The North American Journal of Homeopathy, Volume 1American Medical Union, 1851 - Homeopathy |
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Page 138 - O true believers, when ye prepare yourselves to pray, wash your faces, and your hands unto the elbows; and rub your heads, and your feet unto the ankles; and if ye be polluted by having lain with a woman, wash yourselves all over.
Page 505 - On being raised, his legs dragged after him, and when his arms were lifted, they fell like inert masses, and remained immovable. There was perfect paralysis of the upper and lower extremities within two hours after he had taken the poison. There was loss of power of swallowing, and a partial paralysis of sensation, but no convulsions, only slight...
Page 277 - ... and allowed to remain until all moisture has been removed from them by evaporation, and probably, in some measure, by absorption. This operation of fomenting with the decoction, and applying the leaves, is repeated at short intervals until the milk flows upon suction by the child, which it usually does in the course of a few hours.
Page 508 - The face, upper extremities, and trunk of the body exhibited a diffuse scarlet efflorescence, studded with innumerable papillae, very closely resembling the rash of scarlatina...
Page 306 - ... pains in the left side of the chest in the region of the heart of a sharp, cutting character, producing a difficulty of breathing (JCR, 30th).
Page 508 - Now came on the affection of the eyesight, every object growing dim, as though a cloud were between the eye and it. Sometimes objects appeared double, and with an undulating motion passed before the eye. I observed that by a strong effort of the will, a concentration of the nervous power, this paralysis of the retina might for a moment be combated ; but only to return with greater severity when the mental effort had been succeeded by its corresponding relaxation. The appearances of the eye were much...
Page 302 - Dry heat in the palms of the hands. *A scab which had been on the first joint of the third finger of the left hand for...
Page 118 - Abyssinia," where it is stated that "its operation is speedy and effectual ; and to judge by the prostration of strength it occasioned in my servants when they employed this medicine, it must be dreadfully severe. I can answer for this, that it occasions frequent miscarriages, often fatal to the mother, and even men have been known, after a large dose, to have died the same day from its consequences. I am therefore surprised at the noise this remedy has occasioned the last few years in Europe, as...
Page 38 - JOHN F. GRAY, MD, President. Published by order of the Academy. New-York. 1850. (Pamphlet, pp. 28.) The prefatory note gives a succinct account of the origin and object of the Academy. The Homoeopathic physicians of the city of New- York and its vicinity, after several preliminary meetings, on the 28th day of November, 1849, organized themselves into an Association under the name of " THE HAHKEMAira ACADEMY OF MEDICME.
Page 119 - ... during his investigation he discovered two effects producible by the bromide, which, if confirmed on farther trials, may admit of useful application. One of these is the power it possesses, even when given in small doses, of inducing a state of insensibility of the palate and pharynx, which, commencing on the second day, continues during the whole course of treatment. It is so complete, that the finger may be carried to the base of the tongue, touch the amygdalae and posterior nares, or tickle...