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DOMESTIC HOM(EOPATHY;
OR         /
RULES
FOR THE
DOMESTIC TREATMENT OF THE MALADIES
OF
INFANTS, CHILDREN, AND ADULTS,
AND FOR
THE CONDUCT AND THE TREATMENT
DURING
Wtvgnancs, Sonuthement, anti <5uctlfnfg.
BY JOHN EPPS, M.D.
GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, AND DIRECTOR OF THE
ROYAL JENNERIAN AND LONDON VACCINE INSTITUTION.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
BOSTON:
OTIS CLAPP, 12, SCHOOL STREET;
NEW YORK, WILLIAM RADDE; PHILADELPHIA, J. G. WESSELH(EFT.
1843.




MEDICINE CHESTS,
Containing all the medicines, prepared with the greatest
care, referred to in this Treatise, are made and sold by Otis
Clapp, 12, School Street, Boston.
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WASHINGTON STREET.




PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
IN presenting a second edition of this Domestic Homceopathy to the public, it is agreeable to the writer to be able to
state, that the first edition, consisting of one thousand copies,
has been sold in less than one year and a half; a fact, strikingly illustrative of the progress of Homceopathy.
Parties, who have used the first edition, have kindly suggested the necessity of some points being rendered more clear,
and of some others being more fully dwelt upon. To meet
such suggestions, and at the same time, to render the work
as complete as possible, many particulars, not in the first
edition, have been introduced into this. Such are the modes
of treatment, before, during PREGNANCY, at and after CHILDBIRTH; which are detailed in the Second Part.
I have perfected as much as possible the tabular views, in
which the effects of medicines, appropriate to any individual
disease, are recorded, introducing in italics the points of distinction and of specificity; an arrangement, namely, the
columnar, which I adopted, though attended with considerable trouble and expense, to aid the reader.
I have added, in the Third Part, two chapters on the indications as to the appropriate remedy, as dependent upon the
agency of the Cause, more immediately producing the disease. To these chapters attention is particularly directed;
also to the Fourth Part, on DIET. To this succeeds another
part, in which some of the terms used in this work are explain



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ed, to which, if the reader has any difficulty, he should refer,
In this part he will find an Index of medicines and of diseases.
- It may be proper here to remark that I have still adhered
to the classification of the diseases adopted in the first edition; a classification, founded upon the different organs affected: such being more particularly useful in enabling the
reader to find out, both the remedies best suited to the diseases, and the diseases themselves; an arrangement, which
with pleasure I have seen adopted in a late work on Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine.
It will be seen, that among the diseases, the remedies for
which are recorded, are many, technically called acute: diseases, which require the attendance of the physician; still,
the means of cure are detailed, because till the arival of, or
the communication with, the physician, danger may thus be
warded off, or the progress of the disease may be stayed.
This detail of acute diseases and their remedies has been of
the greatest service: I have patients in Manchester and other
places, who have successfully treated croup by the means detailed. Croup, it is well known, is an acute and highly dangerous disease, and one, which under the injurious treatment,
designated par excellence, " ACTIVE," is often fatal; and the
successful treatment of this disease, even under domestic
direction, (I do not recommend persons to trust to such direction wholly,) shows the utter fallacy of the notion, that Homceopathic remedies are efficacious only in chronic and not
in acute diseases.
The reader will find much fuller directions in this edition
respecting the REPETITION of the doses of the medicines:
directions, afforded by experience on a very extended scale,




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the writer having prescribed, he finds from his patients'
names-book, upwards of five thousand recipes since the 1st
of April 1841, and these for almost every form of disease,
from catarrh, simple sore throat, to diseased bone, discharges
from the hip and thigh bones, abscesses in the back; deepseated ulcers, derangement, diseased womb, tendency to
miscarriage, typhus and other fevers, with inflammations of
the eyes, the larynx, the bronchia, the lungs, the pleura.
In reference to the cases referred to, the writer can add
that he has cured, by homceopathic means, many diseases,
which, as a practitioner under the old system, he could not,
as an honest man, have ventured to touch. He can further
add, that many families, who have used homoeopathic medicines under the instructions contained in the Domestic
Homceopathy, have with joy confessed, that they have been
astonished at the successful treatment thence obtained, of
many complaints, which, from their severity, they could
never have supposed would have given way except to these,
miscalled " active " remedies, more appropriately designable
active enemies.
In fact Homoeopathy, with its sneered-at, infinitesimal
doses, is making its silent, but steady and certain way: a
way, marked with cures, and unattended with the injurious
effects, consequent upon the recoveries under the other systems of treatment.
The reason for this success is to be found in the fact, that
Homoeopathy is a part of the Divine Truth: an axiom, demonstrated elsewhere.*
* Homcoopathy and its Principles Explained; being Four Lectures thereon, by John Epps, M.D. Sherwood and Co., Paternoster
Row, London.




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Though Homceopathy is thus efficient, many, and those
often, the enemies of Homceopathy, attempt to discredit it,
because it is not all efficient. -If any patient dies under
homceopathic treatment, they insinuate that death came because of the want of active treatment; though perhaps the
very objectors have had relatives or friends die of the very
disease, and though the registrar's tables show that the disease has been decidedly fatal in the common, this miscalled
active, treatment, practice. All the cures performed by
homceopathic means are not remembered: all the victories
gained are swallowed up in the one unsuccessful repulsion
of Death. This is prejudice. It must be expected for a few
years. Homeopathy must bide its time.
JOHN EPPS, M.D.
89, Great Russell Street;
April 1, 1842.
[N.B. In compiling this edition, I have derived considerable aid from the valuable work of Dr. Hering of America,
on this subject.]
I intended to preface each chapter with the Physiology of
the Organs, the Diseases of which are treated of. This
however would have enlarged the work too much: I propose to publish in a separate work these Remarks, under
the title of " PHYSIOLOGY IN CONNEXION WITH HEALTH."




NOTICE TO THE FIRST EDITION,


THE following pages have been compiled because many
patients, living at a distance, and in places where no homceopathist resides, desire to use none but homceopathic medicines. Having derived benefit from the remedies prescribed
by the writer, their wish was not to be obliged to have recourse to the old system for the little ailments, which do not
require the consultation of the physician, but which require
the aid of medicine. With such objects in view, this little
book was written, and as medicine chests, containing the
principal articles, named as useful in the diseases described,
are now made, the parties referred to will be enabled by
these
Domestic Homeopathic Medicine Chests,
aided by this
Domestic Homeopathy,
to remove, or at least to regulate, till medical aid is obtained, the ailments, to which almost all families are more or
less subject.
JOHN    EPPS, M.D.
89, Great Russell Street;
July, 1839.




AMERICAN PUBLISHER'S NOTICE.


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who concurred in the opinion that it was admirably adapted
to the purposes intended, and who, therefore, strongly
recommended its republication.
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CONTENTS.
Page.
PREFACE....    3
Introduction, containing the method of administering
the remedies..          11
PART I.
Diseases of different Organs of the Body.
CHAPTER 1. Of the Skin....   17
C    2. Affections of the Head..         35
"    3. Affections of the Eyes and Eyelids.  41
"    4. Affections of the Ear and of the Cheek  44
"C   5. Affections of the Respiratory Organs.  49
"    6. Affections of the Digestive Organs.  73
"    7. General Affections...   108
PART lI.
CHAPTER 1. Conduct during the State of Pregnancy  121
'    2. Diseases of, or Disturbed States connected with Pregnancy..  126
"    3. On Child-birth and its Sequels..   132
"    4. Diseased States after Delivery..  133
"    5. Treatment of the Infant after Birth.  144
'    6. Diseases of Infants...   157




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PART III
On the Causes of Diseases, and of Remedial..gents in
Connexion therewith.
CHAPTER 1. Mental Causes...165
",9  2. Physical Causes.        ~.  169
PART IV.
On Diet, Foot-bathing, Poultice-making, Fomenting.
CHAPTER 1. Diet.....   172
"94  2. Bathing the Feet....  175
"    3. Making a Poultice...  177
"    4. On the proper way of Fomenting.   178
PART V.
Explanation of some Terms used in this Work; Directions
as to the points to be attended to in consultation; Names of
the Medicines used, and Diseases in which employed; and
the Index.
CHAPTER 1. Explanation of some Terms..   180
2. Instructions, by which patients at a distance, afflicted with chronic diseases,
may communicate their cases to a
physician by letter..         183
3. The Medlicines enumerated, and references to the Diseases in which they
are employed..     ~  189
THE INDEX.




DOMESTIC HOM&EOPATHY.
INTRODUCTION.
IT seems proper, as introductory to this little treatise, to
make a few remarks upon,
The rules for administering the medicines.
There are three methods of administering homceopathic
remedies: first, by smelling; second, by putting a globule
or globules of the medicine upon the tongue; and the third,
by taking the medicine dissolved in water.
In persons very susceptible, smelling the medicine is sufficient: in persons less susceptible, the medicine is placed
upon the tongue: and in others, the medicine is given in
solution: which last is the form most frequently employed.
Generally speaking, solution in water is to be preferred.
Filtered rain water, or, what is better, pure distilled water,*
constitutes the best vehicle. When neither rain water nor
distilled water can be obtained, common water boiled two
* By pure distilled water is meant, water obtained by the distillation of water: not water that is distilled over in the preparation
of essential oils. Any person can make a little distilled water by
putting some water in a retort, and then having connected this retort by its neck with a receiver on it; the receiver being kept cold
by the dropping of cold water, the steam, produced by the application of a lighted spirit lamp to the retort, will be condensed.




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hours and poured out while boiling, and allowed to stand
in an earthenware vessel till cold, can be used. The solution should always be made in a new bottle, with a new
well-fitting cork. The medicines should be kept in the
dark. The cork should be inserted directly the medicine
has been removed from the bottle.
Rules for administration in acute diseases.
In acute diseases, the plan I generally adopt is to dissolve
three globules * of the medicine indicated, in four spoonsful, either tablespoonsful or teaspoonsful, according to the
age of the person, of water; give two spoonsful at once,
and repeat every four or eight hours.
Generally in acute diseases there is more or less of febrile
heat. ACONITUM is the medicine most peculiarly appropriate
to such a condition, and hence, in perhaps seven cases out
of ten of acute diseases, aconitum will be the remedy best
suited to give at first, dissolved as directed.
Though aconitum is suited to GENERAL febrile action,
often there is a LOCAL diseased condition, to which aconitum
is not so applicable: take croup for instance: here is a local
affection of the windpipe: that is, with the general febrile
action there is a local diseased condition towards the cure
of which aconitum is seviceable, so far as it acts on the
general febrile action, and also so far as its symptoms are
homceopathic to those presented in croup; but there is another remedy, peculiarly adapted to the local symptoms
presented in croup: such medicine is Spongia. Spongia
"* The globules are impregnated with the medicinal agent. I
generally use the globules impregnated with the medicinal solution
at its highest dilution; usually marked 30. To adults sometimes
the globules at a less dilution, marked 12.




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is therefore to be given. The plan is this: dissolve three
globules of spongia in four spoonfuls of water, and take two
spoonfuls four hours after the aconitum, or sooner, if the local symptoms increase, notwithstanding the aconite. Wait
then six to eight hours, repeat the aconite solution, one
spoonful, and four hours after, the spongia solution, one
spoonful: if progress is being made, wait twelve hours, and,
if any of the original symptoms remain undiminished, give
the remaining dose of the aconite, and follow, four hours
after, with the remaining dose of the spongia.
In some violent diseases, such as spasms, cramps, convulsions, the dose may be repeated every quarter of an
hour, or half an hour, or hour.
Rules for administering in chronic and less acute diseases.
Generally speaking, in chronic diseases, three to four
globles dissolved in eight or ten spoonfuls of water, and one
spoonful taken in the morning at eleven, and one at seven
in the evening, or two taken the first thing in the morning,
or two at night, will be enough.
Num Vomica should be taken at night. Pulsatilla in the
afternoon.
Rhus generally in the morning.
Rules as to the medicines generally.
The medicine should be taken before or between meals,
so that an hour and a half or two hours may have intervened between the time after food has been taken, or before
food is again taken, and the time of taking the medicine.
The time of day, in which the mind is most free from
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All mental excitements should be avoided while under
the operation of the medicines.
All vices should be avoided: because, as disease is the
fruit of vice in nine instances out of ten, it is quite clear,
the vice, persevered in, must keep up the febrile and morbid
irritation, and thereby effectually resist the operation of
the remedy.
Rules for the selection of the remedy.
As to the selection of the remedy, the principal points
are, first, to ascertain the exact symptoms or features of
the complaint of the patient, and the second, to look to
the description of the disease, and find out the remedy recorded in connexion therewith, which corresponds most exactly in its symptoms to those of the disease.
It does not require that the similarity should be perfect:
better if it is: but if the prominent, the majority of the
symptoms agree, then give the medicine.
In ascertaining the exact features of the complaint the
patient should always describe what he feels in his own language; for it is certain he will describe most influentially
those symptoms troubling him most. He should never be
questioned whether he has this or that symptom. If after
his description there seems some deficiences in the statement, then questions, but not leading questions, may be put.*
* In cases of consultation, where the physician is at a distance,
and the patient is not able to see him, great minuteness is required;
and the queries in Part Fifth will show the points, to which attention is to be directed, and also will demonstrate the immense care
the homceopathic practice requires; quite different from the usual,
where the tongue, the pulse, and the secretions, and these only in
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Rules as to judging respecting the efficiency of the medicine.
It may be here with benefit remarked, that, though, often
the remedy, although STRICTLY homeopathic, and therefore
CERTAINLY curative of the disease, at first causes an aggravation of the symptoms, amelioration will soon follow; and
as long as amelioration proceeds, so long no repetition of
dose is needed: when the amelioration ceases to progress,
then either the medicine, previously administered, must be
repeated, or some other medicines selected, best suited to
the remaining symptoms.
If these remarks hold good with the use of remedies in
acute diseases, it is decidedly the case with remedies used
in chronic cases: as long as amelioration progresses, we
should not repeat the remedy.
But it may be enquired, how is the homceopathic remedial aggravation to be distinguished from the aggravation
produced by the destructive progress of the disease.
Hahnemann gives the rules:
The remedial aggravation   The progress of disease agoccurs almost immediately  gravation proceeds on regafter the administration of  ularly; and bears the same
the remedy, and with in-   ratio of progress after as
tensity, so that it is seen to  before the exhibition of the
arise from some new agent remedy.
operating.
This is the chief distinction; but there is another which
powerfully helps to distinguish the aggravation as remedial,
and this is, that some of the symptoms of the remedial
agent, distinct from those, in which it is homceopathic to
the disease, become manifest in the patient.




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This additional evidence is principally available to the
homoeopathic physician, because it cannot be supposed that
non-medical individuals are likely to be acquainted with
these symptoms.
If, however, in four hours after administration, no effect
should be produced by the medicine, either aggravating
decidedly the symptoms, or diminishing decidedly the
symptoms, it is certain that the remedy, homceopathic to
the disease, has not been selected, or that some circumstances, such as diet, (see chapter on Diet,) have interfered with the operation. It will be necessary then to go
over the symptoms of the patient again, and to compare
these symptoms with some other remedy or remedies, so
as to find the one most homceopathic to the symptoms.
In regard to diet, the particulars, to be attended to, will
be found in the Fourth Part.
It is necessary always to select articles of diet in which
the nutritive property, unattended by strong flavours, preponderates.
Cocoa is the best of all flavoured drinks. It is highly
nutritive, It contains an oil and a fecula, compounded in
such suitable proportions, that the most delicate stomach
will, after a time bear them thus joined. At first sometimes the stomach does not seem to agree with the cocoa;
a little perseverance will obtain the victory. The author
of this work takes cocoa three times each day.




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CHAPTER I.
THE SKIN AND ITS DISEASES.
VARIOUS are the diseases of the membrane, investing
the body.


1. Milk Crust.
2. Excoriation.
3. Itchings.
4. Irritability.
5. Whitlow.
6. Boil.
7. Chilblain.
8. Scald Head.
9. Warts.
10. Corns.
11. Chicken Pox.
12. Small Pox.


13. Varioloid.
14. Measles.
15. Scarlet Fever.
16. Purples.
17. St. Anthony's Fire, or
Erysipelas.
18. Miliary Fever.
19. Nettle Rash.
20. Burn and Scald.
21. Wound.
22. Sprain.
23. Bruise.


Of these, one appearing the earliest, is
THE MILK CRUST.
Little vesicles, containing a clear lymph, in clusters, appearing generally, first on the face, and thence extending
sometimes over the whole body, soon becoming yellow,
then break, forming hard crusts, constitute this disease.
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When the surrounding parts swell, are red and tender,
and the little sufferer scratches and is restless, Aconite*
can be administered, followed on the second day, when the
restlessness and the inflammatory symptoms are subdued,
by the Viola Tricolor. The viola tricolor not affording
relief, Sulphur will be useful.
When depending upon constitutional tendency, and relief not being attained by these means, the physician must
be consulted.
Another malady of the skin in children is
EXCORIATION.
This takes place at the folds of the skin.
Cleanliness, by the use of lukewarm water, and in drying
the parts, not by rubbing, but the free use of the common
dryingt powder, are often sufficient; if insufficient, then
Chamomilla can be used for four or five days.
If chamomilla. has been used previously, under the form
of chamomile tea, then Pulsatilla or Ignatia is applicable.
* It may be beneficial here to record the general conditions, under
which the utility of aconite is apparent; as thus the reader will be
able to see the reason why aconite is so frequently employed, inasmuch as the circumstances of the system, represented by these
conditions, attend a majority of diseases.
" Burning and continued heat over the whole body, with redness
of the skin; puffing and redness of the face: dryness, redness, and
in some cases a mucous coating of the tongue, and strong thirst:
constipation or suppression of stools, want of appetite, a small
quantity of red and hot urine, sleeplessness, tossings about, uneasiness, anxiety." HARTMAN.
t This powder should be made of the flour of wheat and not of
that of thle potato.




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When the child's body becomes, as it were, one wound
from the galled parts becoming as raw, Mercury is best.
Mercury not succeeding, Zinc may be employed: but,
on the failure of mercury, advice should be sought.
If the infant suckles, both the mother and the child
should take the medicine.
A third malady of the skin, affecting adults as well as
children, may be designated, from the prominent symptom,
ITCHINGS.
Little colourless knotty bodies, appearing more particularly at the nape of the neck, on the bosom, at the inner
part of the thighs, itch, and being scratched, become red,
discharge at their tops, and, in a few hours, form minute
white, yellowish, or dusky crusts or scabs.
The itching and the inflammation are augmented by
scratching, stimulating drinks, exercise at the monthly
periods, and in the evening. Variations in the weather
often occasion a return.
Sometimes the irritation is very extended; the skin of
the whole neck being affected.
Sulphur is the chief remedy; if not wholly curing, Carbo
vegetabilis will succeed.
Should the little knotty bodies appear as flea bites, and
the itching be diffused, pricking and burning, and if, on
scratching, it leaves one part to proceed to another, then
Ignatia is to be used.
If these means, aided by cleanliness, are inefficient, the
physician's aid must be sought.
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A fourth malady of the skin may be designated
IRRITABILITY.
In some skins the least circumstance produces irritation,
attended with inflammation and suppuration: a condition,
indicating a peculiar constitutional state, which, being removed, this irritable state will cease. Calcarea carbonica
is often useful; but generally, the selection of the remedy
should be left to the physician.
A fifth malady of the skin is
THE WHITLOW.
This is an inflammation, affecting generally the ends of
the fingers at the nail; being attended often with severe
pain, and ending very frequently in suppuration.
Mercurius is the best remedy in suppuration.
If in the course of eight hours after taking the mercurius,
two globules as a dose, no improvement be apparent, use
Aconite and Hepar Sulphuris, as recommended for acute
diseases, p. 13: this will often prevent suppuration and
the loss of the nail, and even, if not preventing suppuration, the process of suppuration will be rendered less
troublesome and painful.
When suppuration is taking place, Hepar Sulphuris aids
nature.
Should the whitlow again threaten, then Silica may be
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A sixth malady of the skin is
THE BOIL.
This is a painful, well-defined, pointed tumour, of a deep
red colour, ending, for the most part, in suppuration; a
head forming in the centre, which being removed, pus
mixed with blood, is discharged.
Arnica will promote the healing, and prevent the return.
Arnica being unsuccessful, and if, with the boil, there is
an enlargement of the glands in the neighbourhood of the
boil, Belladonna will, in most cases, cure.
If the inflammation still persist, and there is feverish
heat, then aconite and hepar sulphuris, as directed for the
whitlow, will be serviceable.
Often Mercurius, after arnica or belladonna has, or
arnica and belladonna have exercised the full extent of its
or their beneficial agency, without perfectly curing, will
complete the curative process.
It should be remembered that boils indicate a constitutional state, which should be eradicated, because, while
remaining, there is always a liability to attack from other
diseases; for this the physician must be consulted.
A seventh malady of the skin is
THE CHILBLAIN.
This inflammatory affection attacks the toes and the
fingers, and seems to be constitutional. If children liable
to chilblains are treated constitutionally, the return of them
will be prevented.
I have just been informed of the children of a patient
of mine in Sussex, who every winter severely suffered from
chilblains for three months. I prescribed the alternate use




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of Calcarea and Sulphur, and they have not been troubled
this winter with the chilblains.
The following table will guide in the selection of the
remedies.rnica, Belladonna, Chainomilla, NJux Vnmica, Pulsatilla, Sulphur,
swellir g                    swelling.
hard:
inflam- inflamma-            inflamma- inflamma-  very
matron,   tion,                tion,     tion,   violent.
shining, bluish red,         bright red livid hue.
and very              colour.
severe.
painful,          excessively
painful.
itching.  creeping,  itching with  itching in-  itch, burn,  itching
tingling sen- a burning  creased by break up and  very
sation.  sensation.  warmth,  bleed, beat- severe.
ing or thrubshow a ten-  bing.
dency to  suffering
burst.  increased in
evening and
night.
Sulphur is particularly indicated where the other remedies have failed, or where the chilblain has, before homceopathic means have been used, been of long duration.
Sometimes the following plan is useful: lay some strong
glue warm on the part: put over it some strong paper covered with glue. When the pains are gone, wash the part
cautiously with warm water.
An eighth malady, in which the eruption takes place in
the hair of the head, and which, under common treatment,
is very tedious, is that well-known complaint, called
SCALD HEAD.
In this disease diet is of the greatest importance, and, in
the most obstinate cases, Silica has a most powerful effect.




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A ninth disease of the skin is the
WART.
This is generally indicative of a constitutional diseased
condition; and the use of Calcarea Carbonica, one of the
most powerful means of acting upon such constitutional
condition, is generally successful.
When the corn assumes more of the cauliflower growth;
when running into each other, and difficult to keep clean,
then Rhus Toxicondendron is useful.
But in case of warts, the constitutional condition should
be inquired into by the physician, before adopting any particular medicine.
A tenth disease of the skin is the
CORN.
The best plan for the treatment of corns, which have
originated in the use of badly-made shoes, is to bathe the
feet every other night in warm water, for about five minutes; then rub two drops of the Tincture of Arnica on the
corn, having previously pared it as close as is prudent; and,
in the morning apply a piece of arnica plaster.
If the corns resist these means, pursued for a fortnight or
three weeks, the inference is, that they depend upon constitutional disease, and, as such, must be treated by Sulphur and Silica: Silica being especially indicated if the
corns are painful at the change of weather.
Should the corns at any time, even during the alternate
use of Sulphur and Silica, become inflamed or cause severe
pain, especially after exercise, the use of Arnica will be
an excellent auxiliary: a foot-bath, to which 40 drops of
the tincture have been added, is the best form.




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When the skin becomes hardened on tlhe sole of the foot,
then Antimonium Crudum is very useful.
Corns, it should be remembered, depend often on constitutional causes.
Many other affections of the skin might be noticed; but
these will serve as affording general rules: for other common cutaneous affections will be seen to be similar in most
respects to one or other of these, and the treatment can
thence be deduced.
One remark particularly demands attention. It is never
to get rid of cutaneous affections by external remedies.
Besides these more particularly local affections of the skin,
this membrane is affected by several eruptive maladies, attended with fever, and with an affection of the general
constitution.
Of these, the first is
THE CHICKENPOX.
This occurs in children, resident in neighbourhoods
wherein smallpox abounds. Hence pretenders to medical
science call it smallpox, and thus they, impudent from ignorance, bring disrepute upon vaccination.
The little elevations, containing matter or pus, hence
called pustules, in chickenpox are more pointed and irregular in their appearance than are those of smallpox: the disease, too, is milder in its progress, and shorter in its duration, terminating generally in a week. It is attended generally, with cold in the head, and slight fever.




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Aconite at the commencement will subdue the fever: and
Coffea will remove any agitation, exhibited in restlessness
and anxiety.
Should spasm supervene, especially if the child be teething, Chamomilla is to be preferred.
If the child raises the head with difficulty, and the head
and the hands are hot, and there is agitation with griping
pains, Belladonna is indicated.
When suppuration is taking place, Mercury aids towards
the cure.
Another eruptive pustular disease is
THE SMALLPOX.
This disease still exists, a fruit of the ignorance and the
prejudice of mankind.
It presents itself in four stages: thefebrile, the eruptive,
the pustule-maturative, and the desiccating stage.
Each stage is attended with its peculiar symptoms and
its peculiar dangers.
In the febrile stage numerous spots appear; this stage
being attended with lassitude, headache, oftentimes bleeding
at the nose, vomiting, tenderness on pressure at the pit of
the stomach, and excessive pain in the loins.
In this stage Aconite moderates the fever and the congestioneof the internal organs.
When the nervous system is excessively irritable, the
eyes particularly sensitive of light, the glands of the neck
much swollen, then Belladonna; if the sleepiness is overpowering, then Opium.
In the eruptive stage, the red spots become elevated and
filled with a semitransparent fluid; and on the third to the




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fourth day the pustules are completely formed on the face,
and the patient complains of itching.
It is proper to keep the patient from the light as much
as possible, as soon as the pustules are formed.  Thus
marks will be prevented.
In this and in the third stage, medical aid is necessary:
particularly if any symptoms, indicating affection of internal
organs are apparent.
In this stage, symptoms of cold, affecting the nose, eyes,
throat, show themselves.
In the third stage the pustule-maturative, the pustules
become perfectly developed, have an indentation in the
centre, and the cellular tissue around, particularly about the
face and the eyes, become swollen: and the nose and the
throat are inflamed: Arnica I have found useful.
Should the eruption be very severe, a second fever supervenes, called secondary fever: the urine becomes clouded,
and the odour exhaled from the patient is peculiarly unpleasant. Here the greatest skill is required to regulate
the progress of the disease.
In the forth stage, the desiccating, wherein scabs form,
cleanliness, by frequently cleansing the skin with warm
water, is absolutely necessary: and thus disfigurement can,
in many cases, be prevented.
VACCINATION    IS  A PERFECT   PREVENTIVE   AGAINST
SMALLPOX.*
* See Report for 1839, of the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine
Institution. This institution is recommended to the attention of the
benevolent, being wholly dependent upon voluntary contributions,
and being the institution that supplies the principal part of the world
with vaccine. Its expenditure is not 6001. a year, and its expenses
are more than ils income. Subscriptions received by Dr. Epps; or
at the Head Vaccine House, 18, Providence Row, Finsbury Square.




