A TREATISE
ON
H OM (EO PAT HIC
PRACTICE OF MEDICIN~E"-:'.."
COMPRISED IN
A REPERTORY FOR PRESCRIBING,
Adapted to Domestic or Professional use.
fTirb  n[tion, Improreb ant Ennlargea.
BY
HUNTING SHERRILL, M.D.
MEMBER OF THE HAHNEMANN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE;
THE HOM(EOPATHIC SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORE; AND
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOICEOPATHY:
Auihor- of a Treatise on Epidemics; and an Essay on the
Cholera of 1832.
NEW YORK:
WILLIAM RADDE, PUBLISHER,
322 BROADWAY.
1854.




Entered according to Act of Congress, on the seventh day of December,
in the year 1853, by IHUNTING SHERRILL, M. D. in the Clerk's
Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern'District of New York.
JOHN POLHEMUS, Printer,
66 Courtlandt Street, New York.




PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
IN this, now the third edition of the REPERTORY
for prescribing, great pains have been taken duwing
twelve years' study and investigation of the sabject, to make it as complete as possible.
From all the various authors on oomceopathy
we have been able to consult and examine, we
have collected facts, and selected medicines according to their virtues; and we rejoice to give
credit to such works, from which selections. have
been made, and which have been of use to aid
our own observation and experience.
In this manner, we trust this Repertory will be
perfected to such a degree, that for arrangement
and convenience, and domestic use, and ready
reference, it has not been exceeded by any other
work of the kind.
We purpose to show that generally a number
of medicines are set down for each disease, or for
the various grades and features of it. It is however to be unmerstood, that these medicines are
not all equally useful in thit case, but some are
niore so inone feature or stage of the &case, and
others in another.
1*




4          HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
The peculiar stage or character of the disease
for which a medicine would be most useful, or
homenopathic to the present symptoms of the case,
may be discovered by persons having some expeperience in the art, and by following the directions here given at the place where the disease is
named.  In doubtful cases, close observation
must b6 the best teacher. Miuch also may be
learned by examining the Repertory and studying
the pathogenitic effects of the drugs mentioned in
some work on pure materia medica.
It is also very important (particularly in chronic
and complex cases) to obtain an ac'curate history
of the case, to ascertain what previous ailments
the patient has had, and what medicines have
been used in the treatment.
It happens often that the patient's illness is
owing to some previous disease which has not
been well cured, or to the injurious and poisonous
effects of a drug he may have taken.
This work being intended merely as a Repertory,
for a ready reference to aid in prescribing, the description and the pathology of diseases are omitted; also, we have not thought it advisable to
examine into remote or proximate causes, which
are generally very hypothetical, and often unsatisfactory.




PRELIMINARY REMARKS.         5
In the Homceopathic mode of treatment, the
symptoms presented by morbid action are the
principal guide for prescribing-more so than a
pathological knowledge, which may be very uncertain; it is therefore presumed that the prescriber will know the general name of the affection, or can comprehend the symptoms set down
in the work, and the remedy indicated, and connected with them.




6          HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
ARRANGEMENT OF THE REPERTORY.
DivisioNS or parts of the body are selected, and
placed in an alphabetical order as heads of affections or symptoms peculiar to them, though some
diseases which do not properly come under one of
these heads, are set in their alphabetical place.
GENERAL DIVISIONS.
Abdomen, followed by diseases of this part
of the body.
Abscess.
Ague.
Angina, the various species.
Apoplexy.
Appetite and Taste.
Apthea-Thrush.
Back, and various affections of this part;
Bladder, and diseases of the Urinary organs.
Brain.
Bones.




ARRANGEMENT,
Cancer.
Chest, and diseases of the Respiratory
organs.
Cholera.
Colic.
Cold.
Constipation.
Consumption.
Coughs, various species.
Diarrhcea.
Dropsy.
Drunkenness.
Dysentery.
Dyspepsia.
Ears, and diseases of these organs.
Emotions, the great variety.
Erysipelas.
Eruptions.
Eyes, and their diseases.
Extremities, general diseases of.
Face.
Fever, varieties and species.
Genitals, and diseases of them.
Gonorrhaea.
I-Iemorrhage.




8          HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Haemorrhoids.
Head, and affections of it.
Heart,    "         "
Hernia.
Herpes.
Hoarseness.
Injuries mechanical.
Inflammation of various parts.
Jaws and Gums.
Liver, and its diseases.
Mania.
Measles.
Melancholia.
_Mind and Memory.
Mouth.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Neuralgia.
Nose, and disease of it.
Pain.
Palsey.
Rheumatism.
Scalp, diseases of it.
Scrofula.




ARRANGEMENT.                9
Skin, affections of.
Sleep.
Small Pox.
Spasms, various kinds.
Stomach, and diseases of it.
Syphilis.
Teeth.
Throat.
Tumors.
Ulcers.
Vertigo.
Wounds.
Worms.
Women-diseases peculiar to them.
Pregnancy.
Accouchment, & diseases succeeding.
Infants, diseases of.
Poisons, and remedies for them.




10         HOMZEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
MODE OF SELECTING THE MEDICINE.
The plan we have pursued throughout this
work, will be very convenient to determine and fix
on a medicine most proper to use. If a patient
complains of fever, headache, pain in the stomach, nausea, &c. by turning to Fever in the
Repertory, you will find that Bell. is a prominent remedy for fever. Then look at Headache,
and Bell. will be seen to be a leading remedy for
headache; turn to Stomach and Nausea, and Bell.
is there named for those affections. Thus it will
appear, that Bell. is the leading remedy for four
of the prominent symptoms of the case; consequently, Bell. will be a proper remedy to be used.
Acon. Ipec. or Nux V. would also be appropriate,
and do very well, and in some cases better.
Again, suppose a patient has acute inflammation, fever, sore throat, pain in the chest, and
cough, by examining the Repertory it will be
seen, that for fever of an inflammatory type, the
prominent remedy is Aconite —turn to Angina.(sore throat,) and there you have Acon.; for pain
of the chest or acute inflammation of the lungs,
Acon.. will be found to be a prominent remedy;




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for cough, with its concomitant symptoms, Acon.
is a prominent medicine. Thus, the remedy
which covers the greatest number of symptoms,
is Acon. and will be the best to use. Other
medicines would not be amiss, such as Anti.
Bell. Bryo. Ipe. &c.
A prominent combination of symptoms affecting females, for which we are often consulted, are
headache, disordered stomach, costiveness, bearing down pains of the womb, irritation and distensions of the uterus; difficulty in urinating,
piles and hmemorrhoidal tumours, and bleeding
from the hsemorrhoidal vessels.
By examining the Repertory, it will be perceived, that for headache, Nux V. is a remedy;
for disorder of the stomach, Nux V. is also a proper remedy; for costiveness, you will find Nux V.
an indicated medicine-for the affections of the
womb mentioned, Nux V. is a valuable medicine,
and for the Piles and the other Hsemorrhoidal
affections, Nux V. holds a prominent rank.
Therefore in a case comprising all or a portion of
those symptoms, Nux V. will be a useful and
leading remedy, but not to-the exclusion of other
articles, such as Bell. Bryo. Puls. Rus. T. Sepi.
Stramo. &c.
This plan being pursued in other cases will
lead to a tolerably correct course of prescribing.
a proper remedy.
In administering medicine on this plan it is




12        IEOM(EoPATAIO PRACTICE.
proper to give but a very minute dose of those
specific remedies at a time, so as to produce only
a gentle aggravation at first, or a quieting equilibrium in the system, or an antidotal operation
to vitiating or psoric- or poisonous material lurlking in the body, rather than a harsh, irregular
commotion or counteracting operation.
Therefore, a minute dose which produces no
injurious operations nor poisonous effects and that
does no injury, if it does not cure, is found to be
best, and all that is necessary to produce the desired effect, and bring about a cure of the disease.
In a few cases only, Bloodletting is mentioned
in this Repertory. The Homceopathic practitioners commonly dispense with the use of it. They
generally hold that disease may be cured as well
and as safely without its use; and experience has
also shown that by the use of Homlceopathic medicine it is seldom necessary to resort to it. Some,
however, are of opinion that the use of it may be
sometimes compatible with Homceopathic medicine
with great advantage-and no doubt cases do occur
in which bleeding may be used with great benefit.
A congress of Homceopathic physicians from
all parts of Europe was held in Paris, in 1852,
when a committee was appointed to examine into
the subject, and report upon the use of Bloodletting in connection with Homoeopathic treatment.
In the Homowopathic Examiner, for August,
1846, new series, vol. i. p. 4, Dr. Gray states:




MEDICINE.              13
" Among the means which we must, as I think,
use empirically, I will cite, in addition to those
introduced into Jahr's new Manual, thepoiypodiumflix mas and the cowhage (against intestinal worms,) the Mesmeric passes (Chyropathy),
and the external and internal application of heat
and moisture (ilydropathy.)
"To this list, which. I consider indispensible to
a successful practice of medicine at the present
day, I will add BLOODLETTING, an agent which I
have not ceased to apply during the eighteen
years of my acquaintance with Homceopathy,
albeit much less frequently than I did as an
Allopathist.
"At first, by advice of my learned and lamented predecessor Dr. Gram, it was continued upon
purely empirical grounds, but now, and for many
years past, I apply it upon the Elomceopathic basis, having acquired, partly by experiments on
myself, and partly by reading Allopathic author-.ities to that end, a tolerable pathogenesis of it,
which it is my purpose to elaborate for the
Examiner."
"With this frank advertisement of views,
which I should like to see adopted and acted upon
throughout the ranks of our school, because I entertain them with perfect sincerity, I tender my
editorial services to the readers of the journal,
with a pledge to them to follow where Truth




14         HOMQiOPATHIO PRACTICE.
leads, even if to-morrow it should make me
retrace every position I now maintain."
"JOHN F. GRAY."
In a work written by Hull or Laurie on Ho~
mceopathic practice, Bloodletting in connection
with HIomoeopathic treatment is recommended in
some cases.
In Dr. Peter's work on Headaches, we find this
remark: " It is well known that the excessive
loss of blood frequently produces violent congestion to the head." Agreeably to the Hommoopathic
law of cure, if the loss of blood produces congestion, it would'be proper and necessary to resort
to that remedy to cure such condition of the system, when it exists as the effects of disease.
We are of opinion that any plan or system of
treating diseases which totally excludes Bleeding
is very injudicious, and must necessarily, in many
instances, subject the case to a fatal termination,
when by a judicious use of this remedy it might
have been cured. We are well informed of and
have witnessed many, very many, such cases.
This remedy is more particularly recommended
in this Repertory in cases of compound inflammation, or congestion, in which it has proved eminently successful-(see Appendix A.)-more advantageously so under Allopathic treatment, but it
is not devoid of its benefits connected with Hoinoeopathic practice. When there takes place in




MEDICINE.               15
the early stage of the case, as it does in Epidemic
diseases, an overloaded fullness of sqme of the
vital organs and internal blood-vessels, and a congestive accumulation of fluids in those parts, the
circulation is slow, the pulse small and flaccid,
the countenance dingy and lurid, the respiration
labored and slow. There is a dull, aching, painful
sensation in the body and limbs. In such conditions, by lessening the quantity of fluids in the
vessels, the heart is relieved of a part of its load,
by which it is enabled to act more freely, and to
propel the blood through the lungs with greater
facility, which will be the means of removing
congestion, and an increased quantity of vital air
is added to the blood in the lungs —which in such
conditions is the best excitant that can be used.
In cases of congestive depression, this course aids
very much to bring about reaction.
An objection has been made to taking blood
from  the body as a r emedy for disease, for the
reason that it is the support and life of the system. So is the life of the body or flesh owing to
the oxygen introduced into the body through the
lungs, and life is more immediately dependant
upon it than upon the blood. It has often been
urged that the loss of blood produces a state of
debility and lasting weakness. It is replied to
this, that the blood is not the life of the body, but
one of the agents by which life is supported and
kept up, and that the effects of a moderate loss




16         HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
of blood are sometimes the very reverse of causing weakness or lasting debility..In some states and conditions of disease, the
blood which in ordinary cases is the agent to
preserve life, sometimes is the agent to destroy
it, and that very soon unless means are used
to prevent that result by lessening the quantity
in the system., We have not been able to discover that the drawing of blood when indicated,
does or can interfere with the operation of HomIeopathic medicine which may be adapted to
the case. as there is not a counteracting or neutralising agent to the medicine introduced into the
system.  In several cases of severe inflammation of important parts and in congestive conditions of the body, we have observed that the
proper Ilomeopathic medicines which were
applied to the condition of the disease have not.
afforded sufficient relief; when recourse was had
to a judicious abstraction of blood and the Homceopathic remedies were continued, a decided
favorable change soon took place, the disease
yielded, and the patients readily recovered.
It was by the application of this pathological
and physiological law, which led to a successful
mode of treating the Epidemic of 1812, and which
has proved very successful in treating the compound inflammatory or congestive states of Epidemic Cholera.
For authorities on this subject, we may refer to




MEDICINE.. 
Leo Wolf, of Russia; Brussias, of France; Clot
Bey, of Egypt; the British Medical Board at
Bombay; Dr. Corbyn, British Military Surgeon
in Bengal; Sir J. Baker, British Consul General
to Egypt; Professor Chapman, and Drs. Bell and
Conde, of Philadelphia; and Dr. Ferris, of New
York.
In such congestive, depressed states of the system, by the abstraction of blood sometimes in
small quantities, and that repeated, the pulse
uniformly rises, becomes more full and firm, the
blood changes its color from a dark, carbonated
hue, to a florid, healthy color, which we have
Witnessed in numerous instances. Facts corroborating this statement are set forth in the writings
of Rush, Donaldson, Armstrong, Mann, Gallup,
Jno. Bell's Anatomy, Bell, Conde, &c. &c.
The small, flaccid pulse, the sunken, prostrated
weakness, the difficulty of breathing, the dingy,
leaden color of the face-the symptoms of Asphyxia, &c. which sometimes take place on the
first attack of the disease, and particularly in Epidemic diseases, are not the effect of direct debility
or exhaustion, but those symptoms are generally
the effect of depression, compound inflammation,
or congestion. This condition is very different from
direct or real debility, exhaustion, and weakness,
which takes place in advanced states of disease.
The general remedies which would be proper for
one of those conditions would be very improper




18        ITOMCEOPAT'IIO PRACTICE.
and injurious in the other: and where one set of
remedies would be proper and useful in the same
condition of disease the other would be fatal.'The custom of giving freely of opiates and
vegetable irritants and alcoholic libations in the
early stage of the cases, when bleeding judiciously
used with other remedies corresponding withl it
would have been more adviseable, no doubt has
been the cause of the great fatality attending Epidemics as, well as Epidemic Cholera in particular.
[See Appendix A.]




MODE OF ADMINISTERING THE MEDICINE.
The rule for giving the medicine as directed by
Hahnemann is as follows: In acute or severe cases,
to give the stronger preparations or those of the
low  dilutions or triturations, and to repeat the
dose often —more so than in milder or more protracted cases.  In very severe cases, such as
Croup, Spasms, Convulsions, Colic, and in acute
inflammations, the medicines ought to be given at
first every fifty, forty, thirty, twenty, or ten minutes. After a few doses being given in this
way, the periods should be lengthened, or, if there
is decided mitigation of the symptoms, it should
be entirely suspended for a time, until its effects
are observed; for sometimes a few doses in this
manner will entirely check or cure the case. Or,
it may be proper to give a different medicine;
and in this stage the dose ought not to be repeated more than once in two or three hours.
In less acute cases, the dose should be given
once in two, three, or four hour; or administered
at longer intervals; in lingering cases, it islbest




20          HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
to extend the time to two or three times in twenty-four hours. In chronic diseases, and those of
long standing, it is considered best to give the
doses at much longer periods, such as once in a
day, or once in two, three, or four days, or even
at longer intervals. These are essentially HTahnemann's - directions.
In chronic diseases and those of long standing,
it is considered best to use the high triturations
or dilutions; and in the acute diseases, the
stronger or lower preparations.
lliedical Potences. —" The majority of the Homeoopathists may be said to have decided hitherto
in favor of the lower potences, such as 3d, 6th,
8th, in acute cases —and higher, such as the 18,
24 to 30, in chronic diseases. The main point to
be attended to, is the correct selection of the
remedy. In Fevers, the directions are, to give
half a drop of the medicine chosen every two or
three hours."  Hull's Laurie.
The quantity of the dose is very much governed by the fancy and opinion of the prescriber,
and this is not of so much importance, as it is to
select and use the article- the riost Homceopathic
to, or corresponding with the case. If dilutions
are used, one to three drops are about a dose. If
triurations are selected, about gr. 1 will be a pro



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per dose, or two or three grains may be dissolved
in a wineglassful of water, and a teaspoonful of it
given at a time.
When the globules are chosen, they may be
put on the tongue and dissolved in the mouth or
swallowed, or there may be six or eight of them
dissolved in a wine glass of water, and a teaspoonful of it given as often as may be desirable.
The readers-attention is particularly called to
these specific directions about using and giving
doses, as the whole of the directions throughout
the Repertory for giving the medicine are based
on these directions.
Rulesfor Diet, while taking the YMedicine
recommended in this work.
Articles which ought not to be used are Coffee,
Green Tea, Cocoa, Chocolate, Pepper, Mustard,
Catsup, Malt Liquors, Wine, Spirits, Lemonade,
or other acids, Alkalies, Mineral Waters, Spices
of all kinds, Cabbage Sour Krout.
In animal food, avoid Pork and meat generally,
or take of it moderately. It is hlest boiled or
stewed. Smoked or salt meat is objectionable;
also old cheese. Avoid spicy vegetable articles,
confectionery, and whatever contains medical
matter. Let the diet be plain and simple; use
black tea or water, or milk and water, as a drink,




22          IOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Aliments allowed.-Those are Soup and Broth,
made plain, without seasoning with pepper or
spices, to which plain vegetable, mucilagenous, or
farinaceous articles may be added.
Meats, plainly cooked, stewed or boiled are preferable, and may be taken in moderate quantities.
Fish, plain, common fish may be used; they
had better be boiled.
Vegetables, plain, common vegetables-well
prepared, avoiding those of a spicy nature, are
always useful as a diet.
Eggs, lightly prepared, and bread, are uniformly useful and admissible articles of food.
Puddings, from all the farinaceous articles,
made plain, and used with plain, simple dressing,
are useful and proper.
Fruit, of good quality, used in moderation, is
always admissible and useful.
Drinks, should be water, milk, black tea, toast
water, mucilage and water, rice water, or any
similar mild article.
Some writers are much more lengthy on the
subject of rules for diet; but those I have mentioned contain all that are particularly necessary.
When there is a severe attack of Fever, nature
fixes the best rule. She entirely impairs the appetite, particularly in children, exbept a longing
for cold water, which is the best drink to be taken
along with the medicine, and the use of it should
be indulged in.




