
night, w;ith burning in chest.
CROUP. This is one of the most important of
children's diseases, and from its strong tendency
to end in death, its violent symptoms and acute
accession, it requires prompt and skillfal treatment.
ACT. and SPONG.-in alternation every quarter
or half hour to every hour, generally suffices
in cases of so-called catarrhal croup.
Bcenhausen says the true symptoms of croup
nearly always disappear after administering the
following remedies: ACT., HEP. and SPONG.
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3 and 5, HEPAR, and 4, SPONG, and allows from
one to three hours to pass between the administration of each powder.
DIARRH(EA, ACUTE. CHINA-when there is
simply an increase in the frequency and quantity with griping pains in the abdomen.
VERAT.-if stools are very watery and expelled with violence, and there is but little
griping, and the attack commences with vomiting.
ARs.-violent thirst, worse after midnight,
great debility.
MER.-slimy, frothy, bilious evacuations.
DYSENTERY. MER.-in alternation with ACT.,
is generally sufficient; if there is much tormina,
it may be alternated with COLOCY., and if there
is great tenesmus, alternate it with IPEC.
ARs.-great debility and involuntary evacuations.
EARACHE. BELL.-great sensibility to the least
noise, shooting and tearing pains extending into
throat.
PvUs.-when the external ear is affected with
darting, tearing pains, hardness of hearing,
especially from a cold or suppressed measles.
Nux -if the pains extend into the temples,
forehead and bones of the face.
EYE-LIDS, STYES ON       THE. A few doses of
PULS. generally arrests the progress of the disease, and if there is a disposition to recurrence,
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EYES, INFLAMMATION OF. AOT.-in most cases
at the commencement; great dread of light,
burning, sticking pains, with dark redness of
the vessels. ARN., if from an injury.
BELL.-pains around the eyes, aggravated by
motion; very sensitive to the light, and pain
in the head.
BRY.-pain in head when eyes are opened,
with swollen lids.
MER.-sensation of sand under the lids, worse
in the evening, or when getting warm in bed,
itching.
PULS.-great dryness or copious lachrymatjion, swelling of the lids.
RHUs-when there is an crysipelous tendency
with continued burning.
SUL.-vesicles, ulcers and pustules round the
eyes.
FATIGUE, SUFFERING FROM. ARN.-if from
labor or bodily exertion.
BELL.-headache after study.
CALO.-the least exertion or conversation fatigues one.
CHIN.-after bodily exertion with profuse
sweat.
Nux.-from studying, and when leading sedentary life; worse in the open air.
PULs.-relief in the open air.
GIDDINESS. AcT.--red face, cloudiness before the
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BELL.--pressure on the forehead with a sensa- 
tion of fulness, staggering, swimming in head
with partial loss of consciousness.
MER.-on arising in the morning or in the
evening with nausea and dimness.
Nux-if froth wine, coffee or excessive mental exertions, buzzing in the ears, danger of falling during or after a meal.
PULs.-nausea, pale face when raising the
eyes, relieved in the open air, or from eating
rich food.
SuL.-when sitting, or ascending an eminence.
GUMBOIL. ACT. and BELL.-in repeated doses,
if given in time will often cut the disease short.
MER. or PHos.-if the trouble is produced by
a diseased fang.
HEADACHE. AcT.-red, bloated face, burning,
contractive pains, especially over the root of
the nose.
BELL.-pains over the eyes, with violent
throbbing, and pressure as though the head
would split open; can not bear the least noise,
light or motion.
BRY.--pain worse when moving, sensation as
though the head was being compressed,when
produced by bad weather or heat.
CHINA-aggravated by contact, scalp very
sensitive to the touch.
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Nux--from spirituous liquors, excessive study,
constipation, worse when stooping in the open
air or after eating; head feels very heavy.
PULS.-pale face, worse during rest or in the
evening, better in the open air, shooting, tearing, humming in the ears.
HOARSENESS. CARB, VEG.-worse in the evening, and after talking; burning under the breast
bone.
MER. VIv.-great thirst, sweat without relief,
throat feels dry, worse in the evening.
PHOS.-violent catarrh with hoarseness.
HOOPING COUGH. AcT. and IPEC.-in alternation at the commencement; if the spasmodic
stage is well marked "DROSERA."
BELL.-where there is marked head symptoms.
INFANTS, COLD IN THE HEAD OF. CHAM.one cheek red and the other one pale; discharge
of water from the nose.
Nux.-dry stoppage of the nose, &c.
CARB. VEG.-if aggravated in the evening.
DUL.-if aggraved in the open air.
NFANTS, COLIC OF. CRAM.- Child cries and
bends double, face red.
BELL.-Face pale.
IPEc.-Cries, with fermented diarrhoea.
INFANTS, CONSTIPATION OF. BRY.- Stool
large-sized, hard and tough.
Nux.-Ineffectual urging to stool, wlth apparent inactivity of the bowels.




