The Family Homoeopathist, Or Plain Directions for the Treatment of Disease |
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abdomen Aconite acute affected applied Arnica Arnica montana Arsenicum attack avoid bath Belladonna bilious bladder bleeding blood body bowels brain breathing bronchitis Bryonia Calcarea Calendula CASSELL'S cause chest chill cholera chronic Cina cold water congestion constipation cough cure damp dessert-spoonful of water diarrhoea digestion disease disordered dose every three drink drop dose drop dose three drop dose twice excess expectoration eyes face feverish symptoms flushed followed four hours fresh air given gout head head-ache Hepar sulphuris Homœopathic hot water Ignatia inflammation Ipecacuanha irritation liver lungs medicine menstruation mental emotion Mercurius mucous mucous membrane nausea nervous night Nux vomica pain phorated pilule prevent profuse prostration Pulsatilla pulse rash relieve remedy rheumatism Rhus scarlet fever scrofulous severe skin sometimes sponging stage stimulants stomach Sulphur taken teeth three hours three or four three times daily tincture tion tongue treatment twice daily Veratrum album vomiting weak windpipe worms
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Page 145 - During the last thirty-five years they have proved their value in thousands of instances in diseases of the Head, Chest, Bowels, Liver, and Kidneys ; and in all Skin Complaints are one of the BEST MEDICINES KNOWN.
Page 12 - I went, to come away so favourably disposed as to advise a friend to send a subscription to your charitable fund, and I need not tell you that I have taken some pains to make myself acquainted with the rise, progress, and medical treatment of cholera, and that I claim for myself some right to be able to...
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Page 12 - You are aware that I went to your hospital prepossessed against the Homoeopathic system ; that you had in me, in your camp, an enemy rather than a friend, and that I must therefore have seen some cogent reason...
Page 12 - That there may therefore be no misapprehension about the cases I saw in your hospital, I will add, that all I saw were true cases of cholera, in the various stages of the disease, and that I saw several cases which did well under your treatment, which I have no hesitation in saying would have sunk under any other.
Page 146 - ... Economy, and Guide to Every Department of Practical Life.' We have dipped into it, and examined some of such articles as an outsider might be expected to understand — on cooking, for instance, on which every man has an opinion — and found the instruction, to all appearance, sound and sensible.
Page 98 - ... fur; simultaneous with the sore throat or a few hours after, a rash breaks out, first on the face, neck and arms, next day extends over the body, and the third day it travels over the legs; the face does not show the rash as distinctly as the covered parts of the body; and so always when scarlet fever is epidemic and a patient complains of sore throat examine the chest; the rash consists of innumerable bright red spots, slightly rough to the touch, it disappears on pressure but returns again...
Page 5 - ... guidance, but yet strictly in accordance with the homoeopathic principle. Hahnemann soon announced his great discovery to the world in his " Essay on a New Principle for Ascertaining the Remedial Powers of Drugs, with a Few Glances at those hitherto Employed." By the commencement of the present century homoeopathy was fully presented to the investigation of the medical profession. Let us for a few moments glance at its position in those early days as contrasted with its present state and influence....
Page 9 - I cannot do better than quote the following lines of Tennyson : — " Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
Page 69 - ... night and morning. GENERAL DIRECTIONS — Be careful with your diet, and rinse the mouth frequently with warm water. (See Indigestion, Canker in the Mouth. ) BRONCHITIS. Generally caused by exposure to cold or damp, though sometimes met with in the course of fevers, etc. The acute form is characterized by difficulty of breathing, wheezing sounds in the chest, constant cough, at first hard, and with tough yellow phlegm, mixed with froth, flushed face, hot skin, high pulse, furred tongue, headache...