AIdDOMEN.              23
A REPERTORY FOR HOMUEOPATHIC
PRESCRIBING.
ABDOMEN.
ABDOMEN, beating sensation in-Opi. Sabad.
Spong. Tart. Ant. Thuya. or Zinc.
Burning in-Ars. Camp. Barb. Veg.
Colyc. Nux V. Oleand. Plati. Rus. T. Sabad. Seneg. Sepi. Silec. Spong. Sulph. ac.
Tart. ant. Tereb. Verba. or Zinc.
Chills and heat, alternating in —Oleand.
Sarss. or Valeri.
Colic in —Colyc. Coni. Iris. Versi. Lach.
Merc. IMi. Morph. Nitr. Acid. Oleand. Opi.
Petrol. Phos. Plati. Podolph. P., Prun.
Sp. Rus. R., Rus. T. Sabad. Sabi. Sang.
Spig. Sulp. Tart. anti. or Tabac. or Caust.
Cholic Ileus-Cocc. Opi. Nux V. Plumb.
Secal, C. Stramo, Thuy. or Verat.
Colic-Lead. [See article Plumbum, in
Jhar's Materia Medica Symptomen Codex.]
Champ. Colyc. Eggs. tHyosc. Mucilag. Nux




24        nHOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
V. Opi. Phos Plumb. Sapo. Stramo. or
Verat.
ABDOMEN, cold sensations in —Camp. Seca, C.
Spong. or Tereb.... —   Cramlps and Spasms in-Caust. Colyc.
KIreoss. Lach. Lactu.Viro. M1erc. Muria. Ac.
Nit. Ac. Nux V. Oleand. 01. Animi. Phos.
Phos. Ac. Puls. Ranan. Bulb. Rus. T. Sabad. Sarss. Sec. C. Sepi. Silec. Spong. Scill.
Stann. or Sulp. or Colyc.
Contraction and pain in —Chin. Nicc.
Phos. Plumb. Plati. Prun. Sp. Ranan.
Bulb. Rus. R. Rus. T. Sabad. Sang. Sarss.
Sepi. Sulp. or Tabac..-.- -Darting pains running to the groins —
Plati. Plumb. Ranau. Bulb. Rata. Russ.
R. Rus. T. Selen. Sepi. Silec. Spig. Spong.
Thuy. or Verat.
---. Distension-Agnu. C. Alum. Bell. Calc.
Colc. Canst. Gum. G. Hep. Hyoc. Ignat.
Kali. C. Kalmi. L. Lach. Lob. C. Lyc.
Mag. C. Mag. M. Mag. S.Merc. M. Millefo,
Mosch. IMluri ac. Natr. ]MI. Nicc. Nux V.
Oleand. 01. Animi. Opi. Petrol. PJhos. Phytol. Plati. Plumb. ac. Rus. R. Salad. Sang.
Sarss. Sepi. Silec. Spig. Staun. Sulp. Tereb.
Thuy. Verat. or Zinc.
Empty sensation in-Sarss. Sec. C. Sepi.
Scill. Stramo. Vcrba. or Zinc.
Flatulence-Camp. Caust. Chin. Coni.




ABDOMEN.               25
Morph. Natr. M. Nitr. ac. Nux Mosch,
Nux V. 01. Anini. Opi. Petrol. Phos. Plati.
Plumb. Acet. Rus. R. Rus. T. Tart. Ant.
Thuy. Verb. or Zinc.
ABDOMEN, Flatus feetid-Carb. V. Staph. Verat.
or Zinc.
Gangrene in-Ars. Caps. Carb. V. Kreoso. Lyc. Merc.'Phos. Sulp. ac. or Verat.
*.-. Griping in-Colyc. Mere. M. Nat. 1M.
Nice. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand. 01. Animi.
Petrol. Rus. R. Sabi. Sepi. or Stron.
Groin and Inguinal Rings, pressure onNatr. M. Nux V. Petrol. Phos. Plati.
Plumb. Prun. Sp. Rus. R. RTis. T. Sepi.
Spig. Spong. Stramo, Tereb or Zinc.
Groins, Glands in Swelled or Ulcerated
Merc. Nitr. Ac. Petrol. Silec. Stron. Thuy.
or Zinc.
Hernia, sensations of pressing outArum. Nux V.-Spig. Spong. Stramo.
Sulph. ac —Sulph. Tart. ant-Thuy. Verba.
Verat or Zinc.
H- ernia, beating inl-Nux V. or Sulph. ac.
-   Induration in groin-Coni. Sang. Sep.
or Silec. (See Glands, Induration of.)
Intestines, pain in great —Cham. Merc.
Spig. Stann. Verat. or Verba.
~ Inflammation in Secondary — HIyosc.
Mere., Mere. Iod. —Nux V. —01. Animi.Sec. C. Scill. Stann. Stramo. or Sulp.




26        HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
ABDOMEN, itching sensation in —Ol. Animi. Sabad.
Sabi. Spig or Stramo.
--  Live animals in, sensation of-Sabad.
Stramo. Sepi. Sulp. or Thuy.
--   Liver, pain and darting in-Sabad.
Sang. Spong. Tereb or Verat. (See Liver.)
Pains, periodical in-Coni. Ox. ac.Phos. Rhodod. Sang. or Sepi.
Paralytic pushing sensation. —Nux V.Rus. T.-Sabi. Sabid. Sang or Stramo.
Pressure and pain in-Ammo. Caust.
Anacord. Anisi. Baryt. Bell. Calc. Camp.
Cann. S. —Coni. EIep. Ignat. Iodi. Kali. C.
Kalmi. Lat.-Kreoso. Lach. Lauroc. Merc.
Nicc. Opi. Oleand. Ox. ac.-Phos. Rus.
T.-Sobad. Silec. Spig. Scill. Sulp ac., or
Tart. Anti.
----  pipessing  outward. —Sulp. Tabac. or
Tereb.
pressing as though filled with stones.Sabad. or Tart. ant..    ~- Puffed —Opi. Petrol. Rus. T.-Sepi.
Scill. Stramo. Sulp. Tereb. or Zinc.
Quivering sensation. - Lach. Lauroc.
Lyc. Nux Y.-Plati. Rhodod. Sabad. Sepi.
or Staph... —... Rash over.-Selen. or Sulp.
-.-.-  Rumbling in.-Bismuth. Borax. Bromi.
Camp. Canth. Coni. Colyc. Gum. G.
Ignat. Iodi.-Kali. C. KQli. Jod. Kalmi.




A3SCBSS.                 2,?
Lat.-Lact. Viro. - Lauroc. Lye. Ly.   osell.
ur. a. c.-   it.  c. - Nux V. - Olead.
Phos. Plafti. Plunlb..-Podoph. P.-Puls.
Rananl. BTll,. —us. T. abad. Sabi. Sarss.
Sepi. Spig. Staph. Stramo. Sulph. Tart.
Ant. or Tabac.
ABDO:rE N, Sensitiveness-Iodi. yIe,  ler. Petrol.
Phytoll. or Stramno.
Spleen, enlarged and painful-Ars. Hep.
lodi. Rhodod. Sabad. or Sepi.
Stitches in.-Camp. Sarss. Sepi. Spong.
Stann. Stron. Sulp. Tart. Anti. or Zinc.
Trenmbling sensation. Staphys. or Verat,
Tympanites.  Colyc. RTus. T. Tereb. or
Tart. Ant.
ABSCESS.
ABSCOEss, or inflammatory swelling inclining to
fornm an abscess or suppuration —to discuss
it, the best remedies are, Aeon. Bell. Bryo.
Ipe. Silec. or Sulph. Externally, apply cold1
water, in which a little tincture of Arnica
is mixed, or use a cold solution of Acetate
of lead, or the latter may be used in the
form of cold poultice.
To promote snuppuration -  give.Ar.
Baryt. Chani. lep. Lachp.  Mere. or Opi.
Externally, use warm  ezmnollient poultices or iboentations,




28         IlOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
ABSCESS, Chronic or indolent inflamed swellings;
use Asa. F. Auru. Cale. Carb. C. Iodi.
Merc. or Sulp.
of the Gums.  Ca!c. Nux V. Phos. or
Sulph.
-of the Lungs. The best remedies are,
Ars. Lyc. Merc. Nux V. Phos. Sambu.
Sepi. Silec. Stann. or Sulp. [See Consumption.]
- of the Lymphatics. Use Ars. Baryt. Bell.
Iodi. Lyc. Mere. or Phos.
of the Psoas Muscles or Psoas Abscess.
Use Ars. Auru. Bell. Iodi. Merc. Mezere.
Phos. or Staphy.
of the Stomach. Give Ars. Bell. Calc.
Lye. or Nux V. [See Ulcer and Stomach
Diseases.]
AGUE, &c.
AGuE CHILLS AND SHUDDERING —They generally
occur at the commencement of febrile diseases, and they take place in a variety of
ways, and under various conditions. They
are sometimes of very short duration, at
others, they continue a long period before
reaction takes place, and the subsequent
fever is established. A very long continued chill generally is succeeded by a
severe fever, or state of disease somewhat




ANEUISM.                 29
in proportion to the severity of the ague.
The most useful and appropriate remedies
for Ague and Chills, are Aeon. Agar.
Ammo. C. Angust. Ars. Caust. Camlph.
Duleam. Hell. Ignat. Ipe. Lauroc. Merc.
Mlosehi.  Nux V,  Puls. Rus. R. Rus. T. Sabad. or Verat.
AM]~VAGDALITIS.
ArMAGDALITIs.  Tonsils inflamed and enlarged.
-Use Baryt. Bell. Cale. Caps. Canth. Chanm.
Hep. Iodi. Ignat. Lye. Nux V. Pauls. Sep.
or Sulph.  [See Angina Tonsilitis.]
ANEURISrM.,NEURIIsTr,  a diseased enlargement of an artery.
The remnedies most nseful to relieve or cur e
this affection, are Arnic. Caust. Carb. V.
Calca. Itep. Ignat. Lye. Nux V. Silec. or
Thuy.
In the North American iloinceopathic
Journal, No. 9, p. 68, some cases are related as having been cued by Lycopodiuum.




30        HlOMCEOPATHIC PRAOTICE.
ANGINA.
Under this name, a variety of diseases of the
throat and tonsils are arranged and treated
of as follows:
ANGINA, Quinsy or Sore Throat. The proper
remedies are Acon. Bell. Bryo. Dulcam.
Ignat. Ipe. Nux V. Puls. Sarmb. Sang.
Sepi. Sulp. or Tart. Antimo..-. — Catarrhal (common cold.) Acon. Bell.
Cham. Dulcam. Hyosc. Ipe. MIMerc. Viv.
Nux V. Natr. M. Puls. Rus. R. Rus. T.
Samb. Sulp. or Verat.
Thle medicine should be used in the following order. In the first stage, when
there is obstruction in the head and nose,
or snuffling, use Dulcam. IHyosc. or Puls.
When there is fever and soreness of the
throat or upper part of the chest, and dry
cough, give Acon. Bryo. Ipec. or Tart. A.
If the throat is sore and red or swelled,
and there is cough, use Bell. Lyc. Merc.
or Samb. If there is dry cough, inclining
to~spasmodic efforts, give Droser. Hyosc.
Nux V. or Verat. In the various stages
of the case, the other medicine named will
often be useful.




ANGINA..               31
ANGINA, Gangrena. If this state should appear to
be approaching, the best remedies are
Ars. Caps. Carb. V. Kreoso. Lyc. Merc.
Sol. Nig. Phos. Sulph. ac. or Verat....-   ILaryngitis. This is an inflammation of
the membrane lining the throat and larynx.
It resembles croup considerably in many
cases-it is also connected with a common
cold or catarrhal sore throat. The remedies for it in the first stage are Bell. or
Acon.; in the more advanced state, or
when there is hoarseness, use Anti. Seneg.
or Dolecho.  The treatment proper is
about the same as for Angina Catarrhalis.
(See also Hoarseness.)
--  [MEMBRANA (Croup.) This is a very serious disease, affecting infants and young
children: if it is not soon arrested, it may
prove fatal.
CROUP-It is an inflammatory affection
of the glottis and upper part of the wind
pipe; sometimes it attacks very suddenly.
It produces a short difficult breathing,
a shrill, whistling, squaling cough-a
ringing sound, sometimes resembling the
barking of a dog; the child throws
back the head, to endeavour to breathe
more easy-in some cases, a spasmodic action takes place in the part-from a secre



32         HOIM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
tion of mucus in the inflamed part a tough
membrane forms, which closes up the passage, and causes a fatal termination, if the
disease is not early checked. Frequently
a croupy cough takes place, which need
not be very serious-this may be cured
by a few doses of Acon. Bell. or Ipe. In
Croup, more or less fever sets in. A
prompt use of remedies is required to check
and cure it. The first medicine to use is
Aconite. A  suitable and proper mode
of giving it, is to mix about 5 to 10
drops of the third or sixth dilution in
a half gill of water; or use 8 or 10
pellets of the same attenuation, in that
quantity of water; some use much higher
attenuations, and they say with success;
this mixture ought to be given often; the
dose should be repeated according to the
severity of the case, say a teaspoonful every
30, 20, 10, to 5 minutes.  By using it
in this way, a few hours, the force of the
disease will be generally checked, the fever
and cough moderated.  Then give the
medicine at longer periods, or stop using it.
It may then be best to omit the Aconite,
and give Hep. or Spong. alternately about
every hour or half hour, or give one of
these in alternation with Acon. In the
more advanced stage, if the symptoms are




ASGIN.                83
severe with rattling, give Phos. Anti.
Kali. Bicc. or Iodi. Samb. or Seneg. From
the beginning, let the patient often sip cold
water, and apply a cloth wetted in cold
water to the neck and chest. By this
course, the case will generally be checked
or cured. We have had no failure under
it, when fully and properly followed.
In, the North American Journal of
Homeeopathy, No. 2, page 252, it is stated,
that Acon. and Bryona, given alternately,
is a sure mode of treatment for Croup.
It was stated in the Hahnemann Academy
of Medicine, by Dr. Gray, that to dissolve
one grain of Tart. Anti. in four ounces of
water, and give a teaspoonful every 20 or
30 minutes, had generally cured under this
prescription.
ANGINA, Membrana, or Rattling or Spasmodic
stage, give Bromi. Kali. Bic. Kali. Iod. or
Phos.
Palati. Bell. Phos. Samb. Ammo. C.
Baryt. M. Merc. Phos. Puls. Rus. R. or
Rus. T..-. —   Pectoris. Acon. Ars. Arg. N. Petrol.
Samb. Stramo. Verat. Let oxygen be inhaled, or use electricity passed through the
chest.
Pharyngea.  Acon. Bell. Njerc. Puls.
Sulp.-Tart. Ant. or Verat.
2




84         IIHOMCEOPATIIC PRACTICE.
Syphilitica, Kali. Iod. Mere. ]Mezere. or
Nitr. ac.
------ Tonsilitis. Use Aecon. Bel!. Baryt. Canth.
Hep. Ignat. Merec. Nux V. Petrol. Samb.
Staphy. Sulp. or Thuy. [See Amagdylitis.]
A  chronic enlargement. Give
Bell. Baryt. C. Iedi. Ignat. Merc.
APHONIA.
APHONIA, or loss of the Voice, or Hoarseness
(which see.) The remedies for this affection are Acon. Arnic. Ars. Bell. Carb.
V. Tart. Anti. or Nux V. Oleand. Plati.'Phos. or Thuy.
Of Infants. Use Chin. Opi. Tart. Anti.
or some of the preceding remedies.
APOPLEXY.
AroPLExy. This is a disease which attacks the
brain, and generally produces a sudden
falling down and a state of insensibilityit is commonly produced by an unnatural
or increased determination of blood or
fluids to the brain.
There are a variety of diseased states
of the brain which results in this disease.
We avail ourselves of the use of Dr. Peters'




APOPLEXY.               35
work on Homceopathic Treatment of Apoplexy for some explanations on this subject;
the-variety of ways in which the affection
appears are enumerated as follows:
(1.) APOPLEXY from excess of blood in thbe whole
system. (PLETHORIC STATE.)
(2.) -      from retention or rush of blood to
the head. (CONGESTIvE.)
(3.).. —  from rupture of some blood vessel in
or about the brain. (HlEMORRHAGIC.)
(4.)    -  from debility or other nervous disorder of the brain or nervous system.
(NERVOus.)
(5.) -    - from an increased quantity of watery
or other fluids on the brain. (SERous.)
(6.).-  from primary disease or enlargement
of the heart. (CARDIAc.)
(7.).. from  diseased or disordered liver.
(HEPATIC.)
(8.)  -..- from Bright's disease of the kidneys.
(NEPHRITIC.)
(9.) -   - from febrile or inflammatory state.
(10.) -     from debility or loss of blood. (AsTHENIC.)
(11.)       from indigestion, repletion or other
disorder of the Stomach. (GASTRIC.)
(12.)   -   from convulsions in general or epilepsy. (CoNvULsIvE OR SPASMODIC.)
(13.).... from  the effects of pregnancy.
(PUERPERAL.)




HOMiEOPATHI0 PRAOTICE.
(14.)  -    from injuries and blows on the
head. (TRAuMATIC.)
It is said "sufficient has been done (here) to
give a fair view of the many different causes
which are capable of producing Apoplexy, as
to justify a protest against a routine of treatment
of Apoplectic conditions.
It must be.confessed that it will be very difficult in many cases to determine accurately which
kind of the disease exists, and some of them
cannot be known until it is ascertained by post
mortem examination. Enough, however, may be
discovered by a judicious mind to learn that
among the varieties there is such a difference as
to require a remedy to be adapted Homceopathically to the symptoms.
For the first, second and third variety, the first
remedy should be Acon. If there is a full flushed
face give Bell., or use Bell after the Acon., or
after the first stage is passed give Cocc. or Hyosc.
To these varieties of the disease we infer the
following judicious remarks in Dr. Peter's book
will apply:
"Even if it be admitted that allopathic physicians bleed- too much in Apoplectic attacks, it is
generally supposed that Homceopathic physicians
bleed too little-if the strength and vascular condition of the patient permit of it, or seem to require it, it seems very certain that bleeding will
not interfere with the action of Hlomceopathic




APOPLEXY.               8T
remedies-and it is even supposed that in some
apoplectic and -congestive affections of the brain,
the pressure upon it and the nervous system may
be so great, that they are as it were benumbed,
and unable to respond to the action of any remedy
until the pressure be. relieved by blood-lettinghence I will endeavor to state as fairly as possible
the advantages and disadvantages of blood-letting
in Apoplexy."
Wood says: " If the strength of the pulse admit,
blood should be drawn from the arm; but bleeding
is not to be-indiscriminately resorted to, or pushed
to an unlimited extent."
Solly says: " Blood-letting is the most dangerous remedial agent in some cases of Apoplexy;
-many a valuable life has been saved by the
prompt and free use of the lancet; but more have
been hastened into eternity by its indiscriminate
employment."
As near as the remedies can be arranged in a
concise way for a Repertory, they should be used
as follows:
If the stupor continues, give Opi. or Rus. T.
If convulsive motions take place, Ignat. or Nux V
If the disease is growing out of debility or nervous weakness, give Cupr. Fer. or Nux V. or China.
If it seems to have been brought on from an
increased quantity of serous fluids on the brain,
we'refer to the article Dropsy of the Brain for
the remedies.