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INFANTS, SPASMS OR        CONVULSIONS OF.
BELL.-Dilated pupils, coldness of the whole
body.
CHAM.-Redness of one cheek, involuntary
movements of the head.
IGNAT.-When we are not certain from what
the fits arise, when they return every day at the
same hour.
INFANTS, CRYING OF. BELL.-When crying
without any apparent cause.
CHAM.-One red cheek, if there is head-ache
or ear-ache.
IEFANTS, DENTITION OF.-Restless, obstinate,
wakeful,-COFFEE, unless the mother is in the
habit of drinking coffee, then give ACT. and in
some cases it will have to be followed by CHAM.,
or if mother drinks coffee and child's face is
red without fever, give OPII.
CAL-CARB. if the teeth are slow in. coming
through.
Nux.-If there is constipation with fever and
a dry hacking cough. IPEc.-if there is vomitting and diarrhcea.
BELL.- Starting and jerking.through the
whole body during sleep, with evening exacerbations.
INFANTS, DIARR(EA        OF. RnE.-Tenesmus,
stools smell sour, and the child also.
CHAM.-Stools greenish, colic, red face.
BELL.-Violent colic, face pale.
IPEC. OR Nux.-When it manifests itself in
the heat of summer.




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"BRY. or CARB. VEG.-Returning when the
weather becomes warmer.
DUL.-Returning when the weather becomes
cooler.
A-s.-Emaciation, great weakness, pallor,
worse after midnight.
INFANTS, EXCORIATION         OF. CIAM.-Easily
excoriated with great sensitiveness to the touch.
SUL.-If there is a rash and in obstinate cases.
INFANTS, INDIGESTION OF. IPEc-Vomiting,
with diarrhoea.
Nux-Vomiting, with constipation.
PULS.-If arising from pastry or rich food, or
if- IPEC..is insufficient.
INFANTS, RED GUM OF. BRY.-White miliary
eruptions, with constipation and distension of
the bowels.
SUL. in most stages of the disease.
LABOR-PAINS. CHAM.-Pains too acute and too
long and spasmodic, convulsions or spasm during the pains.
COFFEE.-When patient is almost driven to
despair.
PULs.-The pains succeeding each other
slowly, inactivity of the uterus after the birth.
LEUCORRHCEA, (WHITES). This can hardly be
called a disease, but rather a symptom of some
6f the many uterine maladies.
The most common form is that occurring in
those who have had severe abortions, or who
6




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have borne children too frequently-in such
cases LEP. is chief remedy.
PULS. may be used when there is great debility, with cutting pains in the back, and the discharge is thick and corrosive.
CAL. CARB,-Flowing before the menses and
by fits, like milk, producing a burning and itching sensation.
MEASLES. ACT. is the chief medicine and should
be continued throughout the disease.
PULS.-may be given in alternation with
ACT., to facilitate the erruption.
Bar.-is recommended 'for recalling the eruption, especially where there is much sufferingin
the chest fiom its retrocession.
MENSTRUATION, PAINFUL. CHAM.-pressure
extending from the small of the back to the
abdomen and downwards; pains resembling
labor pains.
Nux.-giddiness, debility, tendency of blood
to the head, nausea, with fainting early in the
morning.
PULS.-discharge black and coagulated; colic
and nausea.
MENSTRUATION, SUPPRESSED. PuLs.-from
getting wet or catching cold; palpitation of
the heart, most suitable to individuals of a mild
disposition.
GRAPHITES (stands next to PULs.) constipation, with heaviness of the limbs and congestion of blood to the head.
ACT.-if from fright.




