Physiological Materia Medica: Containing All that is Known of the Physiological Action of Our Remedies; Together with Their Characteristic Indications and Pharmacology

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Gross & Delbridge, 1881 - Homeopathy - 979 pages
 

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Page 875 - Bacon; and some of them eat plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very pleasant comedy; for they turned natural fools upon it for several days: one would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and another stark naked was sitting up in a corner, like a monkey...
Page 120 - ... become incoherent so that the whole layer collapses, and its well-known architectural features become obscured, and (3) the intermediate layer separates from the malpighian layer below, and at times from the corneous layer above.
Page 875 - ... dart straws at it with much fury ; and another stark naked was sitting up in a corner, like a monkey, grinning and making mows at them ; a fourth would fondly kiss and paw his companions, and snear in their faces, with a countenance more antic than any in a Dutch droll.
Page 27 - Of these pulverized substances you take one grain, mercury may be used in the liquid state ; of petroleum you take one drop instead of one grain. Put this grain into an unglazed porcelain mortar, then you take thirty-three grains of sugar of milk, and mix them with the drug, by triturating the mass with some force for about six minutes, by means of a porcelain pestle ; before you triturate, stir the mass for a little while with a spatula. Having...
Page 803 - The cough occurs chiefly, or is much worse in the evening, after retiring, and at that time the membrane of the trachea is particularly sensitive to cold air and to any irregularity in the flow of air over its surface, so that the patient often covers the head with the bedclothes to avoid the cold air of the apartment, and refuses to speak or even to listen to conversation, lest his attention should be withdrawn from the supervision of his respiratory acts, which he performs with the most careful...
Page 341 - ... so directed him. And at the same time he who gave him the poison, taking hold of him, after a short interval examined his feet and legs; and then having pressed his foot hard, he asked if he felt it; he said that he did not. And after this he pressed his thighs; and...
Page 342 - And after this he pressed his thighs; and, thus going higher, he showed us that he was growing cold and stiff. Then Socrates touched himself, and said that when the poison reached his heart he should then depart 155.
Page 803 - Rumex diminishes the secretions, and at the same time exalts in a very marked manner, the sensibility of the mucous membrane of the larynx and trachea, exceeding in the extent of this exaltation, any remedy known to us. The cough, therefore, is frequent and continuous, to an extent quite out of proportion to the degree of organic affection of the mucous membrane. It is dry, occurs in long paroxysms, or, under certain circumstances, is almost uninterrupted. It is induced or greatly aggravated by any...
Page 410 - Réveil has ascertained that in anaemia there is no change whatever in the amount of Iron present in the blood. However few the corpuscles, they contain within them the full proportion of the metal normal to health; and though under the influence of Iron itself they increase to double and triple their...
Page 884 - Sulphur penetrates the entire organism, even in its finest and most recondite portions. It increases the activity of vegetative life generally, and the processes of secretion and absorption in particular; it accelerates the interchange of elements and makes it more pervading; in a word, it fulfills all the demands upon which the removal of an abnormal product is conditional.

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