38         HOMMOPATrIO PRACTICE.
If from disease of the liver, the-remedies pointed
out under Liver will be indicated.
If from febrile inflammatory affection, please to
examine Inflammation of the Brain for the treatment.
For the other varieties, reference is made to
the heads of the affection named, for the remedies.
It may be difficult to point out the condition in
cases of Apoplexy, where bleeding would be proper and when not. In the work just referred to,
it is in a measure confined to those of full plethoric habit, with full tense pulse: and not in
congestive cases, for these Opium in small or full
doses is proposed.
In several instances in this work, we have
pointed out the benefits of bleeding, in Congestion
of the head and chest, when Apoplexy did not
exist, and when the pulse is small and flaccid. It
seems reasonable, that when congestion of the
brain takes place so as to produce Apoplexy, that
blood-letting might be useful; and if opium is
given in large doses, it will be safer to precede it
by the abstraction of blood: after which, opium
in many cases acts more effectually.
In the somewhat advanced stage, if the stupor
or impaired state of the mind continues, give
Cocc. Hyosc. or Opi. or Rus. R. or Sec. C.
When Apoplexy is produced by mechanical injury, give Arnic. succeeded by Bell. Bathe the
injured part with a lotion of Arnica; in an ad



APOPLEXY.
vanced state, if the symptoms continue, give Iodl.
or Hell. In severe cases, blood-letting is recommended by Laurie and Hull.
"I am fully convinced that blood-letting is safe
and useful in some cases."-(Peters.)
Copeman, an opponent to bleeding, says, " The
only cases in which bleeding is proper, are those
in plethoric habits."  And Copeland admits the
benefit of blood-letting, where there is slowness
and fullness of the pulse. Rau says bleeding
may be necessary in cases of true plethora.
It is stated on good authority, that Apoplexy
may be brought on by a softening of the brain. —
The remedies recommended for this variety, are
Nux V. or Strychine.
APPETITE AND TASTE.
APPETITE rAD TAsTE. -Aversion to bread or wine
or coffee-give Rus. T. Sabad., Sep. or
Sulp. ac.
Aversion to salt-Selen. Verb.
Bitter and insipid taste. —Give Caust.
Colyc. Lach. Mag. C. Mag. M. Merc. Nicec
Nitr. ac. Phos. ac. Phytoll. Plati. Puls.
IRanan. Bulb. Rus. R. Sec. C. or Stann.
---   Bloody taste.-Tarax.
~ Coppery taste. —Ranan. Bulb. or Russ. T.
---  Flat taste.-Sec. C. Seneg. Sulp. Thuy. or
Valeri.
Greasy taste.-Sabad. Sang or Sulp,




40        IHOM(EOPATEHIO PRAOTIO,
--— orrid unpleasant-Lach. Lauroc. Lact.
Viro. Mag. C. Mag. M.. Merc. Nitr. ac.
Phos. ac. Plumb. ac. Podopyl. Rus. T.
Scill. Sep. Stramo. Sulp. or Sulp. ac.
Metalic —Merc. Rus. T. Sarss. Seneg.
Pappy-Sulp. or Sulp. ac...... Pepperminty sensation-Verat.
Putrid-Camp. Rhodod. Sep. Silec. Sulp.
Sulp. ac. Thuy. or Verat..-..- Saltish or sweet —Rhodod. Sulph. Tart.
Ant. or Valer.
Sour-Caust. Chin. Merc. Muri. ac. Nuc.
Phos. Plati. Rus. T. Sarss. Scill. Silec. Sulp.
Sep. Spig. Stron. or Staphy...-  Thirst, very great —Acon. Camp. Sec. C.
Silec. Stramo. Sulp. Verat. or Zinc.
--  Wanted or loss of-Chin. Sec. C. Silec.
Spig. Stramo. Sulp. Verat. Zinc. or Ferr.
or Caust.
Taste deficient-Arnic. Baryt. Bryo.
Chin. Caps. Ferr. Hep. Ignat. Iodi. Kali.
Bic. Lact. Vero. Lauroc. Lobel. Mag. M.
Mosch. Morph., Nux V. Puls. Sep. Sang.
Tereb. or Verat.
Hunger, excessive,-Caust. Chin. Lach.
Mag. C. Natr. M. Opi. Oleand. Phos. Plati.
Rus. T. Seneg. Spig. or Silec.
Voracious-Cam. Iodi. Lobel. Lach. Merc.
Nitr. ac. Phytoll. Puls. Sabad. Sep. Spong.
Sulp. or Verat.




APPETIr' AND TASTE;        41
- Loathing of food-Chin. Mag C. Merc.
M. Mosch. Muri. ac. Natr. M. Nux V.
Prun. Sp. Puls. Sol. Nig. Stramo. Sepi.
Silec. Sulp. ac. Tart. A. or Thuy.
APTHEA.
ApTHnE. —Thrush, or Sprue.-The proper remedies are Bell. Borax, Camp. Hell. Iodi.
Kali. Bic. Merc. Nux V. Petrol. Sepi. or
Sulp., the best are Borax and Merc.
ASPHYXI.
AsrYXIA. —A state of the body during life in
which the pulsation of the heart cannot be
perceived, and the breathing is interrupted or irregular. There are several varieties of it, produced from different causes.
Some of the principal ones are noticed
here: Swooning, or common fainting.The remedies for it are Acon. Ambr.
Canst. Camph. Lauroc. Ammo. Aqua. or
Ammo. Spts. Place the patient in a horizontal posture, and dash a little cold water
in the face,-apply the fumes of hot vinegar
to the nose, or Camp. or Aqua. Ammo.
Apparent death from hunger-give the
patient food in extremely small quantities,




42         HOM0OPATHIO PoRATIrO
such as milk by the drop, beef tea and
milk; or milk and water by injection in
small quantities. When there is some improvement, the quantity of nourishment
may be increased so as gradually to aid
the reacting powers of life; and as there is
a further improvement, the food may be
increased.
Apparent death from a fall or mechanical
injury —Keep the patient quiet; let the
head be a little raised; place a very small
dose of Arnica in the mouth. Repeat it
in a short time; as soon as reaction begins,
take BLOOD from the arm, but do it cautiously.-Hull's Laurie. Give injections
of Arnica. Note. We have often witnessed the good effects of bleeding, as here
directed.
Apparent death from hanging or suffocation-Place the patient in a straight position, the shoulders and head raised; rub
the skin gently; give an injection of two
or three drops of laudanum in a little
warm water; apply warm cloths to the
skin; inflate the lungs; furnish the fumes
from hot vinegar to the nose for breathing.
Give a little more Arnica or Camphor.
When a person recovers to this state, he
should be laid in a quiet position, and
such remedies used as may best promote




ASPHYXIA.              43
respiration, and reaction of the circulation
of the blood, by the use of pure air or a
gentle application of diffusible stimulants
to the face-warmth to the skin, a little
mild nourishment, &c.
Apparent death from lightning.-Place
the subject in a current of cool air —dash
cold water on it-after this, if the body
gets cold, apply warm cloths or other hot
applications to the surface, with friction.
Put a little Nux V. on the tongue. This
should be repeated in 15 or 20 minutes.
Also give Nux V. by injection. After
they revive, treat them similar to the preceding direction..-.- Apparent death from drowning. —ist.
avoid rough usage. 2d. don't hold the
body up by the feet. 3d. don't roll it over
a cask. 4th. don't rub it with salt or spirits. 5th. don't inject smoke or tobacco;
though warm water and spirits or salt and
water may be used by injection. -Rub the
skin moderately with warm flannel-cover
the body warm in bed, clear out the mouth
and nose, give a little Lachesis, Solanum
Nigrum or Solanum Mimosa —distend the
chest by artificial means, as breathinginflate the lungs —apply oxygenous air, if
possible to the nose, to be breathed in.
- -- Apparent death, from freezing —Place




e44        HOMcEOPiATHO PRACTICE.
the body in a cold place, away from a fire
-cover the frozen part with snow or ice,
or apply cold water to it. When the parts
get softened, they should be gently'rubbed
steadily till the skin is red; if they don't
revive by this time, a small'injection of
about ten drops of spirits of camphor
should be given. After this, give coffee
and milk by injection: and a little coffee
and milk may be given by the mouth.Hull's Laurie.
ASTHMA.
A'sTHMA.-By medical authors this disease is
described as an affection of the lungs, producing difficulty of breathing, coming on
at intervals, attended with a suffocative
sensation, wheezing, a short contracted
cough, languor, -headache, flatulence, and
a great oppression at the chest.  The
patient is unable to be in a recumbent
position, or laying down; he has to sit up
or be raised up in bed. He is anxious
to obtain a full admission of air to supply a more increased quantity of vital
air into the lungs.  If the paroxysm is
severe, the face becomes lucid, the hands
and feet cold, the surface covered with a
cold sweat, the pulse small and irregular.




ASTIMA.                45
Some persons are subject to almost continued symptoms of this disease, and liable
to have it increased into a severe paroxysm from exposure or irregularity. This
condition, sometimes is connected with a
peripneumonic affection, which makes
aggravated cases.
The remedies generally most useful for
this distressing affection are Acon. Ambr.
Ammo. C. irs. Arg. N. Bell. Cann. I.
Caust. Coni. Colch. Cupr. Digital. Ipe.
Iodi. Kreoso. Lauroc. Lyc. Mosch. Muri.
ac. or Nitr. acid.  The last is said to
have superior efficacy in relieving this
disease. Or Nux V. Prus. acid, Phos. Puls.
Sabi. Sang. Stann. Stramo. Sulp. Tart. A.
Thuy. or Verat.
The dry or nervous form-The remedies
are Acon. Bell. Bryo. Cupr. Ipe. Kux V.
Opi. or Sulp. oi Mosch. or Hyosc. Lyc.
Samb. Silec. or Tart. Anti.
If a severe stricture or cramps take place,
give Ambr. Nux V. Ipe. or Mosch.; after
using these, if the cramps continue protracted, it will be better to give Hyosc. or
Cupr. Samb. or Ars. Caust. or Stann.
Should the attack appear to arise friom
vapours, or some matter that has irritated
the lungs, give Ipe. ilep. Merc. or Camp.
Cupr. or Ars.




46          EOMiEOPATHIO PRAOTIOE.
—.- If it is brought on by convulsions or
eruptions, or erysipelas receding, use Ars.
Bryo. Carb. V. Phos. or Puls..-.-.. Iif the attack proceed from suppression of
perspiration, or cold, or catarrh, give Ipe.
Nux V. or Ars. or Puls.
When a congestion of blood in the chest
seems to have brought it on, give Acon.
Nux V. or Bell. Coni. or Auru. Folio.
Puls. or Sulp. or Ipe.
When some of the above remedies have been
used without affording relief, and the stricture
continues severe with dyspncea, or connected
with pneumoniace affection, the advisable and
best course to pursue is to mix about grs. 20 of
Ipecac in a half-pint of warm water, and give
a table spoonful every fifteen minutes, or at
longer periods, till nausea and gentle vomiting
is produced. By this course, the stricture is at
once relieved and the breathing is more free; a
perspiration comes out on the skin which affords
great relief. When the late Dr. David iHosack
resided at his country residence near Poughkeepsie, his wife had a severe attack of asthmatic
pneumonia. I attended her as associate counsel.
A variety of remedies were used, which afforded
some relief, but did not effect a cure. On the
progress she was seized with stricture at the chest
and dyspncea.  Dr. iHosack declared the case
was about hopeless, and that she would die. At




ATHrMA.                4
7 P. M. I proposed the use of Ipecac. as above
detailed, like to what I had used in a number of
similar cases with success. The Dr. objected to
the proposal; but after a short reflection, he directed me to prepare the medicine and give it,
and stay and watch its operation. I did so; the
anticipated effect was produced. The breathing
was relieved; a sweating came on by 12 o'clock;
the next morning Dr. I. pronounced the patient
safe. She recovered.
In severe cases of congestion of the lungs
with Dyspncea and labored breathing, we have
frequently used this remedy in such a way, with
great and decided benefit.
ASTHMA HuMIDA. —The most useful remedies for
this form of the disease, are Bryo. Bell.
Coni. Coff. Colchi. Dulcam. Lobeli. or
Ferr. Hep. Merc. Puls. Sepi. Samb. Sulp.
or XNitric acid.
In a paper inserted in the North American Journal of lHomceopathy on Nitric
acid in Asthma, it is said to possess superior virtues to cure this disease.
- -   - If there is fever and pain in the chest,
give Acon. Bryo. Ipe. or Tart. Ant.
"-7    If the attack comes on suddenly with
stricture and a suffocating sensation, use
Ipe. or Amb.
When the case does not yield to the reme



48         HOM(EOPATHIO PRACTIOCH
dies used, and the respiration continues
laborious, with extreme anguish and deathly appearance or cold skin, Ars. Prussic
acid or Veratrum are the proper remedies.
Should the case prove stubborn and
some other remedy besides those named
be necessary, a very good one may be
found among those mentioned in general
at the head of this article.
- Hystericum-Agar. Ambr. Asa. F. Bell.
Caust. Coni. Puls. Samb. or Stann.
Infantum-Acon. Asa. F. Bell. Chain.
Camp. Cupr. Lobeli. Merc. Nux V. or
Samb. (See Infants.).M illar. (See Infants.)
BACK.
BAcK, bruised sensation in it.  Natr. M. Nux
V. Sabi. Sabad. Seneg. Silec. Sulp. ac. Tabac. or Tart. A.
~ —---   Burning and Itching on it, Sabad. Scill.
Senega. Spig. Stann. Sulp. ac. Tabac. or
Tart. Antimo.
------ Coccygis, pain in it, Thuy. or Verat.




BACK.                49
Cold sensation in it, Puls. Rus. T. Spong
or Staphy.
Cramps and Itching on it, Bell. Bromi.
Cann. Ind. Caps. Canth. Caust. Hyosc.
Iodi. Kalmi. L. Kreoso. Lye. Lobeli. Lact.
Viro. Lauroc. NicC. Oleand. Rus. T. or
Sep.
Creeping sensation in the, Stann. Tarax.
Puls. Rus. T. Sep. Scill. or Spong.
Itching pain in, Sabad. Sep. Spong.
--  Lumbago, pain and lameness in the lumbar parts, the best remedies are Acon.
Angust. Bryo. Coni. Kali. Bic. Kali. Iod.
Kreoso. Lauroc. Morph. Nux V. Nice.
Petrol. Phos. Phytoll. Puls. Podphy. Ranan. Bulb. Rus. R. Rus. T. Sabad. Sabi.
Tabac. Thuy. or Verat.
Lumbago-When there is fever, give
Acon. Puls. or Rus. T. If the pains are
cutting and severe or increased by motion,
give Bryo., and after it, Nux V.  If the
pain is like a bruise or of a crampy nature with irritability, use Lauroc. Nux V.
or Kali. Iod. If the pains are dragging
or shooting, or like a sprain increased when
at rest, use Arnie. or Rus. T. If the pains
are deep seated with a dullness, give Acon,
or Bell. After the pain is relieved and
stiffness remains, use Phytoll. or Angust
or Coni., or Rus. T.




60         HOMCEOPATHIO PRACTICE
If the pain proceeds from a sprain of
the back or a wrench forming that disease
termed crick or strain of the back, use
Arnic. Bryo. Nux V. or Rus. T. Avoid
hot and irritating applications to the part;
apply cloths wet in cold water or ice to
the small of the back.
Lancing, pain in it, use Bryo. Lyc. or
Rus. T. or Caust.
Sprained dragging sensation, increased
when still, give Scill. Rus. R. or Rus. T..-.- Stiff, deep, grinding pains, use Bell. Puls.
Rus. T.
Tired, bruised feeling, give Arnic. Mere.
Nux V.
Psoas Muscles inflamed, give Acon. Bell.
Canth. Colyc. Uva. Urs. or Tereb.
-. —  Psoas region to prevent suppuration
there, give Acon. Hep. Scill. Silex. or
Sulph.
-.-. Pus discharged from the Psoas part, use
Auru. Asa. F. Arg. N. Plumb. Sulp... —   NATES, (Buttocks,) Cramps in them.Bryo. Scill. Spong. Staphy or Thuy...-.- Neck cramps in the nape, Iodi. Lyc. or
Zinc.
Sprained and stiff.-Arnic. Lyc. Sep.
Silec. Staphy.
Stiff and painful, give Caps. Coni. Hyosc.
Iodi. Lach. Lauroc. Lyc. Mosch. Nux V.




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Oleand. Petrol. Phos. Phytoll. Prun. Sp.
Rus. R. Ranan. B. Staphy. Sulp. Tabac.
Thuy. or Verat.
-  Swelled or Abscess forming on it. Rep.
Iodi. Lash. Silec. Sulp. or Thuy.
4 Pain and numbness in. Acon. Auru.
Angust. Bell. Caust. Camp. Canth. Coni,
Hyosc. Iodi. Lauroc. Merc. Mosch. Muri.
ac. Nux V. Nux M. Petrol, Phos. ac.
Phytoll. Puls. Rus. R. Rus. T. Sabad. or
Tart. Ant..-... Sternum pains in this part, use Samb. Silec. Staphy. Tabac. Verat. or Zinc.
- Scapula, burning pain in —Bryo. Rus. R.
Tabac. Verat. or Zinc. or Caust...-  Shoulders, cramps or pains and stitches
in, Led. P. Lyc. Mag. C. Mere. Mosch.
Nice. Nitr. ac. Podophy. Prun. Sp. Puls.
Ranan. Bulb. Rus. R. Sulp. or Thuy.
Paralysed, or painfully numb sensation.
Bell. Bucc. Cale. Lact. Viro. Millefo. Phos.
Plati. Staphy. Sars. Sep. Spong. or Sulp.
Sprained sensation, give Arnic. Iodi. Sabi. Seneg. Silec. Spong. Stann. or Verba.
Spine, diseases of-The best medicines
are Asparag. Aeon. Angust. Argent. Ars.
Camp. Digit. Ignat. Kali. Bic. Lact. Viro.
Lauroc. Mere. Mosch. Muri. ac. Nux M.
Oleand. Ox. ac. Phos. Ranan. Bulb. Rus. R.
Rus. T. Sabad. Spong. Sulp. or Thuy.




52         HOMCEOPATHIO PRATICE.
Spine. The diseases of it may be acute or
chronic inflammation, which may terminate in softening of the parts, or in induration of the spinal column, or in suppuration, or in gangrene, or in effusion of
blood or watery fluid.
Disease of the spine-In the stage of acute
inflammation, Acon. should be used with
great perseverance; the person should be
kept still in bed.'This should be followed
by Bell. Dulcam. Digital. or Ars. Puls. or
Nux V. Rus. T. or Verat.
- Spine in chronic inflammation-For the
protracted type, give Asparag. Arg. Ars.
Hyosc. Ignat. Merc. Nux V. Phos. Ranan.
Bulb. Rus. R. Rus. T. Staphy. Sulp. or
Thuy.
Spine, cracking sensation in. —Give Sulp.
Tabac. or Verat.
-----  Spine, curvature of. —Calc. Kali. Iod.
Rus. T. Staphy. Silec. or Thuy. A mechanical apparatus may be necessary to
support the parts...-  Stiff, enlarged glands or tumors on.-Use
Hep. Iodi. Nicc. Nux V. Phos. Prun. Sp.
Rus. R. Rus. T. Sang. Spong. Sulp. ac. or
Tereb.
- Trembling sensation in-Rata. Rhodod.
Sabad. or Tarax.




BLADDER.               53
Weakness in-Angust. Sep. Scill. Sulp.
ac. (See Rheumatism.)
BLADDER.
BLaDDER, the diseases of it and the urinary organs.
-Calculus (gravel.)-The remedies are
Ammo. M. Asparag. Cale. Canth. Cann.
S. Lyc. Natr. C. Nux V. Petrol. Phos.
Silec. or Uva. Urs.
CATARRH of the, or simple gleet-Borax.
Caps. Colyc. Kali. C. Kreoso. Phos. or
Nux V. Puls. Petrol. Sulp. Tart. A. or
Tereb..DEIBETES Millitus-The remedies found
most useful for this difficult disease are
Carb. V. Led. P. Merc. Natr. M. Phos.
ac. or Benzo. acid. Other remedies are
also indicated, and have been used with
more or less success. They are Ammo.
C. Ammo. Caust. Arg. Nit. Baryt. C. Coni.
Colyc. Iodi. Nux Jug. Rus. R. or Muri.
ac. or Asclepias Vincet. Ars. or Alum.
Tereb. Verat. When there is great desire
to -urinate, drawing up of the testicles,
pain in the kidneys, dryness of mouth,
&c. use Merc. Solub.
If the countenance is pale, of a deathly
appearance, swelled gums, dry mouth or




54~        HOMGEOPATHIO PRAIMOfL
throat, excessive discharge of urine, give
Verat.
When there is an absence of thirst, the
urine milky, Muriatic ac. The diet should
be nutritious. The other remedies are to
be used in the various features of the
disease, according to the symptoms presented and effects produced. (Examine
the Materia MIedica.)
DYSURIA and Stranguary —Give Acon. if
there is fever, use Arnic. Ars. Bell. Cann.
I. Canth. Hep. Iodi. Kali. C. Lyc. Natr. 0.
Nux V. Phos. Prun. Sp. Puls. Rus. T.
Sec. C. Silec. Sulp. Tereb. or Uva. Urs.
INFLAMMTION of-The remedies are Acon.
Bell. Camp. Canth. Cann. S. Digital. Nux
V. Phos. Puls. Rus. R. Sep. Sulp. or Tereb.
-   ISCHURIA, (suppression of urine,) Apis.
lMell. Canth. Cann. S. Cann. Ind. Coni.
IIyosc. Nux V. Puls. Plumb. ac. Rus. T.
Staphy. Stramo. Tart. A. or Tereb.
ITCHrmG and pain in neck of. —Stann.
Tarax or Canth. Petrol.
PURULENT discharge firom  the-Acon.
Ars. Bell. Canth. Hyosc. Lyc. Lauroc.
Muri. ac. Nux V. Opi. Petrol. Phos. or
Tereb...... SPASMs in the-Cann. S. Colyc. Prun. Sp.
Puls. Sep. or Tereb..-.- STONE in the —Cann. S. Cann. I. Caust.