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67


MILK, EXCESSIVE FLOW           OF. BELL.-pulsations in the breasts, with fulness and hardness.
BRY.-breasts swollen, hard and knotty.
MILK, SUPPRESSION OF. PULs.-if caused by
a chill; in most cases.
BELL and BRY.-may be [alternated if the
abdominal organs are affected and the breasts
become hard and knotty.
FEVER. ACT.-if there is redness and tension in
the breasts, accompanied with fever.
BRY.-may be alternated with ACT. if there
is constipation and rheumatic pains.
CHAM. if caused by violent emotion or a chill
and there is great nervous excitement.
MUMPS, MER. and AcT.-if patient be feverish.
PULS.-if there is metastasis to the testicles
or mammle,
BELL.-if there is mestatasis to the brain.
NEURALGIA. ARS.- pains intensely agonizing
and of a darting, burning character, great restlessness and anguish, which is at first relieved
by cold applications, but in a few moments it
is increased; worse during rest; diminished during exercise. Pains intermittent in character.
BELL.-violent pain when rubbing or pressing the parts. Worse when exposed to the
light, motion or noise. When in each attack of
of the pain the face flushes up, the cheeks
burning hot, the eyes red and watering.
RIan.-I would suggest a trial of this remedy in chronic cases.




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NIPPLES, EXCORIA TING. ARN.-for simple soreness both locally and internally; if this proved
insufficient I should give a few doses of SUL.
CHAM. is chiefly suitable where the nipples
are highly inflamed, or where they are ulcerated.
PILES. SUL. and Nux.-in alternation where there
is little or no bleeding, but are very annoying
from their fulness.
IHAAMAMELIS-in bleeding piles and if there
is much fever any of these remedies may be
alternated witlh ACT.
PLEURISY. ACT. and BRY.-in alternation generally suffices, but to complete the cure we may
follow this with SILL.
PNEUMONIA. AcT.-always to commence the
treatment with, and if in twenty-four hours
there is no material abatement, we must have
recourse to PHos. or BRy.
PHos.-for broncho-pneu monia
BRY.-for pleuro-pncumonia.
SUL.-(a few doses of) whenever amelioration takes place but is not permanent.
PREGNANCY, SLEEPLESSNESS OF. ACT.if attended with fever.
Nux.-when patient sleeps well on first retiring, but wakes early in the morning and can
not get to sleep again.
COFFEE.- when the patient cannot get to
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69


CHAM.-in the latter months when sleep is
often hindered by cramps in the calves, etc.,
generally called fidgets.
PREGNANCY, VOMITING DURING. IPEc.-in
simple uncomplicated cases.
Nux.-nausea and vomiting every morning
on rising, headache, constipation and a hemorhoidal tendency.
LEAc.-inclination to vomit early in the
morning, in bed; vomiting of food.
PREG. CONSTIPATION       DURING. BRY.-hard
tough stool.
Nux.-from sedentary habits, ineffectual urging, inactivity of the bowels.
QUINSY. BELL.-choking and spasmodic constriction of the throat, inflammation and swelling of
the palate, uvula and tonsils, so that swallowing is almost impossible. Shooting and darting pains in throat.
MER.-when the stiches in the throat and
tonsils extend to the ears and glands, with a
tendency to suppuration.
RHEUMATISM, ACUTE. ACT.-shooting pains,
worse at night, light fever, and after the fever
has subsided follow this with BRY.
RHEUMATISM, CHRONIC. BRY.-if there is
much heat and swelling.
Rnus.-when the tendons, nerves, &c., are
chiefly affected, and where motion at first increases the pain, but continued motion relieves
it; worse in damp weather.




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HOMCEOPATHY.


PULS.-when the knee and ankle joints are
involved, fingers become stiff and curved.
SCARLET FEVER. ACT. and BELL.-in alternation in simple and uncomplicated cases, generally
relieves the patient, and even in the more
grave forms it would be advisable to administer
- a few doses of the above while waiting for the
arrival of the physician, the call for whom
should not be postponed till the eleventh hour,
causing the patient thereby unnecessary suffering.
SORE   THROAT. BELL.-the membrane highly
inflamed without much swelling; a feeling of
rawness, and where there is much fever and a
pricking sensation in the throat, AcT. may be
alternated.
MER. if BELL. does not relieve the symptoms,
and there is a tendency to ulceration.
LAc.-where the left side is specially affected,
and where BELL. and MER. are not sufficient,
and there is a constant desire to swallow.
TOOTIACHE. Bay. (mother tincture)-applied locally on cotton held between the gum and cheek,
will generally relieve the pain in a few minutes; in addition to this, one of the following
remedies may be administered:
CHINA-dull pains, worse at night, or after the
least contact.
Nux-jerking pain, swelling and throbbing
of the gums, worse in the open air or at night
in persons who lead a sedentary life and are
fond of coffee or wine.




