The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homoeopathy, Volume 1 |
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abdomen abscess Aconite acute affection agent aggravated anæmia apoplexy Arsenicum attack become Belladonna bladder blood bowels brain Bright's disease Bryonia cardialgia catarrh causes cerebral chronic form circumstances cold colic color commencement condition conjunctiva consequence constipation constitutional convulsions copious course curative cure derangements diagnosis diarrhoea diet discharge disease doses drug dysentery eclampsia epilepsy especially excessive excited exudation favorable feeling fever gastric Hartmann headache hemorrhage hemorrhoids hence homœopathic hyperæmia hypochondria important increase indicated inflammation inflammatory intensity intestinal irritation jaundice kidneys likewise liver Materia Medica medicine meningitis ment Mercurius morbid mucous membrane mucus Nux vomica occur organs pain paralysis paroxysms particularly pathological patient peculiar peritonitis phenomena Phosphorus physician poisoning Pulsatilla pulse quantity rectum regard remain remedy renal scarcely secretion sensitive sometimes spasms spinal Staphysagria stomach stools suitable Sulphur suppuration swelling symp symptoms takes place termination therapeutic tion treat treatment typhus ulcer urine Veratrum Veratrum album violent vomiting whereas
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Page 228 - It is likewise a well ascertained fact that it occurs most frequently between the ages of thirty and fifty years.
Page 515 - Hartmann's assertion that peritonitis cannot be cured without aconite, seems to us more applicable to bryonia. It comes into play at the most decisive period in the development of the disease, namely, when we desire to remove the effused fluid as soon as possible. ... In comparing the second stage of peritonitis with the pathogenesis of bryonia, we shall find that, in the majority of cases, this remedy is indicated by its physiological effects upon the healthy. It is almost certain that, under the...
Page 134 - ... by Gordon. Nutritious diet, hot aromatic. infusions, claret, port, madeira, or even brandy, and other stimulants have been generally regarded in America in former epidemics as essentials in the treatment. Recent experience, however, has led to the rule that alcohol, as Dr. Stille says, should not be included in " the ordinary and systematic treatment of epidemic meningitis, but as a cordial to be held in reserve against those signs of failure in the power of the nervous system, which call for...
Page 531 - The whole duration of the disease varies from a few weeks to several months , the duration of the abscess is, of course, not included in this period.
Page 261 - A drop of the tincture or a few drops of the first decimal attenuation, in half a tumblerful of water, the medicine to be repeated every hour or even half hour, will be found the proper dose.
Page 60 - The trouble is much more dangerous if it sets in as an acute affection, and, although very violent at first, continues to increase in intensity until it terminates in death. In such cases the face looks dark-red, the eyes are injected, the vessels of the head and neck pulsate violently, the pupils are almost always contracted, the organs of all the senses are very sensitive, the headache is maddening. Furibond delirium is apt to supervene. This type is most prominent in hyperœmia occasioned by sunstroke,...
Page 463 - ... occasionally be called for in individual cases, it is rarely found necessary or desirable to employ them, as they are very seldom indicated. Mercurius, in its various forms, constitutes the chief remedy. Indeed were specific medication possible, we could agree with Baehr, that the corrosive sublimate " corresponds to the symptoms of ordinary dysentery so perfectly that it may safely be regarded as a specific for the whole process.
Page 84 - ... tongue when it is put out; semi-paralysis of the buccinator muscles and of the velum palatinum, which manifests itself by violent snoring; sleeplessness, fear of death; the organs of the senses are torpid and insensible, the eyes are principally affected; the eyelids droop as if paralyzed; the pupils most constantly dilated; all objects seem smaller and farther removed from the focus of vision; they may be seen as through a gauze; diplopia; pulse always slow, 50 to 60 in the minute; sometimes...
Page 234 - We have so often and so satisfactorily cured prosopalgia with five or ten grains of Quinine, administered in grain doses every two hours during the apyrexia, that we can recommend its use to homoeopathic physicians with all the earnestness of one whose knowledge is based upon the most unimpeachable experience, and we advise our friends not to mind the absurd twaddle of a few antiquated ignoramuses, who would fain confine homoeopathy to the narrow horizon of their own childish folly.
Page 489 - ... give the following remedies : Nux vomica, if, besides the itching, there is a burning and pricking sensation, the anus so contracted that the natural evacuations are effected with much difficulty, accompanied by dull shooting pains and jerking in the small of the back and around the anus, when moving; pain in the small of the back as from a bruise, which makes the patient cry out, and bend forward when walking or sitting. Sometimes Ignatia will be better, according to the temperament of the patient....