BLADDER.              O5
Kali. C. Lauroc. Nux V. Petrol. Phos.
Sec. C. Tart. A. Uva. Urs. or Calc. aqua.
-  SYMPHISIS pain under-Tereb.
- TENESMUS of —Sarss. Scill. or Tereb.
-  URETHRA burning, itching and pain inGive Arg. N. Auru. Baryt. M. Cann. S.
Camp. Caust. Colyc. Ignat. IKali. Bic. Lach.
Petrol. Prun. Sp. Puls. Rus. R. Rus. T.
Sabad. Staphy. Sulp. Tabac. Tart. A. Tereb.
or Thuy.
URETHRA, bleeding from, Arnic. Auru.
Bell. Coni. Iodi. Mann. Millifo. or Nux V.
-  BURNING pain in, Ammo. Caust. Camp.
Canth. Hep. Kali. Bic. Kali. C. Kreoso.
Lach. Lyc. Phos. Ac. Rus. T. Sabad. Sep.
Stramo. or Tereb.
ITCHING in or pressing on, Ammo. C.
Ammo. M. Ars. Arg. N. Arnic. Auru.
Cann. I. Cann. S. Lyc. Petrol. Phos. Sulp.
Ac. Tart. A. or Zinc.
- URINE BLOODY, Arnic. Canth. Caps. Calc.
Caurt. Coni. Hep. Lobel. Mann. Merc.
Millefo. Nux V. Opi. Prun. S. Phos. Sabad.
Scill. Sep. Tereb. Thuy. Uva. Urs. or Sec. C.
BURNING pain in passing the urine-Cann.
S. Petrol. Rus. R. Uva. Urs. or Verat.
-.  Urine too copious. Caust. Kali. Iod. Kalmi. L. Kreoso. Lact. Viro. Mag. C. Mosch.
Nicc. Nitr. ac. Ox. ac. Petrol. Rus. R. Rus.
T. Sabi. Spong. Staphy. Sulp. ac. or Tarax.




58         ET~HOMEOMXPATHI PRACTICE.
D oCULT passing it. (See Dysuria.).       EsuRESIS and wetting the bed, Acon.
Bell. Baryt. C. Benzoic. acid. This is of superior efficacy; or Canth. Camp. Caust.
Hyosc. Lobel. Muri. ac. Nitr. ac. Rus. T.
Sep. Silec. Staphy. or Sulp. or Caust..-.-..MICTURATION or dribbling, Canth. Caust.
Lach. Lauroc. Millefo. Morph. Nitr. ac.
Oleand. Petrol. Phos. Sabad. Scill. Stramo.
Sulp. Thuy. or Verat.
-.-  I.Mucus in, or milky appearance, Lach.
Natr. C. Natr. M. Nux V. Kitr. ac. Petrol.
or Seneg.
SEDIMENT in brown, dark or redish, Petrol. Puls. Sec. C. Selen. Sulp. Sulp. ac.
Tart. Ant. Tereb. Thuy. or Zinc. or Caust.
-- --  SMELL of Ammonia or Iodine, Stron..-.. —-  SMELL sour or fcetid, Natr. C. Natr. M.
Puls. IRhodod. Rus. R. Sabad. Selen. Silec.
- o- Thuy.
------ Yellow, redish and various colours,
Bromi. Cann. S. Kali. Bic. Phos. Plate.
Selen. Spong. Tereb. Verat.
BOILS.
BomLs.-To disperse them, use Acon. Bell. Rus.
T. or Silec. To promote a suppuration,
give Ars. Baryt. Hep. Merc. Opi. Externally use warm emmolient applications.
(See Abscess.)




BONES.                6f?
BONES.
BoNEs. —Caries, or curvature, or Nodes, &c. The
remedies most useful in these affections
are Arnic. Asa. F. Angust. Calc. Kali. Iod.
Lach. Merc. Sol. Nig. Phos. ac. Sabad.
Staphy. Sulp. Sulp. ac. or Phosphate of
Iron; —in caries, we have observed great
benefit from this article.
BRAIN.
BRAtN. —This organ is subject to various diseases,
and those are often of a serious nature.
They are mostly treated of under headache
in this work.
Inflammation of the brain is noted under
that article. A consideration of this will
be found in its alphabetical place.  A
determination of blood to the head sometimes takes place, termed a rush of blood
to the head, producing congestion, or an
increased fulness of the vessels; sometimes
this amounts to apoplexy. In persons
who are predisposed to this affection, they
should avoid the use of full, hearty, stimulating food, and all kinds of spirituous
drinks; avoid extremes of exposure or
excitement. It will be beneficial for them




5s8       EHOMEOPATHIO PRACTIrE.
to take once a day or so, a small dose of
Bell. Cocc. or Hyosc.
If there is an attack of Congestion somewhat severe, give Acon. or Bell.; after
using one of these medicines, and the disease continues, give Arnic. Camp. Cann.
I. Colyc. Digital. Hell. Hyosc. or Lauroc.
Merc. or Nitr. acid.
If there continues stupor or indifference
of the mind, use Coni. Hyosc. Nux V.
Phos. or Stramo.
-      ~Concussion of-This morbid state of the
briain is frequently produced by mechanical injuries. In the first place, the proper
remedy is Arnic. Cold water should be
applied to the head. If the affection is
severe, and relief is not early obtained,
the subsequent remedies should be Camp.
Iodi., or if fever comes on, Acon.
For other affections of this organ, reference is made to them in their proper place.
BREATH  F(ETID.
BREATH F(ETID, and offensive, the medicines are
Argent. Ars. Arnic. Bell. Carb.' V. Chanm.
Hyosc. Iodi. Kali. C. Merc. Nux V. Puls.
Petrol. Silec. Spig. or Sulp.




BRONCHITI. 
BRONCHITIS.
BLONaHITIS, Inflammation and raw soreness of the
throat, Fauces and upper part of the chest
or Bronchial Tubes. It may be an acute or
a chronic disease. In the first or early
stage, when there is some fever and soreness and pain of the throat, with dry
cough, use Acon. Bell. or Ipe. If the
fever is lessened, but soreness and cough
continues, give Bryo. Digital. Ipe. or
Tart. A. If there is cough and "attling,
use Hep. Ipe. Spong. or Merc. If the
throat is sore with head-ache or irritating
cough, use Bell. Hyosc. or Sulp. If the
cough is worse at night, give HIyosc. or
Nux V.  If there is tightness of the
chest with dry cough, hoarseness &c.,
Nux V. Spong. Tart. A. Phos. or Iodi.
The other remedies mentioned, will be
useful ininany conditions of the case, according to symptoms presented...-  Chronic or advanced stage, give Ammo.
C. Ammo. M. Caust. iEep. Iodi. Puls. Phos.
Spong. or Sulp.
General remedies are Acon. Ars. Ammo.
L. Ammo. M. Iodi. or Hep. Merc. Spong.
or Sang. Seneg, Canth. Carb. V. Digital,
Hep. Hyosc. Iodi. Lact. Viro. Nux V.




60         HOMEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
Petrol. Puls. Rus. R. Sep. Scill. Spong.
Stophy. Sulp. or Tart. A. (See Chest, Angina, Cough, and Consumption.
BRONCHOCELE.
BRONxcrocELE.-This is a morbid enlargement of
the fore part of the neck, commonly called
Goitre; the thyroid gland is generally the
seat of the disease. In many cases, these
tumours become very large and inconvenient; we have seen them as large as the
head. In Cooper's Surgery, they are described "an indolent enlargement of the
thyroid gland, with a swelling of the upper
part of the neck." The remedies for this
affection are very similar to those for
Scrofula, such as Iodine, Spongia or Phosphate of Iron.
BURNS.
BumNs.-At first, give Acon. or Arnic. afterward
use Caust. or Sulp. For external use, put
10 drops of Tinct. of Arnic. to a half-pint
of water,- apply it, bathing with it cold;
or add a teaspoonful of Alcohol to a gill of
water, and use it in the same way; or wet
a cloth with it, and lay it on the burned




or scalded part; or use Spts. of Turpentine
diluted in the same manner, so as to cause
but little pain. It is recommended to apply moderately dry heat for a length of
time, by holding the part near the fire, or
holding a hot iron near it. An excellent
remedy is soap, so much diluted as to
cause very little pain; or at first to cover
the part with dry flour dusted on; this
quiets the pain directly. It is best to keep
the part cool, —let it be exposed to the air
as much as possible.
After the first stage is over, and the
inflammation and pain have abated, the
sore should be treated as an ordinary sore
or ulceration, according to circumstances.
Internally, give Caust. Rus. R. Rus. T.
or Sulp.
CAC-EXIA, oR DYSCRASIA.
CAOMXMIA, or DYSCRAsIA.-This is a depraved,
bad habit of body. An impaired state of
the solids and fluids. This condition is
generally connected with some general
diseased action, producing emaciation, feebleness, and a want of action, such as scro



62         HOM(EOPATHIO PRACTICE.
fula, dropsy, marasmus, or chronic affection of some organ; of course, the remedies should be used in accordance with the
immediate exciting cause. The general
useful remedies are: Arnic. Ars. Calca.
Carb. V. Coni. Ferr. Merc. Muria. acid.
Sulp. or Iodi.
CARBIUNCLE.
GARBUNCLE.-An inflammatory tumour, of the
nature of a boil or abscess, inclining to
run into a state of gangrene or mortification. in the first stage, it should be treated the same as an inflammatory swelling,
by giving Acon. Bryo. Ipe. or Anti. and
using means to disperse it. If the disease
progresses and increases, use warm emollient remedies to procure suppuration.
When symptoms of gangrene appear, give
Ars. Carb. V. Chin. Kreoso. Rus. R. or
Sec. C. Externally, apply yeast or charcoal poultices. When these ulcerate and
break, several openings form of a honeycomb'appearance. Then a free opening
should be made in them.




-GANCGC&              63
CANCER.
CO-cER -This- disease is defined by writers, " an
ulcer proceeding from a previous scirrhous
indurated tumour." Those tumours may
form and remain a long time, even many
years, without becoming very large or
painful. At length, darting or twinging
pains run through them. They grow and
become more painful, and if means are
not used to arrest their progress, they ulcerate, and form an open CANcEsR. They
are seated in the glandular structure of
the body. When ulceration takes place, it
forms a painful sore, very difficult to cure.
Various parts of the body are subject to
them, but they are generally located on
the nose, lips, cheeks, neck, stomach,
and breast and womb of females; and
the testicles of males. The treatment of
this disease should be early directed to
the occult or indurated state. The remedies most useful at this period, are Ars.
Aster. Rub. Caland. Cicuta. Coni. Lauroc.
By an early and steady use of some one of
these medicines, the disease may often be
arrested in its progress, and cured. When
it has advanced so as to become an open
ulcer, the above remedies are still recom



64         HOM(EoPATHIa PtIACTICE.
mended under various conditions of the
ulcer. In addition to these, others are
proper, such as Carb. Veg. Carbo. Ani.
IKreoso. or Arnic. Clemat. Argent. Lye.
Petrol. Phos. or Phosphate of Iron. We
have seen very happy results friom this
last medicine; by its use, the pain is lessened, and the ulcer placed in a more
favourable way of healing.
CHCiOER of the breast of females. The appropriate
remedies are Ars. Coni. Calend. and others
of the above named medicines.
chimney sweep's Cancer. The proper
remedies are Ars. Calend. Rus. T. or Thuy.
or Kreoso.
of the lips. Ars. Arnic. Argent. IKreoso.
or some of the preceding medicines.
of the stomach. This affection is attended
with great difficulty and danger.  The
remedies recommended for it, are Ars.
Baryt. C. Coni. Lye. Nux V. Petrol. or
Phos. High attenuations of medicine are
adviseable. (See Diseases of the Stomach.)
of the uterus. This affection is veiled in
a great deal of obscurity. The proper
remedies for it, are Ars. Coni. Calend.
Cicuta. Kreoso. and others of the preceding.
----- When it is attended with burning pain,
give Ars. Bell. or Phos. Ferr. When the




cAoNER.                65
ulcer has a tingling, throbbing sensation,
use Clematis. Lauroc. or Phos. If the ulceration is deeply seated, or there are
sinouses running to the bone, use Auru. or
Phos. Ferr. If they become fistulous, use
Lyc. Baryt. or Argent. If the discharge
become foetid or offensive, use Carbo. V.
internally and Carbon externally. A great
number of remedies have been proposed
and introduced as external applications for
the cure of Cancers, but they have almost
uniformly consisted of some corroding or
caustic material, intended to destroy the
texture of the part, and as it is termed,
"eat them out."  This is a painful process,
and a very uncertain mode of curing. By
their use, the adjoining substance becomes
inflamed, the disease is apt to spread and
affect the surrounding parts; if a portion
of the indurated body is removed, some
of the disease, or roots, as it is termed,
may remain-which are almost sure
to spring up and grow again.\ When
caustics are used to an open cancerous
ulcer, it is rendered irritable and painful,
fungus excrescences spring up, and they
may grow as fast as the caustic corrodes
them down. Sometimes the patient is
desirous of having the tunmefied mass removed by a surgical operation; when it is




HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
situated in a favorable part, so that there
is no material danger from  wounding
surrounding parts, it may be clone with
safety-in fact this is the shortest and best
course. When they are removed they
had better be done early, before the adjacent parts are seriously affected. Surgical
writers agree that the operation for the
removal of Scirrhous, Cancerous Tumotrs
often fails from its being done after the
disease has far advanced-when, if it was
performed early it would have succeeded.
This has been tile result of our observation.
When a Scirrhous Gland is situated in
a part where there is no danger of injuring
surrounding organs, if it is removed early
by an operation, we have observed, the
patient has not been troubled with it
afterwards.
CARDIALGIA.
CaRDIALGIA, (Heartburn.) —A  disordered state
of the stomach producing a burning,
uneasy sensation, attended with unpleasant
exhalations, such as flatulence, oily or acid
eructations, &c. The remedies for it are
Ambr. Bell.' Chin. Coff. Carb. V. Nitr. ac.
Natr. C. Nux V. Plati. Puls. Petrol. Sang.
Stann. Sulp. Sulp. ac. Tart. A. or Verat.




CARIES.                 67
or Ferr. If there is acidity, this is one'of
the best remedies. Small doses of simple
iron filings is a preferable form to give it,
CARIES AND NECROSIS.
CARIEs AND  NECROSIs. - From  various causes
the  bones become  diseased with  this
affection, forming what in common language is termed a fever sore. This condition of disease has generally, by Allopathic practitioners been'left to natureexcept the use of local remedies, and there
has been plenty of these conjured up,
They cannot produce much good, further
than to keep the part comfortable, and the
removal of detached pieces of bone.  It
must be by the internal use of remedies
that a cure can be expected, and by this
course important benefits are produced.
By such remedies, we have witnessed very
favorable results. For this disease, use
Asa. F. Angust.  Auru. Calca. Iodi. IMerce
Nitr. acid, Phos. or Sulp. or Phosphate
of iron. We have succeeded in curing
Caries by the long continued use of this last
medicine.  Also nitric acid may produce
excellent effects in this disease.




68         HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
CHAPS OR CRACKS.
CEAPS OR CRACXs on the hands. —With some, this
is a very troublesome affection.  The
remedies for it are Arnic. Calca. Hep.
Lach. Petrol. Avoid using soap in cold
weather for washing. Indian meal or
bran is more preferable for keeping them
soft. (See Rhagades.).
Of the Nipples.-Use Arnic. Borax, Hep..
Sulp. (See Woman, article Nipple.)
CHEST AND RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
CHEST AND RESPIRATORY ORGANs.-This portion
of the body is one of the most important
departments in regard to the operations of
the vital functions, and the diseases to
which they are subject. They have furnished a theme for numerous discussions
and examinations, to endeavor to arrive
at a knowledge of their nature, and the
means by which they may be relieved or
cured. The symptoms produced by many
of those morbid affections as are presented to view, will here be enumerated,
and the Homeopathic remedies which
are indicated and found imost useful for
them detailed.




CHEST.                69
- Anguish sensation in it.-Give Acon.
Bryo. Ipe. or Verat
Anxiety in.-Sulp. or Thuy.
- Back and Shoulders, pain in.-Bryo.
Baryt. Iodi. Lach. Lact. Viro. Lauroc.
Lyc. Phos. or Rus. R.
Bloody expectoration from. —Give Bell.
Millefo. Sabad. Scill. or Ipe.
-   reathing irregular. -Use Tabac. or
Verat.
- Bruised sensation.-Arnic. Bryo. or Iodi.
Burning pain or stitches in. —Ammo. C.
Anacard. Arg. Baryta. M. Borax. Caust.
Ipe. Ignat. Kalmi. L. Lach. Nitr. ac. Phos.
Puls. Rus. R. Rus. T. Sang. Stann. Sulp.
Tart. A. or Verat.
Congestion of the Lungs.-Give Acon.
Hyosc. Lact. Viro. Millefo. Nitr. ac Nux
V. Phos. Puls. Sabad. Seneg. Spong. or
Zinc. and perhaps Vena Section will be
adviseable.
H-epatized Lungs, or Tubercles in them.
-Give Kali. Iod. Iod. Merc. Muria. ac.
Phos. or Sulp. See (Consumption.):Hollow sensation in it.-Seneg. Stron. or
Sulp.
-  nflammation of the Lungs —Acon. Bell.
Bryo. Ipe. Tart. Anti. See inflammation of
the Lungs.




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Inflammation, chronic-The suitable reiMedies  are Bryo. Iodi. Nux  V. Phos.
Sang. Spong. or Sulp.
Itching sensation in-Nice. Phos. Plumb.
ac. Rus. T. Staphy. or Zinc.
Itching and Herpes over the chest —give
Lach. Sepi. Tabac. or Sulp.
Itching and stitches increased on motion
-Lach. Seneg. Sep. or Sulp.
Lungs gangrened or inclined to ituse Ars. Carb. V. Sec. C. or Silec.
Oppression of the lungs-give Ambr.
Bell. Caust. Coni. Lyc. Petrol. Phos. ac.
Puls. Rus. T. Staphy. or Verat.
Pain  in it, intermittent —Arnic. Ars.
Oleaned. Ranan. Bulb. Tart. Ant. or Verat.
Parylitic or typhoid state —Nicc. Nux V.
Phos. Seneg. or Ars. Carb. V. or Chin.
- Pleurodynia-Ammo. C. Arg. N. Bryo.
Camp. Caust. Coni. Iod. IKali. Bic. Kali.
Iod. Lach. Lauroc. Lye. Petrol. Puls. Rus.
R. Rus. T. Sang. Silec. Sulp. ac. Tart. A.
Verat. or Zinc.
Pressing outward sensation —Camp. Spig.
Thuy.
-    Pulse and beat of heart irregular —Lach.
Opi. Phos. or Seneg.
Rattling sensation —Natr. Mi. Nlatr. C.
Nux V. Petrol. Phos. Sabad. Scill.or Stann.
or Caust.