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71


PULS.-shooting pains which extend into the
ears, eye, face and head; face pale, relieved by
cold application.
CHAM.-pains driving almost to despair, with
swollen, red, hot cheeks, or especially on one
side, worse from warm applications, and especially at night in bed.
BELL.-more especially adapted to females
and children in inflammatory and congestive
toothache; great thirst, worse by contact with
food.
VOMITING. BRY.-especially after eating food
which one relishes, of bitter water, or of bile.
IPEC.-occurring after eating or drinking ever
so little.
PULS.-from overloading the stomach, or after eating fat, rich food.
Nux-periodical attacks after wines and spirituous liquors, or from weakness of stomach.
VERAT-stomach very sensitive to the touch,
with burning pains, vomiting occurring before,
during or immediately after a stool, great prostration, frothy.
WORMS. VIOL. ORDA., 6th-a dose every 4 hours
for three days, and follow this with STAN. 30th,
one dose every third night for twelve days generally relieves all of the symptoms.
CINA-pale, bloated face, livid circles around
the eyes, abdomen swollen and drum-like, fever
and colic.




PAJRT IV.


THE CINCINNATI HOMIEOPATHIC MEDICAL DISPENSARY.
ITS HISTORY.
On November twelfth, 1867, pursuant to a call
issued through the papers of this city, there assembled at the Burnet House, for the purpose of organizing a benevolent Association, the following named
persons: S. C. Newton, John P. Epply, J. W. Canfield, Hugh McBirney, P. P. Lane, Dr. T. C. Bradford, Dr. E. B. Thomas, Dr. Wm. Owens, F. Eckstein,
Jethro Mitchel, C. Taylor Jones, and John E. Bell.
Mr. S. C. Newton being called to the chair and
John E. Bell to act as Secretary, the following resoI ution was adopted, viz.
" That we, the undersigned, form ourselves into an
association to be incorporated and known as the
Cincinnati Homneopathic Medical Dispensary, the
object of which shall be the gratuitous dispensing
of Homtnopathic medicine to the sick poor of Cincinnati and vicinity."
At a subsequent meeting the following gentlemen
were elected Trustees for the first year.




IIOMTOPATIIY.             7


73


TRUSTEES
Hugh MeBirney,
C. Taylor Jones,
P. W. Strader,
Alfred Gaither,
A. H. Hinkle,
J. K. Sterrett,
Gazzumn Gano,
Fred. Eckstein,
S. S. Davis,
John Shillito,
John E. Bell, Clerk.


FOR 1868.
J. W. Canfield,
N. S. Jones,
Wesley Taylor,
S. C. Newton,
P. P. Lane,
Howell Gano,
John P. Eppli
J. If. Cheever
*M. B. Hagat
Bellamy Stor


OFFICERS FOR 1868.
S. C. Newton, President.
Hugh MeBirney, Vice-President,
Gazzum Gano, Treasurer.
John E. Bell, Secretary.


J. II.
Weal
IJohi


STANDING COMMITTEES.
FINANCE.
Cheever,         A. II. Hinkle,
ey Tay'lor,      P. W. Stradei
aP. Epply. Gazzum Garnc
DISPENSAR~Y.


P. P. Lane,
J. K. Sterret


M. B. Hagauf
ty Howell. Gano,
0. Taylor Jones.


*Resigned- and J03. Emery was apponted to fill vacancy.
tResigned and Hugh MeBirney was appoinWe Wo fill vacan




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HOM(EOPATHY.


HOSPITAL.
Alfred Gaither,      J. W. Canfield,
N. S. Jones,         B. Storer,
John Shillito.
On February the twenty-fifth, 1868, the Finance
Conmmittee reported having secured subscriptions
amounting to twelve hundred and fifty dollars, as
donations, and also ten annual subscribers, at five dollars each.
On the same date the Dispensary Committee reported having rented No. 308 Race St., for dispensary purposes, at a rent of six hundred dollars per
year.
The Committee was then instructed to fit up the
said building for dispensary use at a cost not exceeding five hundred dollars, and also to select and
employ a resident physician.
On March tenth. 1868, the Dispensary Committee reported the rooms at 308 Race St., ready for
occupancy, and that one Dr. W. Draper had been
employed as resident physician.
From this date (March 10, 1868,) there was liitle
or nothing of importance transacted till August 27,
when the resignation of Dr. Draper being excepted,
the Dispensary Committee were instructed to secure
the services of some competent person to fill the
vacancy, and at an adjourned meeting held September first, reported that they had secured the services
of one Dr. J. A. Cloud.




