PRACTICAL HO M(EOPATHY, FOR THE PEOPLE, ADAPTED TO TIIE COMPR'12EItENSION, OF THE NONPIROFESSIONAL, AND F'OR Reference by the Youmg Practitioner, INCLCDING, A TNUMBER OF 1IOST VALUABLE NEW REMEDIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF NUMEROUS DISEASES NOT 1N GENERAL USE. BY J. S. DOUiGLAS, A. Ma, M. D., Late Professor of Mat. Mled., Special Pathology and Diagnosis in the Western ltom. Med. College at Cleaveland, Ohio Fellow and Corresponding Member of the Penn. IIom. Medicai College at Philadelphia. Author of " Treatment of Intermittent Fevers." "H tomoeopathy, its Princple and Practice Explained, and Illustrated," &c. MI LWAUV A U K E E: 1862. STEREOTYPED BY SIAS & HILL, NORTH-WESTERN TYPS FOUNDRY, MILW4UKgX. PREFACE. In furnishing the public with Homoeopathic remedies, with directions for their use, it is proper to state the motives for so doing. These areFIRST.-A knowledge of the vast superiority of Homeopathic treatment, over the old system. SECONI. —A large portion of the population, of the West especially, are not within reach of a lHomoeopothic physician, and if they employ the remedies, are obliged to depend upon such l;nowledge of them as they can acquire from books, deigned for domestic use. TIIIRD.-Though there have been many works published for this purpose, they arc so large and obscure, that they perplex and confould, rather than instruct and guide, those not accustomed to medical studies. The constant call is for something short and plain. Fo'uRTH. —These large works are years behind the actual knowledge of the present day, in regard to medicines and the treatment of the most common diseases. A work is needed, corresponding to the present advanced state of medical knowledge. iv PREFACE. There will be found in this little work a considerable number of the most important remedies, not mentioned in any of these large works, and new and important applications of several others. FIFTH.-The reputation of Homoeopathic remedies has becomne so general, and the demand for them so great that the country is becoming flooded with Homooopathic quackery, under the name of " Specific hIomoeopathic Remedies," no one knowing what they are but him who prepares them. When a bottle or box is exhausted, the owner has no resource but to send to the getter-up of these nostrums, or some of iis agents, to get it replenished. The unfortunate example of this mode of quackery has been set by a medical man at the East, who has thereby forfeited his standing in the profession, an11 been very properly expelled from the American Medical Society. His example is being followed by others who have a higher regard for their own pockets than their professional reputation, or the interest of the public. All reasoning persons will prefer to know what the medicines are which tLey use, and when one is exhausted be able to replenish it at any place where IIomoeopathic medicines are kept, and at the same time enjoy the practical benefits of knowing what the remedies are which effect cures of different diseases. Besides these considerations, any reasoning person, by a moment's reflection, will be convinced how totally inadequate these "Specifics" are to care all the diseases PREFACE. V for which they are advertised, and how unsafe it must be to trust them. We have no hesitation in saying to the public, that it is totally unsafe to trust to these "Specific Remedies," for the treatment of the various diseases for which they are prescribed, as much so as to trust the thousand other mixtures advertised to cure everything. The deficiencies and inconveniences of existing domestic works, I propose to remedy, while the quackery is avoided. Those who use the remedies will know what they are using-will rapidly gain a knowledge of their properties and effects, and thus be acquiring valuable medical knowledge. I do not aim to make accomplished physicians of the public, nor expect that every case of disease can be safely treated domestically. But I do know, from numerous examples of domestic practice, that a long catalogue of acute and serious diseases, as well as lighter disorders, will be treated much more safely and successfully by families, by following the directions here given, than they are treated by the best drugging physicians. Nor it is my design to treat of every disease to which humanity is subject, nor to prescribe every remedy of the Materia Medica. But I shall give brief and unmistakable directions for cutring the great mass of diseases of the country, constituting nine-tenths of all the cases for which the'physician is usually consulted, with remedies enough to meet these cases, among which is a conA2 ri PREFACE. jiderable number of most valuable and even indispeniable remedies, which are not yet in use even by Hoaoeopathic physicians generally. It is greatly to be regretted that so many Allopathice physicians are dabbling with Homoeopathic remedies, and pretending that they can practice Homoeopathy where it is appropriate, as well as we, without any of the study or knowledge necessary to use them with any success or credit to the system. When, by their bungling misapplication of these beautiful remedies, they fail of success, or, by giving them in Allopathic doses, do serious mischief, they pronounce Homceopati'y not adapted to such cases. As well might a bungler, after spoiling a board and mangling his hand, by attempting to use a saw, pronounce a saw not adapted to such purposes. In short, my one great object in this issue of medicines, with appropriate directions, is to make known and extend the blessings of Homoeopathic remedies properly applied, by bringing the community to a practical acquaintance with them, and induce them to witness their beneficient effects under their own administration and experience. We hope that very many who have never used HIomeopathic remedies will be induced to make the trial. It will not be deemed egotistic by those who know him, or know of him, to say that this work is written,. and the medicines selected and prepared by one who has devoted over thirty years to the study as well as PREFACE. Vii the practice of medicine, and who, in his intercourse with the best and most progressive physicians of the day, and in the performance of his duties as a teacher of medicine, the reading of the latest practical works, and the habitual proving of new remedies on himself and others, has anxiously labored to collect practical information, and apply it to the treatment of disease. INTRODUCTION. Most persons who have not given special attention to Homoeopathy, have very mistaken notions of it. It is very commonly thought to consist in giving very small doses. If an Allopathic physician gives very small doses, it is thought that he is almost Homoeopathic. This is a great mistake. One may give just as small doses as we do, and yet make no approach to being Homoeopathic. Homceopathy consists in treating disease according to a certain fixed law of cure. This law is expressed by the phrase —" LIKE CUREs LIKE." The meaning of this phrase is, that a medicine in small doses, will cure a disease, the like of which, the same medicine will produce on a healthy person, if given in large doses. The first inquiry which we make, when called to treat a disease, is, "What medicine will produce a disease like it, in a healthy person, if'given in large doses?" When we find such a remedy, we give it with entire confidence of success, if the disease is curable. The correctness of this law, any one can prove on himself. For example, after one has seen fevers cured in a few hours, by Gelseminum, in doses of half or quarter of a drop, let him test the correctness of this law, by taking, when he is wt 1!, five or ten drops of the INTRODUCTION. ix same remedy. If he is at all sensitive, he will find, within five minutes, that his pulse has from ten to fifteen or twenty fawer beats in the minute, than it had before; and he will feel more or less chilly and dull. This will soon be followed by heat, a quick pulse, flushed face, fullness and pain of the head, ancld, perhaps, pain of the back and limbs. In short, lhe will feel that he has got a fever. Soon a prickling of the skin is felt, and a sweat breaks out, and after a few hours, lhe is well again. Now, it is just because Gelseminum procluces a fever in i dloses, that it cutres. a similar fever in SMIALL doses. Thhe first dose I ever took of this remedy, when I was in perfect health, I knewt that it would cure our prevalent fevers, as well as I know it now, after curing hundreds with it, because I knew that' the law of " like cures like," was a true and reliable law. This is the law that guides us in all our treatment of disease. Every remedy prescribed in this book, for particular diseases, is prescribed, because it.produces a similar disease. This is the secret of our great success, in the most formidable and dangerous diseases, a success that often astonishes those who do not understand the secret. Allopathic p)hysicians have no such law to guide them. The only law they have for treating disease is, the " cut and try" law, or the law of experiment, and all their experiments are made tpon the sick, and at their expense. Our experiments are mnade before hand on the healthy, and we enter at once on the cure of the sick, while they are cxpceriment X INTRODUCTION. ing upon them. Our's is a certain science-their's is an uncertain art. It will be readily seen that we cannot safely give large doses. If we did, we should produce the diseases we now cure. The accuracy of this law is proved to a demonstration, and every one may satisfy himself of it, a layman as well as a physican. And if this is a true law, then the practice of IIoinepathy is the true practice, and all others are false. A most intelligent clergyman was investigating the truth of this law, and one day called and related the following case: said he, in my young days I was in the habit of drinking wine. I have a most vivid recollection of the bursting head-ache, the parched mouth, the burning thirst, the nausea and the prostration, the morning after a hard night's drinking. I awoke a few mornings since witli all these feelings in a most distressing degree, though I had drank nothing. I related my feelings to my wife, saying that I felt-exactly as if I had a night's debauch on wine. She laughingly replied that a Homocopathic dose of wine ought to cure me. I thought it a good chance to test the truth of the principle. I took two drops of wine in solme water, and the effect was more remarkable than I ever witnessed from a dose of medicine.. In five minutes my mouth was moist, my thirst abated, my head-ache vanishing, my strength returning, and in 15 minutes I was perfectly well. Here was a beautiful illustration of the law. A iminute dose2 drops of Wine, cured, in a prompt and truly Homoepathic manner, a formidable train of symptomls, INTRODUCTION. xi like those produced by large doses of the same article. This is equally true of all remedies. Tea produces, in those not accustomed to its use, anxiety, trembling, weakness and palpitation of the heart, yet every lady knows that tea, in moderate quantity, is an excellent remedy for those very symptoms. Allopathic medical authorities fL'nishl a thousandll examples which prove this very law, though they do not understand it. Tobacco, according to all Allopathic authorities, both produces and cures giddiness, nausea, trembling and weakness; agaricus produces and cures epilepsy; belladonna both proeduces and cures delirium and headache; ipecac and antimony produce and cure nausea and vomiting; nitric acid, iodine and mercury produce and cure salivation and ulceration of the mouth. We might fill a volume with similar examples. Large doses prodluce diseases-small ones cure them. It may seem strange to those who have not looked at the subject, that the same remedy should act in such contrary directions, and produce and cure the same affections. It is, nevertheless, founded on nature and reason, which is more than can be said of most medical doctrines. As I am desirous that every man and woman, who reads this book, should know more of the philosophy of medicine than Allopathic physicians do, and be able to meet the arguments brought by them against Homceopathy, I propose to explain the philosophy of this Homoeopathic law, so that all will understand it. It is founded upon a law of life-a vital principle Xii INTRODUCTION. Let us question nature in this, as in all other things. My hands are cold, and I plunge them into cold water, or rub them in snow, and what is the result? In a few minutes, they are glowing with warmth. This is not a freak of nature. Nature has no freaks. Her laws are uniform and universal, and this is an example of one of her laws. Take another example: My hands are hot, and I plunge them into hot water, and after a few minutes exposure to the air, they become cool. Take other and varied examples: I burn my hand; it is hot, red, inflamed and painful. On Allopathic principles, we should apply cold to remove this heat. And what would be the effect? VWhy, the heat and pain would be relieved for a short time, but the vital principle of re-action is aroused against it, and the hand soon becomes more hot., red,,a~nd painful than before. Hence, experience, without a lnowledg e of the law, haq taught the profession, that cold appli,'ations to a burn, though a comfortab!e temporary p-alliative, is a very bad curative. But adopt an olp( site treatment, and apply a heating stimulant, as alcoh{ll, or spirits of turpentine, or soft soap. The vital principle reacts against this, also, and in a short time, the heat, pain and inflammation subside, a comfortable coolness follows, and the burn is soon cured. A restless patient is put to sleep on opium, but on the following night, he is more restless and sleepless than before. We might give a thousand examples of a similar character. INTRODUCTION. Xiii This will enable us to understand two universal and practical laws, of the action of remedies, which the community should understand, if physicians do not. Such an understanding will do away with an immense amount of all pervading and mischievous quackery. FIRST LAw. —Every medicine produces two directly opposite effects, in the order of time. The first, the primary and transient effect; the second, the secondary and more permanent one. To illustrate this law by an example: a patient takes a cathartic or a laxative. Its first or primary effect, is, to stimulate the intestines to unusual, unnatural activity; so much so, that he has, during its action, a medicinal diarrhoea. But this effect is transient, lasting only a few hours. Then, comes the secondary effect, which is exactly the opposite, viz.: unusual and unnatural inactivity and torpor, producing constipation. Another illustration: opium or morphine is given to allay pain and procure rest and sleep. This purpose is answered by its primary effect; but this soon ceases, and then comes the opposite, or secondary effect, that is, increased sensibility, restlessness