CHEST.
Respiration hurried-Oleand. Opi. Seneg. Spong. Sulp. or Verat.
Spasms or cramps in the —Ambr. Colch.
ILyc. Mosch. Nice. Oleand. Opi. Phos. Staphy. Plati. Ranan. Bulb. Rus. R. Sep. Spig.
Stann. or Verba. or Caust.
Sternum pain under it —Coni. Lact. Viro.
Lyc. Merc. Muri. ac. Nicc. Oleand. Phos.
Puls. Sabi. Stann. or Sulp. ac.
Stricture of it-Ammo. Caust. Auru.
Bryo. Hyosc. Ignat. Ipe. Kali. Bic. Kali.
Iod. Kalmi. L. Kreoso. Lact. Viro. Lyc.
Merc. Mosch. Nicc. Nux V. Petrol. Phos.
Stramo. or Snlp. ac.
Suffocative sensation-Ambr. Spig. Spong.
Sulp. Tabac. Tart. A. or Verat.  (See
Asthma.)
Titillation in-Tarax. Verat. Verba.
Tremor in-Sabi. Tart. A. Mosch. I
-  Tubercles in-Ars. Kali. Iod. Mere. Iodi.
Phos.
Ulcers in the lungs-Ars. Carb. V. Mere.
Iodi. Selen. Seneg. Sulp. (See Consumption.)
Weakness —Rus. T. Stan. Thuy. or Zinc.
In acute or urgent cases, the remedies
should be repeated as often as every half
hour at first; after a few doses are given,
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one or two hours, or at longer periods; in
moderate or lingering cases, at still longer
times.
CHILBLAINS.
CHILBLAINS  OR  FROST-BITE-Give  internally,
Agar. Ars. Carb. V. Lach. Nitr. ac. -Nux
V. Petrol. Phos. Rus. T. Sulp. Thuy. Zinc.
Externally, bathe the feet with lotions of
Arnic. Iod. or Rus. S.
CHOLERA.
CHOLERA SIMPLEX OR SIMPLE CHOLERA MORBUS.The most adviseable and useful remedies
for it, are Acon. Ars. Camp. Ipe. Merc.
Nux V. Tart. Anti. or Colyc. Cupr. Plumb.
or Opi. or Puls.
Should the disease have been brought
on by cold or exposure, give Cham. Ipe.
Ars. Puls. or Verat.
Where there is vomiting or diarrhoea,
give Ipe. Anti. or Camph.; if there is
fever, use Acon. in alternation with one
or the other of these medicines.
If there is griping or cramps. give Nux
V. or Ignat.
If colicy pains come on, use Colyc.
Cham. Merc. Nux V. Puls. or Cuprum.
or Opi.




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If vomiting is a prominent symptom,
give Camp. Ipe. or Anti. Should the disease continue after these remedies have
been used, and there is griping pains,
give Cupr. Colyc. or Verat. or Merc. Sol.
If there is a good deal of Tenesmus,
give Lobel. or Nux V.
If in the progress of the case, there
should be prostration, great thirst, or heat
of the stomach, or a clammy state of the
skin, give Ars. Cupr. or Verat.  After
the painful symptoms are over, if the diarrhcea continues, Cupr. Plumb. or Zinc.
will be useful.
CHOLERA (EPIDEMIC.)
CHOLERA (EPIDEMIC.)-In order to furnish some
authority for the inode of treatment here
recommended, it is proper to state that
from the history of the Cholera, in all
parts of the world, it appears that from
dissections made, it has been discovered,
that " the cells and cavities of the brain
were filled and stuffed with dark blood,
the lungs were injected and filled with
dark or black blood."  " The vessels of the
stomach were injected with blood, showing
traces of inflammation and congestion." Dr.




HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Cruvellier, of France, who had charge of an
hospital, made extensive post mortem examinations; and discovered evidences "of
inflammation of the stomach and intestines, and the brain was injected with
blood."
In the description of simple inflammation
of the villous coat of the stomach and intestines, without regard to cholera, Dr.
Donaldson and Dr. Abercrombie say' it
is attended with vomiting and diarrhcea of
a watery nature, the skin is cold, the eyes
are sunken in, the fingers are withered,
the pulse is small and flaccid." Well does
this description-of inflammation of the internal surface of the alimentary canal show
symptoms similar to those presented in
Epidemic Cholera. With diffidence, we
here lay down a plan of treatment of this
fearful disease, which appears to be well
adapted to the nature of the affection, and
one which has proved more successful
than any we have known. The remedies
most useful are, Acont. Ars. Bell. Camphor. or Canth. Cuprum.-and Guaco. has
lately been introduced as a remedy in Central America where it grows. It is stated
to have superior efficacy to cure this disease. Other remedies are, Ipe. Phos. or
Veratum.




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The adviseable mode of using the remedies, is
this.  After the attack, first give Acon., about 3
or 4 drops of the 3d to 6th dilution, alternately
with Camphor, or about one tenth of a drop of
Camphor, may be used instead of the first dilution, every 5, 10, 20, to 30 minutes, or at longer
intervals according to the violence of the case.
When there is severe vomiting, Spirits of Camphor given in drop doses as recommended by
some, is evidently too much, in severe cases, where
the stomach is very irritable.  These remedies
should be used in the manner above stated.
Even if there is a cold skin, or cramps have set
in, let the patient often take small drinks of cold
water, or small pieces -of ice may be taken and
held in the mouth, or swallowed.
There is in many cases a great demand for these
cold articles to allay the burning and excessive
heat and thirst which takes place; the water
will be frequently vomited; but this is not an objection to it, for this removes the acrid irritating matter from the stomach, if such should happen to be
there.  It restrains and quiets the inflammation
and burning of the internal surface of the stomach, and tends to stop the vomiting; cases are recorded which' have been cured by cold water
only.  This course of treatment pursued, early
after the attack, will in a great number, or a majority of cases, check, control, or cure the case.
This has been the result of our observations.




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If it continues and spasms come on, or having set in, they continue with a cold skin, give
Veratrum. If this does not check the symptoms,
and afford relief after giving a few doses, and waiting a reasonable time, give Cuprum. either alone,
or in alternation with Verat.; these remedies in
this condition of the case, exert a very favorable
influence over the disease. If there continues or
takes place, a burning at the stomach, or a retching, give a high attenuation of Ars., a few doses
alone, or alternately with Cupr. or Verat. (See
the remarks on the specific properties of copper,
in this disease, at the end of this article.)
When there are symptoms of congestion of the
brain or lungs, attenned with a dingy leaden
hue of the face, dull headache, sunken eyes,
a tight short breathing, and small flaccid compressible  pulse, spasms and a cold skin, in
some cases these are among the first symptoms that occur.
In this condition, draw about four ounces of
blood from the arm, or any part where it can be
obtained. Blood may generally be obtained by
placing the arm or feet in very warm water, and
there rub them a while; a large vessel should be
used for this, so as to immerse the hand and
arm in the water-a large milk pan is a good article for the purpose.
When a vein should be opened, the blood at
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rubbing the arm in the warm water, it will moderately flow. In such cases, the blood is very
dark and carbonated; it becomes more florid directly after a portion of it is abstracted, and there
is a more free introduction of vital air admitted
into the blood in the lungs.
If the symptoms are not considerably relieved
in four or five hours, the operation of bleeding
should again be performed; and this may be done
to great advantage three or four times, in this
small Hornceopathic way. We have drawn blood
more than this number of times, in this manner,
and when blood could be obtained, by its aid with
other remedies, we have almost invariably succeeded in curing the case.
In some cases, Ipe. in high attenuations will answer the purpose to allay the nausea or vomiting. If the stools are black or have a gangrenous foetor, Carb. V. will be a very suitable
remedy.
If the attack is severe, and the pulse continues
distinct and pretty firm, a full ordinary quantity
of blood had better be taken at once, which generally directly tends to cure the case. In 1832 we
had, and witnessed several cases which were
checked and cured ty the abstraction of blood,
in which little or no medicine was given. It is
stated that under the direction of Sir John Baker,
British Consul General to Egypt in 1832, the
feet and legs of those attacked with Cholera were




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put into a hot foot bath, and a vein was opened on
either of those parts, the blood slowly run into the
water so that the quantity lost, could not be determined, when the desired effect was produced. —
The feet were wiped and rubbed dry. The next
day or two, they (the patients) returned to their
post in the army, or to their labor, none died!New York lffornirg Star, Dece 12th, 18484
In such a congestive condition of the system
taking plaee in the early stage of disease, on the
abstraction of blood, the pulse rises, becomes more
full and firm, the patient has an increased energy,
andt reactions is very much aided by it.  We
might quote, authorities and cases in favor of thia
maxim, for they are abundant.
We have almost uniformly observed in this
depressed state of cholera, that by this course, the
vomiting and spasms have soon ceased, and the
fdiarrhcea is checked, or very much lessened.
This result we have witnessed dozens of times.
We have pursued this course, somnewhat modified
during three seasons, while th- Epidemic cholera
was raging, with very favorable results'
In 1849 in this city, under the course of treatnent detailed here, the iatal cases cdid not exceed
two per cent. A Register containing. the result
of the cases, was included in an Essay we published on that. Epidemic in 184g.. This Register
contains the namne of each patient,, the residence,




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manner of attack, remedies used, with the termination.  It corroborates the statistical result
above named.
A similar register is contained in our treatise
on the Epidemic cholera of 1832. This shows
that the fatal cases in that Epidemic, were only
five per cent.
During the sinking collapse stage, if the course
above detailed does not relieve it, give Cupr.
Guaco. or Veratrum, according to the judgment
and opinions of the prescriber, or Arsenic —or
Prus. acid according to the peculiarity of the
symptoms; or if there are symptoms of asphyxia,
or deep sinking takes place, Phos. will be a very
proper renledy.
A very important agent which ought not to be
omitted in low congestive, or collapse state of
cholera, is Oxygen Gas or vital air, furnished
for the patient to breathe. This may be supplied
in a measure on an emergent3% by the funmes of
hot vinegar being bro't.ght near the nose so.as
they may be inhaled; experience and chemical
knowledge may furnish better oxygenous articles.
It will be very imrportant in t.le collapse state
to keep away fiom  the patient, mustard, liniments, chloride'of lime, and all articles which by
their volatile nauseous funmes will vitiate the air,
and render it unfit for breathing. By inhaling
such fumes, the blood in the lungs will be deprived of pure vital:air, which is very mnuch




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needed, and is one of the most efficient agents to
bring about reaction.
In this is shown an important Physiological
reason for blood-letting in the congestive state of
this disease. It enables the dark black deoxydated blood to pass through the lungs with more
facility; there to receive a supply of oxygen
from the atmosphere, by a more free respiration,
and this is the best stimulant to restore vitality
that can be introduced into the system.
When the skin is cold the best external applications, according to our experience are hot water,
or hot bricks placed about the patient, or fomentations of hot alkaline solutions and fidction with
hot dry flannel.
Note. —We have with pain seen patients struggle, and gasp for breath or vital air, from being
enveloped in those fumes and nauseons exhalations alluded to, which filled the lungs, and deprived the blood of the ordinary oxygen, blended in
the atmosphere. In such cases the patient requires all the natural oxygen of the atmosphere,
and. as much more as can well be supplied.
Medical readers may recollect the noted story
related by SYDENHAM, that in 1660, among
other calamities, an Epidemic plague raged in
England, where many died suddenly.
A surgeon who had travelled much in foreign
parts, was in the service and applied to the Governor, for leave to assist his fellow soldiers who




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were afflicted, which being granted, he took away
so large a quantity of blood at the beginning
of the disease, that they were ready to faint and
drop down; for he bled them all standing and in
the open air, and had no vessel to measure the
blood, which falling on the ground, the quantity
each person lost could not be known.
He gave no remedy except water after the
bleeding; yet of the numbers treated in this way,
not one died!!
DIRECTIONS
to prevent an attack of Cholera when it is
prevailing in a place.  It is best not materially to change the diet, or mode of living; but
diminish the quantity of food usually taken.
A moderate and steady use of good vegetables
and fruit is adviseable, and will contribute very
much to ward off an attack. There is a very
great error in prohibiting these articles of diet.On the contrary, avoid the use of stimulating peppery and spicy articles; also avoid spirits and all
Alcoholic material-wash often and keep clean;
avoid excessive bodily and mental exercise. It
is best not to take Cathartic medicines.
As a general medicine or preventive Cuprum
or Veratrum, is found to be the best. They are
the great antidotes for cholera. The following is
the proper method of using them; take the third,
or higher attenuation, dilution, or trituration of
Cupr. and Verat., one dose of each a day, or




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take a dose of one on one day, and the other the
next, and so continue on.
It is stated on good authority, that in 1832,
150,000 persons in Vienna and 80,000 in Poland
took these medicines in this way, that few of them
took the disease, and that none of them died.
In the tenth No. of the North American J-ournal of-Homoaopathy, page 241, there is a paper,
-noticing a discovery made by Dr. Buro, of the
Prophylactic powers of Copper, in preventing
cholera, also indicating it as a remedy in the
cure. In favor of this remedy, the following important facts are stated.
In 1832, in a copper foundary in Paris, out
of 1300 workmen only 8 died, and one of those
was a drunkard.
In 1849, out of 1300 workmen in a copper
foundary in Paris, there were only 8 deaths; the
most of these were drunkards. In a bronze manufactory where a large quantity of copper was used,
in Paris,, there were employed 7000 workmen,
out of them there were not over 10 deaths.
In Naine, in 1832, 500 men were engaged in
copper works, there was only one death; the cholera prevailed severely in the vicinity.
In Russia, in a district containing 46,000 inhabitants in which were numerous copper mines,
"' the cholera did not penetrate the mines, though
it was very prevalent in the neighborhood."




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"In the use of copper," says lahnemann, "it
is the most certain and efficacious preventive of
cholera." Dr. Buro, who made some discoveries
and improvements on this subject, proposes using
a chain of 20, 30, or 40 little plates of copper
to go round tihe body to be fastened together by
steel rivets and iron, during the prevalence of
cholera.
A COMMITTEE of the New York Homceopathic
Physician Society, in 1849, recommended the following regimen and medicine; and as far as is
known, those who observed the directions, escaped
the cholera.
"If there is an uneasiness of the stomach, or
laxity of the bowels, take a drop of Spts. of Camphor 2, 3, or 4 times a day,") this is Hlahnemann's
direction. The doses of Camphor ought to be
very small.
Should there be a retching or nausea, which
the Camphor does not check, give the 3d or 6th
dilution or trituration of Ipe.
If there is heat or burning of the stomach,
give Aeon. or let it be given in alternation with
Camphor; this course carefully pursued during
the premonitory stage is tolerably sure to cure,
or at least check the disease.
Avoid using stimulating and exciting remedies
and nostrums, to prevent or cure the cholera;
generally they are injurious, and large doses of




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Opiates and Stimulants are very likely to produce the disease or increase it, and produce congestion of the brain and lungs, in consequence of
which the case may become fatal.
Drugs of this description being injudiciously
used to prevent and cure Epidemic Cholera, have,
no doubt, been the means of rendering hundreds
of cases fatal!!
From a large number of cases recorded in our
treatise on the Epidemic Cholera of 1832, we select an abstract from three cases, which will show
the influence of moderate and repeated bleeding,
to remove congestive depression, and its aid in
raising the pulse, and of bringing about reaction
of the artereal and vital functions.
At this time we were not informed on the Homnceopathic mode of cure, the way of treatment
then pursued was moderate and repeated vomiting, and means of bringing about sweating, a free
use of cold water as a drink in the first stage, and
in the congestive prostrated cases, blood-letting;
the detail of the remedies is omitted here.
The cholera was prevailing with great violence
at Poughkeepsie, and many deaths had occurred.
Case first.-1832, July 26th, G. P. aged 14,
was severely attacked; he had vomitings and
diarrhoea of rice water consistence, sinking prostration, pulse nearly imperceptible; extremities
cold, skin purple, eyes sunken in, tongue cold,
burning heat at the stomach, urine suppressed,




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with spasms severe.-The arm was put in a pan
of very warm water, a vein was opened, four ounces
of blood taken; this was very thick and black;
the patient was faintish, but soon roused up, the
pulse was more full and free; liquids were rejected and ice was given, which was retained a
while; in three hours, he was bled again, to four
ounces; blood still dark, the pulse rose to more
firmness, and the warmth of the skin increased.
July 27th-In five hours the spasms and vomiting abated, tongue still cold, the pulse had risen
and increased to 100 in a minute: Vena. Section
again to eight ounces. The pulse now rose, and
became firm and full.
July 28th-The pain and spasms are gone,
sweats freely, and passed urine for the first time
since the attack.
Juiy 29th-Inclined to sleep and stupor, is
-faintish, countenance dull and blueish, pulse obstructed, took six ounces of blood; after this
bleeding, the faintishness and blueness entirely
left him; the breathing was free and easy, pulse
firm and regular.
July 31-Dismissed —cured.
This is the first cure of cholera we ever saw.
Case second, July 29th, 1832.-S. M. T. aged
14. Was attacked with vomitings and diarrhcea
of a rice watery consistence and spasms; 9 A. M.
suddenly prostrated, and nearly motionless, except the spasms; pulse imperceptible, burning




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heat at the stomach, respiration laborious, skin
and tongue cold; leaden color of the face, eyes
sunken, voice  sepulchral, and  urine  suppressed
Aether was given a dose or two, the arm was
placed in very warm water, and rubbed, as soon
as possible a vein was opened, the blood came
only by drops,-by perseverance, three ounces
were obtained which was thick and black; it remained unchanged in the bowl, and had so far
lost its vitality, as not to attract oxygen from the
air, as blood generally does, to give it a more fBorid color on standing.
12, M.-She is becoming a little warm, pulse
still nearly imperceptible, three ounces of blood
more taken.-3 o'clock, P. M.; she had got into
a warm sweat, pulse more full, but depressed,
took four ounces of blood.
July 30th-6 o'clock, A. M.; pulse gaining in
fullness and firmness, but oppressed, and difficulty of breathing-took four ouuces more of blood.
11, P. M.; sweats freely, breathing improved;
tongue a lively red, (a mark of an inflamimatory
state of disease,) pulse still depressed; skin inclining to coldness, and is dull and purple-bleeding four ounces.
The blood now ran freely, and was of a florid
lively color.
July 31st —Has improved considerably, still
has symptoms of depressions, and suppressed in



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flammatory condition-took four ounces more of
blood.
Aug. 1st-The disease is entirely broken up
-cured.
Case third, July 27th, 1832.-C-. M. aged 15.
Was attacked with severe rice watery evacuations. In two hours, he became extremely cold
and purple, and was insensible; violent spasms
took place, so that it took several persons to hold
him, he was speechless; his eyes were sunken in,
his fingers withered.
The arm was immediately immersed in almost
boiling water, ten ounces of blood were taken;
it was very thick and black, some relief followed,
and in three hours he was bled again; the blood
ran more freely and was more florid; now the
vomiting, spasms, and diarrhoea ceased; in six
hours, a genial warmth was perceptible over the
skin, the pulse raised tolerably fair, and the
bleedings, in a small way, were several times repeated; so that in all, in forty-eight hours, he
lost forty-four ounces of blood, at the end of
which time, his senses returned, then, by a moderate use of sudorifics, nourishment, &c. he recovered.
These persons all have enjoyed good health and
are now living-1853.
Those inclined to examine the authorities for
this mode of treating this peculiar character of
disease, are referred to Sydenham's Works, the