HOM(EOPATRY.                   75
Dr. Cloud entered upon his duties as resident
physician, September 3d, up to which period there
had been but thirty-seven patients treated, and at
that date there were no patients under treatment.
The following table will show the progress that has
been made under Dr. Cloud's management:
Patients treated from Sept. 3, to Sept. 16, inclusive.......20
(      I " " Sept. 17 to Oct. 15     do.........37
i" " " Oct. 16 to Nov, 3d.          do.........39
(" " " TNov. 4, to Dec. 3           do.........92
"    " '   "   Dec. 4 to Dec. 31st,  do......130
'~" " Jan. 1 1869 to to Jan. 31 do......139
" " " Feb. 1 to Feb. 28      do.......137
" " " March 1 to March 31     do.......144
The Dispensary up to this time has been sustained by private subscription, but the increased
number of patients demands a larger outlay than
those subscriptions will furnish, so the Trustees resolved to hold a Fair to supply this demand, trusting to the generosity of the good people of Cincinnati and vicinity to make this, their Fair, a success.
The resident physician, to extend the benefit of the
institution, has from time to time visited nearly two
thousand families, and distributed over two thousand five hundred cards.
From September 1st. 1868, to April 1st. 1869, the
following labor has been performed by the resident
physician:
Number of office patients treated.............................  477
'      " Out-door patients treated.......................... 144
"   "  Visits m ade..........................................  641
"  Prescriptions made................................. 1623




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Number  of  Medical cases attended................;...........   577
"    "  Surgical cases treated.............................  20
"    " 'Vaccinations performed............................  33
"    "  Obstetrical cases  attended..................   5
"i    "  Cases sent to  hospital..............................  20
"  Cases  recovered.................................  343
"    "  D eaths..............................................   2
At the present time there is from one hundred and
fifty to two hundred patients treated monthly by
the resident physician, and in addition to attending
to the wants of his fellow sufferers in Cincinnati,
there is frequently calls left, and answered, for Covington, Newport, Fulton, Hamilton, Walnut Hills,
Mt. Auburn, and College Hill, and as a very large
number of these patients live some distance from
the line of our street railways, and therefore can
only be reached by foot (there being no private
conveyance at present furnished to the resident
physician) a great amount of valuable time is thus
consumed which might be turned to a more profitable account by visiting the poor and seeking out
the sick, for this is the only way by which we can
accomplish the end we all so much desire; for an
institution of this kind, where all, irrespective of
age, sex, color, religion or nativity, may come and
be healed, is comparatively such a new thing in this
city, that two-thirds of the class its benefits are intended to reach, are not even aware of its existence,
and never will be unless some one visits them and
explains the whole matter to them, and who shall
do this, but the resident physician? True, the laymen can do a great deal by sending any worthy




HOM(EOPATHY.


77


sick persons that come under their notice, to the
Dispensary, for medical aid and advice, but as the
number thus sent is comparatively small, and as the
past is beyond recall, the present only is ours and
the future what we make it; the resident physician
hopes, that the laymen, one and all, will hereafter
bear in mind, that there is such an institution, and
give it their support and countenance, at least in this
respect.
INCORPORATION AND BY-LAWS.
The institution was incorporated and the following By-Laws adopted December 17, 1867:
ART. 1. Any person who shall at one time contribute the sum of five dollars shall be a member of
the corporation for one year.
ART. 2. Any person who shall contribute at one
time fifty dollars, to the permanent fund of the Dispensary shall be a life member and entitled to all
the privileges of membership.
ART. 3. Any person who shall contribute at one
time one hundred dollars to the permanent fund of
the Dispensary shall be a patron and entitled to all
the privileges of membership.
ART, 4. The members of the corporation shall hold
an annual meeting on the second Monday in January of each year, at which the annual reports shall
be submitted and twenty persons elected to servo
as Trustees for the next vear.
ART. 5. The Board of Trustees shall hold regular




78                HOMCEOPATHY.
meetings on the first Thursday following the first
Monday of each month, and such other special meetings as may be called by the Secretary on application of three members of the Board; at which five
members shall be a quorum for the transaction of
business.
ART. 6. The Board shall, at its first meeting after
election appoint three standing Committees of five
persons each who shall serve for one year viz: one
on Dispensary, one on Finance, and one on Hospital,
who shall report in writing to each meeting of the
Board, or wheneverrequired.