and sleeplessness, and this is increased with every dose. What is true of these two remedies, is true of all others. Yet, this is the strange principle on which all Allopathic prescriptions are made, that is, to get the primary effects of medicines, which, if good, are a.t the best but very brief, and are soon followed by the oFposite effect, which, of course, must be bad. Everybody B XiV INTRODUCTION. is familiar with the fact, that multitudes of persons, after an Allopathic treatment, are left with lasting and ruinous medicinal diseases, though the medicines may have done them temporary good. If the public were thoroughly acquainted with thir one law, they would never tolerate another dose of Allopathic medicine for themselves or their families. If the physician should prescribe a laxative or cathartic to remove constipation, the better informed patient would say to him something like this: " Mly dear sir, as I understand the laws of cure, your dose will give me very transient relief by its primary effect; but the secondary effect will be just the reverse, and will be lasting, so that I shall get only temporary relief, at the mxpense of a lasting aggravation of the very difficulty from lwhich you propose to relieve me. I really cannot afford to pay such a price for so small a benefit." The same reasoning applies equally to every Allopathic prescription for every disease. SECOND LAw. —But there is another law equally practical and equally impc}rtant, viz.: That all medicines produce two exactly opposite effects, according to quantity, that is, small and large doses produce precisely opposite effects. So far is it from being true, that if a small dose will do a little good, a large one will do more, the truth is, that if sa mall dose does good, a large one will certainly do mischief, for the effects of the two Are just the opposite of each other For example: a small dose of opium produces wakeful ness and exhilera INTRODUCTION. XV tion, while a large dose produces stupor and sleep. Small doses of rhubarb, mercury and other cathartics, allay irritability of the bowels, and cure diarrhoea and dysentery, while large doses, everybody knows, produce precisely opposite effects. Very small doses of ipecac and emetic tartar, allay irritation of the stomach, and stop vomiting and cholera morbus, while large doses produce only irritation and vomiting. The one is the disease-curing, the other disease-producing, effect. Guided by this law, the physician will so administer his medicines as to secure the disease-curing effect, and avoid the disease-producing effect. Patients, well informed, will be wise enough to refuse a prescription made in violation of this law. But the Allopathic physician always aims to get the primary or diseaseproducing effect. He knows nothing of treating discase by any other method. A wise patient will say to a physician, who prescribes for him a large close ot medicine, (and all Allopathic closes are large, though they call them small): "Sir, I consulted you for the purpose of being cured, and you offer me a drug in a dose that will make me sick. The law of cure, as I understand it, makes it no part of the business of a physician to produce disease, but his exclusive business to cure it. The time is past, when the appropriate inscription on a physician's sign was a' disease manufactory,' and the proper title of the profession-' The desfruictive art of healing.' I must insist on your treating nme in harmony with the now well known laws or cure, xvi INTRODUCTION. or I must take the treatment into my own hands, or consult some one better informed." We can now better understand the reason of the law —" LIKE CuREs LIKrE." We see a patient laboring under symptoms exactly like those produced by large doses *of belladonna. This, then, must be the appropriate remedy, because, in small doses it produces symptoms exactly the opposite of those produced by large doses, and the cpposite of those under which the patient labors, and, of course, establishes anl opposite effect, that is, in other words, cures the dclisease. Is not this law of cure, then, founded on nature, and does it not commend itself to our reason and common sense? And when we see our remedies in small doses prescribed according to this law, performi such wonderful cures, is it notj ust what we ought to expect? We always know 1why we give any certain remedy, and know what its effects will be, for we have tried theim in large doses on the healthy, and understand their properties. How different it is with toe Allopathic physician? Let us see how he learns to treat a disease. He takes up, for example, the study of fever, with a view of preparing himself to treat it. lie reads in his books that one lphysician recommends cold affus'ons, and another disagrecs with him and thinkls themil dangerous. One advises wine, and another insist that the patient should have only the most cooling drinks. )Iany prescribe Peruvian bark or quinine, and others INTRODU'CTION. XVII object to these renmecdies as hurtful. Some recommend a free use of cathartics, and others warn the young physicimn arainst their use. Some recommend opiates, others think them dangerous. And so on-to tho end of thlle chapter, almost every remedy inl the ~lateria Medica being recommended by some and repudiated by others. Thus furnished, the physician goes forth to take the lives of the public in his hands, at full liberty, under high medical authorities, to employ just what remedies he pleases, and sadly puzzled to make a choice. During all his practice, h1e never has a glimpse of any law to guide him in his perilions work. The best reason lie can give for pres'ribing any of his drugs is, that somebody thinks he has fouIdcl it useful, without knowing why, in cases that seen' similar. It is an unmitigated system of guess —v rk,. and life-and-deathl-experimenet, upon the sick and. th!e suffering. How different is it with the IIomomo,)athl! Vheln we see a patient with the symptoms o'f aj rdiinlary attack of fever, we giv-f Gelseminum, bcc:.u. w-e I have taken it ourselves beforo hand, while in healtll, ande know that it produces jusl that train of symnlptoms, and therefore knotv that ii will clure them, and.we a re not disappointed. In an. other form of fever, we give TLartar for the same reason and with the samle reIult. We always know wly we give a remedy, becasoe we have a clear and unmistakeable law to guide Lus. We have constantly new diseases, or old diseases p1utting on new forin~. We are prepared for them beforep'0 Xviii INTRODUCTION. hand. Every Homoeopathist knew, years before cholera appeared in this country, that camplior, arsenicurn and veratrum would cure it, because these remedies had been proved on the healthy, and found to produce sy-mlptoms like those of cholera. And when cholera appeared, we treated it with the most triulmphlint success, from the very first, while Allopathic pilhysicians Awere experimenting, and their patients dying; and they are still experimenting on this and all other diseases. Even now, after so many years of experimenting, they cannot save half the proportion of patients that Holomcopathlists saved the very first year of its aptpearance. Is it strange that a man, with any feeling of humanity, Yshould be anxious to diffuse a knowledge of a system,of medicine, possessing so many advantages, and. so full.of blessings to the ieck? Finally, we feel certain that if the public mind can Tieaome imbued with the doctrines of Homcemopathy, and generally adopt it in practice, it vwill be the most effectual remedy for the now all-prevalent and destructive quackery, and be a vast saving of health and life. Try it ana then decide on its merits. LIST OF RE/MEDIES IN, FULL FAMILY CASE. NAMES. STRENGTH. CONTRACTIONS. 1 Aconitum nap................... Tinct. Acon....... 0 2 Agaricus mus.,..................3 pellets..... Agar....... 3 3 Ambra grisia..................... do.......... 6 4 Ammonium carb.,............... 3 trit....... 3 5 Apis mellifica. 3 pel................ pApi..8. 6 Ar triphyl,...... 3 trit. Arum 3 7 Arnica mont,.........., Tinct. Arn......... 0 8 Arsenicum alb.,6 pI................. Ars......... 6 9 Atropinc......................... 6 do........ Atrop...... 6 10 Belladona,.................. 3 do........ ell........ 11 Balsam coaiva,.................3 do. Bals. cop... 3 12 Brvouia alba,.... 3 do. I........ ry 3 13 Calendla,......................... Tinct........ Calend..... 0 14 Calcarea carl.................... 6 pel......... Calc........6 15 Cantharides,.................... 3 pel......... Canth. 3 16 Caulophvylin,.................. 3 trit......... Caul......3 17 Chamomilla,...................... 3 el......... Chamin...... 3 18 Chlelidlonium,.l.................. 3 do........ Clel...... 3 19 China............................ 3 do....... China. 3 20 Cocculus,......................... 3 do. Coc........ 3 21 Colocynth,....................... 3 do........ Coloc..... 3 22 Coralllun,.................... 6 pel......... Cor........ 6 23 Croton tigliu,.......... do....... Crot........ 6 24 Dulcainara,.................. 3 do... c....... 3 25 Ferrum met.,.... 6 do -.. Fer........ 6 26 Gelsemilum,.............. Tinct........ Gels........ 0 27 Glanderine,...................... 6 pel........ Gland. 6 28 Graphites,....................... 6 do........ Graph...... 6 29 LamInamelis virginica,........... Tinct....... 11am.. 0 30 Ilepar sulpluris,.................. 6 pel......... Hep........ 6 31 1Iydrastis Canadensis............. Tinct....... IIydras.... 0 32 Iguatia........................... 3 pel........ Ig. 3 33 Ipecacuanha.................. 3 do........ Ip...... 3 34 Kali hydriodicum,.............. do....... Kal hyd... 6 35 Leptandrin,...................... 3 trit......... Lept...... 3 36 Lobelia inflata,........... 3 pel.........Lob. 3 37 Macrontin,...................... 3 tritMac....... 3 38 Mercurins corros,................ 6 pei......... Merc cor... 6 39 Mercurius solub,.........6....... 6 do........ Merc. sol... 6 40 Nux Vomica.................... 3 do....... Nux.. 3 41 Phosphorus..................... 3 do....... Phos.......3 42 Phosphoric acid,................. 3 do........ Phos.ac 3 43 Podophyllin,................ 3... 3 trit.. Pod...... 3 44 Pulsatilla....................... 3 pel.. Puls.. 3 45 Rhus tox......................3 do.... Rhus...... 3 46 epia,................... 6 do Sep......... 6s........ 47 Santonine,........................ 3 trit.... Sa 3 48 Sulphur,....................... 6 pel......... Sulph 6 49 Sulphuric acid................... 3 do.......uph. Sh.ac.. 3 50 Spongia.......................... 3 do Spong. 3 51 Tartar stib....................... 3 trit. Tart........ 3 52 Veratrum,.........................3 pel.......... Verat. 3 Case of 82 of the most Important Remedies. 1 Aconitum nap. 17 Ipecac. 2 Ambra grisea. 13 Kali Hyd. 3 Ammon Carb. 19 Leptandrin. 4 Arnica. 20 Mlacrotin. 5 Arsenicum. 2'1 Merc. cor. 6 Atropine. 22 Mere. sol. 7 Belladonna. -'3 Nux Vom. 8 Bryonia -t24 Ihosphorus. - Calendula..25 P'odophrylin. 10 Caulophyllin. 26 Pulsatilla. 11 Chamomilla. 27 Rhus. tox. 12 Colocynth. 28 Sulphur. 13 Dulcamara. 29 Sulphuric acid. ~.4 Gelseminumn. 30 Spongia. 15 IIamanmelis. 81 Tartar. 16 Ilydrastis.',-r Veratrum. Cases of Remedies not fdund in most Domestic Works or Cases. 1 Ambra. 9 Golseninurn 2 Agaricus. 10 Zi inderine. 3 Ammonium carb. 11 lia:smliis. 4 Arum. 12 1 li deasris. 5 Atropine i Lelt,;!ndrin. 6 Bals. cop. 14 MLe1rotin. 7 Calendula. 15) I'odoplhyllin. 8 Caulophyllin 16 Santonine. TRAVELITIG CASE. 1 Arnica. 6 MIErc. cor. 2 Arsenicum. 7 Nux. Vom. 3 Belladonna. 8 Phosphorus. 4 Colocynth. 9 Plcdophyllin. 5 Gelsemiumn, 10.cratrum. PRICES. 52 Remedies, Case and Book, Uprht.................7.00 50 do do Flat..................... 6.00 32 -do do do.................... 4.50 16 do do do.................... 2.50 10 do do do.................... 1.50 The case of 16 remedies contains these that are not found in most dQsnestic books. N. B. While taking Ilomocopathic remedies, the patient should abstain from all other remedies or articles haviung mdicinal properties, either in the form of drugs, herb drinks or diet, as acids, especially vinegar, soda, saleratus. pepper, spice, cinnamon, cloves, &c.; and when the habit is not incorrigible, from green tea, coffee and tobacco: GENERAL DIRECTIONS. The usual dose of pellets for an adult is six; for children, from one to four, according to age. When the pellets are dissolved, which is preferable, when convenient, if pure water can be lad; put 10 or 12 in a gill of water, and give teaspoonfull doses. When tincture of Ac0on. is used internally, 2 or 3 drops may be put in a gill of water; dose, a teaspoonfull. When grains of the triturations or powders are mentioned, what will lie upon a 3 cent piece may be considered about 2 grains. The usual dose of a powder, when not otherwise directed, is a grain, or if dissolved, 2 or 3 grains in a gill of water; close, a teaspoonfull. When taking iTomceopathic remedies, the patient must abstain from all other medicines-herb drinks, \odors, as Camphor, Cologne, Hartshorn, &c., and avoid vinegar, pepper and spices, and, as far as possible, coffee and tobacco. PRACTICAL HOMUEOPATHY FOR THE PEOPLE. FEVERS In a work like this, it would be worse than useless tf treat of fevers under the various and numerous names by which they are called in medical books. We shall regard all fevers as one disease, with a number of varieties, and give the treatment for the principal different forms it assumes. The great majority of fevers in this country are, what are called bilious, or bilious remittent; because they give evidence of bilious disorder, or disordered action of the liver, and have a remission every twenty-four hours, that is, a period during which the fever is less. This usually occurs in the morning. This form of fever, after some days or only hours of languor, loss of appetite, and perhaps nausea, headache and feeling of fatigue, makes its attack by a chill more or less severe, pain in the head, back and limbs, restlessness, a feeling of weakness, bad taste of the mouth and coated tongue. Its course will depend on the treatment. Under the physicking and drugging treatment its course is generally prolonged for several weeks; often assumes at a late stage, a low, typhoid form, and is not unfrequently fatal. 24 PRACTICAL HOM(EOPATIIY. After the chilly stage is over, which may be from one or two to six or eight hours, it is followed by dry heat, continued headache, restlessness, loss of appetite, more or less thirst, and a general feeling of severe sickness. The tongue becomes more coated with a dirty white or yellowish color, the pulse is frequent, often fromn 100 to 120 in the minute. Towards morning, some remission comes on, and perhaps there is a slight moisture of the skin, the pains are less, and the patient sleeps more quietly. This is repeated from day to day. Sometimes the tongue is dry and of a browner color in the middle. The edges and tip are sometimes red, and sometimes the whole surface of the tongue. This form of fever, if well drugged, according to the usual Allopathic practice, as I said, is usually prolonged to several weeks. If no medicine is given —if the patient entirely abstains from food, and gratifies his thirst with water only, and if the surface is washed frequently, whenever the-skin is hot and dry, and the room kept well aired, the fever will generally be ended in from seven to nine days. But under a good Homoeopathic treatment, it is usually cured in twenty-four hours, and where this fails, in less than a week. TRBATMENT.-In the early or chilly stage, put a few drops of Gels. -in a tumbler, and add an equal number of spoonsfull of water, and give a spoonfull every half hour till the chill ceases, and perspiration is procured or the pain and fever subside. Then stop it as long as the improvement continues. As soon as the symptoms be FEVERS. 25 gin to return, renew it. In a majority of cases, the first dose stops the chills within fifteen or twenty minutes. If the first dose produces no effect, increase it to 2, 3, or 5 drops, for there is a great difference in the quantity required by different persons. In many eases j or 1 drop is sufficient. After a free perspiration is thus produced, the pain3 subside and the patientgoes to sleep, and when he wakes, is conscious that his fever "is broken up." It is important that this treatment should be adopted in the early stage of the attack. I have cured innumerable cases by this remedy alone. This is applicable to all fevers that tome on with chills and pains, as ab6ve described, whether catarrhal, or from a, cold, bilious, typhoid or rheumatic. When these symptoms are present, Gels. is the remedy. If the treatment is not commenced till a later period, it will often succeed, and should be tried as the first remedy, but there is much less certainty of success. But it need not be continued over one day, if it is not obviously doing good. If this fails and the fever puts on the forms and symptoms hereafter described, then corresponding remedies must be uset. Another form of fever comes on slowly and almost imperceptibly, without pain and with only a feeling of languor, of fatigue and aversion to any effort. The mind is dull, and the tongue is either merely coated or it is more or less red at the tip and edges, or it is dry and brownish through the middle. In such cases, if not soon relieved by Gels. give Tartar stb. (2 grains 26 PRACTICAL HOM(EOPATHY. on a gill of water,) in teaspoonfull doses every 3 hours, aid cont'i-e it for some days. Under this, there will generally be, after the first 24 hours, a daily abatement, and the fever will subside in a few days. If there is sleeplessness, delirium or headache, give; besides, a dose of Bell. three times a day. In fevers, in which the bilious symptoms are most prominent, such as yellowish coat of the tongue, bitter taste, feeling of fullness or tenderness in the region of the liver, along the edges of the lower ribs of the right side and pit of the stomach, costiveness, or bilious diarrhoea, high colored urine, and feeling of nausea at the stomach, Pod. or Bry. and NAx. are the remedies. One may by given alone, or both alternately, three hours apart: If, however, the fever is high, and there i-s a good deal of pain in any internal organ, Aconite must be given, either alone or alternated with Bry., until these symptoms are subdued. And here is a good place to remark, that while Gets. is the best remedy known for simple fever, Aeon. is the indispensable remedy for local inflanmmations, which often exist in in fever. This distinctioA is of great importance, and should not be forgotten. If the fever has assumed a low, typhoid character, with delirium, great weakness, dry lips, which, with the teeth, are covered with a dark crust, twitching of the tendons, and picking at the bed-clothes, give Ars. and Bell or Ars. and Hydr., 3 hours apart. Uader- this4reatment, very few fevers will continue a FEVERS. 27 week. In the severe fevers it is of great importance to have fresh air passing frequently over a ptientistd to carry off the effluvia constantly arising from the body. It has long been observed in hospitals, that patients with fevers did not do as well who were placed in a corner where a current if air could not pass over them. The whole surface should be sponied over several times a day with water of a temperature to be agreeable to the feeling. Once a day there may be a little saleratus, or soda, or ley from ashes added to the water. During the continuance of thle fever there should be a total abstinence from food, except water gruel, rice-water, barley water, or similar things, made very thin for a drink; and even these had better be omitted for several days, and only water given. The linen and bed-clothes should be changed daily. The patient should be kept entirely quiet, undisturbed by noise, and especially by conversation, and the room should be cool and not disagreeably light. After recovery commences, if tAe bowels are costive, give a dose of Nuix. v. every nigh'l. Intermittent Fever —-Chill Fever. TREATFMENT. —During the chill and fever, give Gels. as above. During the intermissions if there is bilious derang~ement such as coated tongue, impaired appetite, head-ache and feeling of illness, give Ipecac. and Pod. alternately every three or four hours; or.Ipecac and Nux. for aaman, arl Ipecac and Paels. for woman and children. 28 PRACTICAL IIOMICEOPATIIY. Within a few days, by this treatment, the disordered stle during the intermission, will generally subside, and the patient will feel tolerably well, except during the chill and fever. Then, if the chills and fever continue, give, durhing tide intermission, Ars. every 3 or 4 hours. But few cases wil co;itilluc many days under this treatmeat, uldlcss comnlplicated with other disorders. Many cases that have been treated for months with Quinine, will be cured by tis simple course il a few days. Fitom thirt~r years observation and experience of Quinine, I am perfectly convinced that it has done infinitely more mischief than the agile would have done, if left entirely to itself. It undoubtedly stops the chills, and the fever temporarily; but these are only two symp: toms of a general disease, which remains after the chills have stopped, with a more serious Quinine disease added to it. Thousands have thus cured an ague a dozen times in the course of a season, which, after all, still remained, in an aggravated aid more dangerous form than at first. If Ars. fails to cure it in a few days, give China in the same ma'nner. Scarlatina-Scarlet Fever. This comes on with many of the symptoms of other.:vers. After a short time, the pulse becomes very quick —often, in children, 120 to 140 in the minute. The skin is hotter than in any other disease. The scarlet eruptioncomes out over the body oa the second FEVERS. 29 day, but may be seen in thickly scattered, red points over the tongue on the first day. The excess of fever often produces delirium. There is usually some soreness of the throat. This is the simplest form of the disease andtthe mildest. TrpEAT5IENT. —ACOtite and Bell. are the chief remedies, alternated every 2 cr 3 hours. Whenever the skin is very hot and dry, it shou!ld be frequently bathed all over with water of a temperature to suit the feelings of the patient. This, if frequently done, in a remarkable degree, diminishes the fever and quiets the nervous irritability. After a good bathing, the patient will frequently recover from his deliriunl, become quiet and fall asleep, while the pulse falls froml 10 to 20 in the minute. I have practiced this free bathing in this disease, frequently with cold water, for thirty years. The fear that will make the eruption "''strike in," is totally without foundation. A chill should, of course, be avoided. This is a more severe form of the disease in which soreness and swelling of throat is a proiminent srumptom. The throat is swollen inside and out. Swallowing is painful and -difici lt. If the inner surface of the throat is examined, it will be f,,;u!d red, inflamed and often covered with a membra,:ne, in patches of a dirty white, or ash, or yellowishl color. The fever is high and the pulse quick. Thlere is more prostration of strength than in the simple form, and more pains. c2 30 PRACTICAL IIOMEOPATIIY. TREATiMENT. -AconitC and Bell. are still the reme dies in the early stage, alternated every hour or two. If ulcers appear in the throat, or if it is much swollen, omit tile Acoa. and givce Bell. and iecrec. Cor. for men, or Alere. Sol. for womlcn aind children. If the throat remains ulcerated'for s-lme it das, after the fever has somewhat snbs'icd, olit tlhese rc.iedies and give Igydr. (10 drops in a gill of water.) in teaspoonfull doses, every 2 or 3 oIltls, 0a(l grgole trhe tlhr-at after each dose, witch a washl of thlie s:laL-, ni tcas:,-)onfull to a gill. I have very recently seen the most b)eautiful effects from this use of IT1,7i. ill cases wlicre tlhe thlroat was.badly ulcerat ed..at~i.nlalt ncar'latina. This is a still more dantllrois form of the disease.'The prostration of strength is iul:.l, greater, the pulse weak and qnick —the throat. dark red and ulceratedthere is extremlely ha, fetil breatll —tlle nostrils are often excoriated or raw with a fetid, acrid discharge, and there is a tendency to ganlgrrene of tihe throat and general sinking. TRE XTIE NT. -When tlhese symptoms appear, give several doses of Ailoo. ccurb), 2 grains in a gill of water, a teaspoonfull every hour or two. Tliis will frequently change the dark threatening color of the throat and other corresponding symptoms, in a slhort time. Follow this with Ilydr. as above, for a gargle, and give Ars. every 2 or 3 hours. Mlost of'he cases, even of DIPTil"RIA. 31 malignant scarlet fever, will be cured by this treatment. I need not say how hopeless they are with the commor treatment. I'n the w,,rst forms of the disease with obstinate tenlency to gangrorie, if other remeodies fail, Glanderine should be g'venl every hour or two. It is a powerful remedly. It is said, on good authority, " In terrible cases of Scarlatina,. w1iere the odor' of' the breath is putrid, ai d tlhe moutli an: thlroat are filled with tenacious muacuns, whilet the swollen tonsils close the throat, this remcly alune, seei,ls capalble of rescuing the patient."' TI all al.igi nt, and gaoigrcoouns ulcerations, it is a relldny of great power. The trelitllnlt, giel for this disease, in ihs malignant forilm, is elquiily apliieable to the disease which has appeared ild several parts of the country under the naime of the " black tongue," or malignaLnt erysipelas. For dropsy, tlht son-,e tim.es follows Searlatina, Ar3. oeery 4 hllours. 1) I P T II E 11 I A This disease hlia:s i: sl resciemblance, il character and symptoims, to 3Malignant Scarlattina. From its late prevalenocandl its frecquenlt futality, it is very important that its sympto-,ms and treatmlent should be well understood. In its sim}plest forms, it usually comes on with chilliness, fever and laiguor. These symptoms are attctended; vith redlcess, heat and soreness of the throat, and more or less psin on swallowing. When it appears 32 PRACTICAL IIOIEOPATIIHY. only in this simple form, Bell. every 2 hours, is the appropriate remedy; or, if there is much feverish heat, alternate with Aconi. If the thlroat is red and sore, a gargle of a teaspoonfull of tincture of Bell. to a tumbler of water, after each dose of Bell. has a charming effect. But if the disease goes on, there are soon other symptoms. There is more or less swelling of the throat, externally and internally, the nose is stopel and discharges a thin or rcpy mucus, the patient is more prostrate and languid, and complains of general soreness or lameness. WVhcioa these symptoms occur, give Bell. and AHerc. every hour or two. But there is often sickness of the stomach, with pain and tenderness on pressure, greCt weakness, sweating or moist skiil, with patches of false membrane over various parts of the throat of an ash or straw color. Sometimes these patches are very small-mere points and few-sometimes numerous and large. With these symptoms there is fetid breath and often fetid discharge from the nose. In this condition Am7. carb. is indispensable, 3 or 4 grains inl a gill of water, teaspoonfull doses every hour, for 5 or G hours. Then if the Inmembrane is not thlrown off, l~crc. and Bell. alternated every hour or two. When the glands are much swollen and the breath very fetid, Glanclerize, as in M3alignant Searlatina, may save th!c patient when other remedies fail. In these worst cases, gargle the tllroat with the Ilyd. and if there is great prostration or diarrhoea give it as in Scarlatina. MEASLES-ERY SEPILAS 33 There arc other remedies often important as Nitric and Sulfuric Acid, Bromtile and Iodine, which are difficult to be kepit by families for uso. Indeed this formidable disease should be in the hands of a physician whenever a competent one can be had. If the patient complains of heat and burning in the throat, there is no gargle so good as Cayenane Pepper in water, of considerable strengtlh, every 2 or 3 hours, at the same time giving teaspoonfall doses between, till the burning sensation ceases. ME ASA L1 S. This comes on with lancguor, a coarse, harsh cough, watery eyes, and fever, with pains in the limbs, headache and chilliness. The eruption appears about the fourth day, but before this it may be seen on the roof of the mouth and throat. The remedy from the first is Gels., but in sinallar doses than in fever, 3 drops in a tumbler of water, a teaspoonfull every 2 or 3 hours, till the fever subsides. If the cough should remain troublesome, Bry., PUds., or Pitos., every 3 or 4 hours. The fever accompanyintg the measles cannot be at once " broken up," like other fevers, but can be greatly moderated during its course by Gels., and the cruption under its -use is often but trifling. If there is troublesome dry cough or nausea, or diarrhoea, Ipecac. ERYSEPILAS Consists in a diffused, rather dark re iness of the skin, with itching, burning and fever. It appears in three forms, the simple, vescicular, and phlegmonous. 34 PRACTICAL HOM(EOPAT1IY. It often appears about the head and face, and is then a dangerous disease. TREATMIENT. —In the simple form, consisting of a simple diffused redness without great swelling, Bell. alone, or alternated with Acon., is sufficient every 2, 3 or 4 hours. In the vescicular form, that is, where blisters rise on the inflamed skin, if it is on the head and face, Bell. and Rhus. If on other parts, the same, or Rhus. and Graph. In the phlegmonous form, that is, when the pain is deep seated, and the inflammation extends beyond the skin, into the parts beneath, with a good deal of swelling and severe pain, the two last remedies are good, but Apis Mel. is probably the most reliable remedy. It may be given alone, or alternated with Bell. or Rhus. every 2 or 3 hours. In all the forms of Erysepilas, an application of fresh mashed cranberries, will have an excellent effect. R11 E MAT IS M We need not occupy space in describing this, as every one recognizes it. TREATIMENT. —If it is attended with severe pain, redness and swelling and fever, especially if it comes.on rather suddenly with chills, give Gels. By keeping up a perspiration with this for a short time, the disease will frequently be terminated. If not, give Acon. and Bell. alternately every 2 or 3 hours. When the inflam RHEUMATISM-NEURALGIA. 35 mation has become somewhat diminished, give Mac., a grain every 2 or 3 hours, and continue it as long as it is obviously doin'g good, or Bry. in the same manner. Sometimes Rheumatism changes its place from one part to another. In this case, give Bry. and Puls, 2 or 3 hours apart. If there is profuse sweating which does not relieve, but only weakens the patient, as sometimes occurs in this disease, give Jel cc. cor. fur men, or lMerc. sol. for women and children, every 2 or 3 hours till this state is corrected. This treatment will cure a majority of cases quicker than they usually are cured, but there are chronic and complicated cases of Rheumatism, which require skill and experience. If the disease has been of long standing, electricity becomes an indispensable aid. NEURALGIA-PAIN OF A NERVE. The locality of this disease is very various, and wherever located, very distressing. One side of the face or head, is a very common location. It occurs most frequently in feeble and nervous females. TREATMENT.-A majority of the cases will be promptly relieved by Gels., but it sometimes requires to be given in pretty large doses, repeated every half hour till the pain is relieved. Acow in drop doses of the tincture, and a wash of equal parts of the same and water, applied over the painful nerve, is often equally effectual; but if any feeling of numbness is produced, it should be at once stopped. 36 PRACTICAL IIOMXEOPATIIY. This disease usually consists of paroxysms with intervals of case., During these intervals give Ars. every 2 or 3 hours. If connected with disordered menstruation or female diflicuitics, Mac. Puls. and Sep. during the intervals, only one at a time, every 3 or 4 hours. INFLAMMIATIONS. Inflammation of the Tongue. This is not a very common disease, but requires very prompt attention. The end of the tongue first becomes red and swollen, and in a few hours the whole tongue becomes so large that it protrudes from the mouth. TR A TMIEN T. —Merc. every 2 or 3 hours till improvement is obvious, then less and less frequently. If there is much fever, give Acon. between the doses of hferc..When inflammation of the mouth and tongue, with ulceration of the gums, is produced by Mercury, as is often the case in the old practice, give IIlHlr., and was;h the mouth with the same before eachl (lose, with an occasional dose of Ilep~r. Inflammation of the Throat, or Sore Throat from a Cold. In the first stage, a few doses of Gels. will often effect a very speedy cure. If not, Arum every 2 or 3 hours. It the throat becomes ulcerated, a gargle of lfydr. frequently, as in scarlet fever. Inflammation of the Tonsils-Quinzy. In this disease, the tonsils or glands in the throat, on one or both sides, are inflamed, red, sore and painful. INFLAMMATIONS. 37 The pain often extends to the ears. It is produced by a cold. TREATMENT.-Aco07. and Bell. while there is much fever. If there is but little fever, Bell. and Merc. If not soon improved, Artion. or Apis., or both alternately. In those subject to the attacks of Quinzy, it will usually be avoided by vwashing the neck every morning with cold water, and rubbing it well, and gargling the throat with the same. Inflammation of the Stomach-Gastritis. This is distinguished by pain of the stomach, usually with a burning sensation internally, and tenderness to pressure, vomiting, especially when any food or drink is taken, a feeling of great prostration, thirst, and often cold extremities. The tip and edges of the tongue are red, and sometimes the whole tongue. TREATMENT.-First give one or two doses of Acon. Then Ars., not more than 3 pellets in a gill of water, a teaspoonfull every 3 hours. If it is connected with indigestion of improper food, Ncux. alternated with Ars. If the patient becomes greatly reduced, with cold extremities, Ars. and Verat. Inflanmmation of the Bowvels-Enteritis. By this, we mean inflammation of the outer or peritoneal coat of the bowels. It usually comes on like other inflammatory diseases, with a chill. This is accompanied or followed by pain over some part or the whole D 38 PRACTICAL HOM(EOPATIIY. of the abdomen, which is sharp and severe, often burning. The abdomen becomes sensitive and painful to the least pressure, and is more or less enlarged or swollen. A full breath is painful. There is often vomiting; the face is pale, and looks anxious and suffering. The breathing is short and quick, and the pulse quick and small: it is dangerous, and may be fatal in 2 or 3 days. TREATMENT.-During the early stage, give Gels. as in fever, and keep up a perspiration for some time, till the pain and fever abate. But if this fails of giving some relief after a few hours, give Acon.. and Bell. alternately every 2 hours, till the violence of thae disease abates; afterwards Bell. and Merc. every 3 or 4 hours. After the patient is fairly recovering, if there is constipation, give Nux at bed-time. Throughout the disease, cloths wrung out of moderately cool water, laid on the bowels and covered with flannel, and copious hot water injections greatly aid the cure. DIARRIHEA. Under this head, we do not include the disease in infants. In ordinary cases, if it is produced by improper food, Nux. and Ipecac for men, and Puls. and Ipecac for women.' A dose after each evacuation will be all that is necessary. If the discharges are copious and watery, Ars. If.not soon improved, Ars. and Verat., or Phos. acid. DYSENTERY. 39 If the evacuations are billious, yellow, green or dark, Mferc. or Pod., or both alternately. If they contain undigested food, Airs. or China, or Phos. acid, a dose, in all cases, -after each evacuation. If the disease is at all bad, the patient should remain quiet in bed and abstain from food till cured. If the disease has been of long standing, Sulph. may sometimes be necessary. But generally it will be cured by Ars. or Pod. and Lep. alternately. A patient who applied to me <for a diarrhoea of two years standing, contracted in Panama, and who had paid over $500 to allopathic physicians without benefit, was cured with a small vial of Ars. When the disease has continued a long tile and the bowels much weakened, fHydir. is a very effectual remedy. DY SENT ERY. This consists in inflammation of the mucous membrane of the lower portion of the bowels, and is distinguished by slimy and bloody evacuations with pain and tehesmus or straining, without discharging any of the natural contents of the bowels. TREATMIENT. —The principal remedy is Merc. after each evacuation. If pain extends over the bowels, or griping, give Coloc. alternately with Mere. When this griping is alleviated, if there is no natural evacuation-only bloody mucus, or if there are passages of little hard balls, give Merc. and.Nicx. If the dis. ease has become established, do not be in a hurry to 40 PRACTICAL IIO03EOPATIIY. change this treatment, for it may require some days to effect a change. If nausea or vomiting'occurs, give Ipecac with the lierc., or if there is much thirst with the nausea, Ars. till the sickness subsides. An injection of wanrm water several time a day, does a good deal of good. If, after a time, the- evacuations are sometimes billious, yellow, brown or dark, give Pod.'or China. In dysentery of long standing, Pod. and Le p., alternately, are effectual remedies. SEA SICKNESS. TREATMIF.NT. —A dose of N2 ux., taken half an hour before going on board will frequently prevent this for some time. When it is felt, Nhux., Ipecac., Ars., Puls;. and Mac. are very effectual remedies. One agrees better with some persons, and another with others. Armed with these remedies none need suffer much from seasickness. In obstinate cases, Petroleunt and Silicia are sometimes necessary. rhave repeatedly provided foreign missionaries and others, about to cross the ocean, with these remedies, and have received very warm acknowledgments for the comforts they conferred and the great good they were able to do their fellow passengers with them. C O L I C-ST O M A C A CE. TREATMENT.-If this arises from indigestion or improper food, Nux. or Puls. If from cold drinks, ice cream, &c., Ars. WORMS AND WORM DISEASES-PILES. 41 In billious colic with violent pain coming on in paroxysms with disposition to bend forward, Yoloc. in pretty large doses is a most prompt remedy, often curing the most violent colic almost instantaneously. If necessary it may be repeated in a few minutes. If there is great restlessness and billious vomiting or diarrhoea, Chamn. or Pod. In flatulent colic, or colic from wind, Coloc., Coccululs or Chamn. WORIIS AND WORM DISEASES. TRREATMENT.-Santoninle, 1 grain, not to be repeated under two days. If this produces no effect, give 2 grains, then 3 grains or.more. This is usually the only remedy needed and does no mischief, and is more effectual than all the pink and senna, calomel, &c., of the shops. But what are believed to be worm symptoms are often the result of indigestion and improper food, and are cured by lrti.r., Ipec(rc and Pod. Tape-Worm. TREATMIEN:T. -]riik freely of an infusion of pumpkin seeds bruised-Plnumpkin seed tea. There is abundant testimony of the efficacy of this simple remedy in expelling tape-worm. PIL ES-HEM I RRH 01 D S. This discase consists in enlarged veins filled with blood, either within the bowel or just outside of the opening, or both. The tumours thus formed, often become very painful, inflamed, and tender. D2 42 PRACTICAL HOI0EOPATHY. TREATUIENT.-If the tumours are external and very painful and sore, apply cloths wet in hot water. If not soon relieved, apply a tobacco poultice warm. This, in the worst cases, will produce temporary relief..If it produces any sickness, remove it at once. In the mean time give Acon.:and Bell. half an hour apart. Continue this external and internal treatment till the violent pain and soreness are abated. The tumours should not be permitted to remain protruded externally as it gives rise to great suffering and mischief. They should be oiled, and by careful presssure, returned entirely within the bowel, and secured there by a compress and bandage. As constipation always increases the difficulty, the bowels must be kept in a healthy state. This is to be done by a regulated diet, brown bread, fruits, &c., and avoiding all stimulating drinks and high seasoned food, -and by appropriate medicines. Anritx. at night, and FPdd. in the morning, will generally remove both the Constipation and the tendency to piles. If not, NVLx,. one night, and St lph. the next, continued for some time. I have cured cases of 20 years standing by this course. In bleeding piles, if the bleeding is at all profase, take Phos., and if not relieved in a few hours, Hamamelis, 1 drop every hour, and if necessary, injections of a gill of water and 10 drops of the same. Avoid physic in this disease. If necessary, it is infinitely better to use an occasional injection of water. CHOLERA MORBS —-ASIATIC CHOLERA. 43 L;ep. is another excellent remedy in this disease, twice a day. C HOLERA MORBIJS. This is characterized by an attack of vomiting and diarrhoea of billious matter, with pain and cramp of the stomach and bowels. It is very distressing and may be dangerous, but is very quickly cured by Homweopathic treatment. TREATsMENT.-IpCecac alone, repeated every 10 or 15 minutes, is generally very quickly effectual. If the pain of the stomach and bowels is considerable, Coloc. may be alternated with Ipecac. This relieves the pain while I1pecac stops the vomiting. If the patient has become much weakened, and the above does not promptly relieve, give Ars., and if the diarrhoea is at all obstinate, Ars. and Verat. alternately. ASIATIC ClIOLERIA. In the commencement of the attack, a few doses of camphor, in doses of a drop, will often arrest it. If it does not, if vomiting is the most prominent symptom, Ipecac every 10 or 15 minutes is often effectual. But if there are copious rice-water evacuations by the bowels, and vomiting of the same, with thirst and prostration, the chief reliance is to be placed upon Ars. and Vrerat., alternately, every 15 or 20 minutes. These are the only remedies generally required. Thousands have been cured by these few remedies by the peasantry of Europe, while from half to two-thirds 44 PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. of all the cases were fatal under allopathic treatment. It has everywhere been wonderfully Successful. J A UNDICE Is marked by yellowness of the skin and eyes, with languor, weakness, loss of appetite, coated tongue and often head-ache. The urine is high colored and makes a yellow stain on the linen, and the evacuations from the bowels are a light clay color. TREATMIENT. —The remedies are Leptand., Merc., Chin., Pod., and Nux. Either of these may be taken separately, or any two of them alternately every 3 to 6 hours till an improvement commences, (which will seldom exceed a few days,) then less frequently. By these remedies the disease is cured vastly quicker, and the system is left in a vastly better condition than under the old mercurial treatment. This is a disordered state of the liver which may be inflamed, for which see INFLAMMATION OF TIlE LIVER-IIEPATITES. This is known by pain just under the edges of the lower ribs of the right side and pit of the stomach, with tenderness on pressure. There is often a feeling of fulness in this region, pain on talaking a deep breath, and a sympathetic pain in the right shoulder. If it proceeds very far, there is obvious enlargement of the liver producing a visible fullness in the region, constant dull or sharp pain, and a good deal of fever. There is a INFLAMIMATION OF TIIE LIVER —HEPATITES. 45 loss of appetite, pvhaps nausea and billious vomiting; the bowels are costive, or there is looseness, with discharges of unnatural color from unhealthy bile. The skin and eyes are often somewhat tinged with yellow. There is often a dry hacking couch. It frequently comes on with a chill. TREATENT.. -- In the early stage, Gels. is the most likely to " break up " the disease by copious perspiration. This remedy has the advantage of acting very quickly, so that if it fails, as it seldom does, not much time is lost. Two or three doses will determine whether the expected effect is to be realized, the dose repeated every half hour. If it produces perspiration, or abates the fever and pain, it should be continued as long as it does good. If it fails, Acon. and Bell. may be given every 2 hours till the acuteness of the disease is abated. If some soreness and pain remaini, the remedies are, Bell., Merc., Narx., (hidna alndl Pod. Bell. is preferable if there is restlessness, fullnes or pain of the head, fullness at the pit of the stomach, difficult breathing, thirst or dizziness. Merc. if there is yellowness of the skin, bitter taste and tendency to chilliness:.Pod. for the same symptoms and irregular, loose state of the bowels, or nausea. Nux. if there is considerable tenderness of the liver, thirst, red urine, and constipation. China applies to almost all the above symptoms, especially if there is considerable weakness. Eith'er 46 PRA-CTICA; IIOImO0PATllY. of these remedies may be given every three or four hours. BILLIO USNESS. This is not a scientific term, but one which most persons understand. It is like Jaundice, an affection of the liver and pretty closely related to it. One feels languid, dull, sleepy, especially after dinner; he gets easily tired, his appetite gets impaired; often there is dull head-ache and tendency to constipation, and the complexion loses its freshness and becomes of a dull or dirty appearance. People generally understand that these are billious symptoms. They are not unfrequently the precursors of billious fever or jaundice. People having these symptoms generally suppose that they need a " cleaning out," and accordingly take billious pills or some other physic, which often results in a "fit of sickness." We can point out what all will find "a more excellent way," when they try it. TREATMENTT.-Po d. is generally the only necessary remedy. A single dose-will often remove all these unpleasant feelings in a few hours. If not, continue it 3 times a day in doses of a grain. If there is a tendency to chilliness or an inactive state of the bowels, after a day take Nux. at night and Pod. in the morning. This course, for a short time, will save a fit of sickness and a doctor's bill. DY SP EP SI A-I N DI GE ST ION. The symptoms of dyspepsia are very numerous. Feeling of a load in the stomach after meals, sour DYSPEPSIA-INDIGESTION. 47 eructation, heart-burn, pain of the stomach, throwing up the fogod, dullness and pain of the head, -low spirits, nervous symptoms, &c. TREATMENT.- For present relief from the effects of too hearty a meal, Nux. or Puls. every hour till relieved. For permanent effect-if there is constipation with the other symptoms-Nutx. before each meal, or for women, Puls. In ordinary cases either NYux., Puls., Phos. or Pod. before each meal will be appropriate. For heart-burn Nux. and Pod. alone, or in alternation, with Phos. A regulated diet, the avoidance of stimulating drinks and tonic medicines, bitters, &c., of highly seasoned food and physic, are indispensible. One need not expect to be cured of dyspeysia by drugging. In chronic cases, when the stomach has become very much weakened, the use of electricity will often expedite the cure in the most charming manner, and save months of treatment, or an entire failure. Those of sedentery habits, must abandon confinement and take free exercise in the open air daily. Daily bathing with cool water, rubbing the surface well, especially over the stomach and bowels is of great service. 48 PRACTICAL HOM0EOPATHY. COLDS. Cold in the Head —Coryza, and Cold affecting the Bron. chim -Bronchitis, Bronchial Catarrh - Cold on the Lungs. TREATMENT.-If a cold affecting any of these parts comes on with a chill, or with soreness or rawness of the throat, wind-pipe or bronchiac extending into the chest, or fever, Gels. is the prompt and sovereign remedy. A single dose will often "break up" the violence of the disease, remove the inflammation and soreness, and leave only a mild loose cough, which will only require a few doses of Bry. or Puls. The patient with a cold at all severe should go to bed and keep quiet and warm till better. Medicine produces a vastly better effect when the patient is in bed, and keeps in a quiet ani passive state than when he is moving about. If a cold is confined to the head, with stoppage of the nose, Arux. is the remedy every 2 or 3 hours till relieved. If there is profuse, watery or acrid discharge from the nose, Kali hyd. is perhaps the best remedy, but Ars. and Mere. are effectual. If there is a rough, raw, sore feeling of the throat or chest, with tightness, oppressed breathing and painful cough, Gels. is the remedy till these symptoms subside.' Kali hydc. and Phos. are good remedies. When only a loose, painless cough remains, Bry., Merc. or Puts. will soon complete the cure. Abstain from food as in fever till the cold is relieved. If there is deep INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS-PNEUMONIA. 49 soreness of the chest and fever, Chel. and Phos. in alternation are the best remedies. IN FL U EN Z A. Is only an aggravated forml of the above affection, prevailing periodically and epidemically. TREa ATHENT.-Simnilar to the above —Gels.'is the first remnedy. If the symptomns are severe, Ars. and fferc. In the worst and alarmingir form Glanderine is the most reliable remedy, every 2 hours till tnere is some abatement, then less frequently. INFLAMMATION OF TiEL LUNGS-PNEUJMONIA. This is distinguished from the preceding affection of the bronchise by the following symptoms: It usually comes o-n with a chill, followed by high fever, a full, strong, quick pulse, short difficult breathing, a dull pain in one side of the chest, generally the right, which prevents a full breath, white coated tongue and red cheeks. Thie pain in the side is sometimes changeable in its location for hours before it settles into one fixed place. There is cough from the first. The expectoration is, at first, white and viscid, or sticky and tough;- at a later period it is reddish or brick colored. If there was doubt before, as to the nature of the disease, there need be no longer, after this reddish expectoration appears, for this is a sure sign of inflammation on the lungs. TREATMENT.-In the first stage of the disease, as ia B 60 PRACTICAL HOMOPATHY. most other inflammatory diseases, Gels. is capable o, breaking up the disease in the first 24 hours by producing free perspiration. Repeat it as occasion requires till the fever and pain abate. If cough remains, with or without a little pain on taking a fall breath, give Phos. or Bry. every 2 or 3 hours. Aconite and Phos. have been hitherto relied upon in the acute stage, and they are effectual remedies — seldom failing to cure Pneumonia in 3 or 4 days, but Gels. is much more prompt and effectual if given at an early stage. If the disease has been neglected during the early stage, and has become established, it is, of course, not so quickly cured, but even then, instead of continuing three weeks and being fital in a large proportion of cases, as under the old treatment, it will generally be cured, by following the course here prescribed, in less than a week, and never be fatal unless in very diseased or dilapidated constitutions. When the disease is thus advanced, before the treatment is commenced, give- Gels. as above. If it produces relief of the fever and pain by sweating or otherwise, continue it as long as improvement goes on. If it fails to produce a good effect after 5 or 6 doses, stop it and give Acon. and Phos., two hours apart, till there is an obvious improvement, then less frequently till the pain and fever have pretty much subsided. If the patient does not improve in 12 hours, give Chel. and Phos., in the same manner, or these may be given PLEURISY. St at first, instead of Aecon. and Phos. All inflammations have a forming or congestive stage, in which there may be chills, and low pulse. This is the stage it which Gels. will break up the disease. After this stage is past, and high fever, and fixed, local pain come on, we must resort to Aconite, or other proper remedies. If some pain on taking a deep breath remains, then give Bry. every 3 or 4 hours for a day or two. If any difficulty remains, then give Sulph. three times a day. But in all cases continue the remedy given as long as the -patient improves under it. In every stage, a wet cloth, moderately cool, over the chest, well covered with flannel to avoid any chilliness, aids the cure. In some cases the cough remains dry an unusual length of time after the attack, with very little expeotoration, with great oppression of the chest and difficult breathing. In this case, Tart. stib. is the best remedy to bring on expectoration or loosen the cough, every hour or two till relieved. P L E UR I S Y. This consists of inflammation of the pleura or covering membrane of the lungs. It has many of the gen. eral symptoms of Pneumonia, but the pain in the side is sharp, acute, stitching, instead of dull. It is impos sible to take a full breath on acount -of this sharp pain. The pulse is sharper- and smller —therise e expectoration, and it is not bloody, unless it be some PBAOTICAL HOME0OPATHY. small streaks of blood. Not unfrequently the two di.eases are combined, constituting what is called pleuro. pneumonia. TrnM TREATM.ENT does not differ from that of Pneumonia. BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS. TREATMENT. — If there is much fever, Acon. every hour till moderated, then'amam, 1 drop every hour or half hour, or even one fourth hour, according to urgency. If there is sore bruised feeling of the chest, Am. is an appropriate remedy. If there is much weakness, with irritation of the lungs, Phos. acid. A S T H M A. Confirmed asthma is a difficult disease to cure. The principal remedies are Ars. and Ipecac. Either of these may be given, during aparoxysm every hour, till relieved. In nervous or hysterical women, Aecon., Bell. or Ambra sometimes give relief. Distressing paroxysms are sometimes promptly relieved by sufficient doses of Lobelia to produce nausea. Gels. sometimes affords very prompt relief, especially if brought on by a cold. But the change of climate or locality affects the greatest number of cures. Many persons afflicted with it at the East, are permanently relieved on removing to the West. Horses affected with Heaves, a similar disease, so as to be rendered useless at the East, are often entirely cured on being taken upon the Western prairies. This is one of the diseases that is often most INFLAMMATION Of THE KIDNYS —NEPBaITIS. U promptly relieved and eventually cured by electricity. Persons who have not been able to lie down for weeks, are sometimes able to do so from a single application. COUGH. This sometimes exists without obvious inflan Bior. If nat of a consumptive character, Bry., Phos., Puls, Balsanm cop., Mac. or Aium may be taken 2 or 3 times a day. Hoarseness, without fever, will be removed-by Arn*, Sponlgia, II.par., Phos., or Kali hyd. INFLAMMATION OF TilE KIDNEYS-NEPHRITIS. This usually comes on like most inflammatory diseases, with a chill, accompanied or followed by pain in the back, not in the spine, but on one or both sides of it, that is, in the location of the kidneys, tenderness on pressure in this region, fever, nausea, often vomiting, the urine scanty and high colored, often bloodythe bowels constipated. The pain often extends down to the groin and neck of the bladder. TREATMENT.-Gels., as in other inflammatory diseases, in the early stage, is the remedy, continued a long as it gives relief. This, if commenced early, wil " break it up " by perspiration. If this has been neglected, or if the disease has continued for some time, and Gels. fails of producing the desired effect, and the pain shoots from the kidneys down to the bladder, and there is colicky pain, give Bell. every hour or two. ran 54 PRAOTICAL HOMMIOPATHY, If there are shooting, tearing or cutting paihs, with very.scanty urine, which is passed with pain, Cant/. every 2 or 3 hours. In general these tlwo remedies may b:in to advantage, alternately. During the treatment, the bowels should be freely moved by copious injections of water, ad niake a free use of the warm hip-baths, that is, sitting in a tub of quite warm water, deep enough to come up over the hips. INFLAMIMATION OF THE BLADDER - CYSTIT$S This comes on with the same general symptoms as the Iast disease, with pain in the bladder, constant desire to pass urine, which is very scanty at each discharge,.often bloody, and passed with terrible pal'in, often with:nausea and vomiting. There is a feeling of weight in -the region of the bladder, and tenderness to pressure. TaTirMENT.-Tb-Th treatment is nearly the same as that of Nephritis. If not soon relieved by Gels. in the first stage, give Acon. every hour till the fever is somewhat abated, and the most distressing symptoms somewhat moderated, then (Ianf71. every 2 or 3 hours. The baths and injections, as in Nephritis, are still more useful here. INFLAMMATION OF TIHE BRAIN. This'disease is characterized by pain of the head, rolling the head from side to side, dilated or oontracted pupils, throbbing of the arteries of the neck and tem stiXD-AonlB. 55 ples, delirium, drowsiness or stupor. Ther6e is' eVer with quick pulse. It is very apt to end in convu iss'when fatal. TREATMENT.-The chief remedies are Acon., Bell. -:a1d Bry. Give the two first, alternately, every two hours till the fever and other symptoms are somewhat abuated; then Bell. wad Bry. every 3 hours. Persevere in this treatment even though the improvement mnay not be very perceptible. Do not irritate and torment the patient with blisters, mustard plaisters or any other irritating applications. Shut out all strong light, avoid all noise, and especially conversation within hearing of the patient, (and the hearing is very acute in this disease); keep the room well aired and of comfortably cool temperature, and disturb and excite the patient as little as possible. Do not apply cold water to the head. I have been entirely satisfied for years, that vastly more mischief than good is dofne by cold applieations in this disease. Cloths wet in hot water may be now and then applied for a short time only, with benefit; keep the bowels free by injections of Water, and keep the feet warm. Sponge over the surface of the body with warm water, if the patient is hot and restless. 11 E A ) -A C I E. Head-ache arises from a great variety of causes and is attendced by such a variety of complications and constitlutional conditions, that it is difficult to prescribe, 686 PRACTICAL aOMC0OPATHY. except for individual cases. Each case is a study by itself. We can only give some general directions, which will, however, be found to apply to a great number of individual cases. 1st. It is often produced by indigestion or disordered stomach. This often goes under the name of sick head-ache. TREATMENT.-NUX. will often promptly cure such cases if taken when the symptoms are first felt. Pod. and Ipecac are often equally good, and for women, Puls. The same may be said of Mac., for women. NMx. at night, and Pod. in the morning will often prevent it in those subject to it. 2d. It often occurs in females as an essentially nervous disease, and is generally called nervous head-ache. In these cases Mac., Puls. and Sepia are frequently efficient remedies, and when relieved, an occasional dose of one or the other of these will prevent its recurrence If connected with female weakness, or accompanying monthly disorders, the last three remedies are specially applicable. If connected with a hysterical state, Mac. or Co;cculus. If produced by grief, Ignatia. Either may be taken every hour or two till relief is obtained. A dose of Miac., Sep. or Puls., daily, will often do much to prevent these attacks. But a remedy of extraordinary power, and which will cure a larger proportion of what are called nervous and sick head-aches than, perhaps, any other, is Atropine. I have cured with it, great EBAD-ACHE. 57 numbers of cases that have resisted all other treatment, some of 15 or 20 years standing. It is most applicable to those cases that are not caused by disordered stomach or other affection, but depends on a disordered condition of the nervous system itself; to cases that come on rather suddenly, and are very acute and severe. It may be taken every 10 or 15 minutes till an effect is felt. Increase the dose if necessary. As soon as an effect is felt, suspend it till the effect ceases or while improvement continues. If an over-dose increases the pain, stop it altogether. When the temporary aggravavation ceases, it will be followed by an improvement. This will cure a great number of habitual nervous head-aches, which have resisted all other treatment. Those cases that comrne on with dizziness, as the first symptom, will be almost uniformly cured in this early stage by Nux. In many cases of obstinate head-aches, which resist all remedies, electricity, properly applied, is a most important remedy, but it must be applied by one who understands the human system, or it may do mischief rather than good. I have effected many permanent cures of extremely obstinate cases by this means. I have not given directions for the use of this powerful agent, because I have been long convinced, from many examples, that it cannot be profitably or even safely used by the public, at least without some experience, and special personal instructions. Nor is it a 58 PRACTICAL HOME!OPATHY. safe agent in Allopathic hands. It is a most beautiful and beneficent Homoocopathic remedy, and to be either useful or safe must be used on Homceopathic principles and in corresponding doses. I have never had the opportunity of observing its use in Allopathic hands, when it was not, like all other powerful remedies, in the same hands, as often productive of injury as benefit, and sometimes very serious injury. INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES — OPHTIIA1IIA. TREATMENT.-If this is acute, with deep redness, and severe pain, give Acon. and Bell. alternately every 2 or 3 hours till the pain is abated, and as long as it does good. At the same time, drop into the eyes, and apply over them, every 2 or 3 hours, a wash of 10 drops Acon. tinct. to a gill of soft water, applied as hot as can be borne. All applications to inflamed eyes, as well as to all other inflamed parts, should be warm or hot. Cold applications, though they may give momentary relief, as in burns, produce permanent reaction in the opposite direction, and do great mischief. After the violence of the disease is abated, if there is a sore or bruised feeling of the lids, when touched, with sticking together at night, give Hepar sUl. every 4 to 6 hours. If the lids itch badly, with burning, Nlux. in the same way. In old obstinate cases, Ars. and Sulph. are required, only one at a time, 3 times a day; or, if the lids are STINGS OF INSECTS, BEES, WASPS, &C. 59 thickened or ulcerated, Merc. in the same way. After the pain is abated, if redness and fulness remain, apply Ham., a teaspoonfull to half a pint of water. S T Y I. Puls. or He'par., or what is generally more certain, Apis mel. 3 times a day. Not unfrequently one or two doses will cure a. stye when taken early. CORN S. Shave them close, and apply a little patch of cloth on which is placed a drop of the gum from the white pine. Let it remain till it comes off of itself, when the corn will have generally disappeared; if not, apply it again. This is a sovereign remedy. CII I L B L A I N S. Ars. tinct., a teaspoonfull to a gill of water, applied affords temporary relief, but internal remedies are necessary. Of these, in ordinary cases, Agaricus is one of the best. If the parts become a bluish red color, Bell. If there is troublesome itching, -Nrux., and if a few doses does not relieve, Sulph. If the parts are very painful, Phos. Any of these may be given every 3 or 4 hours till an improvement begins. STINGS OF INSECTS, BEES, WASPS, &c. Ledum taken internally and applied externally is a very effectual remedy for these stings, as well as the 60 PRACTICAL HOMC(OPATHY. bites of mosquitoes, flies, &c., allaying the itching and pain in a few minutes. I am indebted to Prof. Hill for the information that a fresh onion applied to the part, is a quick and effectual remedy. If applied immediately it relieves in a few minutes. If later, it of course takes longer. A fresh piece should be applied every 10 or 15 minutes. Am. carb. applied to the part, and taken internally often produces the same result. Perhaps the onion is effectual from the ammonia it contains. BITES OF RATTLESNAKES, SPIDERS, &c. I have been for many years convinced from actual knowledge of many cases, that the most safe and effectual remedy is alcohol in any of its forms that can be most easily procured, as alcohol so much diluted as to render it tolerable, rum, whiskey, gin or brandy. It should be taken in large doses every 15 or 20 minutes till tne symptoms begin to abate, or the patient feels its effects. At the same time the part bitten should be kept wet with the same. It is surprising how large a quantity will be sometimes borne in these cases. A quart or two of strong brandy has been taken in an hour or two without any other perceptible effect than to kill the poison and cure the patient. But the poison of alchol proves quite a match for Rattlesnake poison. It seems not to produce intoxication till enough has been taken to fully neutralize the poison, and the excess only produces the ordinary effects. BURNS AND SCALDS. 61 IMECHIANICAL INJURIES, BLOWS, FALLS, BRUISES, SPRAINS, &c. Arnica is the great remedy in these accidents. It should be taken internally in pellets and the parts injured rubbed frequently or keptwet withArn.tint.,ateaspoonfull in half a pint of water. If inflammation and fever follow, give Acon. But where the skin is broken, or the flesh torn, CaleZdula is the remedy usel externally the same as Arn. It acts like magic in allaying pain and preventing inflammation. The edges of the cut or torn wounds should, of course, be brought as near together as possible, and Lept there. F A T I G U E. When the mluscles become fatigued by long walking or excessive labor or over exertion, a few doses, or even a single dose of Arn. or Rhus. affords great relief. If particular mucles or limbs are sore and lame, rub them with the Arl?. wash. BURNS AND S CAL DS. Apply, as quickly as possible, alcohol, whisky, rum, brandy, spirits of turpentine or soft soap, and keep it on, and the part thoroughly protected from the air till pain subsides. Nothing is better than soft soap, and this is generally at hand. I have seen this applied from my early boyhood, and have never seen any thing do better. Cold water, though it feels comfortable for F 62 PRACTICAL HOM(EOPATHY. the moment, it is a very bad application. The above treatment cures burns in half the time. If there is fever, give Acon. C A R B U N C L E. This appears, at first, much like a common boil, but larger and much more painful, and with much more constitutional disorder. It does not come to a point like a boil, but is broad and flat on the top with several openings instead of one. It is attended with chill, lossof appetite, depression of spirits, fever and prostration. It more commonly appears on the back, or the neck. It is attended with great destruction of the flesh, whichmortifies and falls out, leaving a large cavity which is very slow in healing. At the close, the patient is as. much reduced as after a long fever. TREATMENT. —Give, in the beginning, Amtzon carb. 3 grains in a gill of water, teaspoonfull doses every 2 hours, and apply a cloth wet in the same, but twice as' strong and hot, to the part-continue it as long as it does good. If it goes on, and openings aprear ill it, and the pain is not abated, stop this and give Ars. every2 or 3 hours. At the same time apply caustic potash, powdered, in and around the openings, so that, as it dissolves, it will run into the openings, and penetrate as. deep as possible into the heart of the tumour. Apply this once daily, placing over it a warm, soft poultice of slippery elm, flax seed or bread. The above treatment. MALIGNANT PUSTULE. 63 is much better and more successful than that ordinarily practiced. The application of the caustic speedily 3hanges and relieves the terrible burning pain of the carbuncle, and the Ars. aids in this, and preserves the system from running down, and greatly shortens the disease. Carbuncle should never be laid open by the knife. MALIGNANT PUSTULE. This affection is of frequent occurence during some seasons, though its name is not generally known. A large number of cases have occurred during the last year. It was, for a long time, not distinguished from the carbuncle, which it considerably resembles, though essentially different. It is much smaller, and is generally located on the extremities. It seems, at first, like the bite of some insect, and the patient generally thinks it is. It is, at first, a littie, red, somewhat pointed elevation like a small boil, with the appearance of a little hole in the tip. It is painful and burning. The inflammation increases rapidly and runs up the limb. If it occurs on the toe, for example-the whole top of the foot becomes rapidly red and swollen. If it goes on, it soon has several openings in it like a carbuncle, and ends in suppuration and destruetionOfI the substance, leaving a large opening. Itis attended with pretty severe, generally burning, pain, an eonsiderablo feverish disturbance. 64 PRACTICAL HOM0EOPATHY. TREATMENT.-Ammon carb. is the specific and effectual remedy, given as in carbuncle, and applied in the same way. The pain is often relieved in 15 minutes, and in 24 hours the whole character of the disease is changed, and the inflammation subdued. Since using this remedy, we have not found occasion for any other. F E L ON-WHI T L OV. This comes on with a pricking, sharp pain, inducing the belief that there is a splinter or brier in the finger. TREATMENT. —When first felt, put the whole hand in cold water-the colder the better-until it becomes benumed, then wrap it in flannel till it becomes thoroughly warmed. If there is still pain, repeat the process till the pain ceases. This course will either cure the disease altogether, or render it a comparatively painless one. DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHIILDREN — FIRST OF WOMEN. Amenorrhasa-Absence of the Monthly Tarns. When a stoppage or suppression occurs in young girls, Puls. 3 times a day, or Caauloph., or Mac., the two last alternately. If the menses do not make their appearance at the usual age, if the health does not suffer, do nothing. In no case give what are called "forcing medicines." They do great mischief, and are often dangerous, and are the source of long-lasting difficulties. If sudden suppression is produced by a chill, or get DISEASMS OP WOMEN AND CHILDEBB. 66 ting wet, put the patient in bed, give one or more dorse of Gels., put the feet in hot water, apply hot wet cloths to the lower part of the abdomen, or use, if convenient, the warm sitz bath. If not soon relieved, give Puls. If the suppression is produced by a fright, give one or more doses of Acon., then Puls. If, at the time when the menses should come on, there are nervous or hysterical symptoms or upasmt, Cocculus every hour or two. If there is Leucorrhcea or Whites, instead of the regular menses, Cauloph., Mae., Pals., and Sepia are the remedies-either one alone, or either two altern.aely, 3 or 4 times a day. If suppression has been of long standing in gir, with paleness, weakness, palpitation of the heart, &t,, the remedies are Cale. cerb., Ferrum, Puls.,'Sepia, and SuUph1. Either of these may be taken 3 timed day for a week, when, if not improved, take another'i the same manner. Dysmenorrhoea-Painful Menstruation. If the flow is profuse, with pain and sicknesf of X* stomach, give Ipecac every half hour till relioetv lae. or CaulopAh may be used in the same way.i — t first, especially, if there is head-ache If there are spasms in the abdomen, hysterical ~~-_ toms, difficulty of breathing, and eepecially if th4 charge is black, CGe. 66 PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY. But Cauloph., Mac., and Puls., are, in general, the three most important remedies. When there are no particular reasons for using other remedies, the patient may take either of them, (perhaps usually Cauloph. is the best), or either two of them alternately, every 15 or 20 minutes till the severe pain is relieved. During the interval of a month, a dose of Cauloph. one day, and Mac. the next, will generally prevent these painfil recurrences, and effect a permanent cure. But there are obstinate cases of this painful difficulty, depending on particular causes, which cannot be prescribed for without personal attention. Profuse Menstruation-Flowing. If this is attended with pressing down pains, and pain in the back, Bell. every half hour, till this is relieved. If much reduced by loss of blood, a few doses of China. But the most important remedy is Iamnamelis. If at all urgent, a drop of the tincture may be given every half hour, and if at all alarming, injections into the womb with a female syringe, if at hand, if not, with any other, of a teaspoonfull of the tincture in a gill of cold water, and often repeated if necessary. This is equally appropriate whether the flowing occurs at the monthly period, or any other. All this is for present relief. But for those who have, habitually too frequent and too profuse menstruation, and who are at the same time, somewhat feeble, give, during the interval, Nuwx every night, and China every morning, for two weeks, and during the remainder of the interval, Cale. earb. DISEASES OF WOMEN AND OtILDREN. 67 one night, and Sulph. the next. This will seldom fail to bring about an improvement, but if the state is not entirely corrected, repeat the same during the next interval. This has cured many cases of long standing in one, two or three months, which had been treated for years without benefit. The worst cases of flowing after delivery, are speedily checked by copious injections of cold water with ilamamelis or Am. and drop doses of Ham',m. The cold water injections, so much feared by some at such times, are perfectly safe. I have used them hundreds of times, and for many years, and never had reason to regret their use. Leucorrhoea-Whites. This diseased condition, so common among feeble women, is seldom permanently cured by the old drugging process, astringents, &c., but the most stubborn cases are daily cured by skillful Homceopathic treatment. There are cases attended with ulcerations, and other diseased conditions, which require the personal attentions of the physician; but by following the brief directions which follow, a great majority of the cases will be cured more promptly than is done by the ordinary prevalent medical treatment. The remedies generally required in domestic practice are Caul., Mac., Pod. and Puls. In most cases the two first are sufficient. One may be taken every morning, and the other every evneing, in a dose of one s8 PRACTICAL nOMBOPATHY. two grains. Hundreds of eaes will be cured by these two remedies. If the disease has continued for some time, it is frequently attended by a bearing down, prolapsus or falling of the womb. This will disappear with the curing of the Leucorrhoea. Pocd. is specially appropriate where bearing down, and Leucorrhcca come on after confinement-s grain 8 times a day. If Leucorrhcea accompanies suppression of the m"ses, Puls. is the efficient remedy, 3 or 4 times daily. When the discharge is acrid or irritating, or there is internal smarting or burning, injections of the y/cdra#e tis wash as prepared for scarlet fever is often extremely useful. A dependence on mechanical supports for the eure of prolapsus is productive of infinite mischief. If t2i discharge is like jelly, or if it produces itching or bGus ing, Sepia 3 or 4 times a day. Sickness and Vomiting During Pregnancy. This is sometimes a very troublesome and even laxgerous affection, but by iHomoeopathie treatment 0A almost uniformly be promptly relieved. For this we have many remedies, and it is well to know several, as sometimes one agrees best, and sometimes another. Often a remedy gives prompt relief, but soon loses ii. iMfluenee, and another will be equally prompt t e patient may hat a choice of the following: mtr., in a majority of ease, is a sefifieust "Ad. DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 69 If not, Ipecac, Arsenicum, 1Nux., Puls., Sepia., Pod., Tart. and Verat. may be employed, each with good effect in different oases. They may be taken from once to five or six times a day, according to necessity. A dose of Iliac. at night, or Ipecac, &c., will often prevent the usual sickness.in the morning. Confinement-Child-bed Diffliculties. As a preparation for labor, a multitude of observing Homeopathic physicians now testify to the great benefit of Mac. and Caul. They render the labor much shorter, and much easier, and prevent after pains. Many who have always had tedious and difficult labors have quick and easy ones after this preparation. A grain of one may be taken at night, and a grain of the other in the morning for some weeks before confinement. These two remedies have proved a blessing to thousands. Irregular and Ineffectual Labor Pains. Caul., one grain every quarter or half hour till the pains become regular, which will generally be after one or two doses. Bell. and Nux. are often effectual remedies. In tedious labors, from a rigid and unyielding state of the parts, Gels., in doses of 3 drops, acts like a charm. After-Pains. Caul. is the potent remedy, unless their is excessive fiowing, notwithstanding its use, when injections of cold water with tinot. of Hiamam., are required. 70 PRACTICAL 1HOMKOPATIY. Inflammation and Swelling of the Breasts. Early in the attack, if it comes on with a chill, a few doses of Gels., as in fever, by producing perspiration, dissipates the disease. But if this does not check the inflammation, give Acon. and Bell. alternately every 2 hours till the inflammation is somewhat abated, and then Bry. and Bell. Keep the breasts covered with a cloth wrung out of warm water. But if the case has been neglected, or badly treated, till the suppuration has taken place, and the breast is discharging, give Phos. 3 times a day. If it has been of long standing, and the breast is very hard after the discharge has continued for some time, Calc. carb., Silicia or Su7ph., may be required. Sore Nir-les. Apply frequently a wash of Hydrastis-10 drops to a table spoonfall of water. Or if the nipple is raw, CalenZd. Milk-Leg. Under the ordinary treatment, this is a most severe and protracted disease. The old school have never learned to cure it. The following directions will enable a husband to treat his wife for this serious affection, with vastly greater success, and cure her in one quarter the time that is required by Allopathic treatment, it the hands of the most skillful physicians. It generally makes its attacks within one or two weeks after confinement, like most other inflammatory DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 71 diseases, with chilliness and fever. Pain usually com mences in the loins, back and lower part of the bowels, extending to the groin, and thence down the limb. This commences to swell, and in two days the whole limb may be twice its natural size. Though hot and inflamed, it is not red, but of a very marked white. The feeling is hard and elastic. The disease consists of inflammation of the veins, and along the principal veins down the inside of the thigh, and back of the leg is the principal pain. These veins may be traced with the finger, enlarged and hard like a cord, and very tender. These lines are interrupted now and then by a hard knob. Under the usual treatment, the limb does not return to its natural state and size for a long time, often for years-sometimes never. It is not unfrequently followed by a dropsical state. TREATMENT.-As soon as this affection is ascertained, give Hamamelis tinct., 10 drops in a tumbler of water — teaspoonfull doses every 2 or 3 hours. Rub the limb faithfully with a wash of the same2 teaspoonsfull to a gill of water, applied as warm as possible. WThen the pain and tenderness are considerably abated, give the remedy less frequently, and apply it chiefly along the line of the hard and tender veins on the inside of the thigh, and back of the leg, by rubbing and wet cloths. Continue this treatment less and less vigorously till the soreness and pain have entirely disappeared, and rub the limb with the wash daily, till the swelling subsides. If, after this, any 72 PRACTICAL HOM(EOPATHY. considerable weakness is felt, give Nux. at night, and Ars. in the morning. Under this treatment, this formidable and dreaded disease will be comparatively trifling. Dropsy will not follow this treatment. When it follows the old routine, it requires skillful treatment. GENERAL DIRECTIONS. Never give physic after confinement. It is productive of infinite mischief. If the bowels are not moved in 2 or 3 days, give Nux. at night, and Bry. in the morning. If delayed 4 or 5 days, give injections of warm water This is always sufficient, and avoids the long train of evils that follow the use of cathartics. The proper treatment of a woman, after confinement, is as follows: After resting for a few minutes, inject into the womb a pint of cool water, containing a few drops of Arm. or Calendula tinct. If the flowing is excessive, repeat it with amnzamelis. Apply cloths wrung out of cool water, to the parts, instead of hot and dry ones. Wash the patient all over with a wet cloth or sponge of a temperature to suit the feelings of the patient, without too much exposure of the surface, and carefully avoiding any chilliness. After washing and rubbing dry, put a wet bandage around her, instead of a dry one, covered with a flannel or cotton one, dry. Keep the room thoroughly aired and cool. Repeat the washing daily. Be no more afraid of water and air, than before confinement.'Under this treatment, a woman will be as well and as strong at the end of 4 or DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 73 5 days, as in 2 or 3 weeks under the old abominable, physicing, confining and heating treatment. I am perfectly aware that many, both in and out of the professsion, are horrified at this dreadful exposure at such a time. They seem to labor not only under a hydrophobia, but an airphobia. They relate cases in which women, after confinement, have been thrown into fevers, and had broken breasts, and even died from merely touching their hands to a cold wet cloth. This all may very well be. Shut a woma.n up in a tight, hot room, and roast her for several days without a breath of fresh air, before confinement, or after, and she will take cold by a very slight exposure, and so will a man. But let a woman go on after confinement with the same free use of both air and water, to which she has previously been accustomed, and she is in no danger of taking cold, unless the exposure is so great as to produce chilliness. The advantages of the cold injections are the following: 1st. The internal organs, after labor, are hot, fatigued and exhausted. An application of cool water to them is always extremely greatful to the feeling of the patient, quieting and strengthening. 2d. It produces an immediate and prompt contraction of the womb, and thus insures the patient against an unnecessary or dangerous loss of blood, by flowing. 3d. It is a sovereign preventive of atter-pains, which often produce so much suftering and exhaustion. This will be plain when it is understood how after0 74 PRACTICAL HOMBOPATHY. pains are produced. When the womb is not well contracted, but remains open, blood flows into it, and coagulates until it becomes accumulated in such a quantity, that it excites the womb to contract, in order to expel it, just as it contracted to expel the child, and after-birth. The pains come on just as often as there is a sufficient accumulation of coagulated blood to render them necessary to remove it, and no oftener. But if the womb is made to contract vigorously at first, by cool water injection, no such accumulation can take place, and there is no occasion for pains to expel it, and of course there are no pains. Why do after-pains increase with every successive confinement, so that after a woman has had many children, they often become even more distressing, than the labor itself? It is simply because the womb becomes so much distended and weakened, that it does not contract promptly after delivery, but remains open so that blood flows into it, in large quantities, causing repeated efforts to expel it, and each effort produces an after-pain. A few injections of cool water, or cold if necessary, immediately, by giving tone to the weakened organ, produces the same prompt contraction that took place spontaneously in early labors, and of course, the same freedom from after-pains. I have witnessed the delightful results of this treatment for years, and in hundreds of cases. Many patients who had the greatest fears of it at first are now loudest in its praise. Hydropathic practitioners have long practiced it, and DISEASES OF WOMEF AND CHILDREN. 16 hundreds of other physicians, witnessing its safety and success, have adopted it, and. all are delighted with it. I have received every year, orom succesive classes of medical students in the medical college, to whom I have taught the uses of water and air, numerous letters, thanking me for the teaching and speaking in rapturous terms of the success of the practice and the reputation they have gained by it. I have never yet known of the first case of mischief done by it, when administered with any sort of prudence. The old ruinous, roasting and physicking practice is fast going out of fashion and common sense taking its place. The woman, after confinement, should abstain from all stimulating drinks and have only light, unstimulating food till after the milk is fully established. If the after-pains require it, give Caul. By this course, the milk fever on the second or third day, so common within my recollection, with often a broken breast in its train, will be avoided. A woman with a good physician and a good nurse should have neither milk fever or a broken breast. Nursing Sore Mouth. This is a sore mouth mostly affecting nursing women, but sometimes coming on some weeks before confinement. Under the old treatment it is a very troublesome and often an incorrigible disease. If it continues for some time, it frequently extends along the mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels, producing intolerance of food and an obstinate diarrhea, under which 76 PRACTICAL HOMIEOPATHY. the patient is rapidly exhausted. Many mothers are obliged to wean the child before the disease can be cured. By a very simple Homocopathic treatment, it is almost invariably and rapidly cured. TneREATIENT.-Po d., 3 grains in a tumbler of water, a. teaspoonfull before each meal and at bed-time, if begun in an early stage, often effects a speedy cure. If the case is not improving in a few days, take rux. every night and Ars. every morning. I have cured cases with these two remedies in a week or ten days that had been six or eight months under treatment without benefit.:ydrastis is, in many cases, an invaluable remedy every 3 to 6 hours. It may be made of the strength of 6 or 8 drops to a tumbler of water and taken in teaspoonfull doses —the mouth being well washed with the same before each dose, or the wash may be made two or three times as strong. In cases of long standing, where the bowels have become affected and the above treatment is not successful after a reasonable trial, Pod. and L'ptand. are invaluable. One may be taken at a time or the two alternated every 3 to 6 hours-2 or 3 grains in half a tumbler of water and teaspoonfull doses. There is not one case of nursing sore mouth in a hundred that will not be cured by this treatment, and in a much shorter time than it is usually done under medical supervision. DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 7T In a few obstinate cases in diseased constitutions, it may be necessary to take Sulph., 2 doses daily, for a few days, or Sul.ph. and C(.lc. carb. Nervolsness. Iany women, as well as some men, in bad health, have a train of symptoms well known as nervous. These symptoms generally depend upon a diseased ordisordered state of some organ or organs, of which this nervous condition is only a symptom, and which must be cured in order to remove this symptom. But these distressing nervous sensations may often be greatly alleviated by palliative remedies. One of the most generally useful is Ambra grisia. In almost any condition attended with nervous restlessness and sleeplessness, if not in an acute fever or inflamlmation, an occasional dose of Anlz7;r will allay the irritability and procure sleep, without any of the disagreeble consequences of opiates. Almost all nervous affections of long standing depend upon some other chronic diseased condition which must be the chief object of attention. Most of these cases require the judicious application of electricity. Cases of "broken down " nervous conditions of women, of imany years standing, I have often restored to comfortable health and enjoyment by this beautiful agent with other appropriate Homwoopathie treatment. Electricity is a strictly HI-omoopathic remedy, and when used on Homoeopathic principles, is a most effectual agent in a long catalogue of diseases of a chronic character, that is, of long standing —-indeed to almonst 78 PRACTICAL HOMIEOPATHY. every disease after it has ilecome chronic, and in which long diseased parts reqcure to have their exhausted vitality restored. But administeredl on Allopathic principles and in Allopathic quantity, it;s capable of doing, and often does, serious mislLief, exhalusting, instead of restoring vitality. Among the chronic diseases in which electricity has been, and is daily being, of the greatest utility, a cure being often rapidly effected after the failure of all other means, are rheumatism, neuralgia, palsy, asthma, dyspepsia, affections of the head, head-ache, ten.dency to insanity, liver affections, old ulcers, all chronic inflammations, affections of the kidneSs, enlarged and relaxed abdomen in women who have borne many children with falling of the bowels, prolapsus uteri, and leucorrhea, tendency to dropsy, &c., &c. 3Many of these cases will be permanently cured by the aid of electricity which cannot be cured without. I have very lately greatly relieved a case of asthma of 6 years standing which had resisted all other treatment, by a single application. DISEASES OF CIIILDRIEN. Sore Mouths of Infants. Touch the mouth all over the sore surface, not rub it, with a W3sh of Ilydras. of the strength of 10 drops to a table-spoonful of water, 3 or 4 times a day. The child will swallow a sufficient quantity for a dose each time it is used. M'erc., ~'Nux., Clhain. and Sulpk. acid are also effectual remedies. Either of them may be given 3 or 4 times a day. DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 79 Stoppage of the Nose-" Snuffles." Nux. is the sufficient remedy. Besides giving it internally 3 or 4 times a day, a prompt method of relief is, to rub up a few pellets very fine with a little sugar, and blow a few grains up the nostrils through a quill. Crying. When infants cry, it is always for some good reason. Endeavor carefully to ascertain the cause. It may be an uncomfortable state of the dress; it may be chafed, and the sore parts are rendered painfal by being suffered to remain wet. It may be ear-ache, or more probably colic. If it is chafed, keep the parts dry —give Jlian,,. 3 times a day and wash the parts as often with irydcras. as for sore mouth or Calendula. If net sooA better, give Silp/h. twice a day. If it proceeds from car-ache, the child will manifest it by uneasy movements of the head, and often by screams. In this case, if there is fever, give Acon. and Bell. every 2 hours till the fever subsides, then Bell. alone. If this fails after a few doses, give Chain. and Puls. If the crying arises from colic, give Cham., Coloc., or Bell. A great deal of colicky pain and crying are caused by feeding the child when it should not be fed. It is a mistaken and very mischievous notion, that a child must have food within a few hours after birth. If this were so, an all-wise Creator who makes all necessary provisions for his creatures, would have provided it. T-ic bare fact that the mother does not usually have S0 PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHIY. milk for it before the second or third day, is sufficient proof that the child does not need it before that time. For at least 36 hours it should not be fed at all unless the mother furnishes food before. A teaspoonfull of water occasionally is the only thing it should swallowv. Above all, avoid medicine of every description, even catnip or saffron tea. Some seem to suppose that every child is both sick and starving as soon as it draws its first breath, and it must be outraged by unnatural food and more unnatural medicine. Nine-tenths of all the fits, the vomiting, the colic and the crying in young children are produced by this abominable and unnatural treatment. Dr. Dewes, whose experience is very great, says he has never known a young infant have fits that had not been fed or dosed. If the mnother's milk, from any cause, is delayed longer than 36 hours, the child may be cautiously fed with a mixture of new thin cream, from milk that has stood not more than two or three hours, and water, with the slightest perceptible taste of pure white sugar, the proportion being 3 parts water to 1 of cream. Scald-Head. —lilk Crusts. When sores first come upon a child's head, discharging a fluid and forming scabs, Rhus. is the first remedy, three times a day for at least a week or two, and longer if the disease is improving. If it fails to effect a cure, sulphur 3 times a day; if the eruption is dry and scurvy, Ars. Wash the head clean daily with soap and water. In a majority of cases, however, Dutlcamara, 3 times a day, is the only necessary remedy. DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CBILDREN. S1 Itch, whether in Children or Adults. Croton. tig. and Lobel. alternately every 6 or 8 hours will generally moderate the itching in a single day, and, as I know from experience, cure the disease in a week or two. If it fails after this length of time or is not improving, give MAerc. cor. three times a day for a week, and then the first remedies as before. Drying up the disease suddenly by external applications, is a dangerous practice, often producing a variety of internal disorders, and sometimes death. If the disease is incorrigible, however, there is no danger in a weak sulphur ointment, (1 part of sulphur to 10 of lard) thoroughly rubbed into tire sores, at the same time that sulphur in I-omoeopathic doses, istaken internally three times a day. Croton. is a valuable remedy in a variety of eruptions attended by troublesome itching, and so is Lobelia, in those eruptions that resemble the itch in appearance. " Summer Complaints." There are two distinct diseases that go by this name, viz: Cholera Infantum and Diarrhoea. The most obvious distinction between them is, that the first is attended with vomiting and the latter is not. Cholera Infantum. This is a very prevalent and very fatal disease in this country, especially in cities. It chiefly affects children between the ages of three months and three years. It sometimes comes on with vomiting and diarrhoea at the 82 PRACTICAL HOM0OPATEIY. same time, but quite as often the vomiting does not come on till the diarrhoea has continued for a few hours, or a day or two. It is often rapid in its progress, and fatal in two or three days. At other times it is of long continuance, and reduces the little sufferer to a skeleton. It is attended with considerable fever, coated or red tongue, quick pulse, a good deal of pain and suffering, great restlessness and rapid failure of strength. The child sleeps with the eyes partly open. The evacuations are frequent and exceedingly various in appearance, being yellow, brown or green —often grass-green or mixed, and sometimes the color often changing, scarcely any two successive evacuations being alike. In this disease, there is always inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach, or bowels, or both, and inflammation or congestion of the liver. According as the stomach or bowels are most affected, the vomiting or diarrhoea will predominate. If the disease goes on for some time, the brain is apt to become sympathetically affected, and under the Allopathictreatment of opiates, hopelessly diseased. TREATMENrT. —I the early state of the vomiting and diarrhoea, give Ipecac after every act of vomiting or purging. This alone is often sufficient to arrest the disease. If it fails, and especially, if there is thirst, give Ars. in the same manner, not more than four pellets in half a tumbler of water, teaspoonfull doses. If there is great restlessness, Cham. alternated with either of the above remedies. DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 83 If the evacuations are yellow, brown, or dark, Poci. is an effectual remedy; 2 grains in half a tumbler of water, a teaspoonfull same as the other remedies. When the evacuations are green, Agaricus is the best remedy, or Cham., Merc. sol. or Pod. If the patient is much reduced, and the vomiting and diarrhoea continue, Ars. and Verat. In many obstinate and protracted cases, when there is reason to believe that the bowels are ulcerated, Hydras. will save the patient. Pod., in alternation with either of the above two remedies, is also applicable in the same case. Diarrhoea. Occurring in hot weather, or from indigestion, is usually quickly arrested by Ipecac or Nwax., or both alternated. If the evacuations are thin and watery, Ars. alone, or with Verat. If they are green, Agaricus or Chacm. or both. It they are yellow, brown or dark, Pod. If the disease has been of long standing, Pod. and Le'). or Ifqdrast. will often effect cures in cases that seem very discouraging. The remedy should be repeated after each evacuation. Tlhere are no diseases which require greater caution in diet than Chlolera Infantum and Diarrhaea. When cases are almnost cured, the least imprudence in diet will cause a relapse which may be fatal. Dulc. is sufficient in a great mlany cases of Diarrhoea, especialy in damp weather. 84 PRACTICAL HOM(EOPATHY. Incontinence of Urine-Wetting the Bed. The principal remedies akre Apis. mel., Canth. and Pod. One of them may be given three or four times a day. Phos. acid is often effectual. Convulsions-Spasms-Fits. These are frequently produced by indigestible food or excess, as from raisins, nuts, pastry, &c. In these cases, if it can be done, get down a sufficient quantity of warm water to produce vomiting. Whether this is effected or not, give Nux., two or three doses every 2 or 3 hours. If from worms, give Santonine, as directed under that head. If from a nervous condition, without the above obvious causes, Bell., Chuam., Amb., Nux. or Ignatia. During the fit, put the child in a cold bath, and apply a cloth wet in cold water to the head, then wrap in warm flannels and get the patient warm as soon as possible. Weakness of the Limbs-Slowness in learning to Walk. Cilc. carb. 2 or 3 pellets every day for a week, then Sulph. in the same way. After stopping a week, if necessary repeat it. An improvement will soon be apparcnt. Croup. Give Acorn. and Spongia every 10, 15 or 20 minutes if the case is urgent, if not, less frequently. If not relieved by a few doses, give Sulph. acid every hour till there is an improvement, then less often. — IT~peer is often an effectual remedy. DIsBAss o0 wtoMM AND CHILDRaN.:85 At the beginning, put a cloth wrung out of cold water, over the throat and ciest, and cover it well with a annel, renewed every hour. Hooping Cough. Corallium rubrum and U'ielidoniun often cure this disease like a charm, and these may be first tried alternately every 2, 3 or 4 hours, according to the frequency of the cough; or during tne early stage; while there is a fever, give Acon. or iels. and Ipecac or Nux. every three or four hours..: a latter stage, when the fever has subsided, Bell. and Verat., or Bell. and Merc. Falling or krotmsion of the Bowels. Nux. and Ignatia are thue best remedies, but only one at a time, three or four times a day. Teething. The process of cutting teeth often produces great:disturbance in the infantile organism. The child is feverish, and often exceedingly peevish and irritable. Aeon. and Gels. are effective remedies while there is Asfeverish state, repeated as often as required. If there is no fever, Ambra or Cojfa. INDEX. Absence of Monthly Turns,.....64 Inflammation of the Lung......4g Aftr-Pains,................... do do Kidneys,... b3 Ague,..........................27 do do Bladder,... 54 Amenorrhea,..................... 64 do do Eyes,..... Asiatic Oholera,.............. 43 do do Breasts,... 70 Asthma,....................., 52 do do Liver,.. 44 Biliousness,.....................46 Inaufficient Labor Pains,... 69 Jites of Musquetoes..-........59 Intermittent Fever,............27 do Rattlesnakes,..........60 Introduction................ do Spiders, &c.,....... 60 Irregular Labor Pains,........69 Bleeding from the Lungs,.......2 Itch,...........................81 Blows.......................... 61 Jaundice..............44 Bruises,...................... Labor Pains Insufficient,........09 Burns and Scalds............... 61 do Irregular..........69 Broken Breasts,............ 70 Leucorrhea,.......... 67 Carbunoles............ 62 List of Medicines-in Cases, 19 Ohilblains................ 58 Lying in........................69 Cholera Morbus............. 4...3 4 do General. Directions.....73 Cholera Infantum,............. 81 Mechanical Injuries,............i1 Cholera, Asiatic................43 Milk Leg,..................70 Colds,.....................48 Milk Crusts,............. 80 Cold in the Head,..... 48.. Measles,.....................33 Coafinement,................. b9 Malignant Pustule,..... 83......63 Cuts,......................61 Nervousness,.................. 77 Colic,..........................40 Neuralgia,............... Convulsions in Children,...... 84 Nephritis.......................5 3 Corns..........................9 Nursing Sore Mouth,............. 75 Cough,..................6 6.....5 Ophthalmia,........658 C-roup,...................84..... Practical iHommopathy,..23 Crying in Children,.............9 Piles,.................. 41 Cystitis......................... 54 Plurisy.....1............... 51 Piarrhcea,..............P......38 Pneumonia, 49 do Children,............. 83 Painful Menstruation...........65 Diptheria..................... 31 Profuse do............66 Diseases of Children,........... 78 Prices,..........2................2 do of Women,........64 Protrusion of the Bowels,......8 Dysmenorrhea.................65 Quinsy,........... Dysentery,............... 39 Rheumatism, 34 Dyspepsia,......................46 Scarlet Fever,...............28 Erysipelas,................3......33 Scald HIead,...................8..8 Fevers,................S..23 ickness During Pregnancy,....68 do Intermittent,............27 Sea Sickness, 40 Falling of the Bowels,...........85 Sore Mouth of Children,..... 76 Fits in Children................84 do Throat,...............36 Fatigue,................ 61..... do Nipples,....................0 Felon,...6.1...................64 Scalds and Burns, 61 Flowing, Spasms.84........ 66 Spasms,........................4 Gastritis,.....................T Sprains,........................61 Hamorrhoids................... 41 S1owness in Learning to Walk,..84 Ilepatitis,....................... 4479 Headache,.......55 Summer Complaint, 81 Hooping Cough,..............85 Stings of Insects,...............59 Hoarness,...................53 Stomach-ache..............40 Indegestion,..............46 Stye,......................59 Incontinence of Urine,..........84 Tape Worm,................4 Inflammation ot the Brain,.....54 Teething, 85 do- do Tongue,...36 Weakness of Limbs In Children,.84 do do Throat,....36 Whites,.......................67 do do Tonsils,...36 Whitlow,.......... 64 do do Stomanh,.37 V orulp tutd Worm Dlstuses, 41 do do Bowels...87 Vaomitiug During'regnancy,.....68 OU!N. 147 ClUUI &H 111STrE T I HIlII UI C. 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