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elegant History of the Epidemic of 1793, by Dr.
Rush, the essay on the epidemic of 1812, by Dr.
Mann, do. by Professor Gallup, Donald's History of Epidemics, and td our humble History of
the Epidemic of 1812, as it prevailed in Dutchess
County, New York.
" Riverius describes an epidemic which prevailed in 1623, which carried off one half of all those
who were attacked; finally, he prescribed the loss
of three ounces of blood; the pulse rose, with this
small evacuation; three hours afterwards, he
drew six ounces more with the same good effect;
and this course, he says, rescued the patients
from the grave."
CONGESTION.
CCaGEsTIooN-This state of the body frequently
takes place when it is affected with disease. It often presents an obscure set of symptoms, and a
condition which may lead to errors in the mode
of treatment.
By writers congestion is defined " a collection of
blood or fluids in vessels or parts more than is
natural when they are over distended, and the
motion through the part is slow;" there seems to
be an interruption of the regular balance of the
circulation, and there is a determination of
fluids to a part. This condition takes place at the
attack of violent diseases, such as epidemics; an




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appearance of weakness and sinking frequently
occurs, which in reality may bel prostration,
from excess of morbid excitement, and produces
an overpowering of the corporeal and vital functions, instead of direct debility.  It has obtained
various names by different writers. Sydenham
termed it oppression or depression; IDr. Brown called it indirect debility; Dr. Rush termed it debility
from action or over action; Dr. Donaldson gives
it the name of compound inflammation, or inflammation combined with congestion.  Armstrong
adopted the term CONGESTION, by which it appears
now to be understood; when there is a severe
attack of disease, and when this state takes place,
there is frequently an acheing tired sensation, a
dull heavy headache, a nausea and vomiting, or
diarrhcea, and a dingy lurid countenance; the
eyes are dull, or loose their natural brilliancy,
there is a torpid doughy feel of the skin, it is
sometimes very cold; there is often a small and
flaccid, or what is termed by writers, a compressible pulse, the breathing is short and labored,
particularly so when the congestion is located on
the lungs. In the first stage, the tongue is covered with a light whitish fur, soon after the attack,
the edges of the tongue show a lively redness;
Dr. Rush says this appearance of the tongue is a
sure indication of an inflammatory condition of
disease; this appearance of the tongue, when the
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to come out, was exhibited in the' epidemic of
1812, 1832, 1834 and 1849.  The symptoms are
frequently more severe and violent than here detailed; this set of symptoms with others are described as having ushered in a great portion of the
cases of the violent and malignant epidemics of
our country.
An error of treatment of this state of disease
seems to have been, in the early use of cordial, stimulating articles, exciting sudorifics, or opiates and
mercurials, from an opinion that those symptoms
indicated a state of direct debility, or an approximation. to a typhoid and gangrenous condition of
the system; opinions of this kind led to the use
of those remedies in the Allopathic practice, intending to support the action, and, as we have
heard it expressed, to keep the system ffrom ru'nnirng down. Experience shows that such a plan
of treatment has not been the most successful,
-and generally has been very fatal.
It appears that, from the facts disclosed in the
histories of those diseases, and from the effects
of remedies used, those symptoms of congestion
do not indicate a state of direct debility or exhaustion, but on the contrary, they attend a condition of compound inflammation or depression;
that at the attack of those violent diseases the
morbid condition is one of phlegmasial action;
congestion is more likely to take place in full
plethoric habits, and on the sudden attack of dis



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ease, though it may be connected with a state of
weakness. The foregoing remarks allude mostly
to opinions and practice of the Allopathic school.
When this condition of disease is to be treated
by Homceopathic means, the remedies should be
selected and used according to the symptoms
presented; generally, the first remedy is Acon. or
Bell.; after-these, if there is stupor, or pressure
on the head, use Cocc. or Opi. or Hyosc.; when
there is a great depression and apparent obstruction to the circulation, it will be adviseable to take
a small quantity of blood, if the pulse rises and
becomes more firm, as it generally does, and the
symptoms are not relieved, the operation may
be repeated to advantage. In such cases the
blood is dark or black, and deoxydated; in some
severe cases of depression and languid circulation, the blood is so dark and deprived of vitality,
that it has lost the property of absorbing oxygen
from the air, to give it a more florid color while
standing in the vessel, which it generally does;
yet, by pursuing the course here indicated, the
circulation has improved, reaction taken place,
and the patients have recovered from such a condition as above described.
On the abstraction of blood early in a small
Homceopathic way, (and this is a IHomceopathic
remedy for such a state of disease,) the pulse uniformly rises, becomes more full and firm, the
blood changes its dark, carbonated appearance to




92         HOM'EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
that of a more florid color, and exhibits more evidence of vitality: when the depi'ession is removed
in this way, reaction soknetimes comes out with a
full bounding pulse.
In illustration of this subject, an extract is introduced from our History of the Epidemic
Cholera of 1832: "bleeding ought to be confined
to the first twenty-four or forty-eight hours.
There is an important rule respecting bloodletting which is of the utmost importance, where
there is great depression-the pulse is small, obscure, or imperceptible; the quantity of blood
drawn at a time should be small, and the operation
often repeated, until a more full and firm pulse
comes out." In such cases taking large quantities
of blood would be injurious; this was an important point in practice in the Epidemic of
1793, noticed by Dr. Rush; also in that of 1812,
noticed by Drs. Mann and Gallup.
To show the reactive powers of the system, in
closing this article, we introduce a case taken
from our history of 1832, just referred to. Mrs.
B-had a violent attack of cholera, attended with
spasms, depressd state, cold blue skin, almost
pulseless; rice watery evacuations, —by three
small bleedings and other means, reaction came
out; when it was so active and violent, that it required three more bleedings to subdue the infiammatory action; in all, she lost about seventy-five




COLIC.                9r
ounces of blood, when she soon recovered, and
enjoyed good health'afterwards.
In the advanced stage, if the symptoms are
somewhat moderate, it will be adviseable to use
Millefo. Mere. Nux V. Witr. ac. Rus. T. or
Colyc. Tart. A. or Sulp.
CoNGEsToN of the brain-Give Acon. Bell. Cocc. or
Hell. and some of those remedies above
mentioned. At first, apply cold water
or ice to the head; when the first or
urgent stage has somewhat passed, warm
water and spirits should be applied to
the head, as directed by HIahnemann and
Teste.
COLIC.
CoLIc.-The remedies most useful for this class
of diseases'are the following; they are arranged so as to be used according to the
various symptoms. Acon. Bromi. Camph.
Caps. Cham. Colyc. Ipe. Lobel. Merc. M.
iNicc. Nux V. Opi. Phos. Rus. R. Stophy.
(See this article under Abdomen.)...-    Flatulent-give Anis. Ars. Caps. Carb.
V. Chain. Muri. ac. INux V. or Phos.
Teiemorrhoidal, or griping at the anus.Use Acon. Aloe. Lobel. Nux V. Puls.
or Sulp.




~94:         OM:EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Hepatic. —Nux V. Opi. Puls. Petrol.
Tereb.
M —  enstrual.-Give Bovist. Caps. Nux V.
Puls. Sec. C. or Sepi. (See Dysmenorrhcea.)
Nephritic.-The remedies for this variety,
are Asparag. A. Ether. Bell. Canth. Kali.
Bic. Lyc. Nux V. or Sulp.
- Saturnine. (See Abdomen, this article.)
- Spasmodic.-IKreoso. Nux V. Puls. Phos.
Sepo. Verat. or Colyc. If some one of
these do not cure, a good remedy may be
selected from those for Spasms generally.
COMMON COLDS.
COMMON COLDS.-The treatment for those affections, is detailed under Angina Catarrhalis, which see.
To prevent taking them, by those very
subject to it, every day or two, or at longer
periods, take a dose of 4 or 5 globules, of
the 1st or a low attenuation, or a powder
of a low trituration, of Calca. C. Ferri.
Ignat. Nux V. or Sepi. By following this
course, persons may guard the body against
the frequent taking cold, or of being affected with quinsy.




,CONSTIPATION.            95
COMA.
CoxMA.-The remedies proper forthis affection, are
Ars. Bell. Bromi. Cocc. Coff. Hyosc. Ignat.
Lach. Mosch. Opi. Sabad. Sola. Nig. Tart.
Anti. or Verat. (See Stupor.)
CO NSCIOUSNESS.
CoNscIousNEss, loss of. —The suitable remedies for
this condition of disease are Camph. Bell.
Phos. Stramo. (See Asphyxia.)
CONSTIPATION.
CONsTIPATION, or Costiveness and Stool. —This is
a very common and troublesome state of
disease. It often requires a good deal of
care and perseverance to afford relief in
those cases, or to cure the inactive torpid
state of the bowels. The common practice
of the Old School practitioners is to give
purgatives in such cases, and to direct
their constant repetition. This course only
affords a temporary relief, and rather increases the difficulty. A constant use of
drastic purgatives frequently brings on
lloemorrhoids and other diseases in and
about the rectum.  The object of the




96         HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Homeoopathic practitioner ought to be to
afford present relief, also to use remedies
to enable the bowels to respond to the calls
of nature, by their inherent peristaltic
action, so as to procure regular natural
evacuations. There are a great number
of medicines which are useful for this
purpose. They should be used according
to the symptoms and condition of the case.
Those most useful are Alum, Ammo. C.
Asteria. Rubens. Bryo. Carb. V. Colyc.
Gum. Gtt. lHyosc. Iodi. Ipe. Kali. Bicc.
Kreoso. Lach. Lyc. Ignat.]Narcissus. Nux V.
Nitr. ac. Opi. Petrol. Phos. Podoplylline.
-this is very efficacious,-Puls. IRanan.
Bulb. Rus. R. Rus. T. Sabad. Sepi. Sulp.
Tart. Anti. Tereb. Thuy. or Verat.
The remedies should be used in this
manner: In recent cases, Opi. Nux V.
Sulp.
In old people.-Use Bryo. Lach. Tart. A.
Phos.
In torpid conditions of the bowels.-Use
Alum. Opi. Plumb. Podophilin.
Rheumatic cases. —Use Bryo. Puls. Rus.
T. Lyc. Podophylin. or Rus. T.
Dyspeptic subjects alternating with Diarrhcea.-Use Ignat.: Nux V. Puls. Rus. R.
Stralno. or Sullp.




CONSPXTATION.             9
----— When HIemorrhoids are attending.-Use
Sulp. Ignat. Nux V. Petrol. or Sabad.,-     If attended with dry skin or determination of fluid to the head.-Use Tart. A. Ipe.
Bryo. Puls. or Verat.
In females, who have irregular Catamenia —Use Nux V. Sepi. Puls. Sulp. or
Tereb.
When there is in the anus burning and
pain and irritation. —Use Colocy. Kali. C.
Mag. M. Natr.  Muria. Nice. Nux V.
Oleand. Phos. ac. Plumb. ac. Puls. Rus.
T. Sabad. Staphy. Stroa. Teret. or Phuy.
(See  emrnorrhoids.)
If the patient has ascarides discharged. —
Aloe. Chin. Mag. C. Sepi. Spong. Scill. or
Sabad.
If it is in consequence of over quantities
of food.-Nux V.
If it is the effect of fat greasy food-give
Puls.
If the expulsion requires great straininguse Opi. or Platina.
-- If the case is obstinate, with contraction
of the anus —use Plumbum. ML[et.
When there seems to be a loss of action
of the rectum, with dry skin and cold feetgive Verat.
If it becomes habitual-use Sulp.




HOMCEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
If it is accompanied with Colic-give
Silecia.
If there is flatulence, and a pressure of
blood to the head-give Lyc.
Bloody stools.-Give Caust. Kali. Bic.
Lye. Millefo. Merc. Natr. C. Nux V.
Oleand. Puls. IRus. IR. Sabi. Sarss. Scill.
Stramno. Tart. Ant. or Thuy.
Bloody and pus passing.-Give Lach.
Lobel. Natr. C. Nitr. ac. Sabad. Sulp. ac.
Thuy. or Verat.
-   Anus contracted.-Give Lach. Lauroc.
DMag. C. Nux V. Nicc. Plumb. Acet. 1Rus.
R. Rus. T. gSulp. (See HImorrhoids.)
Fissure of anus.-(See IHemorrhoids.)
-  nus, pressing on.-Give Sabad. Sulp.
ac. Tabac. Valeri.
Anus prolapsus.-Give Aloe. MLerc. -Nu
V. Opi. (See H-emorrhoids, this article.)
Anus, spasms in.-Lach. Nux V. Phos.
Rus. R. Spig. Sec. C. Seneg. Sulp. Thuy.
Verat.
- - Anus, sensation of crawling in. —Give
Aloe. Spig. Thuy or Zinc.
— Expulsion power, loss of. —Give Aloe.
Nux V. Silec.
Flatus, excessive and fcetid.-Carb. ~V.
Seneg. Sec. C. Sepi. Spig. Scill. Stann.
Sulp. or Zinc.
Rectum and anus burning or paralyzed




CONSTIPATIOM.            99
state-Colocy. Nux V. See. C. Spig. Spon.
Tereb. or Zinc.
Stool hard and difficult. Give Kreoso.
Lact. Viro. Lauroc. Lyc. Mur. ac._ Natr.
C. Nicc. Nitr. ac. Nux Mochat. Nux V.
Oleand. Petrol. Phos. ac. Plati. Plumb.
Acet. Podop. P. Prun. Sp. Ranan. Bulb.
Seneg. Sep. Scill. Staph. Stron. Sulp.
Tereb. Thay. or Zinc.
Stool liquid.-Nux Jug. Poth. Fcetida.
Puls. Rus. T. or Seneg.
Mucus and bloody stool.-Nitr. ac. Nux
V. Puls.
Sheep-dung like stool. -  Stron. Sulp.
Verba.
Various colors of stool.-Give Rus. R.
Rus. T. Seneg. Sepi. Spig. Stann. Sulp. ac.
or Tereb.
--  Violent effort in passing it. —Give Moseb.
Morph. Nitr. ac. Natr. C. Ox. ac. Sabad.
or Sarss.
-White or lead color. —Give Plumb. Acet.
Seneg.
Titillation in anus.-Use Tarax.
Tenesmus. —Use Aloe. Ars. Colocy. Coni.
Lye. Merc. Morph. Natr. C. Nux V.
Oleand. Phos. Plati. Plumb. Acet. Rheum.
Rus. R. Rus. T. Selen. Seneg. Spong.
Staphy. Stron. Sulp. Tart. Ant. or Zinc. or
Caust.




0X          r OMX(EOPI;ATIZIC PRACTICEO
CONSUMIVIPTION.
COsSUMPTION. —The important nature of this disease, and its frequency in affecting individuals, and in hastening the termination of
life, renders it worthy of consideration,
to give it careful attention, but as it is not
the object here, to dwell. upon descriptions, or detail symptoms of diseases, the
reader who has a disease of the lungs, is
advised to apply to a HIomceopathic physician. For if those cases are carefully and
judiciously treated in the early stage, they
may generally be relieved, or cured, or
the disease very much arrested in its progress.  There is no disease affecting the
human system for which there are so many nostrums, specifics, and certain cures
offered, as for that of the delicate, intricate, and important organ, the lungs; and
for which no one general medicine can
effect a cure, and a combination of many
medicines in a mass or syrup, and nostrums, are still more uncertain, absurd,
and dangerous. Numerous, very numerous cases of diseases of the lungs are rendered fatal, and the patient hastened out
of time, by the use of those advertised,
ignorantly and criminally recommended
medicines.




CONSUMPTION.             101
By medical writers, this disease is divided into three stages; in reference to this
division, the medicine will be given herein. The remedies which are generally
recommended and used to the best advantage, are the following. Buit these are useful or not, according to the stage of the disease, or situation and peculiarity of the
individual or patient: Acon. Ambr. Ars.
Bell. Calc. Dulcam. Ferr. Ferr. Iod.
Guaco. Iodine. Kali. Iodi. Kreosot. Lach.
Lact. Viro. Lyc. Merc. Meic. Iod. Naptha.
or Jucor or cod liver oil. This last remedy
has lately become a hobby in Allopathic
practice; if a patient has a disease of the
lungs, cod liver oil seems to be a standard remedy, and patients are induced to
swallow this nauseous, disgusting drug, by
the bottle frequently, to their very great
injury, —often hastening death.
There are, however, some peculiar conditions of diseased lungs for which this remedy would be useful; and this may be ascertained by examining the pathogenesis
of the drug, in a work on pure Materia
Medica. The other suitable medicines are,
Bryo. Ipec. Hep. Puls. Nux V. or lTyosc.
or Nitr. acid. In the kecond stage, when
there is less fever and inflammatory symptoms, but harassing cough, moderate ex



102_       HOMCEOPATMO PRACTICE.
pectoration, slight pains in the chest,
night sweats, loss of appetite, and diminution of strength, the proper remedies are,
Nitr. acid, Spong. or Kali. Iod. Merc. or
Lach. Lyc. Phos. or Calc. Coni. Iodi. Samb.
Or Ammo. M. or Zinc. In the third stage,
or when purulent expectoration  takes
place, night sweat, emaciation, or debility,
&c. some of the aforementioned medicines
will be proper: or use Guaco. Sepi. Staphy. Iodi. of  mercury, phospate of
iron.  This last medicine frequently produces very happy results.
The symptoms of this disease runs into
each other so, that it is impossible to point
out a very definite line between the stages.
(Please to examine Chest diseases, Cough,
Hectic, &c.)
CORDE.
CoRDE. —See Genitals, Penis, and Priapnism.
CORNS.
CORNS-The remedies most useful to effect a cure
of this troublesome complaint are, Arnic.
Ammo. C. Calc. and Iodi. This last may be
given and used with great benefit externally, or give Lach. Petroleum. Silec.




COUGH.               103
Sulp. or Thuya. By'the continued use of
some of these remedies, those annoying excresences may generally be cured.
COUGH.
COUGa —This affection is a very common general
disease, produced by a variety of causes,
and connected with many states of morbid
action; therefore, it will be apparent that
there are a great number of remedies
which may be used to advantage for it,
nnder different conditions; always endeavoring to select the one most Hoomceopathic
to the case.
Those generally most useful and proper
are, Acon. Ammo. C. Armbr. Arnic. Ars.
B3ell. Bryo. Baryt. Bromi. Calc. Chain.
Carb. V. Dolich. Droser. Dulcam. Hep.
Hyosc. Ignat. Kali. Iod. Lach. Lye. Mag.
M. Merec. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand. Opi.
Petrol. Phos. Phytol. Pruni. Sp. Puls.
PrLns. ac. Rus. R. Sang. Sabad. Sambu.
Seneg. Sepi. Stann. Scill. Sulp. or Verat.
-  -  With fever and pain —Acon. Bell. Ipe..-.- Dry sore throat, or.barking cough —Bell.
- Nervous irritable  state, hoarseness —
Ignat. HIyosc. Nux V. Opi.
Increased in cold air-Ars. Lach. Phos.
- Increased with twitching- in the throat



104        HOMMEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
Cham. Arnic. Bryo. Lyc. Phos. Drose.
Puls. Merc. or Sulp.
Raw feeling in the throat-Nux V. Puls.
- -   Dryness in the throat- Puls. Lach. Carb.
A. or Petrol.
- - - If there is burning in the chest —Ammo.
C. Ephorb. Natr. C. or Phos.
Mucus accumulating in the throat and
chest-Ars. Anti. Caust. Kreoso. Stann.
If worse when lying down —Ars. Lach.
Hyosc. Puls. Merc. Nux V. or Sulp.
-  Cough  catarrhal-Be!l. Bryo. Hep.
Spong. Spig. Scill. Sulp. or Verat.
-   Chronic -Ammo. C. Ars. Lach. Stann.
Stron. Sulp. or Sulp. ac.
Expectoration bloody-Led. P. Lyc. IMerc.
Millefo. Muri. ac. Natr. C. Nux M. Puls.
Prus. ac. Phos. Rus. T. Sabad. Sabi. Scill.
Spong. Staphy. Sulp. or Zinc.
Expectoration green-Lach. Stann.
Of mucus-Ammo. C. Ammo. M. Ars.
Lach. Ipe. Scill. Sulp. Stann. Staph. Stron.
or Tart. Anti.
O-   f pus-Calc. Sabi. Stann. Prus. ac.
Sulp.
---  Hollow-Spig. Spong. Staphy. Stron.
Sulp. or Tart. Anti.
Night —When -it is worse in the night
than in the day time, give Caust. Coni.
HIyosc. Iux V. Phos. Puls. Rus. T. Scill.