Oif X"'a  In  1889.
TRUSTEES.


DR. E. B. THOMAS,
F. ECK$TEIN,
J. EMORY,
JNO. P. EPPLY,
E. IH. CARTER,
GAZZIUM GANO,
DR. WM. OWENS,
P. P. LANE,
S. C. NEWTON,
J. H. CHEEVER,


ROBERT ALLISON,
J. WEBB, JR.
A.FONTAYNE,
WM. NAST, D. D.,
HOWELL GANO,
A. H. HINKLE,
P. W. STRADER,
JAMES M. BISHOP,
WM. SUMNER,
WESLEY TAYLOR.


OFFICERS
MR. S. C. NEWTON, PRESIDENT.
MR. F. ECKSTEIN, VICE PRESIDENT.
MR. GAZZUM GANO, TREASURER.
DR. J. A. CLOUD, SECRETARY.
STANDING 00OMMITTEES.
1i.sp ensary.
JNO. P. EPPLY,        WESLEY TAYLOR,
J. H. CHEEVER,        S. C. NEWTON,
-.1 WEBB. JiL




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jBostita/.


DR. E. B. THOMAS,
E. H. CARTER,
HOWELL GANO.


A. FONTAYNE,
ROBERT ALLISON,


Finance.


GAZZIUM GANG,
P. P. LANE,
P. W. STRADER.


F. ECKSTEIN,
A. H. HINKLE,


RESIDENT PHYSICIAN.
DR. J. A. CLOUD,
ANNUAL 'SUBSORIBERS.


C. T. Jones,..........$5 00
A. Judson Davis,...... 5 00
A. Van Agthoven,..... 5 00
W. R. Kidd............ 5 00
D. S. Garrison,........ 5 00
Mrs. S. H. Burton,....  00'
P.P. Lane............. 5 00
A. Harris,............... 5 00
J.C.  Hussey,........... 5 00
Aug. Wessell,..........  5 00
A. Fontayne............ 5 00
Jacob Elsas,........... 5 00
Wm. Holmes,.......... 5 00
S. C. Foster,............ 5 00
Lowell Fletcher,....... 5 00


Jno. B. Ryan,...........$5 00
Wm. Resor, Jr.,........     00
J. T. Lockman,....... 5 00
Sam'l C. Tatem,........ 5 00
Wm. E. London,..... 5 00
H. Neave,.............. 5 00
T. Pickering,........... 5 00
Dr. G. W. Bigler....... 5 00
Dr. E. B. Thomas,..... 5 00
C. Hitchcock,........... 5 00
Wm. Nast, D. ).,...... 5 00
Wm. Williamson,.... 5 00
H. S. Holmes,........... 5 00
L. C. Cheever,......... 5 00
H. Haacke,............. 5 00




HOMCEOPATHY.
LIFE MEMBERS.


81


F. Eckstein,............$50        00


S. C.- Newton,..........
S. M. Haughton,.....
Hugh McBirney,....
P. W. Strader,........
C. H. Gould,...........
Jno D. Minor,........
Wm. Sumner,........
D. W. Corwin,.........
R. A. Holden,.........
Sam' C. Tatem,......
D. H. Hunnewell,....


50 00
50 00
50 00
50 00
50 00
50 00
50 00
50 00
50 00
50 00
50 00


Gazzium Gano.........$50
A. H. Hinkle,......... 50
Jno. P. Epply,........ 50
Howell Gano,......... 50
W. J. Breed,......... 50
R, Mitchell,........... 50
J. H. Cheever,........ 50
Jno. R. Wright,...... 50
Wesley Taylor,....... 50
J. Cunningham,..... 50
Alfred Gaither,...... 50


00
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00
00


PATRON.
P. P. Lane,...........................................$100  00
DONATIONS,
J. S. Hill,.............$25 00  W. P. Devou,.........$10 00
J. M. Secrist,......... 25  00  N. S. Jones,............ 20  00
James L. Haven,..... 25 00  W. H. Doane,........ 25 00
C. F. Wilstach,........ 25 00  J. K. Sterrett,......... 25 00
Wm. E. London,...... 25 00  Meader & Son,......... 29 50
Mrs. S. C. Newton, proceeds of Parlor Concert,......100 00
Mrs. Dr. Thomas, proceeds of Parlor Concert,......135 00
Mrs. Dr. Slosson, proceeds of Parlor Concert,......120 00
J. W. Anderson & Co., printing one thousand envelopes.
Bradley & Powers, printing one hundred circulars.
Willis & Co's., Homeopathic Pharmacy, No. 19 west
Fourth Street, one Pocket Case.




82                  HOMGEOPATHY.
Smith & Worthington's Homoeopathic Pharmacy, No.
21 west Fourth Street, all the Medicines that are required,
with Books, Powder, Paper, Fnvelopes, etc., at cost price.
Mr. McGregor, Locksmith, Race, between Fourth and
Fifth, for sundry work.
Shipley & Smith, a lot of Envelopes.
Allen & Co., a lot of Sponge, Adhesive Plaster, etc.




JHE FAIPF
As it would be impossible to give a complete list
of all the articles donated, with the names of the
donors, and also impracticable to name the different
ladies and their assistants who have charge of and
officiate at the tables, I will here notice only those
of the Executive Committees.
Oficers of.Ladies' 7Executire Committee.
MRS. WESLEY TAYLOR, PRESIDENT.
MRs. E. H. CARTER, VICE PRESIDENT.
MRS. J. W. CANFIELD, TREASURER.
MRs. DR. CLOUD, SECRETARY.
Gentlemen's Txecutive Committee.
DR. E. B. THOMAS, PRESIDENT.
DR. J. A. CLOUD, SEC'Y.
WESLEY TAYLOR,
S. C. NEWTON,
E. H. CARTER,
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TIN, COPPER         A   D0  SHEET      IRON    WARE,
DEALER IN
S. E. Cor. Court and Baymiller St's,
CINCINNATI,            0.
Speaking Tubes manufactured to order, Tin Roofing and
all kinds of Job Work promptly executed.
NELSON 'S
BUSINESS                       OLLE E,
S. E. Corner Fourth and Vine St's,
OINCINNATI, OHIO.
This Institution has long maintained the first position in the
"West, and is patronized by a class of men who never before even
favored Commercial Colleges. Its patrons are leading Bankers,
Manufacturers, Merchants and Professional men, including Principals of the Public Schools, Professors of the High Schools and
Colleges, Judges of our Courts, Lawyers and Clergymen of all
denominations. For terms of admission, fees, etc., write for the
"Informant," the College paper.
RICHARD NELSON, PRESIDENT,
S. A. BUTTS, PRINCIPAL.
Nelson's Mercantile Arithmetic, Sent by mail for..............$1 00
Nelson's Common School Arithmetic, price........................ 75
PREPARING FOR PRESS.
Nelson's Book-Keeping for the People.




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DEALERS IN
MACHINE  TWIST, IEEDLES AND SPOOL  COETTON
FrPinge Silk in Gum and Colors, Sewings in 100s.
Tailors' Sewings, Tram  and Organzine,
SPOOL SILK, SADDLERS' SILK,
A fine assortment of Williston Mills Shoe Thread.
54 West 4th St., up stairs.
ALBERT KRELL,
Manufacturer, Importer, Wholesale &  Retail Dealer
IN ALL KINDS OF
Musical Instruments,
SOLE AGENT FOR
STECK & CO'S CELEBRATED & UNRIVALED
P I A No s,
S. W. Cor. Fourth & Elm    St's,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.




GORB1FB
MADE TO ORDER,
AND GUARANTEED
d PBIRIES FPT,
At the Manufactory:
t971 WEST FOURTH STREET.
The largest Stock of CORSETS in Cincinnati
consisting of over
TWENTY DIFFERENT STYLES,
RANGING IN PRICE FROM
75 OEQTTS 'TO $1.OO
Corsets made for Deformities, Nursing,
OR ANY OTHER PURPOSES.
SHOULDER BRACES, SUPPORTERS, &c.
(Ealtboncs, Ituls.  ashs, ~aces,
And all Corset materials always on hand at
J. P. LOVE'S, 197 T West 4th St.,
CINCINNATI. 0.


















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