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Another eruption attended with fever, approaching in
many of its features to smallpox, is called VARIOLOID.
Belladonna is useful if there is much headache.and a furred tongue. Sulphur helps by bringing the eruption to
maturity more quickly.
Another eruptive disease, affecting the skin, in which the
eruption consists not of pustules, but of pimples, (papular,) is
THE MEASLES.
This disease seems to increase its danger with the age
of the parties attacked.
Its fatality science has of late years much diminished.
Its dangerousness is connected with the affections, consequent upon its attack: the lungs suffer much: sometimes
the bowels.
The eruption in measles is always preceded by the febrile
symptoms, attending a severe cold, hence called catarrhal
fever. The eyes water, are swollen, and red: cough, attended with hoarseness and difficult breathing, are present.
In about four days' time the skin becomes red, the fever is
intense: the eyes are more affected: the cough is incessant,
and attended with an annoying tickling in the larynx: the
hoarseness increases: the patient is sleepy, and is agitated
in his sleep: the eruption papular, and of a semi-lunar
form, becomes defined, first on the face, then behind the
ears, on the neck, the chest, the upper limbs, then on the
body, and, finally, on the lower limbs. The redness disappears under pressure, but quickly returns.
The fever increases towards evening.
The eruption being perfected, the fever ceases: desqua



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mation, or the formation of scales, which fall off, takes
place: and the cough becomes moist.
Twelve to fourteen days is the usual period during which
the disease continues.
The great object at the outset of this disease is to regulate
and to lessen the eruption; and this is effected by Pulsatilla,
which should be given when the first symptoms appear.
If the fever is violent at the outset, or in the progress,
Aconite should be used.
If constant thirst, the tonsils and the veil of palate inflamed, a hoarse, dry, spasmodic cough affecting the chest,
a shooting or pricking pain in swallowing are present: if
the eyes are much affected, and great restlessness with
irritability, watchfulness, and delirium prevail, then Belladonna must be used.
When the eruption has appeared and it retrocedes, the
danger is great: Bryonia then must be used. This is particularly useful, where symptoms of inflammation of the
chest appear.
Another eruptive disease affecting the skin, and influencing powerfully the general constitution, is
SCARLET FEVER, OR SCARLATINA.
A sore throat is often the only warning of the attack;
and this affection of the throat is the condition with which
the fatality of this disease is associated.
The skin in scarlet fever is of a bright red colour, is
smooth and glossy; the redness gradually dying away in
the surrounding skin: pressure produces a whiteness, disappearing on the removal of the pressure.




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The eruption begins generally on the face, and other
exposed parts; being fully developed in about five days.
When the eruption passes into desquamation, (actual
scales being disengaged from the skin,) the fever ceases.
Belladonna is the sheet anchor in this disease, and should
be administered when the disease appears.
If, however, the throat is much charged with viscid
mucus, and ulceration and swelling are present, Mercury is
absolutely necessary.
In this disease,* other complications appear, requiring
the physician; remembering always, that where febrile
excitement or inflammatory action distresses, Aconite is to
be employed.
THE PURPURA OR PURPLES.
This has been confounded with scarlet fever. It is distinct. The spots are purple red, like red wine: and the
spots, when pressed upon by the finger, do not turn white,
as is the case in scarlet fever. At the spots within the
skin are numerous little granules.
Aconite is serviceable in this affection, and it should be
given alternately with Coffcea.
If, however, by the alternate use of aconite and coffea,
the symptoms do not diminish, Sulphur should be given,
waiting some hours, and then aconite.
"* For the poison (if such language may be used,) of this disease
and the preceding, the skill and the research of Hahnemann discovered antidotes or preventives; so that these diseases, existing
in any family, can be stayed in their progress. To measles, the
preventives are aconite and pulsatilla, used alternatively, a globule
every other day; to scarlet fever, belladonna, a globule every day,
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Another affection, in which the skin is of a deep red,
sometimes yellow, glistening, swollen, hot, with burning
pains, tightness and itching, attended with fever, is called
ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE, OR ERYSIPELAS.
Women at the change of life, and elderly persons of a
bilious temperament, are most subject to this disease,
which, very frequently, is produced by mental excitement.
If the fever is intense, Aconite can be used: if not, Belladonna: and, if aconite has been used, then belladonna,
this latter being particularly indicated when " the erysipelas
is radiated, and the streaks are produced in different parts."
Dr. Hering.
In erysipelas affecting the joints, motion augmenting
the pain, Bryonia is indicated, and afterwards Hepar
Sulphuris.
If the erysipelas moves from one part to another, then
Pulsatilla.
When vesicles appear filled with serum, and typhoid
symptoms threaten, the Rhus Toxicondendron is useful:
aconite having been previously used.
When the head and the scalp are affected, the physician's aid must be sought. In reference to external applications in erysipelas, dry applications only are to be used.
Rye meal is the best of these. Fine powder from wheaten
starch abates the itching.
MILIARY FEVER.
This eruptive disease, consisting of small transparent elevations, about the size of millet-seed, of the skin, attended




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with fever, great anxiety and restlessness, and symptoms
indicating affection of the chest, is, when unconnected with
other diseases, which it very frequently is, treated best by
Aconite followed by Coffesa, when there is much nervous
excitability.
When the head is affected, and delirium supervenes, then
Belladonna is preferable to Coffasa.
If there is diarrhoea, and particularly when undue warmth
in clothing has induced the attack, Chamomilla is generally
very beneficial.
NETTLE-RASH.
This eruptive disease, consisting in the appearance of
red pimples, often presenting a white spot in the centre,
and attended with itching, suddenly appearing and suddenly
disappearing from one part to appear on another, is well
known.
As this eruptive affection is attended with fever, when
the symptoms indicated by Aconite occur in a strong degree, Aconite can be given first, followed by Dulcamara or
by Nux Vomica; Dulcamara being indicated, according to
Dr. Jeanes, under the following circumstances: the eruption preceded by a sensation of sticking as with needles;
attended with fever; with a bitter taste in the mouth, a
slimy, coated tongue; nausea; vomiting; pressing pains
at the pit of the stomach; diarrhcea; dark, cloudy urine;
pains in the limbs; extreme itching; and after scratching,
burning.
When, however, there is headache, constipation, thirst,
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taking stimulating or indigestible substances, then Nux
Vomica is to be taken after the Aconite.
Should the eruption have suddenly disappeared, and
symptoms indicating affection of the chest make their appearance, Bryonia will be highly serviceable.
EXTERNAL INJURIES produce affection of the skin and
parts beneath, which require domestic attention. The first
affection is
THE BURN AND THE SCALD.
The treatment of the burn and the scald differs according
to the severity; this being dependent considerably upon the
surface injured.
Where the skin is destroyed, and the parts below injured,
the physician's aid must be sought.
Where the affection is slight, the old practice of holding
the part burned or scalded to the fire is quite homceopathic.
Where the affection is more extensive, the use of heated
brandy, hot turpentine, applied by soaking and keeping
constantly moist, old soft clean rags or lint, or cotton, is
also homceopathic.
When febrile action is induced, Aconite must be employed. Soap may be used with benefit.
Another affection, requiring immediate treatment, is
THE WOUND.
The parts should be washed with warm water to remove
any dirt or foreign substance: the edges of the wound,
whether cut or torn, should be brought as nearly as pos



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sible together, and then strap with arnica plaster, so as-to
keep the edges in contact.
If compresses' are necessary, let them be staeipdd-i a
dilution of Arnica; a teaspoonful of the tincture st6 six
table-spoonfuls of water.;,. J,
If the wound be severe, arnica should beiUtakea;internally; one to three globules be administered: 4ring, the
twenty-four hours, succeeding the infliction of the wound.
When the wound becomes very painful, Coffita will do
much service; and any tendency to suppuration will be
checked by Mercury.                    I -j.: I;.
If the margins of the wound are swollen, and are red,
Pulsatilla will be very useful.
If the laceration is extensive, it will be well to cover the
bandages used by a soft compress of lint!covered] with
cerate, taking arnica internally.      '!,.
Should suppuration take place, then the treatment with
aconite and hepar sulphuris, as directed for the Whitiow,
will be serviceable and curative.           '
Where much blood has been lost, the intern bl use of the
arnica may be preceded by cinchona, two glabilleg in a:wineglass of water, and eight hours after proceedwith the arnica.
Should a severe fright attend the infliction of the injury,
it will be well to administer Opium before the arnicia.
In connexion with the wound, the affection, called
A SPRAIN,
may be noticed.
The parts, which bind the bony joints together are called
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is subjected to any violent shock, or extension, the ligaments become morbidly affected, and pain, weakness, and
swelling, occur.
In these cases, Arnica is to be used, both internally in
solution, and externally by friction.
Should not the arnica remove the pain, the swelling, and
the redness, Rhus Toxicodendron must be employed.
Another very common affection is
A BRUISE.
Any injury by a rounded or blunted substance to a soft
part of the body, is attended with swelling, and often an
extravasatibn of blood, giving a mottled appearance to the
part.
Here again Arnica, externally and internally used, is the
best remedy.
Instead of using friction, as in a strain, an application by
rags, soaked in a solution of arnica, should be employed.*
* For further particulars respecting and cases illustrating the
virtues of Arnica, see " On Arnica Montana, for Bruises, Falls,
Wounds, Sprains, Lacerations, Excessive Fatigue and its consequences, Corns, Swellings." By John Epps, M.D. Sold by Sherwood & Co., 23, Paternoster Row, London. 6d.




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CHAPTER It.
AFFECTIONS OF THE HEAD.
1. Inflammation of the brain.  3. Headache.
2. Water in the Head.          4. Megrim.
THE head contains the brain, the part through which
the mind performs its various operations. Affections of
this organ must, therefore, be highly dangerous, and require much care.
The brain is invested with coverings within the skull,
which are called the meninges. These meninges serve
for the protection of the brain, and are closely connected
with it.
INFLAMMATION
is a diseased state, to which both the brain and its coverings
are subject: which inflammation, once established, is most
difficult to subdue.
It is important, therefore, to anticipate its attack: and the
symptoms, which precede an attack, are frequently the following: head hot and heavy: face red and swollen: excessively irritable and sensitive: sometimes a comatose state:
delirium: desire to bury the head in the bolster: eyes suffused and brilliant, pupils often contracted: inclination to
thrust the fingers into the nostrils: grinding the teeth: many
indications of spasm: great heat, but no thirst: visible throbbings in the neck: forcing down of the lower part of the
abdomen: constipation: sometimes slight diarrhea.




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When the disease is more fully advanced, the patient
manifests strong fits of passion: has intolerance of light:
often wrinkles his brows: has pains in his ears: has nausea, attended often with vomiting, and cannot sleep:, or, if
sleeping, has frights.
The first step to be taken is to give Aconite, which will
subdue the symptoms connected with the congestion in the
head.
This should be followed by the use of Belladonna, when
the symptoms just described are prominent.
When, however, the patient lies in bed, without cognizance, with the eyes closed: sinks down without cogni-.
zance: raves upon his own private affairs: the mouth
opening with difficulty: the tongue loaded with white and
frothy mucus: dilatation of the pupil and fixedness of the
eye; redness of face: smiles: stutters inarticulately: is,
at times, perfectly quiescent: has frequent twitchings:
moves his hands as if to withdraw the coverlid, attended
with anxious and weak respiration, full pulse, tense abdomen, and skin dry and disposed to crack, then Hyoscyamus
is the best remedy.
When the patient is in a sleepy state, the sleepiness is
attended by snoring: the eyes half open: the patient uttering no complaint, and in need of nothing, and has frequent
vomiting, then opium is to be used.
When the patient slumbers naturally, but has startings in
his limbs, snorings, his movements irregular, and, when
waking, appears without cognizance: sometimes fixing his
attention, sometimes withdrawing himself slowly and with
apprehension: sometimes retreating with exclamations of
dread: and when these are associated with ardent fever, red
face, and moist skin, then Stramonium is applicable.




WATER IN THE HEAD.
This affection is generally preceded by the symptoms
described in conjunction with inflammation of the brain.
It is, however, often, very insidious in its approach.
Two indications which ought not to be disregarded are,
first, the unwillingness of the child to play; and second,
fractious peevishness whenever raised from the horizontal
position.
No parent is, however, justified in treating such an
affection; the physician's aid must be sought.
Another well-known affection of the head is that called
HEADACHE.
Headache is generally a symptom of other diseases,
more particularly affections of the stomach: still there are
some headaches sufficiently uncomplicated as to admit of
treatment as distinct.
Numerous remedies are applicable to the different forms
of headache: the choice will be aided by a careful examination of the following tables.* As, however, headache is
associated with INDIGESTION, it will be well to examine
the symptoms connected with the remedies for indigestion,
before deciding on the remedy to be used; more particularly if the headache is attended with indigestion.
* When the numbers are put down in a column, it indicates that
the remedy has the symptom with which that number is connected
in the column where it first occurs.




38.conite.
1. Head heavy, weight
and fulness.
2. Weight
and fulness,
particularly
in forehead
and temple.
3. Pressing,
throbbing
pain.
4. Burning
heat in head,
especially in
forehead.
5. Pricking
sensation
in forehead.


Belladonna.
1. Pain concentered in
forehead.
2. A deepseated dull
pain, pressing and
drawing outwards to the
forehead.
4. Burning
spot in the
bones of the
nose, with
pain.


Bryonia.
2. Expansive.
6. Contraction, affecti n
the whole
head, nearl
depriving o
senses.


'4
to
'4
z


Chamomilla.
1. Great heaviness at the
root of nose,
as if from a
cold coming.
2. A pressing
and stunning
pain.
3. Shootings
in temples.
g
y
7. Tearing
pains in
head.


JV'ux Vomica.
2. Deeply
seated.
3. Shootings
attop of head,
with tendency to fall
forwards.
Shooting
and throbbing on left
side of the
forehead,
and often
over left eye.
8. Headache
as after excess of wine;
and feeling
as if the
head were
fractured.
8a. As if a
nail were
driven into
the head.


Pulsatilla.
1. Head
heavy.
2. A deepseated dull
pain on one
side of the
head.




39. conite.
10. Movement.
11. Speaking.
12. Drinking.
13. Rising
from a recumbent
position.
P.
S24. In the
open air.


Belladonna.
10. Becoming insupportable
fi om the
least motion
)f the eyes.


Bryonia.
10. Movement.


Chamomilla. NJ\ux Vomica.
10. Movement.
15. Lying
down in a
room.
15a. After
a meal.
16. Walking.


Pulsatilla.
10. Especially of the
eyes.
16. Walking.


14. Free air.
14a. A current of-air.


16. Walking.
27. Is forced
to lie down.


17. During
sleep.
18. Caused
by a cold.


]9. Sitting  19. Intellec- 19. Intellecand reflect- tual labour. tual labour.
Ing.


20. Stooping.
21. Rough
weather.
22. Hot
wealher.
23. Noise.


20. Stooping.


25 Holding
the head
back.
26. Supporting the head.




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5.5I
N
a


Belladonna.  Bryonia.   Chamomilla.N'ux Vomica.


31. Continuing from
morning till
night.


28. Ceasing
on suddenly
awaking,and
when risen.
32. Morning.


29. Pressure.
32. Increased
and increasing towards
the middle
of the day


Pulsatilla.
29. Pressure
30. Binding
the head
tight.
33. Evening.


A third, very troublesome, affection of the head is known
under the name of
MEGRIM.
-'' It is characterized by affecting one side of the head, and
of that only a portion, which the patient states he can cover,:"with his finger, and feels as if a nail was being driven into
the part. The part affected is generally very tender, so
that not the slightest piessure can be borne.
This malady is generally connected with a constitutional
condition, which requires removal; but, in affording relief,
the characteristics already given of headache, will be of
utility.
The physician should, however, be consulted in the
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CHAPTER III.
AFFECTIONS OF THE EYES AND THE EYELIDS.
1. Inflammation.
2. Catarrhal Ophthalmia.
3. Stye.
THE eyes are organs, which, by their use, delicacy, and
importance, well deserve the place they hold.
They are subject to disease, more particularly INFLAMMATION.
Children, just born, have often inflammation from sudden
exposure to too strong a light. A viscid secretion is formed
on the membranes of the eye.
Aconite, with cleanliness, will remove this; when the intolerance of light is excessive, Belladonna may be administered after the aconite.
The remnants of the disease are removed by Sulphur: or
if not, Calcarea Carbonica, will, in general, cure.
If the eye is inflamed from anything in it, common sense
dictates the removal of the body, and aconite will prevent
the inflammation: sulphur may be used after.
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There is an inflammation of the eye and the eyelids,
connected with cold, called
CATARRHAL OPHTHALMIA.
The eyes and eyelids are red: there is a sense of burning
and pressure, as from a grain of sand: light is dreaded:
tears flow: to these symptoms are added catarrh, with or
without fever, and a dry troublesome cough.
Aconite will subdue the inflammation, and Nux Vomica
the other symptoms.
Where the inflammation is intense, the redness is intense,
also the other symptoms; when there is a severe cold in the
head, producing excoriation of the nostrils, the wings of the
nose and the lips, attended with small pustules, and cough
at intervals, with a suffocation and wheezing, Belladonna
should be used after the aconite.
When the redness extends over the whole of the eyes, and
the secretion of tears is abundant, then Euphrasia is best.
The eyelids have at their margins, glands, which separate an oily substance.
These glands become inflamed and form a
STYE.
Pulsatilla is the remedy, taken internally, and applied as
a lotion externally during the day. At night a warm bread
poultice, on which two or three drops of the tincture, at the
third dilution, have been dropped, can be applied.
Should the stye return, or should a hard lump remain
and a viscous matter adhere, Staphysagria can be taken.




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If the lumps still remain, Calcarea Carbonica can be
taken.
There are numerous other remedies suited to the affections of the eyes, but the choice among these requires the
medical man's judgment.
In reference to affections of the eyes, it should be remembered that every kind of eyewater, all ointments and
salves, unless homceopathic, injure the eyes. It is true
that diseases of the eyes and of the eyelids may disappear
under their use; but then diseased states supervene, and
often internal diseases are produced.
Pure cold or warm water, according to the feelings of
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CHAPTER


IV.


AFFECTIONS OF THE EAR AND OF THE
CHEEKS.
THE EAR.
THE ear is an organ, the importance of which is recognized by all.
It is subject to various affections.


1. Earache.
2. Inflammation of the Ear.
3. Discharge from the Ear.


4. Swelling of the Cheek.
5. Enlargement of the Parotid and Submaxillary
Glands.


One very common is
EARACHE, or OTALGIA.
This affection is sometimes very troublesome and difficult
to cure. Various remedies are applicable. The choice
may be aided by the following table.




Arnica.
1. Pressing,
Stinging
pains, or
darting behind and
within the
ears.


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Belladnona  Chamomilla.
1. Single violent stitches,
la.          as if a knife
pierced in.


2. The stinging within, extending to the
throat.
3. Pricking
and shooting
pains in parotid glands.
4. Tingling
and
rumbling
sound in the
ears.
3. Head and
syes affected


2. Passing
from the eai
to the earflaps, and
even to the
lips.
3. Pains
intolerable.
8. Inner ear
dry and
without cerumen..Mercurius.
1. Violent
twitches.
2. Pain in
interior of
ear tearing
and shooting, reaching
to the
cheeks.
5. Burning
outwardly
with an
inward cold
feeling.
8. Ear damp
with sweat.
8a.Discharge
of pus.
9. Ulceration
of the ear.


Pulsatilla.
1. Jerking tearing pain, as if
something would
be pressed out.
2. Passing to the
whole side of
the face.
7. Externally
red.
7a. hot.
7b. swollen.




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dArnica.  Belladonna. Chamomilla. JAercurius.  Pulsatilla.
10. Pains returning more
violently at
intervals.
10a. By
touching, or
10b. By
moving.
11 Heatand              11. Pains
irritability          making paat any loud            tient irrinoise.                table.
Ill-humour.             11. Persons of
melancholy disposition.
12. When                12. Rheumatic.
caused from
a cold or
suppressed
perspiration.
INFLAMMATION OF THE EAR.
This disease is very distressing. The symptoms presented indicate Aconite and Pulsatilla.     The symptoms,
particularly indicative of pulsatilla, are the following:
Ear red,
hot,
swollen;
painful,
so much so that the ear cannot be touched.
Pains tearing,
boring,
throbbing,
piercing, and
burning.                            *
The pain causes to talk wildly: the patient begins to rave.




I have found great benefit from the use of the tincture of
pulsatilla of the third dilution, a few drops being dropped
on a poultice of bread,-and applied to the ear.
Dr. Hering does not recommend sweet oil, or hot steam.
He recommends a sponge dipped in warm water and bound
upon the ear.
DISCHARGE OR RUNNING 1'ROM THE EAR.
If the discharge has resulted after symptoms, described
under pulsatilla, or after measles, pulsatilla can be taken: if
following the scarletfever, or if it occurs in connexion with
symptoms, belladonna can be taken: if decided benefit
does not result, then give Mercurius, and in a week's time
repeat the belladonna.
When mercury under any form has been taken previously to excess, give sulphur.
SWELLING OF THE CHEEK.
Often swelling of the cheek takes place from toothache,
and the toothache ceasing, it disappears.
Often the medicine, say belladonna, which cures the
toothache, produces swelling of the cheek.
If this swelling should not disappear, the antidote to
belladonna, or whatever may have been the medicine employed for the toothache, must be used.
If the swelling is obstinate, and rather solid, Arnica will
be useful: if there is much salivation, Mercury.
If these remedies are used too late, and suppuration must
take place, a fig poultice is a very good one.
When the suppuration is established, let it alone, except
to wash the mouth frequently with warm water.




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In connexion with the ears, the affection indicated by
"MUMPS, OR THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE PAROTID AND SUBMAXILLARY GLANDS,
may be noticed.
The parotid and submaxillary glands are situated the one
below the ear, the other under the jaw. They separate
the saliva from the blood.
These glands from cold, from atmospheric changes, and
as puberty approaches, become enlarged, and are often very
troublesome.
Mercury is the remedy that most frequently relieves this
affection: more particularly when suppuration is about
taking place.
If erysipelas attends the swelling, Belladonna should be
used; and after the pain has been removed, Hepar Sulphuris
is very serviceable.
If mercury and hepar sulphuris have been used without
success, Dulcamara is often of the greatest service.




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CHAPTER V.
AFFECTIONS OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
THE next organ in the face is the nose, and as this organ
is, as it were, the commencement of the apparatuses by
which breathing or respiration is carried on, it forms a
proper commencement for the enumeration of the diseases,
connected with the organs engaged in respiration.
1. Bleeding from the Nose.    7. Croup.
2. Cold in the Head.          8. Asthma of Millar.
3. Catarrhal Fever.           9. Inflammation of the
4. Hoarseness.                    Lungs.
5. Cough.                    10. Pleurisy.
6. Hooping Cough.            11. Spitting of Blood.
The changes, which take place in the blood in the. process
of breathing, being essential to the enjoyment of health, any
disordered condition of the organs connected with this process must, of necessity, claim attention.
Concerned in this process are the nose, the windpipe, the
bronchial tubes, the substance of the lungs, the membrane,
covering the lungs and lining the ribs, called the pleura:
and to these may be added the heart.


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THE NOSE.
The nose being, as well as a respiratory organ, the organ
of smell, is covered internally with a most delicate membrane or skin, through which the impressions are made
upon the nerve of smell.
This membrane, called the Schneiderian, from its discoverer, covers a large surface, the interior of the nose
being divided into cavities, formed by very thin bony partitions. These cavities are called nasal fosse.
Through this membrane an immense number of bloodvessels are distributed. From these blood-vessels, in young
people of full habit, particularly females before the natural
change, and, in adult females, at the cessation of the natural
discharge, a discharge takes place, called
BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE, OR EPISTAXIS.
Bleeding from the nose is sometimes beneficial. When
it occurs frequently, and when the quantity of blood discharged is considerable, then medicine is required.
In curing bleeding from the nose, two objects present
themselves: first, to remove the bleeding; and second, to
prevent a recurrence, and relieve the other consequences
likely to result from the bleeding.
Several remedies can be employed. The choice can be
regulated by the symptoms.
Aconite is useful where the symptoms recorded, p. 18,
are present; or if the person looks much heated, or if the
bleeding occurs after being overheated.




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Arnica.  Belladonna.  Crocus..afMercurius. tuzx Vomica. Pulsatilla.
f    From a   By stooping,
)     blow.    or strongly
blowing the
nose.
Titillation  Darting
id the nose pains in one
or forehead, side of the
as from an  head in
S  insect,  paroxysms.
Swelling of
the veins of
Sthe head.
Sparks before the eyes.
Tingling in
the bars
Nose hot.   the ears.  Diffused
heat.
0
SThin, and              Thick black Coagulates Flow of veSbright red.              blood,    in flowing, nous blood.
0                                    and remains
en                                  suspended.
S    Men.                 Irritable,  Children,            Adult fesensitive, and persons           males, with
predisposed            insufficient
I                                    to inflamma-            menses.
44                                      tion.
tion.                                             Persons of
-                                                           sweet and
Splacid
temper.
Awakens                           Morning.   Evening,
out of sleep                                  and before
0  at night.                                   midnight.




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Bryonia is useful under similar circumstances as the belladonna, more particularly when the bleeding from the
nose takes place from sudden suppression of'the menses.
Rhus is useful in cases similar to those suited to belladonna
and bryonia, where these do not cure.
When the discharge produces weakness, or is so profuse
as to occasion paleness of face, coldness of limbs, and even
convulsions, China is useful.
Cina is useful if the putting the fingers into the nose,
caused by the irritation of worms, causes the hemorrhage.
The common practice of drawing cold water into the nostrils is not good: and plugging the nose is to be avoided,
except under peculiar circumstances.
To prevent a recurrence of the bleeding, the general constitutiorial state must be investigated and treated: Sulphur
will be useful in most cases.
To prevent both the return of this discharge of blood,
and any bad consequences from the discharge already having occurred, China is the best remedy.
When the membrane, lining the nasal fosse, becomes
affected with inflammation, it is called
COLD IN THE HEAD.
This affection is characterized by a peculiar feeling of
dryness in the nose, and also by swelling. There is frequent sneezing: there is loss of smell: and the patient
speaks, as it is called, through the nose. The discharge
is, at first, watery, drop by drop; it excoriates, and produces crusts on the nostrils and the lips, and pain oftentimes is felt at the root of the nose.
The symptoms vary, and so do the remedies. The following table will aid in the selection.




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Chamomilla.
1. Nostrils
inflamed,
chapped and
ulcerated.
2. Discharge
of acrid
mucus.
7. One cheek
red, the
other pale.
8. Pain and
scaling;
chapped lips.
9. Intense
thirst.
10. Confusion in the
head.


Mfercury.
1, Nose
excoriated
within and
without.
2. Excessive
discharge.


NJVux Vomica.
1. Painful
sensibility of
the interior
of the nose.
2. Secretion
from nose
during
the day.
3. Violent
sneezings.
5. Obstruction of the
nose during
the night.
6. Itching
in the nose.
7. Heat in
face.
9. Dryness
of the mouth
and fauces.
10. Confusion, and
10a. H-eat
in the head.


Rulsatilla.
1. Nostrils
painful and
ulcerated.
2. Thick
often fetid
mucus.
3. Violent
sneezings;
and
4. Discharge
of blood
from blowing the nose.
6. Tickling
as from
snuff.


AJrsenicum.
1. Swelling
of the nose.
2. Profuse
lischarge of
watery,
acrid, excoriating
mucus.
3. Violent
sneezings.
5. Obstruction of the
nose with
No. 2.
6. Burning
sensation in
he nostrils.




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Chamomilla. I Mercury.


INVuz Vomica.I Pulsatilla. 1f Jlrsenicum.


12. Shivering.


11. Sensibility of the eyes
to light.
12. Shivering.
14. Melancholy.
15. Inclination to weep.


11. Inflammation of the
eyes, with
sensibility
to light.
12. Shiverings and
shudderings.
13. Severe
pains in the
limbs.
14. Anxiety.


0
m4
It


13. Rheumatic pains in
limbs.


14. Vexation
and irritability.
15. Grief.
16. General
languor.


16. Great
prostration
nf etran (th


17. Broken 17. Restlesssleep.    ness.
The plan I generally adopt is, directly sneezing commences, to place two globules of nux vomica or pulsatilla
on the tongue. This I have often found prevents the
usual progress of the cold.


When the inflammation extends, and affects the whole
interior of the nose and the membrane, lining the throat,
and even the lungs, being attended with a copious secretion
of mucus with pain, and a feeling of heat, the mucus itself
first thin, afterwards thick and yellow, the affection is called, being associated with fever -




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CATARRHAL FEVER.
The symptoms, indicative of this fever, are shiverings,
transient chills, shifting from one part to another, alternating with heats: head confused and heavy: pressive pain
above the eyes: taste bitter and mucous: appetite deficient:
taste and smell diminished in power: pressure at the pit
of the stomach, attended with anxiety: the back, both in
its middle and at its lowest part, feels as if broken: there
is a sense of heaviness, with twitchings in the limbs:
symptoms increase towards night: pulse soft, and rather
frequent: oppression, increasing towards night: wakefulness, or disturbed slumber.
Aconite must be taken at the commencement of the attack, its suitability being apparent from the perusal of the
symptoms and the comparison of its effects, (p. 18:) afterwards Belladonna, Chamomilla, Ignatia, Nux Vomica, Pulsatilla, according to the symptoms.
With catarrhal fever, cough is generally connected: and
as the symptoms, now to be recorded, will have relation to
the general symptoms, the particulars in connexion with
the coughs, associated with the catarrhal fevers, will be
found recorded under the title of COUGHS, (pp. 59, 60-1-2-3.)
Previous to noticing the individual remedies, it is proper
to notice, that, when the catarrh has been brought on by
exposure to wet, Dulcamara is, when administered early, a
most valuable preventive against the consequences of such
exposure: Dulcamara being further more particularly indicated when, with taking cold, as the expression is, the urine
becomes turbid.




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Belladonna.
1. Hoarseness.
2. Sore throat.
3. Rattling of
mucus in chest.
4. Redness of
face.
12. Sleepiness
in day.
13. Sleeplessness
at night.
14. Sleep with
sudden starts.
15. Sleep with
sudden fits of
screaming.


Chamomilla.     JNux Vomica.
1. Hoarseness.   1. Hoarseness.


Pulsatilla.
1. Hoarseness.
"2. Sore throat;
2a. particularly
in swallowing
the saliva.


1. Redness of the
face.
4a. Redness of
one cheek, but
paleness of the
other.
6. Thirst.


4. Shivering on
the slightest
motion, followed
by flushes of
heat.


5. Coldness and
shivering, affecting the back and
the limbs, relieved by artificial
warmth.
6. Thirst.
7. Tongue furred.
8. Appetite
failing.
9. Nausea.
10. Vomiting.
11. Constipation.


8. Loss of
appetite.
9. Nausea.
10. Vomiting.




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Belladonna.   Chamomilla..Nux Vomica.    Pulsatilla.
16. Delirium.
17. Sadness.
18. Excessively  18. Ill humour.  18. Irritability.  18. Mild disposiirritable.                                  tion.
18a. Impatience.
19. Great prostra-            19. Feeling of  19. Languor.
tion of strength.           great weakness.
20. Children.
Another very common affection, in which the fauces and
the windpipe aie affected, is
HOARSENESS.
Various are the features attendant upon hoarseness, and,
according to these must be the choice of the remedy.
Cough is generally associated with each kind of hoarseness: and, in the narration of the symptoms, indicating
the choice of remedies for the various coughs, the remedies
for the various hoarsenesses will appear.
As a general rule, when hoarseness or soreness of throat
makes its first appearance, two globules of Belladonna will
often prevent any further progress of the diseased condition.
It may be remarked, that bathing the feet for from five
to ten minutes in hot water, on going to bed, is very useful.
INFLUENZA.
Certain conditions of the atmosphere induce peculiar moT
difications of the symptoms, connected with catarrhal fever,
which are designated under the title of INFLUENZA.
Influenza is a catarrhal fever with peculiar symptoms, induced by the peculiar atmospherical conditions. As produced by atmospherical conditions, and as affecting many




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individuals, (for who can avoid the atmosphere? ), influenza
may be defined an epidemic catarrh.
The most characteristic symptom of the influenza, in
addition to the usual symptoms of catarrhal fever, is extreme
prostration of all the powers, mental and bodily: the person
is unmanned.
ARSENICUM is the remedy; when with this prostration
there are the symptoms, described as pertaining to arsenicum, (pp. 53, 54,) under the title of COLD IN HEAD, and
those under the title of COUGH, (pp. 59, 60, 62.)
The influenza that prevails now (February, 1842) and
has prevailed the last month, is attended with affections of
the throat, the glands swelling, &c. I have treated, with
uniform and rapid success, these cases with Aconite, followed by Belladonna, and then by Mercurius.
Each influenza requires, according to its peculiar modifications, its own homceopathic remedies.
There is one point which all should remember; viz., that
the influenza is more dangerous in its effects than in its first
symptoms. Every medical man's experience will demonstrate, that serious affections of the lungs very often develope
themselves after the influenza. Great care should be taken in
eradicating by appropriate remedies all remaining symptoms.
The next affection of the respiratory organs is general in
its character, and is described under the title of
COUGH.
Cough may be regarded as a spasmodic affection. It
presents various forms, and its characters are so delicate in
their shades, that it is very difficult for any but the physician to select the right remedy.
To aid the non-medical person the following table has
been compiled:




.conite.  Belladonna. Chamomilla. Hyoscyamus.  Ignatia.  Ipecacuanha. JVuz Vomica. Pulsatilla.  A.rsenicum.
1. Dry.     1. Dry.     1. Dry.    1. Dry.   1. Dry cough.  1. Dry.              1. J.oist,   1. Dry.
loose.
2. Expecto- 2. Much te- 2. Expecto-  2. Thick
ration of  nacious mu- ration, after  mucus in
mucus, with cus in chest long cough- throat, diffinausea and             ing, of mat-   cult to
vomiting.              ter yellow,  detach.
salt and bitter, producing nausea
occasionally
tinged with
blood.
3. Lasting  3. Spasmo-             3. Convul-              3. Spasmofits of cough- dic; with               sive.                   dic.
ing.     asthmatic,
suffocating,
stertorous
breathing.
4. Strong.
5. Frequent.                       5. Constant.
6. Exhaust-             6. Exhausting.                   ing.




Aconite    Belladonna. Chamomilla. Hyoscyamus,   Ignatia.  Ipecacuanha, JVu Vomica. Pulsatilla.  Arsenicum.
7. After                                                                7. A sensa-             7. Sensation
coughing, a                                                                tion of a              of burning.
sense of                                                                healed subburning in                                                               stance pressthe chest;                                                               ing on the
chest.
8.and asense                                                 8. Feeling of            8. Pain in
of laceration                                                 a wound in              throat and
in the chest.                                                 the chest.             chest as from
excoriation.
9. Constric-                        9. Tightness
tion in the                         across chest.
chest.
10. Pain be- 10. In cough-                                                                          0
neath the     ing, as
breast bone though someat night, or thing rose in
after a meal, the throat, as
with difficult if it would
breathing.  take away
the breath.
11. Pain in                                      11. Painful  11. After  11. Pain at
the hypo-                                       jerking in  coughing a  both sides.
chondria.                                        stomach,  pain as from
a blow beneath the
ribs.




Aconite.
14. Cough
attended
with feverish heat, in
flanmation,
see note,
p. 18.


Belladonna. Chamomilla.
12. Pain in
the loins,
with feeling
of alarm.


Hyoscyamus.
15. Cough,
especially
during the
night, preventing
sleep.


Ignatia.
12. Pain at
the lower
belly.


Tpecacuanha.
13. Painful
jerking in
head..Jux Vomica.
12. Cough,
when less
violent, a
pain as of a
blow or
bruise, in the
lower belly.
13 Cough,
causing pain
in head, as
if it would
burst.
15. Cough
worse towards
5 a. in.


Pulsatilla. I Arsenicum.


*


15. Chiefly at
night, sometimes occurring in sleep.


15. Worse al
night, continuing even
during sleep.


15. Day and
night, equally severe.


15. Distiess.
ing by day
and night.


15. Worse in
the evening
and at night.




Adrenite.


Belladonna. IChamomilla. IHyoscyamus.


Ignatia.  Ipecacuanha. JVNx Vomica.


Pulsatilla.
16. Cough
in morning
with general
tremor.
17. Excited
by a rough
dryness in
the throat,
and tickling
in the palate../rsenicam.


17. Excited
by an insupportable
tickling in
throat.
18. Excited
by the slightest movement.
19. Swelling
of the belly.


17. Excited
by a constant
tickling in
the trachea
behind the
hollow of the
throat.
20. Aggravated by
speaking.
21. Excited
by a fit of
passion:
especially in
children.


17. Tickling
irritation in
the trachea.
with a convulsive
cough.


17. Cough,
proceeding
from the
windpipe.


17. Tickling
in throat asil
constricted.


17. Excited
by a rough
dryness in
the, throat,
and tickling
in the palate.
19. Excited
by motion.
20. Excited
by speaking.




.qico-nite. IBelladonnsa. IClsamomilia. IHysssy~amus.


23. Excited
co nstantLly by
lying diwn,
ceasing
when sitting
up in bed;
obliged to sit
up.


Ignatia.
27. Gentle,
paseing rapidly from
joy to grief,
iorn grief*
to j oy.


Ipecacuanisa,.Tiuz Voiaica,
22. Increased
by cold air.


Pul~satilla. 11.&565lturn.


24. C'ough,
withi suspension of
breathingy.
25. Constant
obsrtruction, of
nose, wi~th
loss of smell.
26. Diffused
perspiration.


24.Breathiing
impeded in
the nighit.
26. Profuse
niglitsweats.
-27. Irritable, 27 Mild pin.
quick.    cid tempers,
28. Emaciation.
29. buss of
appetite.
30. Somall frequent pulse.


27.Sanguine.
28. Lymphsstic.


27. Children.




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HOOPING-COUGH.
This spasmodic cough without physic, will often wear
itself out in four or five months; with physic, under the
old system, will continue much longer; and this, on these
grounds, that the physic complicates the disease, and produces a weakness of the general constitution.
Under homoeopathic treatment it is often cured in three
to four weeks; sometimes in two weeks, sometimes in a
few days.
When hooping-cough is prevalent and children begin to
cough, give one or other of the remedies already detailed
(pp. 59 to 63) as suitable to cough, selecting the one most
nearly allied to the symptoms of the existing cough.
Aconite will be serviceable when the cough is dry (1. p.
59), whistling, attended with burning (7. p. 60) in the
windpipe, the child putting his hand to the throat at the
situation of the windpipe; and when there is fever (14. p.
61) the aconite should be given immediately, and repeated
as the symptoms may indicate.
If the cough at the commencement is moist, easily
loosened, and begins after a violent cold, and is attended
with hoarseness, Dulcamara will be most useful.
Nux Vomica will be serviceable, if the cough is dry, and
attended with vomiting and anxiety, so severe as almost to
induce suffocation: also, if the sufferer from the beginning
turns almost blue in the face, and if the cough occurs after
midnight, continuing till the morning (15. p. 61). If,
after the nux vomica, the cough becomes loose and moist,
Pulsatilla (1. p. 59) will become appropriate.
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to suffocation continue, Ipecacuanha (24, p. 63.) will then
be useful.
Should these means be ineffectual, and the cough occurs
as a spasm in single attacks, most during the day, the evening, and the first part of the night, attended with a redness
of and pains ig, the throat when swallowing: also with
watering of the eyes, Carbo Vegetabilis can be given, and
repeated in twenty-four hours. This medicine is particularly serviceable when children "complain of a pricking in
the head, pains about the chest and in the neck, and at the
same time, have eruptions on the head and the body. It is
a sovereign remedy when the hooping-cough is on the decline." (Dr. HERING.)
When, however, the hooping-cough is fully developed,
other medicines are required.
The following description by Dr. Hering of the attack of
hooping-cough is so graphically correct that I have adopted
it:
" In real hooping-cough, the children have frequent single
paroxysms, before which they run after their mother, become
anxious, and grasp and hold something: then cough violently
with a sounding hollow tone, in such quick succession, that
they can scarcely draw breath again, or only with a long,
sobbing, whistling tone; this is succeeded by great anxiety,
as if they would suffocate, and they become red and blue in
the face. They stretch out the neck far, everything is
strained and cramped, and they can bear nothing to touch
them. These paroxysms end with struggling and vomiting
of mucus, frequently mixed with blood, which also is often
discharged from the nose. Afterwards the children are
again lively: but owing to their throwing up everything
they eat or drink, they become, as the attacks are frequent,
weaker and much debilitated."
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Dr. Hering recommends to try Veratrum       first, as its
operation is speedy; to give one globule, and wait till the
next attack: then give a second globule, and wait twentyfour to thirty hours: if the cough improves, not to repeat
the dose till the cough is worse again.
This course of administration applies to the other remedies for hooping-cough.
Among these remedies, Drosera is a most valuable remedy, especially when the whoop is well defined. I have
cured many with it.
To direct in the choice of the appropriate remedy, the
following table will be useful.
Drosera.      Veratrum.       Cina.         Cuprum.
1. Without fever, 1. With fever.
or, if present,
slight.
2. Cough loose,
or dry with
hoarseness.
3. If phlegm not
easily discharged,
vomiting first of|
food and then of
phlegm and
water.
4. Expectoration
bitter, offensive,
purulent.
5. Cold sweat,
particularly on
forehead.
6. Pulse small,
weal, rapid.
7. No thirst,  7. Much thirst.
when chilly.


8. Much chilliness.




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Drosera.
9. Pain in breast
and under ribs,
obliging to hold
the parts with
the hands.
10. Inclination
to vomit.
13. Gripes in
bowels.
19. Oppression
when coughing,
as if something
held the breath
back in the chest,
so as to be able
scarcely to cough
or speak.


Veratrum.
9. Pains in chest.
11. Much reduced; nape of neck
so weak, cannot
hold the head up.
12. During the
cough, discharges
the urine.
13. Complains of
pains in abdomen.
14. Kidneys.
Between attacks.
15. Not lively.
16. Dislikes to
move.
17. Unwilling to
speak;


Cina.    1    Cuprum.


13. Frequent
griping.


19. Respiration
is suspended.


20. Dry small
eruption on ihe
body, the face,
and the hands.




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Dy osera.
21. Patient worse
when at rest,
than when moving about.


Veratrum.


Cina.


22. During cough
becomes stiff.
23. Recovers with
much difficulty
after vomiting.
24. After cough a
clucking noise,
passing down the
throat into the
bowels.
25. Bore with fingcrs in the nose.
26. Frequent
itching at anus.
27. Flave had before fits from
worms, or have
voided large
worms.


Cuprum.
22. During cough
becomes stiff.
24. Audible rattling of phlegm
in the throat.


As the cough improves, avoid attempting much: should
the sufferer's state remain stationary, select some medicine
suited to the remaining symptoms. Pulsatilla will often be
found serviceable.
When there are relapses, or when the vomiting continues, Carbo vegetabilis does good: if still there is abundant
expectoralion, Dulcamara: if much crying after the cough,
Arnica: if the cough, when decreasing, is still hollow and
shrill, or dry and hoarse with retching afterwards and crying, Hepar Sulphuris.




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An affection of the windpipe and bronchial tubes, most
dangerous to the sufferer, is now to be noticed: it is
CROUP.
The first symptoms are often those of common cold.
The real symptoms soon appear, and so clearly are they
marked that no mistake can exist.
The cough is sonorous, whistling: it is croup. The cough
excites pain, the patient carries his hand to his throat: the
face is red at first, or mottled: as the disease advances,
blue: a clammy sweat suffuses the body, the breathing is
difficult, and the head is thrown back to aid respiration.
Aconite is the first resource to subdue the inflammatory
action.
About two to four hours after the aconite, Spongia must
be used; and if this does not succeed, Iepar Sulphuris.
If the spongia relieves but does not cure, then hepar sulphuris will be peculiarly serviceable, more especially if the
cough has become moist, or loose with an evident accumulation of mucus in the respiratory tubes.
Lachesis, Dr. Hering has shown, can be employed with
benefit in the worst cases of this disease, but no patient in
such a disease can be trusted to mere domestic treatment.
This disease is too severe to be entrusted to any one
except a physician.
There is one disease approaching, in many of its characters, to croup: it is
THE ASTHMA OF MILLAR.
Croup is often, as was stated, preceded by symptoms of a
cold. This is sudden in its attack, and is preceded by no




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warning symptoms; and it occurs several times, and the
parties are said to be subject to sudden attacks of croup.
It is not croup.
The patient is seized with choking, great anxiety, and
difficult breathing: the voice has a deep harsh tone: the
cough is hoarse, broken, and devoid of mucus.
The first attack is often fatal.
If not, the attack ends in a few hours in sneezing, belching, and vomiting: the little patient sleeps tranquilly, but
awakes languidly and weak, with symptoms like a common
cold. A fresh attack, worse than the former, comes on in
twenty-four hours.
Sambucus is the best remedy for this affection, especially
if, being obliged to sit down, the air enters the lungs with
a whistling sound: if he strikes his hands behind him: and
if his hands and face are swollen and purple: and when
the attack comes on in the middle of the night.
There are other remedies; but the severity of the affection will be sure to cause the parent to send for the physician, who will decide.
THE LUNGS.
The lungs themselves, so important in the process of
respiration, are subject to attacks of inflammation, which
require medical aid, but which may be partially met till
such aid is obtained.
INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS,
is indicated by difficult respiration: by darting pains in the
chest when respiring: great anxiety: cough, attended with
much pain, dry at filst, afterwards moist, and the sputa




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tinged with blood. The pulse is full, strong, and frequent,
often palpitation of the heart: the face is red and livid:
thirst excessive: generally constipation: urine high colour,
red.
Aconite should be at once administered, in successive
doses, during the first twenty-four hours.
After the inflammatory and febrile symptoms have given
way partially, (often they will be entirely removed by the
aconite,) Bryonia can be given, especially if the sputa,
tinged with blood, have a rusty appearance.
Rhus and Squilla are useful under circumstances, which
will require the physician to decide.
The lungs are covered by a membrane, which covers also
the inner surface of the ribs.
This membrane, called the pleura, is subject to inflammation, known by the name of
PLEURISY.
The peculiar catching in the side, on taking a full breath,
and the intense pain, are strikingly characteristic of this
affection.
Here again Aconite and Bryonia are employed with success; and if followed up by the use of Thuja, much benefit will result, more particularly if there exists a feeling
of something adhering within at the place where the pain
was.
The last disease to be noticed, in connexion with the
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SPITTING OF BLOOD (HIEMOPTYSIS).
Generally, before a discharge of blood from the lungs,
occur heaviness and tightness'in the chest, difficult breathing, palpitation of the heart, anxiety, saltish or sweetish
taste in the mouth, tickling in the fauces, and cough, bringing up blood.
Aconite is the best remedy: it subdues the general increased action very effectually.
China and Pulsatilla are the remedies most frequently
useful after the hemorrhage. The selection may be deduced from the following table.


China.
Patient shivers.
Patient has transitory heats.
Short sweats.
Inclined to lie down.
Limbs tremulous.
Sanguineous excitement lessened.
Expectorates blood, more or
less, every day.


Pulsatilla.
Shiverings with general debility.
Blood expectorated, deeply
coloured and in clots.
Shootings in the chest, and
an uneasiness in the lower
part of the chest.
Difficult breathing.
Feet cold.
Oppressed with grief.
Inclined to tears.
Women, whose menses are
suppressed.


When China is given, it should be given in the intervals
between the hemorrhages.




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CHAPTER         VI.
-AFFECTIONS -OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS.
THE organs, which are engaged in the preparation of the
articles taken for food, so as to produce the changes necessary in order to render them nutritive, are numerous, and
are liable to diseased states.
These organs are the mouth, the teeth, the throat, the
gullet, the stomach, the duodenum, the small intestines and
the large intestines, the caecum, the colon, and the rectum.
The diseases may be classed -
1. Aphtha
2. Stomacace
2. Steomhace       of the Mouth.
3. Teething
4. Toothache
5. Quinsy, affecting the throat.
6. Derangement of the Stomach, or Dyspepsia )
7. Cardialgia, or Heartburn                 of the
8. Flatulence                             Stomach.
9. Vomiting                              i
10. Cramp of the Stomach
11. Constipation
12. Diarrhoea
13. Cholera
14. Cholic              of the Intestines.
15. Inflammation
16. Hemorrhoids
17. Worms
18. Jaundice.
19. Liver Complaint.




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Diseases of the Mouth.
The lips, the entrance to the mouth, and the mouth
itself, are lined by a membrane.
This membrane becomes diseased, small pale, grayish
spots appear, and, gradually enlarging, form round pustules, like millet seeds, filled with a sanious fluid; this
being discharged, little scabs form and fall off, and are
renewed and again fall off.
These appearances constitute the disease, called
APHTHA, OR THRUSH.
The formation of these bodies is often attended with
uneasiness, watchfulness, difficult breathing, breath fetid,
voice hoarse and feeble, tongue dry and swollen, mouth and
throat dry, hot, and red, exhaustion, and dulness of sense.
The white aphthne, affecting infants, are, in general, not
dangerous, and are cured by Borax.
Sometimes they become, in very bad constitutions, malignant, the choice of the remedy must be left to the
physician.
In children of gross habits, Mercurius is often useful.
Sulphur is' useful when the whole interior of the mouth is
covered with thick scabs, when the evacuations are frequent,
greenish, with tenesmus, the body covered with a rash, and
the thighs excoriated, with a vesicular eruption on the back.
To prevent this disease, and to aid in its removal, cleanliness, good and simple food, cleansing the milk-bottle (if
using one), before each suckling, and not allowing the
infant to suck improper things, are essential.




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A second affection of the mouth, attacking adults more
frequently, consists in the formation of ulcers on the gums,
these becoming spongy and swollen. These ulcers discharge
a bloody sanious matter, having an intolerable stench.
The patient feels extremely weak and is feverish. This
disease is
STOMACACE, OR BAD MOUTH.
In this affection, Mercury is the remedy. When swelling
and inflammation preponderate over the ulceration, then
Nux Vomica can be employed.
THE TEETH.
The teeth are thirty-two in number, sixteen in each jaw.
They make their way in infancy through the gums, and the
process, constituting this exit, is
DENTITION, OR TEETHING.
This ought to be unattended with fever or with pain.
Frequently, however, fever and severe pain attend this
process, and sometimes serious diseases are developed during the irritation of teething.
The progress of teething requires to be watched with care.
Should the gums be much swollen, be hot, red, and painful - should the child constantly drivel; put his fingers
in his mouth; forcibly bite the nipple; or suddenly let go
his hold, and be restless, Aconite will relieve.
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pacified, and sleepless, Coffcea; but if the mother use
coffee, Chamomilla.
Should dry cough, with panting and hurried perspiration
be present, then Belladonna. Belladonna will be serviceable, whenever symptoms present themselves, indicating
cerebral congestion.
Belladonna and chamomilla, as well as coffaea, are serviceable when convulsions occur.
Chamomilla is eligible, when the symptoms indicate
affections of the abdominal organs, such as gripings,
diarrhoea, and greenish evacuations.
When the diarrhoea is watery, M]ercurius is useful. Constipation, when attendant, is relieved by Nux Vomica.
When convulsions occur, and have resisted the action of
belladonna and chamomilla, Ignatia may be administered,
one dose every quarter or half hour.
When the teeth are delayed in their appearance, a constitutional condition, opposed to health, is indicated: and
for this the best remedies, as experience has convinced me,
are Calcarea and Belladonna, used alternately.
TOOTHACHE.
Hollow teeth are peculiarly subject to this affection.
Taking cold is generally stated as the cause.
The symptoms of toothache vary much: the following
tabular view will serve to help in the selection of the appropriate remedy.




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implies that thle characteristic in the first column.
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with swollen cheeks..........................d(1 do do... do)d do        d(. do do..  do do
the teeth feel loose.............................(1.. do..........do. do d           do....do
too long........................      do do.. do.................do
gumns swollen..........................do.. o] ii,      do           do          do do do.. d o   di: do do
Pains worse when eating...............................I do do       do d(......do          do dc      do do do
after eating..........................do...! do dto... do'       'o'..do.. d..    do do-.
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in a warm room...........................................                              do d.    (10
by warnith of bed....................................                             do..    d......do,




BETTEit by warmth...............
WORSE from, coldness..............
cold air...........................
cold water.........................
cold drink.........................
washing in cold water.............
drawing cold air into the month....
BETTER by applying a cold hand................
coIld air...................
cold wvater inl an instant....
by dipping the fingers in cold water....
WORSE ill thie morning.........................
in the forenoon.........................
at night..............................
in the afternooii.......................
towvards evening.......................
in the evening.........................
Pains when caused by a cold...................
Toothache with children.......................
men..........................
womien.......................
before, during, and after menstruation
during pregnancy.....................


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These tables will show that Mercurius and Sulphur are
the two medicines, most extensively curative of toothache.
Mercury, it should be remembered, being so injuriously
prescribed by so many practitioners, is the cause of numerous toothaches. It should therefore be always ascertained whether the patient has or has not been mercurialized previously to prescribing Mercurius.
Next to sulphur stands Nux Vomica: and next to nux
vomica, Pulsatilla: next to it, Staphysagria: then Belladonna, Bryonia, Chamomilla, and Rhus Toxicodendron.
Persons, liable, to toothache, should abstain from coffee:
toothache being one of the effects of coffee.
The insertion of a globule of the selected remedy on the
tongue is a most effectual method of cure: sometimes
smelling the medicine will be enough.
Often the pain is increased at first, a homoeopathic aggravation; the patient should wait patiently, and, in a short
time, the desired relief will be obtained.
The best means to prevent toothache is to take care of
the teeth by cleaning them with water and a brush after
each meal. As a general rule, the use of toothpowders is
unnecessary, when the teeth have been preserved by the
means just stated. But if a toothpowder be used, no medicated or scented toothpowder* should be used while taking
homoeopathic medicine.
The use of a toothpick is to be avoided. The teeth are
injured by this practice.
Opium should never be taken. The pains are always increased. Creosote, another common remedy, should never
be used unless under medical superintendence.
* Mr. G. N. Epps, Homoeopathic Chemist, 112, Great Russell
Street, has prepared a homoeopathic toothpowder.




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Sometimes toothache assumes a chronic character: and
then means, acting upon the general constitution, must be
employed.
THE THROAT.
The throat may be regarded as a continuation of the
mouth.
There is a division, called the hanging veil of the palate,
(velum pendulum palati), between the mouth and the part
behind, called the fauces. From the centre of this hanging
veil a little fleshy body hangs, called the Uvula; and between the fleshy pillars, forming the sides of this fleshy
veil, are glandular bodies, called the tonsils.
Opening into the fauces is the gullet, the fleshy tube,
which conveys the food into the stomach: the upper part
of this tube, connected with the fauces, being called the
pharynx.
These parts become affected frequently with inflammation. They become red, swell, and produce a powerful
effect upon the constitution, constituting a disease, called
THE QUINSY, OR SORE THROAT.
According to the symptoms, the remedies for this affection must be chosen; remembering that a liability to attacks
is dependent upon constitutional conditions, requiring a
well-directed and long-persevered in course of treatment.
An examination of the following tabular view will guide
in the selection.




Belladonna.
1. Feeling as
of a ligature
round the
throat.
2. Pain in the
throat as of
excoriation.,
3. Burning or
4. Shooting
pains, or
both, in the
act of swallowing.


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Chamomilla.   Ignatia.   Mercurius..JVux Vomica.
1. Feeling as 1. Sense of a 1. Contracted 1. Pressingof a plug in ball or hard  feeling in  pains, partithe gullet.  tumour in    throat.  cularly when
swallowing.             swallowing.
2. A feeling            2. A rawness
if a wound in            and a soreswallowing.              ness in the
throat.


Pulsatilla.
1. Cutting
pains in
throat.
2. A rawness
and soreness
in the throat.


3. Burning
sensation in
throat.


5. A sense of
obstruction
in swallowing: this
5a. produced
by bending
the neck.


4. Stitches i
upper part
of the throat
8. Tonsils
inflamed.
8a. swollen
Sb. ulcerated


n 4. Shooting
stinging, ext. tending intc
the ears.
7. Bright redness of the
throat.
8. Tonsils
inflamed.. a. swollen.
i.


]


6. A scraping
and itching in the
throat, causing a desire
to press the
tongue backwards.


7. Bright red- 7. Deep redness of the  ness of the
wholethroat.   throat.


7. Bluish
redness of
the throat.


6




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Belladonna.
9. Thirst.
10. Salivation.
13. External
swelling of
the throat,
of the muscles, and of
the glands
of the neck.
14. Pain in
speaking.
15. Sometimes inability to drink,
liquids returning
through the
nose.


Chamomilla.
9. Thirst;
with
9a. great
dryness of
the throat.
13. Glands
of lower jaw
swollen,
with throbbing pains.


Ignatia.    Mercurius.
8c. Back part
of tongue
swollen.
8d. Gums
swollen.


JV'Nu  Fomica




10. Mouth
filled with
viscid tenacious mucus.
11. Offensive
odour from
mouth.
12. Ulcers in
the throat.


SPulsatila.
9. & 9a.
Mouth dry
but without
thirst.
13. Glands of
neck swollen, and tender to the
touch.
15. Pain in
swallowing
the saliva.


15. Liquids 15. Throbmore diffi-  bings in
cult to swal- tonsils in
low than   swallowing.
solids.




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Belladonna. Chamomilla. I Ignatia.


16. Fever,
sometimes
with delirium.
17. Hoarseness.


16. Fever,
with alterna.
tions of heal
and cold.
16a. Fever
worse to
wards evening.
18. Caused
by a cold:
19. or a cold
draught of
air when
perspiring.
20. Children


16. Fever,
with alterna-;ions of heat
and cold.


- Mercurius..JNuz Vomica.
16. Fever,
with alternations of heat
and cold.


Pulsatilla.
16. Sense of
diffused
coldness, increased towards night,
succeeded
by heat.
16a. In the
evening.
17.


17.


17.
18. Caused
by a cold.
19. Cold air
produces
pain.


The Stomach.
The stomach, performing very important duties in the
process of digestion, its affections become of very considerable moment.
It should be remembered that the stomach, of which, in
conjunction with the next intestine, the woodcut, (in the
following page) is a representation, is situated under the
ribs on the left side of the body, in the upper part of the
abdominal cavity, extending across to the right side, passing behind the triangular part, formed below the end of the
breastbone and the margin of the ribs, called the pit of the
stomach.*
* For a full description of the stomach and its uses, and also of
the other organs of digestion, see " Constipation Curable." Second
edition. By John Epps, M.D.




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a. Cardia, where the gullet ends in stomach.
b. The pylorus, where the stomach ends in
ffff. The duodenum.
c. The small curve of the stomach.
e. The bulging extremity of the stomach.




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The first affection to be noticed is
DERANGEMENT OF STOMACH,
sometimes called
DYSPEPSIA,.OR INDIGESTION.
The term Dyspepsia covers a multitude of disordered
states: hides a multitude of professional sins: forms a most
successful opportunity and means for medical pillaging;
and, when the sufferer is tired of physic, of being pillaged,
both as to his purse and his remaining health, it affords an
excuse to the disappointed patient for leaving the diseased
state to progress without disturbance on his part, till permanent organic mischief is produced; the excuse being
based on the idea, deduced from the past want of success,
that there is no cure.
Dyspeptics should ever remember, that diseases almost
always progress, when unaided: true, many dyspeptic patients get well when they " throw physic to the dogs; "
but then, they had not dyspepsia, they had physicpepsia:
and, desisting from physic, the affection, caused by physic,
ceases: and the previous state, now minus physic, is found,
to the patient's astonishment, to be HEALTH.
The stomach, however, is often in a diseased state; and,
when in this state, certain symptoms present themselves, to
which the pathogenetic effects of certain medicines correspond. These effects of medicines may be enumerated,
and thence may be deduced the kinds of derangement,
curable by each medicine. Nux Vomica, Pulsatilla, Bryonia, and Chanzomilla, are the principal remedies; the
symptoms, suited to each of them, are recorded.




86.7Vuz Vomica.
SYMPTOMS.
3. 8. 8a. 15a. 19.
24. 32. (See
" Headache.")
1. Face yellowish
]a. Especially
about the mouth
and the wings
of the nose.
2. Face red.
3. Eyes, a yellow
tint of the
opaque cornea.
4. Mist before
the eyes, or spots.
5. Sparkles before the eyes.
6. Giddiness.
7. Tongue foul.
7a. Tongue dry
and white,
7b. or yellowish.
8. Thirst.
9. Bitter taste.
10. Heartburn.
11. Acidity.
12. Flatulence.
13. Water-brash.
14. Hiccough.


Pulsatilla.


02
8r
8
Co


J


Bryonia.
Symptom 2.
(See other symptoms of headache.)
6. Giddiness.
7. Tongue dry.
7a.,  white.
7b.,, yellow.
8. Great thirst.
11. Acidity.
12. Flatulence.
13. Water-brash.


Chamomilla.
3. 7. 17. (See
" Headache.")
2. One cheek red,
the other pale.
3. Ditto.
4. Eyesight obscured.
7a. Tongue dry
and cracked.
7b. Thick yellow
coating.
3. Ecessivethirst.
3a. Desire for cold
drink.
11. Acidity.
12. Flatulence.
13. Regurgitation.
of food.


8. A want of
thirst.


10, Ditto, an hour
after eating.
11. Acidity.
12. Flatulence.


14. Hiccough.




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JVN= Vomica. 1    Pulsatilla.


14a. Nausea in 14a. Aversion tc
the open air.      fat foods.


15. Fulness at
the pit of stomach,
15a. and at
the sides of the
stomach.
1Jf. Tenderness
or the pit of the
stomach to touch.
17. Clothes felt
tight.
18. Cramps in
the stomach.
19. Constipation.
20. Irritable.
21. Passionate
temper.
22. Men.


Bryonia,
14a. Aversion to
food so strong,
cannot bear the
smell.
15. Ditto.
16. Ditto.
17. Pressure as if
from a stone.
18. A burning at
the pit of the stomach, especially
when moving.
19. Constipation.
21. Passionate,
obstinate.
23. Complaints
worse by motion.
25. In summer.
23. In damp
weather.
26. Chilliness a
common attendant.


Chamomilla.
14a. Nausea.
14b. Vomiting of
food.
15. Ditto, chiefly
after eating.
15a. Oppressive
pain at the region
of the heart.
15b. Feeling of
sinking at pit of
stomach.
18. Ditto, especially when from
coffee.
]8a. Ditto.
19. Relaxation as
a more general
feature.


19. Diarrhcla, or
if not, slow
evacuations.
20. Timid,
phlegmatic.
22. Women and
children.




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Ipecacuanha is useful when there is much nausea and
vomiting. Ignatia often follows Pulsatilla with effect,
Sulphur must always be employed, where, after the use
of the previous medicines, the disease remains, more particularly if there are eruptions.
When tea has been the cause of dyspepsia, then China
is a valuable remedy.
From the symptoms detailed in these columns, it will
be seen that HEARTBURN, FLATULENCE, NAUSEA, VOMITING, and CRAMP IN THE STOMACH, are removable by most
of the medicines: the choice depends on the accompanying
symptoms.
The following general remarks, in reference to each of
these diseased states, may be useful.
CARDIALGIA, OR HEARTBURN.
When it occurs in children and sensitive persons, and appears not complicated with other diseased affections, but is
attended with a swollen painful condition of the region of
the stomach and of the lower belly, with frequent acid and
disagreeable risings of the food, with little or no flatulence;
with palpitation of the heart, anxiety, tightness across the
chest, difficult breathing, and pains in the head, with a tendency to faint, then the treatment is easy.
Young children manifest this affection by bending their
legs on the body, by short breath, agitation, and restlessness.
Chamomilla is the principal remedy; and if this is not
successful, medical aid must be sought.




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A second affection of the stomach and of the bowels,
very common, is
FLATULENCE.
Flatulence is dependent in numerous cases upon general
causes; such as food of bad quality or excessive, quantity;
unsuitable drinks; and then immediate relief can be afforded.
When, from the wind, the lower intestines,are affected
with pains and a sense of tightness, the tightness being felt
also under the false ribs, the wind not effecting its escape,
China is very serviceable.
When constipation exists, as will be seen from the table,
and the sufferer is of a lively temperament, Nux Vomica is
useful.
When flatulence follows the use of rich food, and when it
occurs in women of a mild and gentle disposition, Pulsatilla
is an appropriate remedy.
A more active remedy is Cocculus; it is useful when,
in adition to the sense of tightness and contraction in the
lower belly, similar feelings exist in the reproductive organs;
also when there is swelling at the pit of the stomach: uneasiness at the stomach: gripings, twitchings, anxiety, and
pressure under the cartilages of the ribs, not diminished by
the discharge of wind, but relieved by the expulsion of the
offending matters.
A third affection, in which the stomach is intimately concerned, is
VOMITING.
This, when from excess of food, should be aided by warm
water, drank plentifully.




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Should aversion to food, nausea, and heavings of the
stomach continue after full vomiting, the tongue being
furred, then Antimonium Crudum is useful; but, if the
tongue is clean Ipecacuanha.
When vomiting is caused by food that is fat, Pulsatilla
is the remedy.
When vomiting has been preceded by a fit of passion,
and is attended with a bitter taste, bilious and bitter risings,
the matter ejected being green, bilious, and producing a
grating sensation in the throat: with fulness, and a pressing
pain at the pit of the stomach: general languor: total loss
of appetite: anxiety: thirst: giddiness, and semilateral
pains in the head, then Chamomilla must be used.
Add to these symptoms, the continuance of the passion
and a sensation of coldness, then Bryonia is to be employed
When children, who have pains in the belly, frequent
nausea, excess of saliva, with a vapid taste, pale complexion, discoloured lips, with general coldness and debility,
then Valeriana is the best temporary remedy; permanent
relief being obtained by the use of those means, which expel the worms, the cause of these symptoms.
A fourth affection of the stomach, with which the bowels
sympathise, is that designated
CRAMP OF THE STOMACH.
This cramp of the stomach presents itself in very numerous forms, being attended with constriction, pressure, pinching tearing pains at the pit of the stomach; with a feeling as




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though the clothes compressed the body at the pit of the
stomach; a feeling as of accumulated wind in the left side
under the ribs: pain extending to the back and the left side:
strong pressure at the back as from a hard substance: hot,
cramp-like feeling, extending to gullet, with a sense of suffocation: increased saliva, fainting, and oftentimes vomiting.
When these symptoms are present, and where coffee has
been much used, then Nux Vomica is the remedy.
Where, in addition, the lower belly is swelled with wind,
where constipation exists, semilateral headaches, pressive
pains in the forehead, Nux Vomica is useful.
As a proof that coffee often causes this cramp, the fact is
interesting, that coffee taken augments all these symptoms.
When nux vomica does not relieve, Cocculus often will,
especially where constipation, pain at the lower belly, relieved by a discharge of wind, and a fretful, self-absorbed,
sombre disposition, attend.
When the cramps are connected with nausea and vomiting and severe darting pains at the pit of the stomach, then
Ipecacuanha will cure.
When the nervous system is very excitable, so that the
slightest circumstance annoys the patient, then Chamomilla
is useful.
The Bowels.
The first affection of the bowels is that, in which the
bowels do not perform their duty; but require longer intervals than usual to expel their contents.




92,This affection is called
CONSTIPATION.*
Constipation is generally an effect of disease: not of
want of power in the intestines: not sluggishness, but the
effect of the vital power being occupied idi developing disease in some other part of the system.
When constipation occurs, unassociated with any chronic
diseases, (very rarely indeed does such constipation occur,)
the following tabular view will be of use in selecting the
appropriate remedy; ever remembering, that without exercise, and without proper food, there is no remedy for constipation. The bowels may be forced, but they will not act:
they may be emptied, but they will not empty themselves.
When newly-born infants are troubled with constipation,
the food they receive is generally the cause. If a change of
food does not relieve, then employ Nux Vomica, if the child
be active, noisy, lively: Pulsatilla, if the child be mild and
placid; if there are acid risings, burning heat in the pharynx, gripings, livid complexion, debility, and shiverings.
These remarks apply to children as well as infants.
In women mild and placid, where constipation is attended
with chilliness, thirst absent, tendency to shed tears, melancholia, Pulsatilla is useful.
Ignatia is suitable to gentle, amiable, lively; variable,
sometimes lively, sometimes depressed.
In constipation generally, the following remedies are
useful.
* For some views on the origin, the nature, and the cure of constipation, the reader is referred to a treatise, entitled " Constipation Curable," by John Epps, M.D.




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Bryonia.
1. Disposition much influenced by the constipation.
2. Flow of blood to
head.
3. Giddiness.
4. Headache..Jwuz Vomica.           Opium.
1. Ardent, hasty, and  1. Persons devoid of
inclined to anger,  energy, and torpid,
weak, nervous system.
2. Face full of blood


3. Giddiness.
4. Headache in walking,
in lowering the head.
4a. Pain in the forehead.


5. Pressure from with- 5. Pressure in the temout inwards at temples. pies, not relieved by sitting up or lying down.


5a. On stooping, the
brain feels as if forcing
through the temples.


6. Loss of appetite.
7. Tongue loaded with
mucus.
8. Lancinating, pressing pains in the lower
belly.
9. A feeling of constriction at the anus.
9a. Hiemorrhoids.


6. Loss of appetite,
thirst.
7. Dryness in the
mouth.
8. Throbbings in the
lower belly.
8a. Pressure at the stomach.
9. Desire to go to the
closet, with a feeling as
though the passage
were closed.


10. Persons easily  10. Disturbed sleep.
chilled.
11. Occurring in warm
weather.
Nux Vomica is useful in constipation from excess of
food; nux vomica, bryonia, ignatia, and opium, are useful
in the constipation of pregnant women, alternating, beginning with nux vomica.
Constipation, not giving way to these means, requires
the advice of the physician.
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An intestinal affection, regarded as the opposite of constipation, is that called
DIARRHCEA.
When the bowels act more frequently than natural, and
when the evacuations have a less solid character than natural, this is named diarrhcea, or looseness.
The nature of the evacuated matter differs very much;
and so do the attendant symptoms.


Chamomilla.   China.
1. Produced I. Produced
by cold or by by cold lipassion.     quids.
2. Motions 2. Clear, and
watery.  without any
admixture.


Dulcamara.
1. Produced
by cold, especially by
becoming
wet.
2. Watery.
2a. Slimy
and yellow.


Mercury.
I. Cold from
night air.
2. Watery,
profuse.
2a. Green,
sometimes
tinged with
blood.


Pulsatilla.
1. From errors in diet.


Sulphur.


Frequent.1 2. Acrid.


2a. Motions 2a
mucous.   in
ofi
3 Odour of
rotten eggs.
4. Pains vio- 4.
lent and tear- b
ing, obliging
him to
writhe and
turn over.. Contaii
g portion!
indigeste
food.. Sour.
Precede
y violent
colic.


1 -s
d


2a. Excoriating the anus
and surrounding
parts.


3a. Risings
in the mouth
of rotten
eggs, colic.


d 4. No pain in 4. Tearing
the belly. pain in the
lower belly,
whichiscold.
4a. Pain in 4a. A pinchthe region of ing pain in
the navel. the hollow of
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Ckamomilla.i   China.  I Dulcamara.1


5. Feeling as
if the belly is
hollow.
6. Constant
movement,
as of a ball
rolling fromi
side to side.
7. Nausea.
8.Eyes encircled with a
bluish ring


5. Weakness
in the belly.
6. Much,
noise.
3. Occurring
immediately
after partaking of food.


7. Nausea.
7a. Vomiting
occurring at
night.
10. In infants
in teething..


JMercury.
4b. Painful
straining
called tenesmus, before,
during, and
after an evacuation.
9. Shivering
and weakness.


5. Fulness ol
the lower
belly.
7. Nausea.
7a. Vomitings.


Pulsatilla.  Sulphur.


9. Gradual
emaciation,
and consumption at
its last stage.


Another disease of the intestines, approaching in some
features to diarrhcea, is
CHOLERA.
This disease occurs most frequently in the summer; is
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referrible to the heat of the atmosphere deranging the liver,
and thereby modifying the secretion of the bile.
Before an attack of cholera, many symptoms, called
bilious, generally appear: inactivity: heaviness: jaundiced
complexion: tongue covered with a yellow mucus: bitter
taste: dislike to food: bitter risings: fulness at the pit of
the stomach, with pressure and cramps: urine deposits a
reddish sediment, and smells offensively.
Chamomilla will remove these symptoms.
If these symptoms are neglected, the patient vomits first
his food, and then a watery bilious fluid; violent diarrhcea
takes place, the secretions being at first fetid, afterwards
watery and bilious. These symptoms neglected, or improperly treated, the pulse sinks: spasms in different parts of
the body appear: tenesmus, cold perspirations, and even
syncope.
Ipecacuanha is to be used when the vomitings and the
diarrhcea are established.
If cold sweats appear, and the vomitings and purgings
do not abate under the use of ipecacuanha, Veratrum must
be employed.
If there is insatiable thirst: pulse scarcely perceptible:
excessive prostration of strength: almost constant purging,
the matter tinged with blood, then Arsenic must be employed.
The medicines in this disease must be frequently repeated.
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Another disease of the intestines is that, well known under the name of
COLIC.
This is a disease which affects the larger intestines.
Sometimes it is produced by lead, and then it is called
painter's colic.
Colic consists, essentially, of tearing, pulling, racking
pains, unattended with inflammation, passing through the
interior of the belly from above downwards, being seated
principally about the navel.
In children the disease is manifested after a copious discharge of urine, by considerable agitation, crying, screaming, twistings during sleep: the legs are bent upon the
body: and by an inability to suck.
When, in addition to these general symptoms, the eyes
are distorted, the saliva is accumulated in the mouth, and
there is diarrhoea, with green, watery, mixed with mucous,
evacuations, then Chamomilla is the remedy: in very mild
dispositions, Pulsatilla.
When, in addition to the general symptoms, the following
'symptoms occur, Nux Vomica is indicated, namely hardened
faeces, constipation; weight in the lower part of the belly:
Pain, as if the intestines are squeezed in different directions: pain in the belly upon pressure: and coldness of the
extremities at the time when the affection is most violent.
Nux Vomica is the best remedy for windy colic, which is
attended by a feeling, when the wind is about to escape, of
a sharp cutting instrument making its way to the bladder,
rectum, and the parts of the lower part of the belly: this
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being felt more particularly in an erect posture, and being
lessened by lying down or sitting in a curved position.
When, however, the colic assumes the following characters, then Colocynth is useful.
Violent pains in the belly, constant;
If not constant, returning with augmented intensity:
The pains having departed, a bruised feeling remains behind:
The pain limited to one particular point:
So severe as to make the patient scream: and even to
bite anything:
Twists about like a worm:
Causes profuse sweating.
I have cured many most urgent cases by three globules
of the decillionth dilution, dissolved in four spoonfuls of
water; two immediately, and one every two hours till relief was obtained.
INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS.
This disease is attended with so much danger that the
physician's aid must be had.
It is characterized from Colic by the existence of excessive
scnsibilitq to touch; so much so that the weight of the clothes
is quite unbearable. In colic pressure generally relieves.
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The next affection of the intestines is that, called
PILES, OR HAEMORRHOIDS.
When this malady occurs in persons of middle age, they
should consult a physician, as the occurrence of this affection is dependent generally upon constitutional causes.
At the termination of the intestines these piles are found.
The pain is severe there and at the loins: itching is experienced at the anus, and around it there are excrescences,
painful, often livid: blood and mucus frequently escape
after the action of the bowels. Sometimes no discharge
of blood takes place, and then the piles are called dry.
The sufferer may obtain relief by the use of arsenic, belladonna, nux vomica, and sulphur.
Arsenic is indicated when in the rectum, in the hamorrhoidal tumours, and the parts adjacent, a violent burning
is felt: when there are watery evacuations attended with
great prostration of the bodily powers.
Belladonna relieves moist piles, attended with a pain in
the loins as if broken asunder.
Nux Vomica is suited to piles brought on by sedentary
habits, irregularity in living, late hours, intense mental exertion: with a feeling of contraction of the rectum, with
catching pains in the loins upon the slightest movement, and
the flow of clear fluid blood after the action of the bowels.
Sulphur is useful when the desire to go to stool is continual, even after evacuations: when the pain in the rectum
is darting: when there is itching and burning, and the excrescences are moist: when there is a feeling of fulness in
the rectum, with shooting pains in the loins.
In hemorrhoids, attended with colic, especially if the
pain makes the patient constantly desire to make water,
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Another affection of the intestines is that connected with
WORMS.
An accumulation of mucus in the intestinal canal seems
particularly favorable to the multiplication of worms.
The intestinal worms are three, the Ascaris, the Lumbricus, and the Tcenia.
The Ascaris is a short worm about an inch long. It produces an itching, and a frequent inclination to relieve the
bowels.
The Lumbricus is like an earth worm, only white, the
head being studded with slight eminences. It fastens itself
to the intestines, and by its motion and sucking, produces
painful griping about the navel.
The Tenia, or tape-worm, is flat, white, and jointed.
It is very difficult to recognise its existence by symptoms:
the only positive proof of its existence is the discharge of
portions.
Worms are looked upon with considerable horror. They
form a most powerful means by  hich quackery is enabled
to pillage the pockets of parents, and to destroy the health
of children. Almost every affection of childhood is referred
to worms, whereas diet, want of fresh air, too warm clothing, perpetual rocking, and in-lap-sitting are the most frequent causes of the symptoms which children have.
Worms are not so injurious as are the medicines taken
for their removal. But, say these nostrum vendors and
these drastic purges administrators, the worms are killed by
the medicine; and so oftentimes are the children: or if destruction does not take place, the bowels are so injured that
years are passed before the injury is removed. Worms,
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obnoxious bodies; and the mere removal of worms without
removing the intestinal condition, favouring their production, is no benefit. The common idea that, if the worm is
killed, the victory is gained, has been the justification for
the destructive practice of giving large doses of oleum terebinthinae (oil of turpentine) under the old system; a practice fraught with danger, and often quite ineffectual.
When worms become decidedly numerous and troublesome, then remedies should be employed. The choice will
be aided by the tables.
It may be remarked that very generally febrile symptoms
attend the injurious agency of worms. Hence Aconite is
generally useful to begin with. Where small worms exist,
Ignalia is beneficially used after aconite. Where the tapeworm exists, Sulphur is peculiarly efficacious generally. In
all obstinate cases, sulphur alternating with mercury is
highly efficacious. The symptoms recorded in the tabular
view are those presented by worms: the symptoms more
particularly belonging to each medicine are indicated by
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Paleness of the countenance..........do..
Swollen condition of the face.........  do
Livid hue round the eyes............. do..
Brown hue round the eyes............ do.
Dilatation of the pupils...................
Frequent boring at the nose............ do.
-       picking of the nose........... do.
Much saliva in the mouth............... do
Fetid  breath..........................
Foul  tongue......................
A desire for things, but when obtained rejected do.
Irregular appetite, generally craving even after  r
a  m eal........................ do.  "
Grinding  of teeth..................    do..
Nausea.........................
Abdomen'swollen...................  doHardness at the navel................ do.    "
Lower part of the belly hard and tender to the
touch........................ do
Coldness at lower part of belly...........
Gnawing  in the intestines...............
Burning in the intestines...................
Severe  colic pains..................   do.
W akeful at night......................
Screaming when awaking.................
Diarrhoea sometimes..................do
Constipation.........................
Em aciation.........................
Peevishness......................        do.
Fits of crying when touched........... do.
Low  spirits..........................
Uneasiness......................  do.
Restlessness..................... do.
Convulsions in children...................
Epileptic attacks in adults................




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JAUNDICE.
This is produced by an affection of the liver.
It seems as if the bile passed into the circulation, for the
eyes become yellow, also the countenance; and the evacuations become white and slimy, and the mouth has a bitter
taste.
Chamomilla is the best remedy, to be followed up by
Nux Vomica and, if chilliness attends, Bryonia.
If Chamomilla has been taken to excess, then Pulsatilla,
and Ignatia are to be employed, which are followed beneficially by China.
LIVER COMPLAINT.
Jaundice is a manifestation of disturbed liver.
The term liver complaint is very common, and very erroneously applied. In almost all cases of indigestion the liver
is disturbed: when, however, its diseased state is attended
with pain, sense of weight, and sometimes enlargement, in
the region of the liver, with pain at the collar-bone and at
the top of the right shoulder, with a dry cough, and inability to lie on the left side, the liver is considered to be in
a state of inflammation.
Aconite is the first remedy; and this must be followed
by Bryonia, or Nux Vomica, or Pulsatilla, or Mercurius,
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CHAPTER VI.
DISEASES OF THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM.
BESIDES the affections already enumerated, there are a
few, belonging to the
MUSCULAR SYSTEM.
These are
1. Rheumatism.      2. Gout.     3. Lumbago.
RHEUMATISM
is an affection, very extensive in its range, embracing the
muscles, their coverings, the tendons, the ligaments, and,
in some cases, affecting the membrane investing the bones.
Sometimes the affection is limited to a few muscles, and
then the sufferer finds relief from the non-use of those
muscles.
Sometimes the affection is so extensive, that the patient
cannot move himself in any direction without excruciating
pain.
Pain on motion is the most striking feature: diminution
or cessation of pain on rest, a weakness remaining, are
other features.
The heat of the bed generally increases rheumatic pains.
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Homceopathy presents several means of relief, and the following tabular view of the symptoms will direct the choice.
Aconite will be seen, from a reference to the symptoms,
p. 18, to be suited to almost all cases of rheumatism at the
commencement.
Bryonia.  Chanmomilla. Dulcamara..JVuz Vomica. Pulsatilla. Rhus Toxicodendron.
1. Aching  1. Tearing  1. From a  1. Tension  1. Drawing 1. Tension,
pains in the pains in the cold damp and pressure pains in the drawing and
joints of the  joints. - atmosphere. in the exter- muscles near tearing in
arm, the               Shooting, nal parts of the joints, the limbs.
back, the             drawing,and the chest,
nape of the             plucking. shootings in
neck, the                         muscles of
breast.                         the chest;
between the
shoulders;
tearing pain
in the nape
of the neck.
la. princi- la. Aggra-                                   la. Patients
pally during  vated at                                      suffer at
motion and  night, di-                                    night, and
inspiration. minished by                                  are relieved
sitting up in                                  by motion.
bed.
2. Drawing                         2 Pain in  2. Pains in  2. Pains of
tearing pains                      the cervical the joints of bruising, as
in the ten-                       vertebra du-  thefcct.  if the flesh
dons where                        ring motion              was torn
uniting with                       and respira-            from the
the bones, on                         tion.                  bones.
rising in the
morning.
2a. Pain   2a. Pains 2a. Pressing
like cracking frequently  drawing
at shoulder- changing   pain, as if
jointand   their posi- the periosshoulder-  tion. Exa-  tcum was
blade.   cerbated to- scraped from
wards even-  the bone.
ing.




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Bryonia.
3. Stiffness
of the body
especially
aftermidday.


Chamomrilla.
3a. All the
limbs as if!paralysed.
4. Toothacht
afecting lth
Wvlle side ol
the face, ex
tending to
the ear.
6. General
uneasiness.


Dulcamara.
3. Upper
limbs feel as
bruised,
worse at
night, and
at rest.
3a. Upper
imbs as paralysed and
cold.


JV'ux Vomica. Pulsatilla.,
3. Stiffness
of the back.


Rhus ToxicodeTzdron.
3. Sense of
torpor, and
dulness in
the parts affected, after
motion.