COUGH.               10 5
Sabad. Seng. Sep. Silec. Spong. Sulp.
Verat.
- Spasmodic —Coni. Lact. Viro. Lauroc.
Merc. Opi. Phos. Rus. T. Sabad. Sepi.
Scill. Stramo.
Suffocatin4 —Coni. Dolich. Ipe. Lauroc.
Lach. Lact. Viro. Lobel. Lyc. Puls. Rus.
T. Samb. Sepi. Silec. Spig. Spong. Stramo.
Tabac.
-   Throat ulcerated-Lach. Lyc. Natr. C.
Nitr. ac. Seneg. Silec. Spong. Stann. Sulp.
or Zinc.
Tingling and dry sensation of the throat
-Kreoso. Lact. Viro. Lyc. Lauroc. Muria.
ac. Nicc. Nux M. Rhodod. Rus. T. Sabi.
Scill. Seneg. Silec. Spong. or Sulp.
COUGH (HOOPING.)
COUGH, HOOPING. - This is considered to be a
contageous disease; it generally attacks
children, though there are cases reported
where adults have had it. I t'prevails in
some.districts almost every year, and still
more frequently in cities. It spreads more
in the cold season than in the warm.
Sometimes the cases are very numerous
and violent, being like an epidemic, at
others they are scattering and not very
violent. It has hitherto been a severe,




106        HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
baffling disease, and often has proved
fatal either from the severity of the attacks,
or more commonly from the violent remedies used in the treatment; " now, however,
we have it in our power to give remedies
specific to the affection," (Hull.) In this
way, the symptoms are quietly subdued,
and the patient generally passes safely
through the disease.
The general remedies are, Acon. Ambr.
Amlmo. M. Ars. Bell. Bryo. Cham. Caps.
Drose. Dulcam. Hep. Ipe. Iodi. Mere.
Nux V. Opi. Prus. ac. Phos. Puls. Sambu.
Sang. Sepi. Sulp. Tart. Anti. or Verat.
They should be used as follows. If it proceeds from wet or exposure, attended with
Snuffling, use Dulcam. or Puls.
If there is lacrymation, -rheumy eyes,
Sneezing, or hoarseness, give Droser.
Dulcaim, or Puls.
If the patient is hoarse, and has a sore
mouth or nostrils- Yierc.
When there is a dry barking cough, or
hooping, give Bell. or Hep. or alternate
these with Rus. T. or Seneg..-. - Should there be severe cough with hooping, use Nux V. or Phos..-.... If there is much fever, give Acon. Anti.
or Ipe.




COXALGIA.              107
In  the  second  or convulsive stage,
use Drose. Verat. Cupr. Arnic. or Coni.
If the child is reduced, having cold,
or has involuntary emissions from the
bowels, Ars. Cupr. or Verat. are proper.
If there is a hollow sensation, use Nux V.
Phos. Puls. Sambu. or Verat.
If the case is attended wvith convulsions,
give- Carb. V. Cupr. Coni. Drose. Hyosc.
Mosch. or Nux V.
If spasms more severe come on, give
Ambr. Bell. Hep. Lach. Nux V. Phos.
Prus. ac. or Verat.;  When  vomiting  is troublesome, use
Carbo. V. Camph. Ipe. Kux V. Opi.
Petrol. or Sulp.
CROUP.-SEE ANGINA MEMBRANA.
COXALGIA.
CoXALGIA-The general remedies for this disease
are, Bell. Bryo. Calca. Rus. Tox. Sulp.;
though others may be required, as various
symptoms present themselves. See Hip.
joint disease, under head Extremities; also
Rheumatism, Scrofula, &c.




108        HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
DEBILITY.
DEBILITY. —This proceeds from a variety of
causes; the remedies generally useful for it, are
Ars. Argent. Calca. Carb. V. China. Ferr. Iodi.
Nux V. Phos. Puls. Ranan. Bulb. Rus. R. Sang.
Stann. Stramo. Sulp. ac. Thuy. or Verat.
DELIRIUM.
DELIRIUM.-An impaired and deranged state of
the mind takes place from various causes, and is
connected with a variety of diseases. It sometimes appears when there is a plethoric or inflammatory state of the system; at others when there
is -a state of exhaustion, weakness, and typhoid
debility. For the first: state, the appropriate remedies are those calculated to reduce arterial
action, subdue the attending fever, and remove
the morbid excitement from the brain, such as
Acon. Bell. Bryo. Cocc. Ipe. Tart. Anti. or Nux
V. When the first or active state is moderated,
or in a measure removed, the proper remedies
then are Hell. Hyosc. Opi. Phos. Puls. Staphys.
Stramo. or Verat. When it takes place under a
condition of debility or exhaustion, the last
named remedies would be proper, and, in some
instances, cordial stimulant remedies, to give tone
and reaction to the system, would be adviseable.




DELIRIUM.               09
DELIRIUM.TREMENS  -This form of delirium is
confined to drunkards and opium eaters. It is
attended with great derangement of the stomach
and the brain; a state of agitation of body and
mind takes place, with a trembling, quivering of
the limbs, hence the name TREMBLING IDELIRIUM.
The mind gets impaired, cramps and spasms
often set in. As the case proceeds, the most
strange and harassing' ideas affect the mind, and
frightful horrifying spirits are presented before
the imagination. The patient is generally affected with distress or burning pain of the stomach,
a dull headache, or a darting pain in the head;
the eyes are glairy and wild, sometimes blood-shot; the face is a dull yellow or of a dingy hue.
The remedies most useful for attacks of this
disease are Aeon. Camp, Bell. Ipe,. Hyose. Opi,
or Nux V. This last is one of the most useful
when there are spasms and tremors.  Those
named are principally the useful medicines,
When there is fever heat and burning at the
stomach, give Acon. either alone or in alternation, with Camph. The doses should at first be
repeated every half hour, then at longer periods,
according to the severity of the symptoms. There
is generally a great thirst and a desire for cold
water, as a drink, which should be indulged. We
have known patients drink six or' eight quarts of.water in about twelve hours, and with benefits
Part of it may be vomited, but that need not pr.e



110        HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
vent its use. Cloths, wet in cold water, should
be applied to the head, or bags of ice used instead thereof.
After the fever and heat of the stomach has in
a measure subsided, give Hyosc. Nux V. Opi.
Stramo. orVerat.
If the case continues protracted, as it often does
with wakefulness and raving, it becomes very necessary to procure sleep. We have witnessed
cases where a continued wakefulness and raving
lasted six or seven days. If by the use of the
above named remedies, sleep is not produced,
recourse should be had to opiates, in free doses,
until this effect is brought about. In some cases,
morphine in solution has been given, 15 drops
every hour, until 150 drops were used before it
had the effect, when the patient fell asleep and
slept soundly eight hours, then woke up calm,
rational, and cured!
NVote. —Generally in this state of disease, in plethoric habits, before giving large quantities of
opiates, bloodletting should be used to avoid producing congestion of the brain. Opiates after the
free use of this remedy frequently operates very
favorably in quieting irritation and subduing disease.
DIABETES.  See Bladder.




DIARRHA.                111
DIARRIH(EA.
DiaRRuEa, or Diseased Looseness of the Bowels.-The suitable remedies are Acon. Arg. N.
Ars. Bell. Bryo. Calc. Cupr. Camp. Chain. Cann.
S. Cinnamo. Coff. Dulc. Ferr. Guaco. Gum. Gtt.
Hyosc. Iguat. Iris. Versic. Ipe. Kali. C. Lauroc.
Mere. Sol. Nux V. Opi. Phos. Puls. Rus. R. Rus.
T. Sang. Stramo. Sulp. Tart. A. or Verat.
--- CRoNc.-Diarrhea sometimes takes
on chronic forms, and proves very troublesome
and difficult of cure. In such cases the following
are the most useful remedies: Ars. Canth. Camp.
Chin. Colocy. \Nux M. Nitric. ac. Phos.' Phosphate of Iron, Samb. Sulp. Sulp. ac. Tabac. or
Sulphate of Iron excicated.
with burning tenesmus. —-Lauroc.
Natr. M. Nux V. Phos. Rus. T. Rhodod. Sabi. or
Sulp.
Itching at the Anus. —Aloe. Sulp..ac. or Sulp.
Lientery. —Use Ars. Canth. Chin.
Coni. Ferr. HIyosc. Ignat. Nux V. Oleand. Phos.
Sang. Sulp. or Verat.
Putrid discharges. —Ars. Carb. V.
Chin. Coni.:Kreoso. or Sepi.
Rectum  contracted.-Caust. Phos.
Sep. or Sulp.
-   Evacuations black. —Kreoso. Carb.
V. Sulp. Verat.




112        ZOMOCE0PATHIG PRACTIZE.
-Mucus and Sour.-Chin. Coni. PIuainN
Phos. Sec. C. Silec. SuIp. ae. Verat. or Merc. or
Colyc.
Watery.-Camp. Rus. IR. Sec. C.
Verat.
- White.-Camp. Spong. Verat.
-    If the discharges are bilious, use
Puls. or Bryo. Nux V. or Cham. Mere. Ipe. or
Ars. Chin. Digital. Ignat. or Phos. ac.
In obstinate cases the more proper
remedies are Nux T. AeLmo. M. Seneg. Riheumr
or Chain. or Sulp. ac. or Sulp. or Ferr. Exicat.
If the discharges are like common
excrements, use Ipe. Puls. Nux V.. or Bryo.
Chain. Tart. &. or Ars. or Sulp.
When the discharges are serous,
use Ars. Chain. Chin. Puls- or Lach. Rus. T.
Ferr. or Hlyosc.
When it affects a person of intempie
rate habits, give Carb.. VNux V. or Bell. Coniu
or Ars.
If attended with colic pains or tenesimus, give Ars. Chaim. Colocy. Puls. Rus. T. Sulp,
ac. or Hep.
DISEASES OF A CIHRONIC KIND.
Conium and Silecia are generally useful for themDREAMS AND WAKEFULNESS.
See SxEuEP, and these affections there.




DzRoPsy.               113
DROPSY.
IDROSY. —This disease consists in a preternatural collection or deposition of water or serous
fluids, in the cellular tissue or some cavity of the
body.  It receives different names from  the
nature of the collection of the material, or the
part affected. In this manner, when the cellular
membranes seated under the skin generally are
the seat of the disease, it is termed Anasarca or
(Edema.
If the cavity of the Chest is the part affected
it is named lydrotl0orax.  If the Abdomen is
affected and filled or partially so with water, it is
Acites. Should the- disease be seated on the
brain filling the cavities or cells with serous or
watery fluid, it is termed Hydroeepacs ous.
When the collection of water is in the Scrotum,
it is H.ydrocele. If the Womb is the seat of a
dropsical disease, it is Tfyd~rometra.
The general remedies for this disease are
Amnmo. C. Apis. Mell. Apocynum. Ars. Arni.
Camp. Cann. S. Clemat. Coni. Colich. Colocy.
Digit. IDulcam. Ferr. Hell. Kreoso. Kali. Iod.
Lach. Lact. Viro. Lyc. Merc. Prun. Sp. Podophy.
Puls. Scill. Sola. Nig. Tart. Anti. or Zinc.
- of the brain, H       pgydroephalous:-In the
first stage if there is fever, pain or pressure on
the brain, give Acon. at first, and this may be followed by Digital. Ipe. Bell. or Tart. Anti.-in




114  0      HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
the somewhat advanced stage, if the disease has
moderated and there are symptoms of dullness
or torpor, give Hell. Lach. Merc. or Ars. or
Nux V.
If there is stupor or slight delirium-Stramo.
Sulp. or Verat.
of the brain. In some cases the acute
condition is moderated, but the disease is not
fully removed, or the case forms a slow insiduous
type, and the disease assumes a protracted chronic form. In such cases the remedies are Camph.
Ars. Colocy. Merce. Iodi. Stramo. or Sulp. or
Hell., and it would be well to examine the record
of some of the other remedies for dropsy in a
pure Miateria Medica for a remedy.
of the Chest, Hydrothoraax. The deposition of the fluid may take place in one side of
the Thoirax, or in both —or it may be deposited
in the cellular substance of the Lungs, or in the
cavity of the Chest exterior to the Lungs. The
disease is commonly a long time in forming, it is
often the effect of previous inflammation of those
parts-or the result of general disease. The
leading symptoms in the early stage are shortness
of breathing, increased by exercise, cough, pressure on the chest, slight expectoration of mucus,
the feet swell, as the disease advances, it is difficult to lay iii a recumbent posture, the skin is
pale, there is thirst and some other general symptoms of dropsy.




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The remedies found most useful are Acon. Ars.
Carb. V. Hell. Ipe. Lye. Colch. Digitalis. Spig.
or Dulcam. or Sulp.
In the early stage when there is fever, Acon. or
Digital. or Ipe.
If there is difficult respiration, pain in breathing, palpitation of the heart, coldness of the extremities, Ars. or Colch.
If the liver is diseased, use Merc. Iodi. Spig.
or if there is considerable weakness or cedema,
Ferr. or Chin.
If the sufferings are increased in foggy weather,
with symptoms of common cold, Dulcam. Puls. or
Nux V.
If it is subsequent to inflammation, give Ars.
Carb.V. Lye. Kali. C. —to palliate the disease
some of the other remedies named will be'useful
and may aid in the cure.
of the Abdomen, Ascites. This disease
comes on insidiously, and there is an obscurity
about it. The fluid may be confined to a particular part or encysted-at others the fluid may be
diffused in the cavity. The abdomen becomes
prominent and distended, the patient is feverish,
the digestion is impaired, there is a scanty highcolored urine, the feet and legs swell, and general
debility ensues.
The remedies for this form of the disease are Acon. Ipe. Apocynum. Mere. or Bryo.
Led. P. Kali. C. Lye. Sulph. or Scill.




116        IHOMMEOOPATHIC PRACTICE.
In the early stage, if there is fever, thirst and
pains in the abdomen-give Aeon. Bryo. Camph.
or Apocyn.!:; If any particular organ is the seat of the disease or been the cause of it, the remedy should be
given which has a specific action on the part.
If the disease seems to have been caused by
repressed eruptions-give Digital. Rus. T. or
Sulp.
If it is preceded by intermittent fever —Chin.
Ferr. Mere. Sola. Nig. or Sulp. are proper remedies.
If it occurs in drunkards, give Ars. Hell. or
Nux V.
Should it be the result; of a large use of mercury, give Chin. Ferr. Nitr. ac. or Sulp.
If there are shooting pains, suppressed urinelHell. If there is anasarca and great weaknessArs.
In chronic cases connected with a disease of a
viscus, such as the liver, use Mere. or  Lach.
Sulp.
of the Scrotum, Hydrocele.  There are
two varieties of this disease; in one the water
is deposited in the cellular tissue of the bag, it is
of the'nature of anasarea and connected with it,
and may be cured by similar general remedies
that are useful for anasarca. In the other variety,
the watery fluid is collected in the tunia vaginalis, the membrane immediately enclosing the




DRUNKENNESS.             11i
testicle. In this case, the fluid is in immediate contact with the testicle —the remedies for this form
of the disease, are Graph. Nux V. Puls. Rhodod.
or Sulp.
Sometimes the disease is not cured by the
remedies used, the collection of water becomes
large, attended with pain; and in such cases it may
be necessary to have recourse to an operation to
remove the fluid, called puncturing the sac for
hydrocele; during this affection, the part should'
be suspended by a bandage.
- of the Womb. It is a matter of doubt
whether a dropsy of the womb takes place as a
primary disease, this seenis to be an opinion of
some authors, for many of them  do not even
notice it. If it does take place, it is generally a
symptomatic affection. Encysted dropsy of this
organ is noticed —also hydatids are described as
forming in the organ. The remedies for those
affections, would be some of those for dropsy,
mentioned above.
DRUN/KENNESS.
DRUNKENNESS.-If there is stupor and fever so
as to prove to be dangerous, give Acon. Bell.
Camp. Coff. or Nux V.-dash cold water on the
head. In the advanced stage, to relieve the
secondary effects and stupor of intoxication, give




118        HOMCEOPATHIO PRAO'ICE.
Baryt. Coff. Kreoso. Lach. Nux V. Opi. or
Stramo. or Wine. See also Delirium Tremens.
To cure.a propensity to drink liquor, the remoedies recommended are to put four or five
drops of Laudanum in a cup of coffee, and take
this three or four times a day, it is said to produce a
disgust for liquors; or one-eighth of a grain of Tartarized Antimony, mixed with water and a little
spirits, taken two or three times a day, in many
instances produces a loathing of liquor, and cures
the morbid appetite for it.
This was essentially the preparation which was
extensively sold here a few years ago, by the name
of Chambers' Antidotefor Inteperaznce. It was
reported that a great many were cured by it. To
render any of those antidotal articles effectual,
the mind and the will requires to be trained and
inclined to yield a willing assent to take them to
effect a cure, and then a total abstinence condition may be established.
To produce a pleasant state of intoxication, take:a few drops of the Tincture of
Cannabis Indicus of Bengal, repeated several
times. This is reported to produce a cheerful and
pleasant state similar-to intoxication. See this
article in the catalogue of Medicine at the latter
end of this work. Sabadil given in a similar
manner is stated to produce a like effect. These
articles are worthy of attention to cure a fit of




DYSENTERY.              119
intoxication, and to destroy a propensity to drink
ardent spirits.
Reeling sensation is produced by the
use of Cann. Ind. Sabad. Silec. or Thuy. When
this state takes place as a disease, these medicines will be found useful as curative.
Tubercles on the face of drunkards.Dose them with Ars. or Kreoso.
DYSENTERY.
DYSENTERY. —In the Allopathic School, the
best Writers on Dysentery describe it as an inflammatory state of the inner surface of the intestines, attended with more or less fever, and
those who have been most successful in treating
it have used and recommended the remedies
best adapted to the cure of such a condition of
disease. Therefore, in Homceopathic practice the
remedies should first be used which are known to
be most efficient to cure inflammatory states of
the villous coat of the alimentary canal.
The proper medicines for this purpose are
Acon. Bell. Ipe. Millefo. Merc. Puls. Tart. Anti.
or Sulp. In a more advanced stage, when the
urgent and febrile symptoms are checked, the
following remedies will be useful: Chamn. Colocy. Muri. ac. Nitr. ac. Nlux V. Sulp. ac. or
Plumb. ac.
In the North American Journal of Hornmco



120        HOMEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
pathy, Petroleum alternated with Ipecac. or Iris.
Versic. is highly recommended for this disease.
The remedies should be used in this manner:
If there is fever and pain in the bowels, give
Aeon. If blood is passed with griping, let the
Aeon. be followed by Bell. Ipe. or Millefo, or alternated with Acon. If the disease continues with
pain, griping, and frequent evacuations, give
Cham. Puls. Nux V. or Sulp. If the pain is of a
griping, colic nature, give Colocy. or M/erec.
If the above named remedies do not control or
cure the case, others should be selected and tried
according to the symptoms and properties of the
drugs, as determined by examining a pure Materia IMledica.
If the disease takes on a protracted form, Muriatic acid or Nitr. acid may be used with great
benefit. If the discharges are green, give Ars.
In most stages, Merc. will be a useful remedy,
alternated with the other medicine. When there
are crampy, griping pains, or bloody stools in the
advanced stage, give Colocy. or Nux V. If there
takes place, severe Tenesmus and pressing down
at the lower end] of -the rectum, give injections
of Starch and Laudanum; these frequently are
very soothing. In using this remedy, it may be
useful to say, their quantity shouldbe very small;
two table spoonfuls of Starch and 10 or 15 drops
of Laudanum will be about a proper quantity;
these may be often repeated.




DYSPEPSIA,             121
Chronic State. —Use Canth. Colocy.
Merc. Nitr. ac.
- Malignant Type.-Ars. Carb. V.
Kreoso. Nux V. or Phos. are the remedies indicated.
Parturient, or after Confinement. —
Give Aloe and such of the other remedies as may
be indicated.
Tenesmus in. —Use Arnic. Colocy.
Lact. Viro. Lobel. Nux V. Sol. Nig. or Sulp.
DYSPNCEA.
DYSPNcEA.-The best remedies for this disease
are Ambr. Anacard. Ars. Camp. Ignat. Ipe. Lach.
Lauroc. Mosch. Phos. Prun. Sp. Puls. Rus. T.
Samb. Sep. Sol. Nig. Spong. Staphy. or Sulp. ac.
Rattling state.-Use  Bromi. Calc.
Camp. Kali. Bic. Kalmi. Lat. Lauroc. Lobel.
See Asthma.
DYSPEPSIA.
DYsPEPsIA. —Writers pretty generally agree in
describing this disease to be an imperfect and
irregular action of the stomach and digestive
organs, by which the food is not properly digested and assimilated to the nutrition of the
body. This affection is brought on from a variety of causes,'and it appears in a great many




122         HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
forms.  The immediate exciting cause, when
that can be learned, should be avoided or corrected. The remedy may sometimes be used to
advantage, directed to what appears to be the
cause. In some cases the symptoms present will indicate the remedy. There are but few cases but
what will require some studying, and comparing
the symptoms with the Pathogenesis of Drugs in
the MIateria Medica, which course it will be well to
pursue.
Tile remedies proved most useful for this troublesome disease are Arnic. Ars. Auru. Baryt. M.
Bell. Bryo. Calc. Caust. Chin. Carb. V. Carb. A.
Ferr. HIep. Hyosc. Ignat. Ipe. Kali. Iod. Kali.
Bic. Lobel. Lyc. Mere. Nux V. Phos. ac. Podophylin, Prus. ac. Silee. Sulp. or Verat.
If it seems to be the effect of sedentary habits,
or the free use of wine or spirits, use Nux V. or
Puls. If it is attended with headache or wandering of the mind, or insipid taste, or flatulence or nausea, or burning at the stomach, give
Bryo. Calca. Carb. V. Caust. or Ferr. For semilateral headache, giddiness, vertigo, a dullness of
the sight, great thirst, or acidity of the stomach,
use Chain. Ferr. Nux V. or Sulp. or Sulp. ac. If
there are cramps across the stomach and burning
pain, and inclined to Diarrhcea, give Carb. V.
Ignat. Nux V. Lobel. -Podoph. or Prus. ac.
When there is great aversion to food, particularly to fat meat, vomiting after a meal, a sinking




EAR.                  123
feeling at the stomach, or headache, use Ipe.
Puls. Ferr. or Merc. Phos. ac. or Silec. or Verat.
If it is attended with extreme passion or irritability of disposition, or grief, or hysterical excitement, give Asa. F. Ignat. Hyosc. Lach, Nicc. Nux
V. or Stramo.
If the case is attended with great weakness and
foul taste, burning at the throat, and offensive
breath, use Sulp. ac. or Nux V. or Carb. V. Ferr.
or Ars. Auru. or Baryt.  When there is frequent vomiting, the'skin hot or dry, the countenance pale, and a feeble state of the patient,
give Ars. Lach. Lyc. Phos. or Coni. or Ferr.
When there is a feeble state, an acid stomach, or
flatulence, Ferr. is one of the best remedies. Examine Constipation, Flatulence, Eructations, and
Stomach, for valuable indications on this subject.
EAR.
THIs organ is subject to a large number of
ailments, which render the department worthy a
particular care, and extended enumeration of
symptoms, and careful selection of remedies for
them, which are detailed as follows:
Air sensation of its whistling in the ear, give
Sep. or Straneo.




124        HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE
---    Bells sound in, like the ringing of bells,
Silec. Spig. Staphy. Sulp. ac. or Valeri.
---   Boreing sensation in, Stramo. Thuy.
are usefull.
-    Burning pain in, Sabad. Spong. Spig.
Silec. Stann. Staph. or Thuy.
Burning in, Nux V. 01. Anima. Opi.
Phos. Selen. Silec. Sulp. Verat. or Zinc.
Cramps in, Chin. Silec. Sang. Stann.
Staphy. Thuy. Verba. or Zinc.
Creeping. and painful sensation inRanan. Bulb. or Caust.
-  Cracking sensation, Sulp.
-      Deafness. -The most useful remedies
are, Anacard. Arnic. Ars. Bell. Calc. Caust. Chin.
Graph. Hep. Iodi. IKreoso. Lach. Lyc. Lauroc.
Merc. Muri. ac. Nicc. Nux V. Nitr. ac. Phos. ac.
Petrol. Puls. Sabi. Sep. Sulp. ac. Zinc. or Caust.
Glands under swelled-use Merc.
Sarss. Silec. Spong. Sulp. or Thuy.
Glass breaking sensation in-Zinc.
------ Gi-ass-Jaoppers chirping sensation inTarax. Thuy......- Hammering and singing sensation in,
give Coni. Sang. Spong. Stann. Sabad. Sulp. ac.
or Thuy.
- Hearing rendered acute by-Phos.
Phytoll. Seneg. Scill. or Sulp.
- Herpes in, Arg. N. Graph. Kreoso.
Lach. Merc Mosch. Nitr. ac. Phos. Petrol. or Sep.




EABo                125
----— Hfumming sound in, Chin. Rhodod.
Verat...- Inflammation of the —Acon. Bell. Dulcamrn. Hep. Lyc. Lobel. Merc. Nux V. Plati. Puls.
Oleand. Rus. R. Sabi. Scill. Sulp. or Thuy.
---  Itching in and pain-Arg. Ars. Bell.
Camph. Cann. S. Caps. Chin. Coni. Hep. Iodi.
Lach. Merc. Nux M. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand.
Petrol. Phos. Plumb. ac. Puls. Rus. R. Sep. Silec.
Sulp. ac. or Zinc.
Mumps, (Parotitis) Acon. Bell. Carb.
V. Cocc. iyosc. Lach. Lauroc. lerc.'Puls.
Sabad. Sep. Silec. Sulp. (See Angina. Parotitis.)
N- ervous weakness, Anacord. Arnic.
Caust. Lach. Nux V.Petrol. Phos. Silec. or Verat...... Otorrhcea, (pus discharged.) Calca.
Caust. Carb. V. iHyosc. Lach. Mere. Mosch.
Petrol. Puls. Sabad. Sep. Silec. or Sulp.
Ringing in-Chin. or Sulp....- Pain behind the-Thbuy. Zinc. or Caust.
-  Pain and burning in it —Kali. C. Kreoso. Nux V. Plumb. ac. Puls. Rus. R. Sabad. Sabi.
Sang. Silec. Spig. Staphy. Sulp. Sulp. ac. Tabac. or
Verba.
And stitches in-Caust. Coni. Lauroc.
Lobel. Natr. C. Nicc. Nitr. ac. Oleand. Petrol.
Phos. Puls. Sambu. Spig. Spong. Staphy. Thuy.
Verat. Zinc.
Pressure on —Sarss. Sep. spong. Staphy. Sulp.




126        HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Polypus in-Calc. Chin. Lyc. Staphy.
Thuy.
- Roaring in like water falling-Coni.
Rus. R. Rhodod. Selen. Silec. Staphy. Sulp. ac.
Tabac. or Verat.
Tingling in —Arg. Bromi. Calc. Mosch.
Muri. ac. Natr. C, Nicc. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Opi.
01. Anima. Petrol. Phos. ac. Puls. Rus. T. Sep.
or Thuy.
Sore behind them —Oleand. Petrol.
Selen. Silec. Scill. Staphy. Sulp. or Tabac.
Throbbing in-Phos. Puls. Sabad.
Sang. Seneg. Thuy.. Tonsils enlarged. —In the first or inflammatory stage, give Acon. Bell. Cham. Coni.
Ignat. In the advanced chronic state, use Baryt. Calc. Coni. RIep. Iodi. Lyc. Nux V. Sulp.
Thuy. (See Angina Tonsilitis.)
- Vermicular motion in them, use Rhodod. Stann. Spig.
W- hizzing sensation in them, use Sep.
Sulp. ac. Tabac. Tart. A. or Zinc.
--  Ecchymosis-Arnic. Ars. Coni. Iodi.
Sulp.




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EMOTIONS.
EMoTIONS. —The prominent affections which
grow  out of, "or are connected  with nervous
irritations, those termed nervous diseases, are
arranged under this head.
Of anguish —give Puls. Rus. Tox. Sec.
C. Sep. Silec. Spong. Stann. Staph. Sulph. ac. Tart.
Anti. Thuy. Verat. or Zinc.
Of anxiety-use Caust. Mosch. INicc.
Nitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand.. Opi. Petrol. Phos. ac.
Puls. Ranan. Bulb. Rhodod. Rus. Tox. Sabad.
Silec. Spong. Staph. Sulph. Tabac. Tart. Anti.
Thuy. Verat. or Zinc.
Of cheerfulness to produce-use Lach.
Plumb. ac. Sabad. Seneg. Silec. Spig. Staph.
Thuy. Verat. or Valer.
-  Of consciousness, loss of-give Oleand.
Plati. Rus. Rad. or Verat..-.- Of craziness-give Nitr. ac. Sec. C.
Stramo. Sulp. Tart. Anti. or Verat.  (See Delirium.)
— Of dancing to cxcess —Thuy.
------ Of death, great fear of —give Mosch.
N1ux V. Plati. Puls. Rhododod. Rus. Tox. Sec. C.
Spig. Scill. Stann. or Stramo.
--- Of despair and  despondency —give
Phos. Plumb. Acct. Sarss. Sep. Silec. Stann.
Staph. Tabac. Verat. Verba. or Zinc.
Ennui, Plum. Aret. or Thuy.




128        HOMEOPATHEI PRACTICE.
Of Excitement great, use Acon. Ammo. 0. Astor. Rub. Bell. Bryo. Camph. Coff
Mosch. Morph. Nux V. Natr. M. Phos. Silec.
Staph. Spong. or Verat.
Of fainting-the remedies are, Acon,
Ammo. C. Argent. Camph.Nux V. Oleand. Puls.
Ranan. Bulb. Rus. Tox. Spong. Verat. or Zinc.
Of fear, Lyc. Mosch. Mag. M. L'Merc.
Opi. Phos. Plati. Ranan. Bulb. Sep. Spong. Sulp.
or Valer...-   Gloomy, the most useful medicines are,
Colyc. Lach. Phos. Rhodad. Rus. Tox. Sabad.
Sarss. Sep. Silec. Spig. Stramo. Sulp. ac. Tarax.
or Verat.
----- Of haughtiness, Plati. Spong. or Verat..-.. of horror, use Ars. Cali. Nicc. Nitr. ac.
Nux V. or Plati.
0 of ill humor and irritable, Agar. Bismic.
Capu. Colocy. Hyosc. Rus. R. Ranan. Bulb.
Tabac. Tart. Anti. Thuy. or Zinc.: —- -  Illusions or railing, give Mag. M. Phos.
Platinan. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sec. C. Sep. Staph.
Verat or Zinc.
-   of jealousy, Ranan. Bulb.
-   of jesting, Lach. or Sulph. ac.
of joyousness, Valeri. Verat.
--  -  of lamentation, Opi. Scill. Sep. or
Spig..-.. of laughter, excessive, use Lye. Pull.
Sep. or Stramo.




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-   -- of laziness, Nux V. Phos. Plati. Rus.
Tox. Sabad. Sarss. Sep. Silec. Spog. Stron. Sulph.
Tabac. Tarax. Tart. Anti. Thuy. or Verba.
~ —   Life tired of, Auru. Lach. Sep. Silec.
Spong. Stramo. or Verat. are the appropriate
remedies.
Love to excess, use Ox. ac. Stramo.
Sulp. Sulp. ac. Tabac. or Verba.
of malevolence, and anger, and bites
one-self, give Hyosc. Iodi. Kali. C. Lach. Lauroc.
Mag. M. Mosch. Muri. ac. Natr. C. Natr. M. Nitr.
ac. Nice. Nux V. Opi. Phos. Puls. Staph. Sabadi.
Stramo. or Zinc. or Caust.
-   Memory impaired, Canth. Ignat. Lach.
Merc. Mosch. Natr. C. Nitr. ac. Oleand. Phos.
Plati. Rhodod. Sabad. Silec. or Verat.
of moaning, Puls. Rhodod. Sabi. Sec.
C. Silec. Stramo. Sulp. Verat. or Zinc.
-Moods and sensations, various, Lach.
Sec. C. Sep. Selen. Silec. Sol. Nig. Stron. Thuy.
Verat. or Zinc.
of murder and suicide inclined to commit, Arnic. Spig. Stramo. or Verat.
- -.of muttering and screaming, give
Stramo. or Verat.
of peevishness, Rus. Rad.
of profaneness inclined to-Stramo. or
Verat....-    of rage and foaming, Sabad. Sec. C




130        HOMEDOPATHIO PIRACTICT.
Scill: Selen. Sep. Silec. Sol. Nig. Straino. Sulp.
Verat. or Zinc.
Reeling sensation, use Rhodod. Stron.
Thuy. or Verat..-..-  Religious frenzy, Lach. Verat. Stramo.
or Puls.
Sadness, Kali. C. Kreoso. Lach. Lact.
Viro. Lauroc. Lyc. Mag. C. Mag. S. Mosch. Muri.
ac. Natr. C. Natr. M. Nicc. Nitr. ac. 01. Anima.
Opi. Phos. Phos. ac. Plati. Plumb. Rus. Tox.
Sabad. Sec. C. Sep. Stramo. or Sulp. ac.
- Sensibility increased by —Mosch. Muri,
ac. Natr. C. Nitr. ac. Petrol. Phos. Puls. Rhodod. Selen. Silec. Staph. or Verat..-...- of singing to excesss, Spong. Stann.
Stramo. Tabac. or Verat.
Starting, Sambu. Seneg. Sep. Silec.
Spong. Stramo. Sulp. Tart. Anti. Verat. or
Zinc. ~; —   of stupor, Morph. Opi. Sep. Silec. Spig.
or Verba.
of sullenness, give Bell. Ipe. Iodi. Kreoso.
Lach. Lact. Viro. Lye. Mangan. Mere. Nux V.
Phos. ac.
Taciturn, Lach. 01. Anima. Opi. Petrol. Plati. Plumb. A. Spig. Spong. Staphy. Sulp.
or Verat.
Talkative to excess, Stann. or Staphy....- Timorous, Puls.




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--  of tired feeling, Phytol. Rhodod. Sec.
C. Selen. or Spong.
--   Tranquil state of mind to produce,
Opi. or Plati.
---  Vexed easily, Verat. or Sabad..-.... Of weeping, much inclined to-Staphy.
Stramo. Sulph. Sulph. ac. or Verat.
Wildness,  Bell. Nux V. Spig. or
Verat,
HE:RUCTATIONS.
ERUCTATITONS. A disordered raising of unpleasant matter from the stomach, of gas, acrid, sour, or
oily material, or small portions of undigested food,
the remedies are to be in a measure used according
to the nature of the affection. If it comes on soon
after a meal, Coffe. or Caust. will be useful; or
use Arnic. or Ipec. If there is acidity, use Kali,
C. Caust. or Ferr.; if the matter is bitter with
nausea, use Ars. Nux. or Carbo. Veg.; should it
be attended with fever, give Acon. Bryo. or Ipe.
If it is composed of fatty or oily matter, use Puls.
or Calca. or Caust.; the other remedies are, Anise.
Hep. S; Lach. Carbo. V. China. Consult the artiEles Flatulence and Nausea, for further directicons.
-..a




1a2        BOM(EOPATIOC PIRACTICMe
ERYSIPELAS.
ERYSIPELAS, oR ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE.-Thls
disease is considered a cutaneous affection, and
somewhat allied to some varieties of Herpes and
other diseases of the skin. It is more generally
attended with fever and symptoms of constitutional excitement than many other affections of
the skin.  In addition to the general febrile
excitement, there are local symptoms of heat and
redness of the skin-a flushed red color, a very
fine red eruption-there is a tingling, smarting,
or itching; the parts swell and are tumefied. As
the case advances, the skin is sometimes affected
with larger eruptions or vesicles. In the progress, the skin has a yellowish tinge.  If the
head is considerably affected, delirium takes place,
and stupor may ensue, and even death follow.
The remedies for this disease are Aeon. Ars.
Bell.  [Camphor, in  Homceopathic doses, i's
stated to be almost specific; we have used it with
great benefit.]-N. YE Jour. of Homceo. Or give
Graph. Hep. Lach. Nitr. ac. Opi. Oleand. Hyosc.
Phos. Puls. RIus. T. Stramo. Sunip. or Tart. Anti.
Outward applications generally ought to be
avoided as dangerous. But moistening the parts
with a weak dilution of Tincture of Arnica or
Iodine oi' Rus Tox. are admissible, and are found
to be very useful; they allay the itching and
painful burning,




ERYSIPELAS.             133
When the head is affected with eruption, care
ought to be taken not to apply cold applications
or astringent stimulant lotions to the skin; we
have known death to have been produced by such
injudicious remedies.
If there is fever, give Acon. Bell. or Bryo.
If these do not check it, give Lach. or Kalmi. L.
If there is spreading red, fine eruptions, particularly if the head is affected, use Bell. Rus. T.
or Nitr. ac. or Camp. We have used Camphor,
as above named. with good success.
If a drowsiness or dullness of mind takes place,
give Coff. Opi. or Stralno.
Should these symptoms continue, use Hyosc. or
Rus. T.
If the joints are affected, give Bryo. Puls.
Rus. T.
If the skin is of a blueish cast or the eruption
runs from one part to another, use Graph. Puls.
or Rus. T.
If the knees or feet are swelled or painful, Nux
V. or Rus. T.
If the vesicles are of a purple or black color,
give Ars. Carb. V. or Sec. C.
If the mind becomes impaired with delirium
or stupor, Opi. Stramo. or Hyosc. are proper.
Should there be in the advanced stage a torpid
swelling of the skin, Sulph. or Ars. is called for.
When it terminates in ulceration, give Ars.
Nitr. ac. or Hep. or Silec. or S ulp.




134         HOMEOPrATIC PRACTICE.
If the scrotum or genitals are affected, like
Chimney Sweeps' Cancer, the remedies are Ars.
Clemat. or Rus. T.
When the hands or feet are affected, Arnic.
Ars. fBryo. Lach. Puls. or Stramo. are the proper
remedies.
If there occur small hard swellings, Hep. or
Ars. or Apis. Mellefo.
EXTREMITIES.
EXTREMITIES, DISEASES oF.-The extremities are
subject to a great variety of affections; the greater
part of them are included in the following list,
with the proper remedy connected with the disease.
Arms, hands, and fingers, drawing, numb, or
contracted, give Rhodod. Rus. T. Silec. Spig.
Spong. Tabac. Tareb. Thuy. Verat. or Zinc.
Jerking in, use Valer. Verat, or Zinc.
Axilla pain, burning, or sore, use
Sambu. Scill. Sep. Silec. Spong. Stann. Staph.
Sulph. ac. Valer. Verat. or Zinc.
Swelling and ulceration in, Scill. Sep.
Silec. Spig. or Sulp. ac. are proper medicines...-   Burning and itching in feet, legs or
hands,.give Canth. Caps. Caust. Gum. Gtt. Iodi.
Kali. Iod. Kreoso. Lach. Lauroc. Mag. C. Mag.
M. Merc. Nice. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand. Opi.
Petrol. Phos. Plati. Puls. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox.




EXTREMITIES.           135
Sarss. Seneg. Sep. