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Page 300 - It is by far the most nutritious and concentrated food I have • ever met with. Indeed, a palatable and assimilable and in every way acceptable article of food, containing nearly 70 per cent. of truly nutritive nitrogenous material partially peptonized has never before, to my knowledge, been offered to the medical profession or to the public.
Page 336 - In the first stage, accordingly, the patient must get as often as possible (at least every five minutes) a drop of Spirit of Camphor (made with one ounce of Camphor to twelve of Alcohol} on a lump of sugar or in a spoonful of water. Some Spirit of Camphor must be taken in the hollow of the hand and rubbed into the skin of the arms, legs, and chest of the patient...
Page 86 - The search for a hotn•eopathic, specific remedy consists in the comparison of the totality of the symptoms of the natural disease with the lists of symptoms of our tested drugs, among which a morbific potency is to be found, corresponding in similitude with -the disease to be cured. In making this comparison, the more prominent, uncommon and peculiar ( characteristic) features of the case are especially, and almost exclusively, considered and noted, for these in particular should bear the closest...
Page 196 - Sexual Neurasthenia (Nervous Exhaustion). Its Hygiene, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment. With a Chapter on Diet for the Nervous.
Page 299 - Food is by far the best of any with which I am acquainted. It seems to agree equally well with children, whether they are healthy or diseased, and is well borne as a rule by the youngest infants.
Page 266 - Drugs and Medicines of North America. A Quarterly, devoted to the Historical and Scientific Discussion of the Botany, Pharmacy, Chemistry, and Therapeutics of the Medicinal Plants of North America, their Constituents, Products, and Sophistications.
Page 305 - A revolution is peaceably and progressively effecting itself in philosophy, the reverse of that to which Bacon has attached his name. That great man changed the method of the sciences from deductive to experimental, and it is now rapidly reverting from experimental to deductive.
Page 118 - He received me with great civility, heard a few words of the story, and cut me short as follows : ' Sir, you are pretty far gone, and the wonder is you are not gone entirely. If you had consulted common sense instead of the medical faculty you could probably have been well years ago. I can say nothing to you excepting this : You must take regular exercise, as much as you can bear without fatigue, as little medicine as possible, of the simplest kind, and this only when absolutely necessary, and a...
Page 283 - Physiologically we are then speaking of the nervous condition of the minute circulation of his blood : that " red " rage means partial paralysis of minute blood-vessels: that "white" rage means temporary suspension of the action of the prime mover of the circulation itself. But such disturbances cannot often be produced without the occurrence of permanent organic evils of the vital organs, especially of the heart and of the brain.
Page 331 - ... pain was labor-like and there was some bearing down in the vagina, with a sensation as if the parts would protrude. She often felt as if her menses would come on at different times during the interim, and sometimes a sexual flame annoyed her. Generally she was robust and free from complaint. Calc. phos. cured this lady in two months. She was an orphan, having no mother to advise her, therefore exposure at the time that she most needed to exercise judgment brought on the suffering that lasted...