4. Coldness
of the feet
and hands.
5. Shiverings.


5. Shiverings.
6. Sense of
great weakness.
7. Cough and
sneezing.


GOUT.
With rheumatism, GOUT is in many most important particulars intimately allied.
Homoeopathic remedies afford most successful results in
respect to gout; but it is a disease so complicated in its
production and in its concomitant symptoms, as to require
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The next affection is
LUMBAGO.
This is an inflammatory affection of some muscles of the
loins; and manifests itself by violent, fixed, drawing, tearing pains in the loins, extending to the back and shoulders,
down to the thighs. It is attended often with an affection of the bladder, cramps being produced: difficulty in
the discharge of urine, with an inclination to go to stool:
the thigh afterwards feels weak, numbed, &c. and the sufferer cannot bend or extend the limb. The pain in the
back becomes so bad, that he cannot lie on it: fever supervenes: there is strong thirst: the pulse is hard, full, and
incompressible.
To subdue the febrile symptoms, Aconite must be repeatedly employed, if necessary.
When the pains are worst during motion, Bryonia and.
Nux: when worst in a state of rest, Rhus and Pulsatilla:
when insufferable during the night, Mercury and Chamomilla: when the pains are pulsative, and suppuration
threatens, Staphysagria: when spasmodic affections of the
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CHAPTER VII.
GENERAL AFFECTIONS.


1. Faintings.
2. Coma, lethargy, or somnolency.
3. Suspended animation;
3a. At birth;
3b. From starvation;


3c. From afall;
3d. From drowning;
3e. From being frozen;
3f. From lightning;
3g. Fromfoul air;


FAINTING.
The first advice is, be not in a hurry. This produces confusion and often injury. Let all tight garments be loosened;
let the patient lie horizontally; let the crowd be dismissed;
and let one or two persons, and those, if possible, known to
the patient, be in the room. Many persons have been seriously injured by discovering themselves, on recovery, unexpectedly in the presence of numerous strangers.
Having loosened the garments, sprinkle with a feather a
little clear water lightly on the face, sprinkle some on the
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If these have no effect, let. the patient smell the Spirit
of CAMPHOR.
The cause, being known, will often lead to the appropriate
remedy. Iffright has been the cause, then Opium o'r Aconite; the latter if there is heat; if from loss of blood or debilitating causes, China, also wine, but then it should be
given only in drops. Phosphorus is often very useful.
If mental emotions have been the cause, then Ignatia or
Chamomilla can be employed, (See Chapter 1st, on the
Causes of Disease.) If, fainting follows after SEVERE pains,
Aconite and sometimes Coffeaa; if, after slight pains, Hepar
Sulphuris. If fainting occurs after the slightest cxertion,
then Veratrum will be useful. If coming on in the morning,
especially with those, who have used much mental labour,
and those who have used ardent spirits, then Nux Vomica
will be the best remedy; also, if fainting occurs after meals.
When these remedies are used, they are to be smelled
only: the smelling not to be repeated more than once after
five or ten minutes; and then, if no effect is produced,
choose another remedy. If a beneficial effect is produced,
but ceases, then repeat the remedy.
If the patient is sick after awaking, do not attempt to
resist it; if he sleeps after, let him not be disturbed.
Moschus is suitable to girls of a chlorotic habit, to women
of a hysterical tendency, and to irritable delicate men.
To repeat: let not persons be frightened when a person
faints. It is oftentimes beneficial; changes in diseased
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COMA, LETHARGY, SOMNOLENCY.*
Persons lose their consciousness, lie in a deep sleep,
snore, and cannot be awaked.
The eyes should be opened; if the pupils are very small,
or one very small, the other very large, bleeding must not
be practised. But if the pupils are large, or the one very
large and the other as usual, bleeding may be resorted to,
if a skilful homceopathist, able to select a remedy suitable
to the case, is not present.
If the pulse be full and slow, the face red or pale, give
opium to smell, and lay a few globules on the tongue; and
if relief is not obtained, inject a pint of water, in which
some globules have been dissolved: if the pulse is very
weak, give Lachesis likewise.
Tartar Emetic is useful, when a nausea or inclination to
vomit has preceded the attack, or a choking has appeared,
then, when the patient is waking, give some teaspoonfuls of
aweak solution of tartar emetic, one grain dissolved in half
a glass of water; if requisite, give an ejection of the same.
3. SUSPENDED ANIMATION.
Suspended animation, when produced suddenly, should
not be regarded as death. No person should be regarded as
actually dead till putrefaction has taken place: and there'fore all those, suffering from suspended animation, induced
* For the remarks on this Section and the succeeding Sections
of this Chapter, I am indebted to Dr. Hering; and to the statements in reference to the recovery of drowned, strangled, and
frozen persons, the attention of the benevolent is particularly directed.




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by the operation of some violent cause, should not be regarded as dead, till means have been employed for restoration.
It may be useful to notice the circumstances, under which
suspended animation presents itself.
3a. Suspended Animation at Birth,Newborn infants are sometimes apparently dead. The
mouth is to be cleansed with the finger, around which some
linen has been put, and the nose also carefully cleaned. The
infant is to be wrapped round in warm clothes, and rubbed
on the breast and the hands with soft flannel. If the umbilical cord does not soon begin to pulsate, it is then to be cut
asunder as usual, and the child put into a warm bath, so as
to cover the whole body, except the face, with water. In
this bath the breast and the limbs are gently to be rubbed
and moved about. Should no sign of life appear after five
or ten minutes, then take as much emetic tartar as will lie on
the end of a penknife, and put it in a large tumbler of water,
and lay a little drop of the solution on the infant's tongue.
Should no alteration take place in fifteen minutes, repeat
the drop. Again in fifteen minutes take a tablespoonful of
the solution, mix it with a teacupful of luke-warm pure water, and give it as an injection. In the interim, nothing should
be used to smell at, or to rub with, or otherwise. If, after
the application of the preceding means, no change is produced in half an hour, then take, if the face is blue, opium,
if it is pale, China, and dissolve some globules in a teacupful of water, and use for an injection. In the meantime,
several drops of very cold'water, or a very small stream of
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or six feet on the breast of the infant, but particularly on the
left side of the breast: one person stands on a chair or table
with the kettle, another raises the infant with its breast out of
the water, and immediately after puts it again into the warm
water, repeating this several times; afterwards, the gentle
rubbing and pressing of the limbs, with warm hands, must
be renewed, and thus alternated for some time. Old persons
are not as fit for this service as are the young, vigorous, and
healthy. As soon as symptoms of urination appear, which
in many instances may be after two or three hours, then
cease to rub and to pour water; let the infant remain in
warm water until it begins to breathe and cry, then wrap it
in a good cloth, and lay it by its mother, or by a young,
vigorous, healthy person.
If the face of the infant then be red and blue, give
Aconite; if pale, China.
3b. Suspended Animation from STARVATION.
Small injections of warm milk should be administered
and often repeated. If signs of life appear, throw a drop
of milk into the mouth; afterwards some teaspoonfuls of
milk, and gradually more: when the recovering person
begins to express want, give spoonfuls of sopped bread,
afterwards of broth, and after that some drops of wine. A
sound sleep ought then to occur: and for some days, he
should eat only a little at a time. Eating too quickly or
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3 c. Suspended Animation from a FALL.
Convey the patient carefully on a bed, his head raised, so
that he can remain at ease, and put some globules of Arnica
in water on his tongue, and wait till a medical examination
of his body is made. If a vein is opened, only a little blood
should be drawn; for whoever is brought to life in this
way, would probably have otherwise recovered.
If the arnica fails, or if the bleeding does not appear
proper, give the arnica in injections. If the patient revive
after the bleeding, then give China, and, after it, Arnica, in
order to hasten the cure. If the patient, from the injuries,
has lost much blood, it is madness to bleed, but give China,
ajittle wine, a few drops, and, after all, Arnica.
3 c. Suspended Animation from STRANGLING, THROTTLING,
HANGING, STIFLING through a WEIGHT or PRESSURE.
Remove all tight clothes: place on a good bed, so that
the neck be quite free and not bent any way, as it commonly
is when a person lies in bed. Rub very gently but constantly
with warm clothes, giving immediately an injection of opium,
ten to twenty globules dissolved in half a pint of water, well
shaken and given at once, but injecting slowly. This is to
be repeated every quarter of an hour, while the lirmbs are to
be well rubbed up and down, especially on the inside. From
time to time a small mirror should be held before the mouth
and the nose, to see if breath begins to escape, whether he
opens his eye and sees, or the pupils move at all. Lay warm
clothes, hot stones, wrapped in cloths, on the feet, between
the legs, on the back, the sides, and under the armpits. If no
alteration appear in one or two hours, take a bitter almond,
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pound it fine, and mix with a pint of water, put some of it
in the mouth, lay two or three drops on the tongue or in the
nose, and give the remainder in small injections. If the injection goes forward, then take a longer pipe and keep to the
anus: after withdrawing it, place the thumb upon it for five
to ten minutes, and see whether the injection remains. In
addition, a healthy person may stroke with the palm of his
right hand, keeping the hand some inches from the body,
very quickly from the top of the head to the toes: at each
fresh stroke turning himself about, and carrying the hand
in a wide circle again to the head.
3 d. Suspended Animation from DROWNING.
Drowned persons are immediately to be undressed, the
mouth and the throat cleansed for half a minute or so, with
the abdomen and the head bent rather forward, so that the
water may run out; then put in a warm bed, wrapped in
warm clothes, or placed in warm sand and ashes, covered
therewith: if in summer, place the drowned person in that
season, wrapped in a coverlet, in the warm sunshine, the face
turned against the sun; the head lightly covered. Give the
opium injection, and begin to rub the limbs with warm
clothes, and continue so for hours. The passing of the hands
down may be tried. Bleeding is madness. If no benefit
is gained, lay on the tongue several globules of Lachesis, and
use them in an injection, and rub again for some hours.
"By such continued and unwearied exertion, persons,"
says Dr. Hering," who had been under water for HALF a day,
have been brought to life. Again: there is scarcely an individual who falls into the water whose life is indeed immediately destroyed by it; he dies a long time after it, and
commonly on the third day. Our skill only is not always
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3 e. Suspended Animation from being FROZEN.
Persons frozen may, says Dr. Hering, even after several
days, be restored to life. They must be taken up and removed with the utmost care, as the limbs may be broken:
they must be brought into a room not heated or into a shed,
but where there is no draft of air. They are then to be
covered completely with snow, at least to the depth of the
hand, even over the face, leaving a space that the nostrils
and the mouth be free. They should be so placed, that the
melted snow may quickly run off, and the snow melted must
be replaced. If no snow can be had, place in a cold bath,
coldened by ice; if the ice attaches to the body or the limbs,
it must be removed. The body is thus thawed, becoming
soft and pliant: then cover gradually and cut what is necessary of the garments from the body. If becoming soft and
movable, commence rubbing the soft parts with snow, and
continue till redness is produced. This process should be
gradually discontiiued, undress, lay on a dry bed, and rub
with cold flannel, stockings, old pieces of blanket, &c. If
still no signs of life appear, take a morsel of camphor or
some spirit of camphor, shake it in some water, and administer as an injection. Repeat this every fifteen minutes.
If during the rubbing or by use of the camphor, symptoms of life or recovery appear, give a small injection of
luke-warm black coffee, and as soon as able to swallow,
give some coffee, a teaspoonful.
When the signs of life increase, let everything wet be removed, rub every part till quite dry, but not luke-warm.
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" If we do not shun the labour, we can sometimes, AFTER
MANY HOURS, restore the apparently dead to life."
Very often violent pains now arise. Give Carbo Vegetabilis, and repeat as often as necessary. If it fail to relieve, Arsenicum must be given. Should stitching pains
occur, or heat in the head, Aconite will relieve.
3 f. Suspended Animation from LIGHTNING.
Persons struck by lightning, should be placed with the
face towards the sun, in pure fresh earth, and covered with it,
so as to be on a half-sitting and half-lying posture, and nothing but the face exposed. As soon as the eyes move,
the face should be shaded, and several globules of Nux
Vomica should be placed on the tongue. Should no signs
of life appear in half an hour, repeat the Nux Vomica: in
fifteen minutes after, put Nux Vomica in water, and lay it
on the nape of the neck: after another fifteen minutes,
remove the soil from the lower part, and give an injection
of ten to twenty globules of Nux Vomica in half a pint of
water. Put some cotton wool in the anus, to prevent any
evacuation; cover every part again with earth, and let the
person lie in this position until he begins to breathe, on
which, remove the earth from the chest, and bring the person into a clear sunny chamber.
For any complaint which may follow, Nux Vomica and
Sulphur are very efficient.
3 g. Suspended Animation from FOUL AIR.
From various causes, such as gasses disengaged from
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The sufferer should be brought immediately into the fresh
air, undressed, placed on his back and the breast elevated.
Throw cold water in his face and breast. If a solution of
chloride of lime in water is at hand, dip a sponge in and
hold it before the nose, the solution to be weakened so as
not to excite cough in a sound person who happens to
breathe it. Put a teaspoonful of the strong solution into
a tumbler full of water, and inject half a teaspoonful into
the mouth of the sufferer. Repeat this from five to ten
minutes, discontinuing gradually as the patient improves.
If chloride of lime solution is not at hand, mix some
vinegar with an equal quantity of water, and sprinkle the
face with it; and hold a sponge, dipped in vinegar before
the nose and the mouth.
During this time the patient should be rubbed with hot
flannel. If the face has been sprinkled, wipe it dry after a
little while: then rub it with hot flannel and repeat the
sprinkling. The feet, the stomach, breast and arms particularly ought to be well rubbed. The soles of the feet
and the back may be brushed a little with a stiff brush.
Be not too hasty, but proceed gently and continue patiently. Life sometimes will not return till after three or
four hours.
If the patient, apparently dead, does not breathe at all, it
is useless to hold a sponge before his nose; only try from
time to time by holding a light feather there, whether his
breathing has recommenced. Blow breath occasionally into
his mouth, which is best done by a person inhaling as much
as he can, and then placing his mouth on that of the apparently dead (whose nose should be held shut), and blowing
in the breath gradually. If you perceive the breast rising
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a towel around the breast, and after the breath has been
blown in, pull it gently. Thus by keeping up an artificial
respiration, a person appatently dead may often be restored
again, but he who undertakes the operation should himself
be healthy and have a clean breath, and either drink, or rinse'
his mouth occasionally with vinegar. As soon as the sufferer
begins to breathe, or the exhalation of the breath infused
becomes more rapid, cease the infusion, blow gently fresh ait
towards him, and only when the breath becomes stronger,
hold a sponge to his mouth, dipped in a very weak solutioi
of chloride of lime, or vinegar. You ought to be very careful, indeed, lest you extinguish the feeble life jhst returning.
If the patient recovers, give him a few drops of a weak solution of chloride of lime or vinegar. If he complains of cold,
inclination to go to stool, or nausea, and vinegar will not renove this feeling, or the patient dislikes it, give him a little
black coffee; if he complains of heat and great weakness,
give him a little good, and, if possible, old wine. The
smell of camphor is also often beneficial. Consult in this
respect the wishes of the patient; whatever is most agreeable to him, or affords himi relief, deserves the preference.
Andther mephitic gas is developed in deep wells, vaults,
and lime furnaces, which is suffocating. It has no bad
sinell, but makes him who inhales it sleepy, giddy, and at
last senseless.
Persons affectdd by it will usually revive in a short time,
if they are speedily brought into the fresh air, sprinkled with
cold water, and with vinegar, and particularly by the infusion
of black coffee. Do not act with too much precipitation -
delay is not dangerous in such a case. If respiration does
riot return, it Will be necessary to blow in some breath.
The vapour of charcoal is very dangerous, paiticularly
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c-hamber without a chimney. This refers also to stone-coal.
It has also happened that old wood work has been grlimmering, and thus continued for days without smoke, and that
the inhabitants of such a house, not minding the not very
perceptible smell of something burning, were found on the
point of death, before the glimmering had even been discovered. It is remarkable that persons exposed to this
exhalation become so feeble as to be unable to go into the
fresh air, to open doors and windows, or to call for aid.
They labour under- the greatest inconvenience, perceive
their danger, yet cannot resolve to remove from the spot,
or save themselves. A similar sensation seizes those who
in very cold weather sit down in the open air to rest themselves; although they know the fate that hangs over them,
they cannot recover courage to resist it.
The signs of poisoning from the effect of coal-fire, before
apparent death prevails, are: - headache with nausea, violent exertion to vomit, vomiting, even of blood; a heavy
load seems to oppress the breast;- the-face becomes red,
purple, and full of blood; the patient is seized with an involuntary, convulsive weeping, talks incoherently, falls
down suddenly into fits, becomes senseless and apoplectic.
Carry him into the fresh air, rub him with vinegar and
let him inhale it. If the face is already purple, and he talks
incoherently, throw ice-cold water over his head. In geaeral it is well to apply cold to the head, wvarmth to the feet.
After the patient has recovered, it will be well to give him
OPIUM, removing the vinegar. Should Opium help, but
not long, repeat it. After some hours, or sooner, Opium,
and no effect, give Belladonna, and let it have time to operate. In case of apoplexy only it will be useful to bleed first.
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than that from coal-fire upon their inhabitants. Such buildings ought to be pulled down; however, if people have to
live in them. endeavour to kill the dry rot by stone-coal
fire. Apply this, as much as possible, above, below, and
about the spot where the dry rot breaks out. Brush the
spot itself with a strong solution of blue vitriol, or sulphate
of copper. To guard against the effects of the dry rot,
put a few drops of sulphuric acid into a gallon of rain water, and take occasionally a drink of it.
To obviate the bad consequences of exhalations from
chloride of lime, to which people are sometimes exposed,
smoke tobacco; or drop some strong brandy, rum, or spirits
of wine on a piece of loaf-sugar, and put it into your mouth.
In accidents from inhaling poisonous vapours, such as
prussie acid, or mineral acids, take spirits of hartshorn, or
spihits of sal ammoniac, which will afford relief; but do by
no means apply the vial containing such spirits to the nose,
you would only increase the evil thereby - pass the open
vial at the distance of about six or eight inches slowly before
the sufferer, so as to communicate the smell feebly to him;
continue this as often as may be necessary. Or put a drop
on a bit of paper, insert this into an empty bottle, and let
him sometimes smell at the bottle. But if the vapours were
from alkali, this would avail nothing; in that case let him
inhale the smell of vinegar. Whether the vapours are from
acid or alkali, you will find out by blue paper; acids will
make it turn red, alkali will make that which is stained red
from acids blue again. In cases of poisoning from acid
vapours you may put one drop of spirits of sal ammoniac
into a tumbler full of water, and give of this mixture a teaspoonful every ten minutes; in poisoning from vapours of
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PART II.
CHAPTER         I.
THE CONDUCT DURING THE STATE OF
PREGNANCY.
A PREGNANT woman occupies a position of the highest
interest. She bears about with her a living being, whose
future physical, and, it may be added, intellectual, moral,
and animal condition is dependent, in a great measure,
upon the conduct and the state of mind, which she pursues
and cultivates during the period of pregnancy.
The mental and moral influence of the pregnant female
on her offspring is a subject too wide to come within the
limits of this work. The physical influence may be noticed.
To enable a mother to realize for her child that excellence
of constitution, a child has a right to expect to receive from
its parent, she must pay attention during her pregnancy to
her DIET, her EXERCISE, and her DRESS.
In reference to diet, the mother should avoid both all
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In regard to stimulating foods, many think these are
justified by the peculiarities of appetite existing during the
period of pregnancy. But these peculiarities are not the
products of health, but the consequences of disease, and, as
such, should be treated medicinally and morally; not pampered by articles of diet, which augment the diseased
states, upon which these peculiarities are dependent.
Another decisive evidence that stimulating foods or drinks
are injurious, because unsuitable, is afforded in the fact,
that the pulse of the pregnant female is much more rapid
than the usual pulse of the same female when not pregnant.
Plain, nutritious, unstimulating food should be the constant source of nourishment to the pregnant female. And
this food should not be taken in larger quantities than usual.
Many think that, because a pregnant female has to nourish
a second being, she needs this increase of supply: but it
must be remembered, that, during the period of healthy
pregnancy, the natural monthly discharge, common to women, ceases: and the cessation of this must be almost, if
not quite, an equivalent to the increased demand upon the
constitution by the living being.
The food should be nutritious and digestible. Indigestible articles of diet, by producing excruciating colic, have,
as Dr. Eberle has proved by several remarkable instances,
produced abortion, even so early as the fourth month: a
result, still more likely to happen as the period of pregnancy advances nearer to its termination.
But, besides the diet of the DIGESTIVE organs, there is a
diet of the LUNGS, necessary to be followed, in particular by
the pregnant female. The food the lungs require is good air.
The bed-room should always be a well-aired, good-sized
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dition. She should avoid late hours and rise early; make'
as much use as possible of day-light; bed-curtains should be
avoided, and the bed-clothes should be exposed to the air
so as to be deprived of the perspiration accumulated during
the night. The practice of making beds immediately on
rising may be a tidy but is not a healthy practice.
The second point to which attention must be paid, is
Exercise.
The MUSCULAR system requires exercise, which is its diet;
Walking is the best exercise: Dancing, riding on horseback, unless at very easy paces, travelling over rough roads
should be avoided. Well regulated exercise gives power
to the muscular fibres, forming the external investment of
the bowels; and, as on their healthy state depends, in a
considerable measure, the expulsive power, necessary to aid
the womb in the expulsion of the child at birth, the importance of walking, by which chiefly these muscles are
strengthened, must appear.
These remarks lead to the third circumstance, necessary
to be attended to by the pregnant female; it is DRESS.
The dress should be loose - stays are to be deprecated -
they tend to destroy the power of the abdominal muscles by
preventing their regular action; and there can be but little
doubt that the ineffectual labour-pains, from which many
women in confinement suffer so much, depend upon the inability of the womb, unaided by the abdominal muscles,
(these having been weakened by the want of healthy action,
from the impediments of tight lacing,) to expel the child.
Stays, tight stays or tight abdominal supporters, produce
worse effects than this. They often occasion the child to
occupy a position in the womb, not according to its natural
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often is the case, causes trouble and oftentimes danger in
the birth. Dr. Eberle remarks, " the custom of wearing
tightly-laced corsets during gestation, cannot be too severely censured. It must be evident to the plainest understanding, that serious injury to the health of both mother and
child, must often result from a continual and forcible compression of the abdomen, whilst nature is at work in gradually enlarging it for the accommodation and development
of the fcetus. By this unnatural practice, the circulation
of the blood throughout the abdomen is impeded,- a circumstance which, together with the mechanical compression of the abdominal organs, is peculiarly calculated to
give rise to functional disorder of the stomach and liver, as
well as to hemorrhoids, uterine hemorrhage, and abortion.
The regular nourishment of the fcetus, also, is generally
impeded in this way - a fact, which is frequently verified
in the remarkably delicate and emaciated condition of infants, born of mothers who have practised this fashionable
folly during gestation. It may be observed, that since the
custom of wearing tightly-laced corsets has become general
among females, certain forms of uterine disease are much
more frequent than they were sixteen or eighteen years
ago. "
To these valuable remarks may be appended the following statements of Dr. Andrew Combe: "The Romans
were so well aware of the mischief caused by compression
of the waist during gestation, that they enacted a positive
law against it; and Lycurgus, with the same view, is said
to have ordained a law compelling pregnant women to wear
very wide and loose clothing."
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the womb, when the exciting cause has been applied, is as
natural and as healthy an action as the formation of chyme
by the stomach when the food has been introduced into it:
and therefore, this condition should not be regarded with a
feeling of anxiety, but rather should be looked upon as a
means of developing health; and that this is the case is rendered evident by the fact, that a female, who has brought
a child into the world, presents a few days after, in her
countenance, a peculiar freshness and clearness, that must
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CHAPTER 11.
THE DISEASES OF, OR DISTURBED STATES
CONNECTED WITH, PREGNANCY.
TIIOIGH the state of pregnancy is one perfectly natural
and therefore perfectly healthy, yet, from the existence of
disordered constitution, from the influence exerted on the
frame, by the excessive use of medicines prescribed under
the old system, and by -numerous other causes, it often
happens, that, attendant upon the state are many deviations
from health, which may be noticed, and the best means for
removal detailed.
One of the earliest manifestations is presented in what
is called
MORNING SICKNESS.
Under the old system the difficulty of curing this unpleasant affection all must know. In fact, the inefficacy of the
means used had led medical men to recommend their patients to consider it as a thing that must lbe, and that they
must ivait till the quickening: just as they call all complaints, for which they know no medicines, nervous, forgetting that a nervous affection is a complaint, is a disease, and
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Homceopathy presents remedies, one in particular, for
this morning sickness. I have tried the one referred to,
namely, Nux Vomica, in numerous cases with success.
Three globules are to be dissolved in eight spoonfuls of
water; and let the patient take two spoonfuls at eight, P.M.,
for two successive evenings, and then every other evening.
(Nux 'Vomica, given to a person in health, produces morning sickness, nausea, vomiting, and heartburn. Hence its
efficacy.)
If, with the morning sickness, there is relaxation of the
bowels, Ipecacuanha, dissolved, and taken as the Nux Vomica, will be successful,
NO. 2.;ONTINUANCE OF MENSTRUATION.
The discharge of the menstrual fluid is the healthy action
of the womb in the non-pregnant state.*
The pregnant state is a new action. It suspends the previously existing action, namely; that connected with the
formation of the menstrual fluid. If, therefore, this fluid
continues to be formed, such continuance is a deviation from
health, and must tend to prevent the proper concentration
of the powers of life to the formation of the new being.
Under such circumstances the physician's aid should be
sought, and that early, as thus he will be able to devise
means by which miscarriage, often connected with this
continuance of the menstrual discharge, will, it is likely, be
prevented.
* See Affections of.Women. The Monthly Period. By John
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No. 3. CONSTIPATION.
In many pregnant females the bowels do not act except
with difficulty. If any inconveniences result from this impeded action, Nux Vomica, Bryonia, and Opium are the
principal remedies; and, in reference to their use, full particulars can be found in the article on constipation.
NO. 4. TOOTHACHE.
It is a curious fact that pregnant females are often subject to toothache. Whether or not this arises from the increased action in the system, dependent upon the pregnant
state, developing latent tendencies, would form an interesting inquiry; but the fact is so, and the remedies for toothache, detailed under that head, will be useful.
Olfaction or smelling of the selected medicines is quite
enough in such cases; indeed, the internal use of the medicines is sometimes too powerful: both facts being explicable
upon the increased susceptibility to impression in the pregnant state. The selection of the appropriate remedy will be
rendered easy by reference to Toothache, (pp. 76, 77, 78.)
Another affection, dependent in part on the impediment
to the return of the blood to the heart, but, in a greater
degree, upon a diseased state of the constitution, appears,
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suming a corded appearance, and often attended with considerable pain. This affection is nameA
VARICOSE,
and the vessels are named
NO. 5. VARICOSE VEINS.
Gentle friction, before going to bed at night, is very useful: the use of a bandage well applied, that is, applied, so
as to press equally on every part, will do much good.
The internal remedies most useful are Nux Vomica and
Sulphur, alternately exhibited. When in the veins there
is a burning sensation, and the hue is livid, Arsenicum is
useful: when the parts surrounding the veins appear as
legs do that have been long exposed to the heat and the air,
a kind of bruised burnt appearance, Pulsatilla is useful.
A sixth affection, connected with the stage of pregnancy,
is the too early introduction of the human being into the
world: namely,
NO. 6. MISCARRIAGE OR ABORTION.
There perhaps is no point of view under which the power
of homceopathic remedies is more interestingly apparent
than in the prevention of miscarriage. I have succeeded
in several instances in enabling mothers, who have been
unable to go the regular period, to attain that desirable state.
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One lady, in particular, who, in spite of the best medical
allopathic and antipathic aid, and notwithstanding the
greatest care, had miscarried four times, consulted me, and
was enabled, although having all the usual threatenings, to
escape miscarriage, and to present to her husband a most
beautiful and healthy child.
To prevent miscarriage in persons, who have had previous miscarriages, these occurring about the same time in
the pregnancy, Hartmann recommends to give Secale on
the first cessation of the monthly discharge, and to repeat
it every fourteen days till the period has passed by.
The medicines that I have used with most success are
Sabina and Bclladonna. Where, however, such a hemorrhagic tendency exists, the advice of the physician should,
and no doubt will, be sought in the selection of the appropriate remedy or remedies.
One thing should however be attended to, it is total abstinence from all warm drinks. Milk is the best drink, and
that should be cooled.
The common remedies and the usual medical treatment
when hemorrhage does take place, often do more harm than
good. The dashing of cold water has often produced inflammation and other serious diseases, the injection of alum
has frequently been the originating cause of induration s:
and the practice of stuffing clothes up the passage only
conceals the bleeding, but does not stop it.
The first thing is, that the sufferer should lie quite quiet,
moving herself as little as possible, trying to compose her
mind by reflecting that blood is lost from the nose in large
quantities, and that still larger are often taken by the allopathist's lancet. The utmost stillness should be preserved,
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cultivate the habit of self-command. Medical men are
obliged to appear joyous when they are often sad at beholding the condition of a patient; others should try and
imitate them.
With every violent hemorrhage Dr. Hering advises, " the
thighs may be firmly bound with a cloth, a silken one being
preferable: also the upper part of the arms. A little cold
water should be swallowed, and should paleness and fainting appear, some drops of wine, only not more than one
drop at a time, will be found very serviceable. Smelling
vinegar, rubbing the nose, the temples, and other parts
with vinegar is, in many cases, very good, only the patient, as is often done, should not be inundated with it;
the utmost that need be, is a teaspoonful brought in the
hand, or the finger may be dipped, so that the smell of the
vinegar may afterwards be easily removed," as such smell
might interfere with the operation of a remedy that the
physician may prescribe.
Other remedies may be seen under the heads of Epistaxi
and Haemoptysis.
Purgative medicine is one frequent cause of miscarriage;
in fact, it is had recourse to for that effect. No homoeopathist uses such medicines; and the fact, that miscarriage
is often induced by such medicines, shows strongly the
value of homoeopathy, which affords remedies that regulate the bowels without purging them.
The following table will direct as to the choice of the
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Belladonna.
1. Blood
rather dark;
rather red.
2.Downward
pressure of
internal genital organs,
as if they
were about
to descend.
3. Violent
pains in the
lowest part
of back-bone
or sacrum.


Bryonia.
1. Blood
dark red.
3. Severe
pressing
pains in the
sacrunm.
4. Pain in
head,
especially
the temples.


Chamomilla.
1. Blood
dark
coloured and
coagulated,
discharged at
intervals.
2. Labourpains in the
lower part
of abdomen,
attending
each
discharge.




(Yrocus.
1. Blood
black,
clotted,
tough.
S2. Cutting-pains in the
lower part
of abdomen
extending
3; towards
the sacrum.


Hyoscyamus.
1. Blood
bright led,
but flowing
most during
the spasms.
7. Discharge
accompanied
by spasms
of the whole
body, or
single limbs
followed by
8. stiffness of
the joints.
9. Pulse slow,
weak, and
intermittent.


Ipecacuhana.
2 Cuttingpains-about
the navel.
3. Pressure
towards
womb and
anus.
6. Chill and
coldness of
body with
internal heat
rising to
head.


5. Much
thirst.
6. Coldness
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CHAPTER III.
ON   CHILD-BIRTH AND ITS SEQUELS.
SECTION 1.
THE BIRTH OF THE CHILD.
THE birth of a child is, in reference to the womb, what
the expulsion of the feces is in reference to the bowels.
When the intestine has received from the accumulated
fceces that amount of stimulus, necessary to call its contractive expulsive powers into action, it contracts, and,
aided by the abdominal and other muscles, expels that which
it contained; so, when the child has attained that developement, both as to condition and to size, generally attained at
or before the ninth month after conception, it becomes to
the womb a stimulus of such a nature, that the womb is
called upon to expel it, which expulsion, aided by the abdominal muscles, it effects.
THE ONE EXPULSIVE PROCESS IS JUST AS NATURAL AS THE
OTHER; the differences being, that one is an expulsion
taking place every day in the year, the other, perhaps not
more than once in two or three years, and, also, that the one
is a living mass, tied to us by the bonds of affection, the
other, an offensive mass, which we hasten to remove. But
the child born is, in reference to the expulsive process, as
much the feeces of the womb, as the expelled matter of the
gut is the faeces of the last intestine.
To attempt therefore to identify the process of delivery,
that is, the expulsion of the contents of the womb at the
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ger, as a disease that requires medical aid, is as absurd as
to maintain, that the gut delivery is a process of danger
and requires medical aid.
It is true that the last intestines of some persons pass into
so disordered a state as to require medical skill; and so some
child-deliveries may, from diseased conditions of the womb,
require medical aid; but, to suppose that such conditions
are the usual conditions, and that medical aid is required in
the generality of cases, is as foolish as to suppose, that
every person, when he has a healthy action of the bowels,
requires to be aided by a groom of the not stole, but stool.
PAINS, however, in badly CIVILISED society, that is, society that has, in many most important respects, founded its
civilization on bases, quite opposed to nature's precepts, do
attend the bringing a child into the world. These pains
are sometimes severe, and are felt with strong intensity by
women of peculiarly sensitive constitutions: particularly
at the birth of the first child, and more particularly, when
the parent has her first child at an advanced age.
To relieve the pains connected with labour, I have found,
in numerous cases during the last two years, the following
extremely useful; in fact, a written copy of these directions with the appropriate medicines have been presented
to many patients, who have passed through their confinement, since they have embraced homceopathy, using no
means but homoeopathic.
Should the labour-pains be ineffectual, but intense, take
three globules of COFFEA.
Should this fail in affording relief, or, if affording relief,
cease to afford relief, the sufferers, in the course of two hours,
may take two globules of ACONITE, or else two globules of
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there is a constant urging to stool, Nux Vomica is to be
preferred.
Should the labour-pains be absent or weak, or at long intervals, and the expulsive attempts ineffectual, then two
globules of PULSATILLA can be taken.
Sometimes Pulsatilla is ineffectual, and the labour-pains
occur every quarter of an hour, and there are very severe
pains in the hips and at the thighs, then two globules of
SECALE can be given with benefit.
In some cases the labour-pains suddenly cease, and tremor,
stupefying sleep, with snoring occur, the eyes half closed,
and great dfficulty exists in arousing the patient, then two
globules of OPIUM can be given with advantage.
Dr. Hering, of America, whose works corroborate the
above use of the above remedies, remarks, that, when the
pains suddenly disappear, and are unattended with the above
symptoms, two drops of the mother tincture of cinnamon
are very effectual.
Tne after-birth, when not expelled by the womb's own
power, or removed by the usual mechanical means, will be
aided in its discharge by pulsatilla, or secale, or some
one of the remedies already detailed, selecting according
to the symptoms.
During the process of child-birth all stimuli are to be
avoided.
SECTION 2.
DIRECTIONS AFTER DELIVERY.
To all hommoopathists, ARNICA is known as a specific
against bruises of soft parts. The process of forcing the
child through the passage from the womb to the air may
be regarded as a process, in which the soft parts are bruised;
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appropriately constructed the parts, that form the walls of
the genital apparatus in women, that these parts are capable
of dilatability, so that they expand during delivery, and
thereby give room by diminishing their mass by diffusing
that mass over a wide surface.
But still the process is a slightly bruising process. This
idea led me to use arnica, and the benefits resulting from
its use are so great, that I know no remedy so serviceable, and no use of a remedy more delightful than this of
arnica. I could give many cases illustrative.
The arnica can be used both internally and externally:
internally, two globules in a wine-glass of water: externally, by means of a lotion, formed of forty drops of the
tincture to a small tumbler of water.
The use of arnica is the most effectual preventive of
what, to many women, is more distressing than the labour
itself, namely, the
AFTER PAINS.
These after-pains are caused, in most cases, by the medicines and the stimuli given during delivery, by the too
great officiousness of the medical attendant, and often by
the too hasty removal of the after-birth.
The use of arnica will, in general, prevent them: and
the medicines detailed, as suitable for pains before delivery,
will be useful.
SECTION 3.
DIET, &C., AFTER DELIVERY
The patient should be kept quiet. No opiates should be
given to induce sleep. Slumber comes " of nature's wont;"
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globules of Coffaea will subdue the restlessness and turning
about in bed: but, if, with these symptoms, there is fever,
or if coffaea does not relieve, or if feverish heat is the prominent feature, then two globules of aconite, every six or
eight hours, can be given.
The mother should remain in bed from five to ten days;
after that she may rise daily, each day lengthening the
period during which she sits up; keeping the legs more
raised than dependent. If there is much weakness the
horizontal position should be used.
The diet should be light, that is, not concentrated nutriment.
All stimulating foods are to be avoided; and so are the
stimuli to the senses; hence, in reference to the sight, the
room should be left dark; in reference to the sense of
smell, all flowers and aromatics and scent boxes should be
excluded; in reference to the sense of hearing, quietness
should be enforced; and in reference to the higher senses,
the moral, the religious, and the intellectual, tranquillity
should be sought after.
The same reason, which demonstrates that no necessity
exists, that the pregnant woman should take stimulating
foods or drinks, demonstrates that the woman suckling
needs no stimuli, or no great increase of nutriment.
The menstrual discharge does not exist in either: the
child formation is its substitute in the pregnant state: the
child nourishing its substitute in the suckling state.
Porter, the liquid generally taken to nourish, is hardly
ever pure. Different ingredients are introduced, which
are deleterious both to the mother and the child.
Good cocoa is the best drink, and supplies quite sufficient
nutriment, and that without undue stimulus: an advantage
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CHAPTER IV.
DISEASED STATES AFTER DELIVERY.
CONSTIPATION, No. 1.
Do not be troubled about the bowels not acting. Nature
is busy restoring the natural condition of the womb and the
genital organs; all her powers are occupied in that direction and therefore she leaves the intestines. When she has
effected her purposes, the intestines will act of themselves.
Remember this- that ACUTE diseases, inflammation of
the bowels, puerperal fever, and the CHRONIC diseases, the
bearingb down of the womb, the inability of retaining water,
which so much trouble women who have borne children,
are, in most cases, the consequences of the purging system.
About the fifth or sixth day after confinement the bowels
generally act. If more than a week occui without an action, take two globules of BRYONIA; and, if no action
takes place in twelve hours, take another globule of bryonia; and, if in twelve hours after that there is no action,
use a lavement of about three quarters of a pint of warm
water, if friction over the bowels is not effectual.
Dr. Hering remarks, that "1 for constipation in childbed
nothing should be done, and if it continue fourteen days, as
it is always a very good symptom, the woman will, in consequence, be healthier and stronger." After that time he
recommends the already recorded remedies. (See pp. 92,
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DIARRHCEA OF LYING-IN-WOMEN.
If it be not desirable that the bowels should be purged
by medicine during the first few days after confinement, it
is quite apparent, that a looseness of bowels, a DIARRHMEA,
must be decidedly injurious, and requires remedial treatment.
The symptoms recorded in connexion with the remedies
for diarrhea, pp. 94, 95, will indicate the medicine to be
chosen to subdue this state; but, generally speaking, Dulcamara is the best remedy; as the diarrhoea, affecting lyingin-women, is peculiarly likely to originate in a check to the
natural perspiration, for which, i. e. thus produced, diarrhcea, Dulcamara is the specific.
Hyoscyamos seems to be particularly useful when the
diarrhoea is without pain, and when the evacuations are involuntary or almost so.
When much debility is induced by the continuance of the
diarrhcea, when there is much perspiration with the diarrhcea, Phosphorus will be useful, or Phosphori Acidum, but
under such circumstances, medical aid ought to and will, it
is likely, be sought.
THE LOCHIAL DISCHARGE.
A discharge takes place after delivery, continuing for
some days. This discharge is called the Lochia, or the Lochial Discharge.
When it continues abundant beyond nine or ten days
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Crocus is the principal remedy. The characteristics indicating its use, will be seen page 51, article Epistaxis.
Bryonia will be useful when the discharge is of a deep
red, attended with burning pains in the uterine region, but
with chilliness in other parts.
Calcarea is indicated where there is itching in the womb.
Belladonna is indicated when the discharge is nauseous
and offensive.
Sometimes pure blood flows each time that the child is
put to the breast; then Silicea is the remedy.
If the lochia should be suddenly suppressed, puerperal
fever may be produced. Pulsatilla is the best remedy under such suppression.
SORE NIPPLES.
To prevent the sore nipples, the best plan is a few weeks
before confinement to wash the nipples with cold water, or
with spirits of wine, obtained from distillation of grain: to
continue this after the confinement, adding five or six globules of arnica to the water used to wash with.
If, notwithstanding these means, the nipples should become sore, give sulphur for two days, and wash the nipples
with cold water, having five or six globules of the sulphur
dissolved therein. If after two or three days there is no
change for the better, use calcarea carbonica: and wash
with water, having had six globules of the calcarea dissolved therein. If still the soreness is not much improved,
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INFLAMMATION OF THE BREASTS.
Fright, cold, sudden weaning, and numerous other causes,
may induce this disease.
The milk coagulates in the milk vessels, swelling takes
place: the skin becomes tense, an inflammation, approaching to erysipelas, takes place; this, if not stayed, proceeds
to suppuration, cold sweats break out over the body, the
head becomes affected, and, after almost intolerable agony,
the matter discharges externally.
Belladonna, if administered when the erysipelatous appearance and the swelling first appear, will often stop
the progress.
When the breast is hard and swollen and the milk suppressed, then Bryonia can be used.
In conjunction with these affections of the breast there is
a disease, called
MILK FEVER.
This fever is developed, when, from any cause, the free
formation of milk is interfered with.
The treatment depends greatly upon the exciting cause.
If a blow, or a severe and protracted labour, be the
cause, then Arnica, internally administered and externally
applied, is the best remedy; premising that, should decided
inflammatory symptoms present themselves, Aconite must
be previously used.
When rheumatic pains exist in the breast, then Bryonia,
after aconite, if the fever be strong; without aconite, if
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When erysipelas threatens, then Belladonna:
When joy is the exciting cause, Coffcea:
When passion is the exciting cause, and the fever is
high, Chamomilla, preceded by Aconite:
When fright has been the cause, Opium:
When fright and passion have been combined, then
Aconite:
When a chill, suppressing an existing perspiration, has
been the cause, Dulcamara:
When concentrated grief, then Ignatia:
When milk fever is attended with symptoms, indicating
affection of,the head, chest, or abdomen, there is reason
to suspect puerperal fever, in which not a single step should
be taken without the physician.
When, after the inflammation has been subdued a hardness
still remains, Mercurius Solubilis can be given with effect.
I have succeeded in several instances in preventing abscesses in the breasts by the means narrated.
When, however, suppuration, it is evident, must take
place, then aconite and hepar sulphuris, as directed at p.
13, will be of the greatest service in bringing about a satisfactory termination to the disease.
When suppuration has established itself before homoeopathic remedies are used, and there are ill-looking sores,
discharging a fetid discharge, Silicea will cure in a short
time, using sometimes Phosphorus alternately. I have succeeded, in cases where fatal results were expected, by these
homoeopathic means in so completely restoring a healthy condition, that the mothers, at their next confinement, have experienced no inconvenience in the breasts previously affected.
If the inflammation has arisen from a blow, arnica is, as
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MODIFICATIONS OF THE SECRETION OF MILK.
The action having ceased in the womb, an action takes
place in the breast. A fluid, fitted for the nourishment of
the young being is formed, and upon its continuance and
proper condition, much of the comfort of the mother depends.
Sometimes, however, the milk is suppressed, and a dangerous fever, called PUERPERAL, is produced. When the
milk is suppressed, Pulsatilla should be immediately taken,
following its use with Aconite if the symptoms of Aconite,
p. 18, are present, and taking the two medicines alternately,
as directed p. 13, for acute diseases.
Sometimes the milk is secreted in too great quantity; the
breasts are distended and painful; the milk often cscapes
from the nipple; much weakness is induced. In such
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CHAPTER V.
THE TREATMENT OF THE INFANT AFTER
BIRTH.
BEFORE birth the child, lodged in the mother's womb,
was surrounded with a temperature, equal to that of the
mother's body, namely, 96~ to 98~ Fahrenheit. To expose
it, when born, to a temperature much lower, must be injurious: it should therefore be enveloped in a soft flannel,.
heated to a temperature similar to that in which it was previously. The tenacious mucus, with which it is enveloped,
should be removed by a sponge and warm water, heated to
the temperature referred to. The Germans use "' an ovalshaped, shallow wooden bath with a raised portion at one
end for the head, the bath containing a quantity of water
just sufficient to cover or float the child." After being immersed three or four minutes the sponge will remove easily
all the mucus, no soap or oil being needed.
In drying the child, the advice given in the work, entitled
"( A Grandmother's Advice to Young Mothers," is excellent. It is, as the child from its weakness cannot be held
in an erect posture, to have a large flat pillow or cushion,
ready prepared, and covered over with two or three large
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When dried, if the skin is ruffled, it should be dusted
with flour; but not if there is no ruffling.
After being dried, a flannel bandage, of five or six inches
in breadth, and of a length sufficient to go round the body
twice, is to be applied, but not to be applied tight.
The child is then wrapped up in a flannel shawl or blanket; or, if not exhibiting signs of fatigue, is dressed. If
exhibiting these signs, then the child is allowed to sleep
before being dressed.
The dress itself ought to be light, soft, warm, and loose,
and not long: the use of very long petticoats often has induced deformity; moderate lengthed clothes keep the lower
extremities warm. The clothes, as Dr. Eberle suggests,
should cover the neck, the shoulders, and the arms: for why
should the legs be kept warm, and these exposed to the cold:
The custom of exposing these parts, Dr. Eberle rightly
judges, is " one of the principal reasons why inflammatory
affections of the respiratory organs are so much more common during the period of childhood than at a more advanced
age." Of 379 fatal cases of inflammation of the lungs,
which occurred in the British metropolis, 228 were children
under three years of age. (Registrar's Report, p. 74.)
Warm nightcaps are to be avoided; indeed all caps,
except when going into the air.
The child, as a general rule, should be washed daily,
night and morning; immersing the body is the best mode.
Many persons think it necessary to give the infant immediately after birth, laxatives, to expel the meconium. The
milk of the mother is the best agent to effect this. The child
is put to the breast about six or eight hours after its birth
the milk then is very dilute, and produces the desired effect.
If not, a little sugar and water will produce the effect: if not,
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a lavement of a quarter of a pint of warm water can be
used.
Should these means not succeed, then the means for
constipation can be used by the mother.
As absurd as giving the'child physic directly it is born, is
that of giving the childfood. It has just come from a xich
depositary of nutriment: it needs to wait a few hours, not
exceeding twelve.
In regard to the diet of the infant, the fact that the milk
pomnes when the child is born, points out tbat the mother's
milk is the proper nutriment of the child, unless constitu..
tional taint affects the parent. If the child is suckled by a
nurse, a nurse whose child is of the same age as that of the
one to be fostered, is to be selected: and this for the reason
that the milk varies in strength according to the period after
birth: becoming more concentrated each month, so that the
milk of a woman, whose child is six months old, is not
suited to a child who is only a month old.
If the mother cannot supply the proper amount of nourishment, then cow's milk can be used, diluting it to a degree in which its strength will be on a par with that of the
mother's milk.
In taking this milk or any other milk, not direct from the
breast, the sucking-bottle should be used; because the exeercise of the lungs in sucking is an excellent means of developing the lungs, and thereby promoting the child's health.
A small quantity should be put each time into the bottle:
what is left, milk being so apt to turn sour, should always
be thrown away.
The child should be held in a reclining posture, just like
as if at the mother's breast: the practice of placing infants
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About the sixth month the diet can be changed: arrowroot, sago, and the other usual articles, can be given in
small quantities daily, milk still being the principal food.
The infant's stomach rapidly converts the milk into
chyme: once every three hours it may suckle; as its age
advances lengthening the intervals. Regularity ofttimes is
as important to the infant as to the adult.
Many children's tempers have been spoiled, as well as
their health injured, by not attending to this.
One point more is worthy of notice. THE CREATOR HAS
GIVEN THE FEMALE TWO BREASTS. For what 1 That she
should use them; and, by so doing, prevent disease in herself and deformity in her child: for children, being suckled
at one breast, often become deformed on that side: the
same reason explains the cause of the impropriety of always carrying the child on one arm.
In reference to carrying the child, - a practice most extraordinary prevails among nurses of carrying children with
one hand under the petticoats; a practice bad in every
respect, but dangerous as exposing the child to cold.
WEANING.
The mother's milk ceases to be beneficial after the
eleventh month. It should therefore be discontinued between that and the twelfth month. It is thought, that wvhen
the teeth are delayed, suckling may be continued even longer: but the development of teeth may be ensured by the
use of remedies hereafter to be noticed.
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SLEEP.
The fact, already referred to, that the child, before birth,
was exposed to a temperature from 960 to 980 and was incased within the walls of the womb, indicates that, in sleep,
when the'vital powers are less active, the infant particularly requires that its warmth should be preserved. With
this view, the child should-sleep with its parent for the first
few weeks. After the second month it should be transferred to the cradle, without curtains. The child in the
earlier periods of its existence has little more than a vegetative existence. It lives to eat, to grow, and to sleep, and
ought to sleep much.
The best time for sleeping is the morning: afternoon
sleep may interfere with the night sleep.
Nature will bring sleep.   Any nurse that gives any
syrup, cordial, or carminative, ought to be dismissed. All
these advertisement-praised remedies are poisons.
Children, that have these poisons administered, never
attain that age they might have attained, or become so
vigorous as they otherwise would.
Parents should remember, then, that sleeplessness now
will be sleep hereafter, whereas forced sleep now will
bring, from diseases thus induced, weeks of sleeplessness
hereafter.*
* For the causes of sleeplessness, see p. 13, " Homeopathy and
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VACCINATION.
Before the child is, weaned it should, if possible, always
be vaccinated.
The vaccination can be performed with success at any
time and at any season.
The vaccine fluid should be taken from children free
from all eruptions, and it should be clear; which it is always when pure, and when not mixed with the blood,
which latter need not be drawn if the vaccine vesicle is
opened in a proper way.
The vaccination, when properly performed, is a protection against smallpox as effectual as smallpox itself. Persons have had smallpox a second time; and some have
died of the second attack.
At the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution,
the board of managers have, for the last three years, given
to each child, after vaccination, a powder o f sulphur; as
a preventive against eruptions: and when children are
brought for vaccination, having at the time eruptions, a
powder is given to be taken before the operation is performed; and the benefits resulting in reference to longstanding cutaneous affections, from the use of this sulphur
powder, have been evidenced in numerous cases.
This plan, from the experience at the Royal Jennerian
and London Vaccine Institution, where, in the time referred
to, I have vaccinated nearly twenty thousand children, I
can recommend as worthy of adoption by parents towards
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TEETHING, OR DENTITION.
About the sixth month the teeth begin to appear.
This development of the teeth, being a natural process,
ought to be unattended with pain, Oftentimes it is attended with severe affections: a circumstance, dependent
generally on the improper diet of the mother, or on the
mismanagement of the child.
The teething seems to direct the life power to the head,
and hence affections of the head very often are developed,
and death occurs. Four hundred and seventy-seven children died in one year, in the thirty-four metropolitan
unions, from teething.
The best plan to prevent disease affecting the head in
connexion witlh teething, is to keep the head cool; and, to
realize this, caps should cease to be worn directly the hair
becomes a little abundant. Another excellent plan is to
rub the backbone every night. This, for the benefits resulting in other respects, should be continued till the child
is six or seven years old.
Dr. Hering remarks, " When the teeth approach, the
gums are broader, as if angular, and tickle and itch, are.
whitish, particularly on the edges; the mouth is, at the
same time, hot, the child restless, especially at night, has
flushes of heat, succeeded by paleness, puts everything to
the mouth, in order to bite it, and sometimes bites the nipple hard when suckling."
The well-known phenomenon of drivelling at the mouth,
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action to the jaws and the parts neighbhuring in developing the teeth, and, at the same time, the means which nature adopts to relieve the irritation.
Another means, which nature seems to adopt to relieve
the irritation, is a slight relaxation of the bowels.
These two augmented actions, namely, the increased discharge of saliva, and the increased action of the bowels,
need not any medicinal treatment, unless they become too
severe: then Mercurius' will be serviceable, followed by
Sulphur.
The use of a crust of bread is an excellent means for
diminishing the irritation; but what is still better, and what
the child always endeavours to get, is a finger to rub the
gums with.
Lancing the gums, except in very sickly children, is a
bad plan, and never should be performed except when the
remedies, hereafter to be noticed, have been used without success. If lancing is performed, the incision should
be only a nick, not on the edge but on the side of the
gum.
If the premonitory symptoms of teething continue too
long, and the teeth do not seem to progress, I have found
the alternate use of Calcarea and Belladonna highly serviceable. I have succeeded in several cases in families,
where the previous children had cut their teeth with fits, in
preventing the children, born after the families came under
my homceopathic care, having any fits with their teething,
by the use of these remedies.
The principal remedies in addition are, Aconite, Coffcca,
and Chamomilla. When the symptoms (p. 48,) attend the
teething, then Aconite will be useful.
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time too peevish, at another too cheerful, is difficult to
soothe, Coffea will be useful.
Give coffaea generally first: if relief is not obtained and
there is fever, give Aconite: and, after it, chamomilla.
Chamomilla is particularly indicated if the child, in addition to the symptoms described as suited to coffaea, has a
dry whooping kind of cough, throws himself about, drinks
often, with a burning heat, redness of the skin and eyes,
anxiety, with sobbing, groaning, short quick rattling breath,
and tightness on the chest, and tremor of the limbs.
Belladonna: The many remarks already made in connexion with it, will be seen to be indicated wherever there
is cerebral irritation.
It was noticed that diarrhlea often attends the process of
teething: sometimes the opposite state attends, namely,
constipation: then Nux Vomica will be serviceable.
Further particulars in reference to teething, when spasms
attack the child, will be seen under the head of
CONVULSIONS.
The flesh of the human body is technically called muscle:
each muscle is composed of numerous little muscular fibres
or threads: each fibre or thread being endowed with the
power of contraction, and afterwards of relaxation. When
the muscles dependent on the will, hence called voluntary,
in their contraction and relaxation follow the will of the individual, they act naturally: but when the muscles contract
without the will of the individual, such contraction, being,
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occur in rapid succession, the term COVULSIONS is applied
thereto.
The contraction and the relaxation of the muscular
threads depend upon the nervous power, conveyed to them
by the nerves, connected with the brain or with the spinal
cord: and therefore whenever any convulsions occur, these
can be traced in most cases to some irritation of the brain
or of the spinal cord.
Children, from the great excitability of their frames, (an
excitability dependent upon the great size of the brain and
the great preponderance of the nervous system,) are peculiarly liable to be acted upon, so to have induced in them
these convulsive attacks. The infantile nervous excitability
is particularly great at the time of teething, and hence at
that time more particularly these attacks present themselves.
The first thing to be attended to is that the attendant be
calm. Generally speaking there is not much danger, unless the attack continues very long, or unless attack succeeds attack, and each succeeding attack becomes more
severe.
If homceopathic remedies are not at hand, the old practice of immersing the feet and the legs in hot water, taking
care to wipe them perfectly dry afterwards, and to wrap
them up warm, can be adopted: and, to this can be added,
if relief is not obtained, the pouring of cold water on the
top of the head, and the smelling of Camphor.
But the best plan is to use hommopathic remedies, many
of which have a specific power over convulsions.
Among these Belladonna, Chamomilla, Cina, Cicuta
Virosa, Ignatia, Mercurius, stand pre-eminent.
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Belladonia.
1. Body or limbs
rigid.
2. Clfiching of
hands, attended
with burning
forehead and
hands.
5. Stares about
wildly.
6. Pupils much
dilated.
10. Starts suddenly wheen
asleep.


Chamomilla.
1. Convulsed in
arms and legs.
2. Thumbs
clenched.
3. Twitches of
eyelids.
4. Twitches of
muscles of the
face.
5. Eyes half
closed.
6. Rolling of the
eyeballs.
7. Thirsty.
8. Appears without consciousness.
9. Rolls head on
pillow from side
to side.
110. Restlessness.


Ignatia.
1. Trembling of
the whole frame,
with crying and
shrieks.
2. Muscles of
single limbs
convulsed.
10. When asleep,
sudderly flushed
with burning
heat, awakes
with a convulsive start.


iMrcurius.
2. Limbs cotnvulsed.


11. Moans.
12. Disposition to
drowsiness when
awake.
13. One cheek
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Belladonna.
14. Involuntary
passing the water
on recovery.
15. Excessively
sensitive to
touch, so that a
slight touch will
often renew the
attack.
16. When the
attacks are preceded by smiles
and laughter.


Chamomilla.
17. Peevishness.
18. Fretfulness.


Ignatia.
16. Followed by
fever and perspiration.
17. Peevish, with
alternations of
joy and sadness,
of laughter and
crying.
Pale, delicate
infants.
19. Fit returning
at a regular time..Mercuriss.
16. A great weakness after the fits.
20. Belching, and
a watery saliva
from the mouth;
stomach swollen
and hard, before,
during, and after
an attack, attended with fever and
perspiration.


Cina and Cicuta are particularly useful where worms are
present: cina being particularly indicated when the little
sufferer habitually wets the bed. Stiffness of the limbs and
of the whole frame is another characteristic.
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during the attacks: but, more generally, after the attack,
or in the interval between one attack and the other.
Nux Vomica and Pulsatilla will be useful in cases where
derangements of the digestive organs are the exciting cause.
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CHAPTER          VI.
DISEASES OF INFANTS.
INFANTS are particularly liable to some affections, which
are worthy of notice.
I. SLEEPLESSNESS.
When this occurs in infants and young children, disease
is clearly indicated. Diet of an improper nature is often
the cause, and the green stools, the flatulence, and swollen
condition of the bowels testify to this. In these cases
Chamomilla will succeed, provided this has not been given
to excess previously: if so, then Coffea.
When the stomach has been overloaded, and flatulence
and constipation attend the sleeplessness, then Pulsatilla
can be used.
If the infant cries constantly, and contracts the legs upon
the belly, tosses about incessantly, and has severe griping
pains, with purging, China will be found useful.
When some children are weaned they are very sleepless;
the deprivation will in part explain the watchfulness; but
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A second affection is
THE CRYING OF INFANTS.
Some infants are incessantly screaming, and apparently
without cause; though this is more the case in children
under a year old.
A dose of Belladonna will often cause this to cease.
If much agitation and restlessness are present, Chamomilla.
If there is a frequent disposition to relieve the bowels, and
the actions present large feculent portions, Rheum: if no
looseness of the bowels, Jalap: if much flatulence, Senna.
Infants are troubled oftentimes very much with
HICCOUGH.
This is generally relieved by laying the child warm on
the mother's breast: a little lump sugar, as much as will
cover the blade of a penknife, or a little sweetened water
will remove this affection. Treacle is to be avoided, this
producing acidity and phlegm.
REGURGITATION OR RETURN OF THE MILK.
Some infants seem particularly subject to this. They
should be allowed to suckle less long each time. If the return of the milk amounts to vomiting, then Ipecacuanha
can be used.
Another disease of infants is
EXCORIATION.
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Another diseased state is
THE THRUSH OR APHTHA.
For the treatment of this, see pp. 74, 75.
Another disease of infants is
THE MILK CRUST.
For the treatment of this, see pp. 17, 18.
The diseased states connected with
DENTITION OR TEETHING
have been detailed pp. 75, 76.
The method of treatment for
CONVULSIONS,
another affection of children, has been fully detailed, p, 152.
Another diseased affection of infants is that peculiar
asthma called
MILLAR'S ASTHMA.
The treatment is detailed at pp. 69, 70.
Another diseased affection of infants is
JAUNDICE.
The remarks under that head, (p. 103,) will make elear
the mode of treatment.
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Another affection of infants, occurring often from the
pressure in the process of birth, is
SWELLING OF THE HEAD.
Arnica * given to the mother, as recommended under the
* The subjoined will show the value of arnica in the relief both
of swelling and injuries to the infant's head, and of the inconveniences connected with difficult child-bearing on the part of the
mother.
Mrs. K. was delivered on Sunday, Dec. 13, 1842, at 6 p. m., of
a child. The child was in an unnatural position. The labourpains for twenty-four hours were intensely severe but ineffectual:
and at length the surgeon felt compelled to effect delivery by the
aid qf instruments.
The labour concluded, the surgeon stated to the husband, a homceopathist, that he dreaded inflammation. Mr. K. gave his wife,
on hearing this, three globules of Aconite, and two hours after, two
globules of Arnica. The patient used also the arnica lotion, and
with such benefit and refreshment as to cause her to express her
feelings in regard to the arnica, " It is worth a shilling a drop."
She passed the night tolerably well.
In the morning the arnica globules were repeated; also the lotion
was again used.
The effects were marked: though delivered by instruments,
there were no after pains, or at least so trifling as not to be deemed
by herself worthy of notice. No symptoms of fever or of inflammation presented themselves; and she recovered most rapidly.
In reference to the baby, the effects of the arnica were quite as
well marked. The following is the description by the father:
" The baby's head was bruised and crushed in a most pitiable manner. Of what shape it is I can hardly describe. It is alive, but
unless you can do something for it, Ithink it cannot live. The
surgeon is of opinion that it will go off in convulsions."
Mr. K. bathed the infant's head four hours after birth with the
arnica lotion, and repeated the bathing the following morning. At
eleven at night on Dec. 14, it was convulsed, the head and the
face becoming quite black. Mr. K. administered chamomilla, and
it recovered. The following morning it had a slight convulsion.
It cried much during the night. Excepting the head it is a fine
child. It seems unable to swallow easily. The head is of all
shapes. The centre of the forehead round Benevolence is very
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head of " Treatment after Delivery," will in most cases
remove this. If not arnica should be applied externally.
Sometimes a swelling, filled apparently with fluid, appears at the fontanel, or the opening of the head, as it is
commonly called. If not disappearing from the use of the
arnica, Rhus Toxicodendron should be administered.
Should the swelling still continue, notwithstanding these
means, Dr. Hering recommends to make a slight incision,
and let the fluid discharge.
Sometimes, from bad management, ulcers arise. In
such cases Silicea should be given.
Another affection troubling infants is
RUPTURE OR HERNIA.
Often the naval protrudes, called Umbilical Hernia.
In such a case a bandage should be applied, a piece of
folded linen being placed upon the naval, and the bandage
going two or three times round the body: the parent
should see that the linen is kept in its place, and when replacing the bandage, the rupture should be slightly pressed
back by the hand.
side. The mouth is distorted; the right side of the face is much
swollen; and the inside of the mouth is in a dreadful state.
" Can anything be done for it? "
I ordered aconite to be followed by arnica; and then, if there
was no decided improvement, to give Rhus Toxicodendron: if convulsions should recur, Chamomilla: and, if this failed, Ignatia.
On Dec. 17, I heard that the baby was doing well; no convulsive symptoms; no fever. The arnica lotion has been used ever
since. The head is almost well: and the baby sucks and eats very
well.
Feb. 1842, I saw the little dear; it was hearty, and joyful, and
observant. The head of a natural form, and no indications of any
of the inconveniences to which it had been subjected.
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When the rupture is at the groin, called Inguinal Hernia no bandage need be applied.
The infant should take for either rupture, first Nux Vomica: if this is not successful, then Veratrum: follow
this by Chamomilla: and should these not succeed, Sulphur
must be used. The rupture generally gets well.
Another diseased state of infants is
INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES.
The cause of this and the means of avoiding it have
been already explained.
Another diseased state is a sort of catarrh, which is very
troublesome. It is called
A COLD IN THE HEAD.
This affection causes the trouble it does by the obstruction
of the nose, produced by it, impeding suckling. (Children,
as is well known, when suckling, always breathe through
the nostrils, as all people ought.) From the remarks under catarrh it will be seen that Nux Vomica is the most
likely remedy suited to it. It will be seen under catarrh,
that, with the obstruction there is dryness; and there is irritable disposition.
Chamomilla will suit in many cases.
In cases where, with the obstruction in the nose, the
matter obstructing being of a slimy nature, and symptoms,
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PART        III.
On the Causes of Diseases, and of Remedial Agents
in Connexion therewith.
IT has been the practice, with the view of discrediting
homoeopathy, to charge homeopathic practitioners with
looking at nothing save the symptoms; with disregarding
the CAUSES of disease.
The assertion, that they neglect the consideration of
causes, is untrue. Its untruth the perusal of the treatment
of the diseases, already described, will prove.
An attention to causes forms a most essential part in the
investigation of diseases in reference to homoeopathic practice.
Tolle causam, "Remove the cause."
is as much the motto of the homceopathist as of the allopathist and of the antipathist: but the homceopathist can do
more than can these practitioners of the old systems; he
can by his medicines act directly upon the effects produced
by these causes. The practitioners of the old systems can
often do no more than remove the cause: the effects they
are obliged to let alone: or to leave (as they observe) them
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The homceopathist, having means, which produce symptoms similar to those induced by the causes, can, by giving
such remedies, take away, by a homoeopathic operation,
these effects: and, at the acquaintance with these remedies,
and at this, their application, he could not possibly have
arrived, except by the recognition of the doctrine, that
diseases are cured most quickly, safely, and effectually, by
medicines, which are capable of producing in a healthy person
symptoms, similar to those existing in the diseases.
The causes may be arranged under two Divisions;
those acting upon the MIND, and those acting upon the
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CHAPTER          I.
MENTAL CAUSES.
FRIGHT
is a most common cause of diseased states.
I have been consulted, this day, among others, by two
patients; one, who has epileptic fits, which were produced
by the fright caused by suddenly discovering her mother
dead; the other, who has become partially paralysed on
one side from a sudden fright.
Fright produces in the individual frightened symptoms,
such as stupor, and sometimes an idiotic, lost appearance;
loss of power, fainting, trembling of the limbs, startings,
oppression, difficulty of breathing, and cold sweat.
Opium if taken by a person in health, produces similar
symptoms; and opium is thereby, namely, by its homceopathicity, constituted so useful an agent in cases of fright,
that no remedy is equal to it in efficacy, when administered
according to the homoeopathic formula, in infinitesimal
doses, immediately or soon after a fright.
When some interval has elapsed after the fright, Sambucus
will be more serviceable than opium, particularly when,
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Whenever a person has been frightened, two globules of
opium or of sambucus should be taken. Thus any bad
effects will be prevented.
I have known irremediable disease of the heart, produced
by an accident; a lady was standing in the street with two
other ladies, and the two beside her were killed on the spot
by a horse that had run away with a gig. Had she taken
opium immediately, this disease would not have taken place.
How often has miscarriage been produced by a fright!
Suppose a mother, who has miscarried several times, and
that from slight causes: let her be frightened: let her experience the same symptoms, as those which preceded her miscarriages: give her immediately afterwards opium, and she
will not miscarry: though, under previous conditions, a far
less.cause would have caused this lamentable condition.
A bad case of epilepsy * which I had cured in a boy,
and who had remained free nearly two years, was attacked
with fits a few weeks since. He had been playing in a field:
a brute, miscalled a man, came up to the child, struck him
with a heavy stick on his arm, and broke the arm. The
child was dreadfully frightened: and, as was likely, a fit
was produced. Had that child taken Opium immediately,
no fit would have taken place.
I am thus positive in making this assertion by the fact,
that I have known children, who, by slight frights, have
been thrown into convulsions, and have, by taking opium
after a fright, had no such effects produced.
Again: a child has been frightened. He awakes in the
night suddenly with a dreadful fright, exhibiting great anx* See "Epilepsy, and some Nervous Affections its Precursors;
being twenty-two cases, successfully treated, by John Epps, M.D."
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iety, difficulty of breathing, &c.: he takos Sambucus, and
sleeps quietly afterwards, and no untoward symptoms present themselves.
The cause here leads to the use of the remedy: and the
remedy chosen, and given with such beneficial effects, is
pointed out for use by the fact, that it produces effects upon
a healthy person, similar to those presented in the frightened
person. What beautiful scientific results, equal to these,
can the old system of medicine present.
PASSION AND VEXATION
are other causes of diseased states.
Fits of rage have brought on Jaundice, and Inflammation
of the liver.
Vexation has caused the same effects, and also violent
attacks of asthma, and, more frequently, looseness of the
bowels.
Chamomilla is found to be the most effectual remedy for
diseased states, brought on by passion or vexation: and
this because the effects, produced by it on a healthy person,
are similar to the effects produced by passion and vexation.
When, however, rage is associated with vexation, and
is followed by shivering and coldness over the greater part
or the whole of the body, then Bryonia is the best remedy.
If the rage is attended with indignation, so violent that
the party dashes away that which he held in his hand, as
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SILENT GRIEF
is another cause of disease.
In this case the party retains within herself or himself
the grief: the indications are occasional sighs, flushed
cheek on one side, pale on the other: constipation.
Ignatia in such cases is the remedy, because it produces
sighing, the condition of cheek referrred to, constipation,
&c.
AN INTENSE DESIRE, when ABSENT from home, to RETURN
HOME, called NOSTALGIA,
is a frequent cause of bodily disease.
This is attended generally with redness of cheeks and
sleeplessness.
Capsicum is the best remedy.
UNHAPPY LOVE WITH JEALOUSY,
is often the cause of bodily disease.
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CHAPTER II.
PHYSICAL CAUSES.
BLOWS, or BRUISES.
MULTITUDES of diseased states are brought on or developed into activity by a blow or bruise.
Miscarriages have often "been caused by a blow: so have
inflammations.
To prevent the bad effects resulting, Arnica must be
used: and, if not decidedly beneficial, must be followed by
Rhus Toxicodendron.
Suppose EPISTAXIS, or bleeding from the nose, should
take place from a blow, arnica will be the appropriate
remedy: whereas were the bleeding to occur spontaneously, arnica is oftentimes not suited.
Suppose a person suffers from HAEMOPTYSIS, or spitting of
blood, and this occurs after an injury, such as a blow: then
arnica will be the best remedy: though had this occurred
without any injury, then arnica would not be so suitable as
several other remedies would be.
ERYSIPELAS, or rather an eqysipelatous, swollen condition
of parts, is induced by injuries in many persons: and when
this is the case, Arnica is more specific than belladonna.
The homceopathicity of arnica in such cases is founded, not
only upon the cause, namely, the injury, but also upon the
power which arnica has of producing an erysipelas. I have
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produced erysipelas. It should, when employed for wounds,
affecting persons liable to erysipelatous attacks, be in the
very lowest dilutions.
Suppose an INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE is presented:
that this inflammation is consequent upon a blow: then
Aconite and Arnica would be the two remedies; although
had symptoms of inflammation of the eye occurred from
other causes, then aconite and some other remedy would
have been more appropriate.
CONvuLsIONs, especially in infants, result oftentimes
from an injury. In these cases arnica will be the appropriate remedy, though in itself, not a specific for convulsions, the cause here operates: and, if not curing the convulsions, it will render the operation of the medicine, afterwards to be employed, certain.
A fall on the head has frequently caused an aggravation of
a previously existing HEAD affection. In such a case, arnica
will prevent the aggravation, or remove the induced symptoms, and thereby counteract any additional danger, which
otherwise might, by the superaddition, be caused.
In connection with the use of arnica under such circumstances, I may add, that the successful result of several
cases has led me to believe, that, though the injury may
have been inflicted months before, so as almost to be forgotten, yet, when the symptoms existing can be traced so
as to be decidedly consequent upon such injury, even then
arnica is exceedingly useful, and is often the first step towards cure.
DERANGEMENT OF THE STOMACH.
This condition has often been the forerunner of many
severe diseased states, which, if the derangement could
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In these derangements, Antimonium Crudum, Bryonia,
or Pulsatilla, will arrest the progress: antimonium crudum,
if there are risings, nausea, and feeling as if the person must
be sick; bryonia, if there is gastric fever, with shivering and
cold; and pulsatilla, if the derangement has been brought
about by fat foods, and more particularly by eating pork.
EXPOSURE TO COLD OR WET,
Commonly called taking cold, is a frequent source of inconvenience and of danger in the progress of diseases, and a
frequent cause of diseased states themselves.
Nux Vomica (as will be seen from the treatment of
Catarrh, pp. 61, 62, 63,) taken at once, will often arrest
the progress of the symptoms, usually occurring after such
exposure.
If, however, the taking cold is attended with a sense of
suffocation and nausea, then Ipecacuanha: if followed with
pain and shedding of tears, Coffea: if followed by a copious
discharge from the nose, and by the loss of smell and of
taste, Pulsatilla: if followed by relaxation of the bowels
and thickening of the water, then Dulcamara: if followed
by relaxation of the bowels and griping, then Chamomilla.
The homoeopathist further believes, that, even the injurious influence of weather can be, to a certain extent, prevented by the use of remedies: this subject is however one
too extensive and too important to be treated of in this
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PART IV.
On Diet, Foot-bathing, Poultice-making, Fomenting.
CHAPTER I.
DIET.
THE homceopathist knows, that, though diet will not cure
disease, improper diet will interfere with the cure of disease:
the homceopathist therefore strives to gain, in reference to
diet, that no impediment shall be presented by the diet used
to the efficacy of the means, which he uses.
Thus far he trusts to diet, no farther: he knows that all
articles of diet, except those which are purely nutritious,
have a medicinal character. These articles, he knows, tend
to keep up disease; and, if not keeping up disease, prevent
the full effect of the homceopathic remedy or remedies.
Persons using homceopathic medicines should avoid all
articles of diet, which, having properties additional to their
* "Homceopathy and its Principles explained," by John Epps,
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nutritive qualities, which may be considered medicinal,
must necessarily interfere with the operations of the homceopathic medicines.
It is necessary therefore to select articles of diet, in
which the nutritive property, unaided by strong flavours,
preponderates.
The following articles of diet, either having medicinal or
stimulating qualities, in addition to, or not possessing, nutritive qualities, are to be avoided.


Animal.
VEAL: i. e. meat spoiled in
killing;
PORK: i. e. meat of an animal, loaded with scurf;
DUCKS: i. e. strong flavoured
meat;
GEESE: i. e. strong flavoured
meat;
SEASONED DISHES;
ROTTEN OR DECAYED CHEESE;
BACON;
HAM.


Vegetable.        Liquids.
Unripe fruits;  Coffee;
Unsound fruits; Tea;
Sorrel;       Spirits;
Radishes;      Wine;
Onions;        Ale;
Celery;       Porter;
Garlic;        Soups flavoured;
Asparagus;    Soda-water;
Watercresses; Ginger-beer;
Pepper;       All Mineral Waters;
Mustard.       Vinegar.


SMOKING, SNUFF, and TosAcco in all its forms, are to
be avoided.
The following articles can be taken:


Animal.




BEEF;
MUTTON;
FLAT FISH;
COD;
and all fish not oily;
FRESH GAME;
EGGS.


Vegetable.
BREAD;
POTATOES, mealy;.BROCOLI;
PEAS;
BEANS, French and Broad;
CARROTS;
RICE;
SAGO;
ARROW ROOT.


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Liquids.
COCOA;
"CHOCOLATE;
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Some foods may be taken occasionally;
Animal.         Vegetable.         Liquid.
LAMB;             Asparagus      Tea, under medical
OYSTERS;          under medical       direction.
CHICKEN;           direction.
FoWLs.
Where persons have been habituated to wine the hommeopathist does not forbid its use; but the wine should be
taken with water: generally speaking its use is contraindicated in all forms of disease.
Cocoa * is the best of all flavoured drinks. It is highly
nutritive. It contains an oil and a fecula compounded in
such suitable proportions that the most delicate stomach
will after a time bear them thus joined.
It may be asked, " Why object to coffee and tea? " The
reason is that both coffee and tea are medicines. Coffcea is
frequently mentioned as a remedy, as will be seen in the
preceding pages: it cannot be good to give medicines to
interfere with medicines which the patient is taking.
Coffee is more decidedly medicinal than tea: tea produces that peculiar sinking at the pit of the stomach, so
common to tea-drinkers.
EXERCISE is another part of the diet. There can be no
health without exercise. Where parties, from age or from
loss of power, or from injury, are unable to take exercise,
they should use friction, be shampooed.
Exercise should be taken every day; and it should be
taken in the fresh air: if the weather be very wet, the exerciser should dress as if going out; put up the windows
of the room in which she is, and exercise there.
* Homceopathic chemists generally keep cocoa for sale, with the
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CHAPTER II.
BATHING THE FEET.
How ought a person to bathe his feet so as to derive the
full remedial benefit? He should always have, previously
to immersing his feet in the warm water, (which should be
comfortably warm and not scalding hot, causing him to wait
till it is cold,) a kettle of boiling water beside him, so that
he can continually add fresh hot water, so as to keep augmenting the stimulus to his feet by augmenting the heat of
the water.
He should allow the feet to remain in the water for five
to ten minutes. But in cases where bathing the feet is
adopted as a remedial measure, it is necessary to use a liniment to rub the feet, so as to render the effect permanent.
The plan to be adopted is the following: the party
should be provided with a well-dried towel, or with towels.
When the feet have been in the water five minutes, he can
remove one from the water, rub it well dry, and then rub,
or have rubbed, the foot with the liniment for five minutes;
keeping up all the time the heat of the water, applied to
the other foot, by adding occasionally fresh hot water.
After rubbing for five minutes, slip on a stocking. Take
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The liniment used in homoeopathic practice will be one
similar to the medicine in use. I have found this use of
liniments very useful in cases, where patients have, before
coming under homoeopathic treatment, been for a considerable time under the allopathic and the antipathic treatment.
I generally use the tincture at its first dilution. But in
cases where persons have not the tinctures, about fifty
globules of the medicine in use dissolved in a teaspoonful
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CHAPTER III.
MAKING A POULTICE.
FEW persons know how to make a poultice; and many
a sore and many a tumour has gone on its destructive
course, because poultices - but poultices not properly made
- have been applied.
How then is a poultice to be made? Some persons cut
slices of the crumb of bread, and pour boiling hot water on
the same, and then bruise and press them into one mass.
Such is their poultice: but this is not a proper poultice.
Some persons reduce the bread to crumbs, and then pour
the boiling water on the crumbs: but this is not a proper
Spoultice.
Some persons get old, stale bread, cut out the crumb,
rub it fine into small crumbs, then boil some water in a
saucepan, then pour the boiling water on the crumbs placed
in a basin, and then put the whole into a saucepan, and
boil, stirring constantly, one minute or two, adding a little
butter or lard at the last: now this is a proper poultice. If
we wish to retain the warmth, after putting the poultice onf
a linen rag, then put outside that a flannel, and this being a
bad conductor, it will keep the heat of the poultice within
f6r a considerable time.
I generally put in the poultice, before application, a few
globules of the medicine taken at the time.
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CHAPTER IV.
ON THE PROPER WAY OF FOMENTING.
THoUGH homceopathic practitioners rarely use fomentations, sometimes they are employed with benefit; more particularly where persons have taken injurious and unsuited
agents to remove the diseased state or states.
Hot water and flannels form the materials.
These require some judgment to prevent the use being
abuse.
In fomenting, there should be, if possible, a fire in the
room. There should be a vessel of boiling water on the fire:
there should be a large earthenware pan in the room: there
should be at least two large pieces of good flannel. The patient, if in bed, should have a blanket doubled passed under
him and then folded over him, so that the two edges of the
fold below and those of the fold above may hang over the
side of the bed; then the heated and wetted flannel can be introduced without wetting the bed and without pulling down
the bed-clothes. (Many a person has been more injured by
the exposure induced in removing the wet things off the bed
than he has been benefited by the fomenting.) The flannel,
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out, and then applied to the part; and before this flannel
is removed, the other flannel, soaked and rinsed in a similar way, should be ready for application.
Often the fomentation increases the pain at first: this,
unless the augmentation continues, should not be regarded;
or at least, not so far regarded as to cause cessation of the
fomenting process.
In colic the use of heated flannels is preferable to flannels
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PART V.
Explanation of some Terms used in this Work.
Directions as to the points to be attended to in
Consultation: and the Names of the Medicines
used: and the Diseases in which employed: and
the Index.
CHAPTER           I.
EXPLANATION OF SOME TERMS.
HEALTH. "As long as the organs of the body are in their
natural, called sometimes their normal state, the life, acting
through them, presents the phenomena of vitality in so beautiful an order, so suitable a harmony, that, were we not
constantly habituated to the contemplation, we should be
struck with wonder. These orderly phenomena, these
beautifully harmonizing manifestations are HEALTH. (1omceopathy and its Principles Explained, p. 7.)
DISEASE. " What then is disease but IRREGULAR, ABNORMAL manifestations of life?  Disease is vitality disturbed in its manifestations: life, not disturbed in its own
nature, but disturbed, because the apparatuses, the organs,
through which it acts, are not in their natural, their normal,
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ALIMENT. A substance, placed in such a relation to the
human body in a state of health as to, when taken, afford
nourishment.
MEDICINE. A substance, placed in such a relation to
the human body in a state of disease as to, when taken,
restore the body to its regular and natural condition.
REMEDY. The same as Medicine.
THERAPEUTIC agent. The same as Medicine.
PATHOGENETIC. Ha0og, pathos, a suffering; and yvreT-xog, genetikos, producing. A term applied to the effect
or the effects, produced upon a healthy individual, by taking
any medicine, remedy, or therapeutic agent.
ALLOPATHY. A4og, allos, another; and naOog, pathos,
suffering; is the doctrine that developes the principle that
diseases are to be cured by inducing other diseases in some
other part of the system.
ALLOPATHIC. Of or belonging to Allopathy.
ANTIPATHY. AVTY, anti, against; and naOog, pathos,
suffering; is the doctrine that developes the principle that
diseases are to be cured by inducing states, directly antagonistic, to those produced in the diseases.
ANTIPATHIC. Of or belonging to Antipathy.
HOM(EOPATHY (from opOtog, omoios, like; and TraOog,
pathos, suffering;) is the doctrine that developes the principle
that diseases are cured most quickly, safely, and effectually,
nby medicines, which are capable of producing in a healthy
person symptoms, similar to those existng in the diseases.
HOMCEOPATHIC. Of or belonging to Homaeopathy.
GLOBULE. A term applied to the round little grain,
made of sugar and fecula, which, impregnated with any
remedy, is the form under which the remedy is administered.




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ABDOMEN. The part of the body situated between the
chest and the pelvis; the cavity in which the stomach, the
liver, the spleen, and the intestines are contained. This
part foolish delicacy miscalls the stomach -whereas the
stomach occupies but a part of the abdomen.
PERIOSTEUM. (See p. 105.) The delicate membrane
investing the bones of the body.
PSORA. Hahnemann considers that the eruptive state,
designated by the term psora, is the most frequent cause of
disease: or more correctly, that psora exists in the majority
of individuals in a dormant state; and, that the constitutional condition, thus induced, is one which is, so to speak,
a peculiarly favorable soil for the production of diseases by
the influence of noxious agents.
SEMILATERAL. Affecting one half either of the whole
body, or of any part of the body.
SPECIFICITY. (See p. 93.) The peculiar relationship
established in nature between the properties of a remedy and
the symptoms of a disease, that they are mutually active,
when brought to act on one another so as to remove the
disease.
MECONIUM. The name given to the feculent matter,
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CHAPTER II.
INSTRUCTIONS,
BY WHICH PATIENTS AT A DISTANCE, AFFLICTED WITH
CHRONIC DISEASES, MAY COMMUNICATE THEIR
CASES TO A PHYSICIAN BY LETTER.
Re-published from the American Journal of Homceopathy.
THE patient should first describe his complaints in his
own way, as though these instructions were not before him;
viz., their commencement, progress, and presumptive causes.
The age and sex of the patient, and whether he be married
or single; whether of a large or diminutive frame of body,
meagre or stout, feeble or robust. Whether the complexion
be florid, or pale, or dark. Concomitant bodily infirmities,
as hernia or rupture, prolapsus uteri, curvature of the spine,
lameness, &c., should be made known. The disposition
mild and placable, or boisterous and violent; firm or yielding, lively and communicative, or reserved and taciturn;
anxious, apprehensive, or timorous, or irritable, &c.
The patient is next required to give an accurate and particular description of the incidents or symptoms of his disease,
such as pains and other morbid sensations, and their exact
character. He should describe precisely the region or part,
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large is the space they occupy. Are the symptoms continued, or do they remit or vary in intensity from time to
time? Do they recur at particular times of day, or at certain intervals of one or more days? Is their recurrence,
aggravation, diminution or cessation connected with the
exercise of any bodily function? Do they arise or disappear, are they increased or diminished by exercise, or during
rest, by lying down, or sitting, by stretching out, or bending
up the body, by walking, by standing, by warmth or cold,
in the open air or within doors, by light, by noises, by talking, by eating, by drinking or swallowing, soon after eating,
by the motion of the affected part or by touching or pressing
it, by mental emotion -fright, anger, during bodily or mental exercise, reading? &c. &c. Are the symptoms associated
with anxiety greater or less? do they impair the powers of
thought or recollection, or the due exercise of the senses?
During the sufferings of individual parts or functions of
the body, (even when these sufferings are not the principal
ones,) further information is to be given respecting the state
of the patient's mind; whether he suffers patiently, or is inclined to weep, to be morose, passionate, despairing, greatly
anxious, or fearful, &c., or whether the mind is remarkably
affected in these respects by the disease. Are the intellectual
functions, power of thought, memory or desire, or ability for
mental or bodily exercise weakened? Aberrations of mind.
morbid affections of the moral and intellectual faculties are
to be described by the narrators strictly as they are manifested by the patient's words or conduct.
Is there dizziness, or " a dull, heavy sensation " of the
head. Disorders of sight. Does the patient see objects
indistinctly, as through a veil or mist? Does he see dark
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Do objects appear double or quivering! Is the patient short
or long-sighted! Is the pupil contracted, dilated, or very
changeable? Are the eyes watery, red, inflamed, averse
to the light  Do the eyelids frequently adhere together
Do they open and close properly? Are they affected by
convulsive motions or twitchings, or beset with sties? Are
there specks upon the cornea 1
Disorders of hearing. Is there a roaring, whizzing, or
ringing noise in the ears. Is the ear-wax dry or fluid,
oozing from the ears, or fetid.
Are the nostrils obstructed? Is there a cold in the head,
with or without a discharge from the nose. Sneezing.
Sense of smell. Soreness and rawness of the nostrils, or
a bad smell from them. Bleeding at the nose.
Are the teeth incrusted with tartar, loose, decayed, and
have any fallen out or been extracted 1  Are the gums pale
or red, hard or soft, spongy, swollen, apt to bleed, or retracted from the neck of the teeth?
Is there a dryness of the mouth? Or excessive flow of
saliva. Is the saliva viscid, slimy, fetid, bloody? Is the
surface of the tongue, tonsils, uvula, palate, fauces or lips
affected with blisters, swellings or ulcers, or covered with
mucus! Is the tongue dry or moist, acutely sensible,
chapped, sore or raw, clean or covered with fur (white or
yellow)? Are the functions of speech, chewing or motion
of the tongue unembarrassed? Is swallowing performed
without difficulty  (Is the swallowing of fluids or solids,
or of the spittle, attended by no inconvenience?) Has the
patient a bad breath? Is the taste natural or absent, slimy,
salt, bitter, sour foul? Have the different articles of food
their proper taste, or are they insipid, slimy, bitter, sour,
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of food or drink are preferred? What complaints arise
after eating and drinking? Is the patient troubled with
frequent belching of wind, with or without taste, - or
does it taste of the food just eaten, or of what? Is there
regurgitation of fluids from the stomach, or a confluence of
saliva in the mouth? and of what taste in either case? Is
there vomiting of water, saliva, or mucus, of an acrimonious, acid, or bitter taste; or of a putrid taste and smell, or
of a yellow, green, or bloody aspect? Does the patient
vomit coagulated blood, or food? Is there sickness or
nausea? Is the abdomen tense, full, hard, or empty and
retracted? In the case of pains or other complaints in the
abdomen, the particular region in which they are seated
should be accurately defined (for example: pit of the stomach, region of the navel, immediately below the ribs, in
which side, &c.) Is the patient troubled with flatulency?
Is there frequent rolling and rumbling in the bowels? Does
the wind readily escape, or is it retained; and what are the
complaints which it seems to give rise to? Are the evacuations from the bowels effected with ease or difficulty? How
frequent are they? what is their consistence? are they facal,
or slimy, or bloody, &c.? What is their colour? Are
there any complaints immediately preceding, during, or
following a stool?  Are any large or small worms discharged? Are there abrasions or sore places, warts, or
piles in the rectum or anus; and do the latter sometimes
protrude or bleed? What complaints arise before, or during,
or after the urinary discharge? and is the discharge sparing,
or copious? What is the aspect of the urine? (is it clear,
high coloured, or turbid?) Does it soon change after
evacuation, and deposit mucus or sand, or a white or red
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Is the breathing short, or otherwise oppressed  Can the
patient ascend a height? Is the breathing asthmatic, wheezing, or rattling? Does the patient make any complaint on
drawing a deep breath  How is the voice; rough, hoarse,
hollow, &c.? Is there a cough?3 is it slight and short, or
hard and difficult? does it seem to come deep from the
breast? do the paroxysms of coughing last long, and are
they attended by swelling of the face and loss of breath?
How does the cough sound 3 Is it dry, or followed by expectoration? Is expectoration easy or difficult, sparing or
copious, mucous, purulent, resembling saliva, bloody, (interspersed, or tinged with blood, and of a bright, or dark
colour, or is it pure blood?) white, yellow, green, ashcoloured, &c.? Does it taste salt, sweet, bitter, or what
taste has it? Is there a superabundance of mucus in the
larynx or trachea; or does it seem to lie deep in the breast?
In what part of the organs of respiration is seated the irritation to cough? and from whence proceeds the matter expectorated? Is there palpitation of the heart? or throbbing
in other parts of the body 3 Does the patient suffer from
transient flushes of heat  He can perhaps describe the
condition of the pulse. Are the glands under the ear,
under the jaw, in the arm-pits, on the head, in the groins,
swollen or suppurated? Is the patient afflicted with goitre,
or an enlargement of the gland over the windpipe?
Are there swellings of the bones or joints? are there
tubercles or swellings, or swollen or knotted veins? Are
there any parts red, swollen and painful? Are the hands
or feet swollen? Is there lameness of one or more of the
limbs? Are there cramps or spasms, tremor, twitching or
starting, stupor or falling asleep, or other morbid sensations in any of the limbs? Is the skin pallid, yellow, &c.?




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Is it dry, or inclined to sweat, or otherwise in an unhealthy
condition?,I
Is there itching of the skin (tickling, slight prickling, or
a sensation of biting, burning, crawling, sticking)? is it relieved by scratching, or is the sensation thereby only changed
for another? The presence in the, skin of wheals, swellings,
boils, chilblains, and corns is to be mentioned, and the attendant sensations described:also cutaneous eruptions.
Is there chilliness, or a feeling of heat? Chilliness, heat,
or sweat of particular parts? Sweating of the feet; whether
warm, cold, or fetid? When the patient has fever, does
the paroxysm consist of a cold, hot, and sweating stage?
Do they alternate with or succeed each other? What is
the order of their succession?ý With what intensity, and
how long, does each continue? Are they general, or do
they affect particular parts only? 'with or without thirst?
with paleness or redness of the face and skin?1 Are there
other symptoms accompanying the paroxysm of fever (cold,
hot, and sweating stagae)?
Does the patient sleep long, or is lie restless, and is the
sleep interrupted by frequent waking or startings? Does
he talk or moan in his sleep, or has he the nightmare? Is
the sleep disturbed by anxious dreams, and of what character?ý In what posture does the patient lie du-ring sleep?
Is he accustomed to sleep with his mouth open? How is
his strength? Is he obliged to lie down., or can he remain
up? Does he feel languid, weary, or sluggish, &c.? Is
lie emaciated?
The patient should relate his previous diseases, - particular cutaneous diseases, -itch, eruptions of the head,
tetter, erysipelas, smallpox, measles, pimples on the face,
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CHAPTER III.
THE REMEDIES USED, AND THE DISEASES IN
WHICH EMPLOYED.
ACONITE" p. 18, Milk Crust; 20, Whitlow; 21, Boil; 25,
Chickenpox; 25, Smallpox; 29, Measles; 29, Scarlet
Fever - Purpura; 30, Erysipelas; 31, Miliary FeverNettle-rash; 32, Burns and Scalds; 33, Wound; 36,
Inflammation of Brain; 38, 39, 40, Headache" 41, Inflammation of the Eye; 42, Catarrhal Ophthalmia; 46,
Inflammation of the Ear; 50, Bleeding from the Nose;
55, Catarrhal Fever; 58, Influenza; 59, 60, 61, 62, 63,
Cough; 64, Hooping-cough; 69, Croup; 71, Inflammation of the Lungs; 71, Pleurisy; 72, Spitting of Blood;
75, Teething; 77, 78, Toothache; 98, Inflammation of
Bowels; 103, Liver complaint; 106, Rheumatism; 107,
Lumbago; 109, Fainting; 112, Suspended Animation
at Birth; 116, Suspended Animation from being frozen;
134, Labour Pains; 141, 142, Milk Fever; 143, Puerperal
Fever; 151, 152, Teething.
ANTINIoM: p. 24, Corns; 77, 78, Toothache; 90, Vomiting
of Food, 171, Diseases increased by Derangement of
Stomach.
ARNIcA: p. 21, Boil; 22, Chilblain; 23, Corns; 26, Smal'lpox;
33, Wound; 34, Sprain; 34, Bruise; 41, Inflammation of




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the Eye; 45, 46, Earache; 47, Swelling of the Cheek;
51, Bleeding from the Nose; 68, Hooping-cough; 77,
78, Toothache; 113, Suspended Animation from a Fall;
135, After Labour; 140, Sore Nipples; 141, 142, Milk
Fever; 160, Swelling of the Head; 169, Miscarriages,
Inflammations, Bleeding from the Nose, Spitting of Blood,
Erysipelas, Inflammation of the Eye, Convulsions, produced by blows or injuries.
ARSENICUM: pp. 53, 54, Cold in the Head; 58, Influenza;
59, 60, 61, 62, 63, Cough; 77, 78, Toothache; 96,
Cholera; 99, Piles; 117, Suspended Animation from being frozen; 129, Varicose Veins.
BELLADONNA: p. 21, Boil; 22, Chilblain; 25, ChickenpoxSmallpox; 27, Varioloid; 28, Measles; 29, Scarlet Fever; 30, Erysipelas; 31, Miliary Fever; 36, Inflammation of the Brain; 38, 39, 40, Headache; 41, Inflammation
of the Eye; 42, Catarrhal Opthalmia; 45, 46, Earache;
48, Mumps; 51, Bleeding from the Nose; 55, 56- 57,
Catarrhal Fever; 57, Hoarseness; 58, Influenza; 59, 60,
61, 62, 63, Cough; 76, Teething; 77, 78, Toothache;
81, 82, 83, Sore Throat, or Quinsy; 98, Inflammation of
the Bowels; 99, Piles; 119, Suspended Animation from
Coal-fire; 130, 132, Abortion; 140, Lochial Discharge;
141, Inflammation of the Breasts; 142, Milk Fever;
151, 152, Delayed Teething; 153, 154,155, Convulsions;
157, Sleeplessness; 158, Crying of Infants.
BoRAx: p. 74, Thrush.
BRYONIA: p. 28, Measles; 30, Erysipelas; 32, Nettle-rash;
38, 39, 40, Headache; 52, Bleeding from the Nose; 71,
Inflammation of the Lungs; 71, Pleurisy; 77, 78, Toothache; 86, 87, 88, Derangement of Stomach; 90,Vomiting
of Food; 92, 93, Constipation; 103, Jaundice; 103, Liver
Complaint; 105, 106, Rheumatism; 107, Lumbago; 128,
138, Constipation of Pregnant Women; 132, Uterine




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Hemorrhage; 140, Lochial Discharge; 141, Inflammation of the Breasts; 141, Milk Fever; 167, Vexation
or Passion; 171, Diseases increased by Derangement of
the Stomach.
CALCAREA CARBONICA: p. 20, Irritability; 22, Chilblain; 23,
Wart; 41, Inflammation of the Eye; 43, Stye; 76,
Teething; 77, 78, Toothache; 140, Lochial Discharge,
Sore Nipples; 143, Profuse Secretion of Milk; 151, Delayed Teething.
CAMPHOR: p. 115, Suspended Animation from Drowning.
CANTHARIDES: p. 107, Lumbago.
CAPSICUM: p. 168, Desire to return home, or Nostalgia.
CARBO VEGETABILIS: p. 19, Itchings; 65, 68, Hooping-cough;
77, 78, Toothache; 116, Suspended Animation from being frozen.
CI-IAMOMILLA: p. 18, Excoriation; 23; Chilblain; 25, Chickenpox; 37, Miliary Fever; 38, 39, 40, Headache; 45, 46,
Earache; 53,54, Cold in the Head; 55, 56, 57, Catarrhal
Fever; 54, 60, 61, 63, Cough; 76, Teething; 77, 78,
Toothache; 81, 82, 83, Quinsy, or Sore Throat; 86, 87,
88, Derangement of Stomach, Heartburn; 90, Vomiting
of Food; 91, Cramp of Stomach; 94, 95, Diarrhoea; 96,
Cholera; 97, Colic; 103,159, Jaundice; 105, 106, Rheumatism; 107, Lumbago; 109, Fainting; 132, Uterine
Hemorrhage; 142, Milk Fever; 151,152, Teething; 153,
154, 155, 160, Convulsions; 157, Sleeplessness; 158,
Crying of Infants; 162, Rupture or Hernia of Infants;
162, Cold in the Head of Infants; 167, Vexation, Passion; 171, Diseases increased by taking Cold.
CHINA: p. 33, Wounds; 52, Bleeding from the Nose; 72,
Spitting of Blood; 77, 78, Toothache; 89, Flatulence;
94, 95, Diarrhoea; 103, Jaundice; 109, Fainting; 111,
112, Suspended Animation at Birth; 113, Suspended
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CHLORIDE OF LIME: p. 117, Suspended Animation from
Foul Air.
CICUTA: p. 153, 155, Convulsions.
CINA: p. 52, Bleeding from the Nose; 66, 67, 68, Hoopingcongh; 132, Worms; 153, 155, Convulsions.
COCCULUS: p. 89, Flatulence; 91, Cramp of Stomach.
CoFFA: p. 25, Chickenpox; 29, Purpura; 31, Miliary Fever; 33, Wounds; 76, Teething; 77, 78, Toothache;
109, Fainting; 134, Labour Pains; 142, Milk Fever;
151, 152, Teething; 157, Sleeplessness; 171, Diseases
increased by taking Cold.
COLOCYNTH: p 98, Colic.
CRocus: p 51, Bleeding from the Nose; 132, Uterine Hemorrhage; 140, Lochial Discharge.
CUPRUM: pp. 66, 67, 68, Hooping-cough.
DROSERA: pp. 66, 67, 68, Hooping-cough.
DULCAMARA: p. 31, Nettle-rash; 48, Mumps; 55, Catarrhal
Fever; 64, 68, Hooping-cough; 94, 95, Diarrhcsa; 105,
106, Rheumatism; 139, Diarrhoea of Lying-in Women;
142, Milk Fever; 171, Diseases increased by taking Cold.
EUPHRASIA: p. 42, Catarrhal Ophthalmia.
HEPAR SULPHURIS: p. 20. Whitlow; 21, Boil;, 30, Erysipelas;
33, Wounds; 48, Mumps; 68, Hooping-cough; 69,
Croup; 77, 78, Toothache; 109, Fainting.
HYoscYAMUS: p. 36, Inflammation of Brain; 59, 60, 61, 62,
63, Cough; 77, 78, Toothache; 132, Uterine Hemorrhage; 139, Diarrhea of Lying-in Women; 142, Milk
Fever; 167, Unhappy Love, with Jealousy.
IGNATIA: p. 18, Excoriation; 19, Itchings; 53, Catarrhal
Fever; 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, Cough; 76, Teething; 77, 78,
Toothache; 81, 82, 83, Quinsy or Sore Throat; 88, Derangement of Stomach; 92, Constipation; 101, Worms;
103, Jaundice; 109, Fainting; 153, 154, 155, Convulsions; 167, Silent Grief.




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IPECACUAAHA  pp. 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, Cough; 65, Hoopingcough; 96, Vomiting of Food; 91, Cramp of Stomach;
96, Cholera; 127, Morning Sickness; 132, Uterine Hemorrhage; 158, Return of Milk; 171, Diseases produced
or increased by taking Cold.
JALAPA: p. 158, Crying of Infants.
LAcHEssIS: pp. 69, 110, Fainting; 114, Suspended Animation from Drowning.
MERCURY: p. 19, Excoriation; 20, Whitlow; 21, Boil; 25,
Chickenpox; 29, Scarlet Fever; 33, Wound; 45, 46,
Earache; 47, Running from the Ear; 47, Swelling of
the Cheek, 48, Mumps-; 51, Bleeding from the Nose;
53, 54, Cold in the Head; 58, Influenza; 74, Thrush;
75, Stomacace; 76, Teething; 77, 78, Toothache; 81,
82, 83, Quinsy, or Sore Throat; 94, 95, Diarrhoea; 101,.
102, Worms; 103, Liver Complaint; 107, Lumbago;
142, Milk Fever; 154, 155, Convulsions.
MoscHus: p. 109, Fainting.
Nux VoMIcA: p. 22, Chilblain; 31, Nettle-rash; 38, 39, 40,
Headache; 42, Catarrhal Ophthalmia; 51, Bleeding from
the Nose; 53, 54, Cold in the Head; 55, 56, 57, Catarrhal
Fever; 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, Cough; 64, Hooping-cough
74, Stomacace or Bad Mouth; 76, Teething; 77, 78,
Toothache; 81, 82, 83, Quinsy or Sore Throat; 86, 87,
88, Derangement of Stomach, Heartburn; 89, Flatulence; 91, Cramp of the Stomach; 92, 93, Constipation;
97, Colic; 99, Piles; 102, Worms; 103, Jaundice; 103,
Liver Complaint; 105, 106, Rheumatism; 107, Lumbago; 109, Fainting; 116, Suspended Animation from
Lightning; 126, Morning Sickness; 128, Constipation
of Pregnant Women.;, 129, Varicose Veins; 134, 135,
Labour Pains; 152, Teething; 156, Convulsions; 162,
Rupture, or Hernia of Infants; 162, Cold in tho Head
of Infants; 171, Diseases increased by taking Cold.
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OPIUm: p. 25, Smallpox; 33, Wound; 36, Inflammation of
the Brain; 93, Constipation; 109, Fainting; 111, Suspended Animation at Birth; 113, Suspended Animation
from Strangling, &c.; 119, Suspended Animation from
Coal-fire; 128, Constipation of Pregnant Women; 135,
Labour-pains suddenly ceasing; 142, Milk Fever; 156,
Convulsions; 165, 166, Fright.
PHOSPHORUS: pp. 77, 78, Toothache; 109, Fainting; 139,
141, Milk Fever.
PHOSPaORI ACIDUM; p. 139, Milk Fever.
PULSATILLA: p. 18, Excoriation; 19, Itchings; 22, Chilblain,
28, Measles; 30, Erysipelas; 33, Wound; 38, 39, 40,
Headache; 42, Stye; 45, 46, Earache; 46, Inflammation
of the Ear; 51, Bleeding from the Nose; 53, 54, Cold in
the Head; 55, 56, 57, Catarrhal Fever; 59, 60, 61, 62,
63, 64, Cough; 68, Hooping-cough; 72, Spitting of
Blood; 77, 78, Toothache; 81, 82, 83, Quinsy, or Sore
Throat; 86, 87, 88, Derangement of Stomach - Heartburn; 89, Flatulence; 90, Vomiting of Food; 92, Constipation; 94, 95, Diarrhaea; 103, Jaundice; 103, Liver
Complaint; 105, 106, Rheumatism; 107, Lumbago; 129,
Varicose Veins; 135, Labour-pains; 140, Lochial Discharge; 143, Puerperal Fever; 156, Convulsions; 157,
Sleeplessness; 171, Diseases increased by Derangement
of the Stomach -Diseases increased by taking Cold.
RHEUM: p. 158, Crying of Infants.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON: p. 25, Wart; 30, Erysipelas; 34,
Sprain; 52, Bleeding from the Nose; 71, Inflammation
of the Lungs; 77, 78, Toothache; 169, Miscarriages,
Inflammations, &c., produced by physical injuries.
SABINA: 130, Abortion.
SAMBUCS: p. 70, Asthma of Millar; 162, Cold in the Head
of Infants; 165, Fright.
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SENNA: p. 158, Crying of Infants.
SILICEA: p. 20, Whitlow; 22, Scaldhead; 23, Corn; 77, 78,
Toothache; 140, Lochial Discharge; 142, Milk Fever;
161, Swelling on Head of Infants.
SOAP: p. 32, Burns.
SPONGIA: pp. 12, 69, Croup.
SQUILLA: p. 71, Inflammation of the Lungs.
STAPHYSAGRIA: pp. 77, 78, Toothache; 107, Lumbago; 167,
Passion.
STRAMONIUM: p. 36, Inflammation of the Brain.
SULPHUR: p. 18, Milk Crust; 19, Itchings; 20, Whitlow;
22, Chilblain; 23, Corn; 29, Purpura; 52, Bleeding
from the Nose; 74, Thrush; 77, 78, Toothache; 94, 95.
Diarrhcea; 99, Piles; 101, Worms; 129, Varicose Veins;
140, Sore Nipples; 148, After Vaccination; 162, Rupture, or Hernia of Infants.
TARTAR EMETIC: p. 110, Coma.
THIJA: p. 71, Pleurisy.
TURPENTINE: p. 32, Burns.
VALERIANA: p. 90, Vomiting of Food.
VERATRUM: pp. 66, 67, 68, Hooping-cough; 96, Cholera;
109, Fainting; 162, Rupture, or Hernia of Infants.
VINEGAR: p. 117, Suspended Animation from Foul Air.
VIOLA TRICOLOR: p. 18, Milk Crust.
ZINc: p. 19, Excoriation.
This enumeration of the medicines used will afford the
best answer to the ignorance-founded assertion, that homeopathists use but ONE medicine, because they are colourless: a
circumstance dependent upon the medicines being prepared
by trituration with sugar of milk.








INDEX.
Page
Title......   1
Preface to Second Edition...   2,3,4,5,6
Introduction; containing the Method of administering Medicines
in Acute and Chronic Diseases; Remarks on remedial Aggravation.     11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16


The Milk Crust
Excoriation
Itchings
Irritability
Whitlow
Boil
Chilblain
Scaldhead.
Warts.
Corns
Chickenpox
Smallpox.


PART I.
CHAPTER I.
The Skin7, and its Diseases.
S. 17     Varioloid
18    Measles. 19    Scarlet Fever.
20    Purples. 20    St. Anthony's Fire,
*     21      sipelas
S. 21     Miliary Fever
*     22    Nettle-rash
S. 23    Burn and Scald
*     23    Wound. 25    Sprain
26    Bruise.


or 'Ery~.
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27
27
"28
29
30
30
31
32
32
33
34


CHAPTER lI.
The Head and its Diseases.
Inflammation of the Brain   35    Headache
Water in the Head.. 37    Megrim.. 37
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CHAPTER III.
The Eye, and its Diseases.
Page                             Page
Inflammation... 41    Stye..        42
Catarrhal Ophthalma.     42
CHAPTER IV.
The Ears, the Cheeks, and their Diseases.
Earache... 44    Swelling of the Cheek.   47
Inflammation of the Ear.   46   Enlargement of the Parotid
Discharge from the Ear. 47      and Submaxillary Gland    48
CHAPTER V..Iffections of the Respiratory Organs.
Bleeding from the Nose. 50    Hooping-cough.. 64
Cold in the Head..     52    Croup..     69
Catarrhal Fever.. 55    Asthma of Millar.. 69
Hoarseness..     56   Inflammation of the Lungs   70
Influenza... 57     Pleurisy.. 71
Cough...     58   Spitting of Blood..     72
CHAPTER VI.
Jffections of the Digestive Organs.
Aphtha... 74     Cramp of the Stomach. 90
Stomacace..     75    Constipation..    92
Teething... 75     Diarrhcea... 94
Tonthache..     76    Cholera...    95
Quinsy... 80    Colic.... 97
Derangement of Stomach, or        Inflammation of Bowels.    98
Dyspepsia..     85-     emorrhoids... 99
Cardialgia, or Heartburn. 88   Worms...     100
Flatulence..     89    Jaundice... 103
Vomiting... 88     Liver Complaint..    103
CHAPTER VII.
Diseases of the.Muscular System.
Rheumatism...  104   Lumbago..  106
Gout...     105




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Faintings
Coma
Suspended Animation
at Birth
from Starvation
from a Fall


CHAPTER VIII.
General.ffections.
Page
S108     Suspen
110          f.   110          f
111          f.   112          f
113          f


ded Animation,
rom Strangling, &c.
rom Drowning
rom being Frozen
rom Lightning
rom Foul Air


Page
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114
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PART II.
CHAPTER I.
The Conduct during the State of Pregnancy


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CHAPTER II.
The Diseases of, or Disturbed States connected with, Pregnancy.
Morning Sickness..   126   Toothache...  128
Continuance of Menstruation  127   Varicose Veins..      129
Constipation...   128   Miscarriage, or Abortion     129
CHAPTER III.
On Child-Birth and its Sequels.
Birth of a Child..   133   After Pains.               135
Labour Pains.          134   Directions, &c., after Delivery 136
Directions after Delivery    135


CHAPTER IV.
Diseased States after Delivery.
S.  138    Inflammation of the Breasts  141
139    Milk Fever.          141, 142
1.    139    Modification of the Secretion
140          of Milk                143


Constipation
Diarrhoa.
Lochial Discharge
Sore Nipples


CHAPTER V.
The Treatment of the Infant after Birth.
Weaning...   47    Teething
Sleep.      148   Convulsions
Vaccination...  149


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Sleeplessness
Crying of Infants
Hiccough
Return of the Milk
Excoriation
Thrush
Milk Crust
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CHAPTER VI.
Diseases of Infants.
Page
157    Dentition
158    Convulsions
S.  158    Millar's Asthma
158   Jaundice.  158    Swelling of the Head
159    Rupture, or Hernia.  159


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159. 160
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PART III.


CHAPTER I.
Mental Causes of Diseases.
Fright.  165    Nostalgia
Passion and-Vexation.     167    Jealousy
Silent Grief...  168
CHAPTER II.
Physical Causes.
Blows or Bruises..  169    Exposure to Cold or Wet
Derangement of Stomach       170
PART      IV.


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CHAPTER I. Diet..
"    II. Bathing the Feet
cc  Ir. Making a Poultice
"    Ir. The proper way of Fomenting


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S 175
S.  177
S 178


PART V.
CHAPTER I. Explanotion of some Terms used in this Work, 4ýc.
t"     I. Instructions by which Patients may communicate their
cases to a Physician by Letter
"    in. The Remedies used, and the Diseases in which employed..


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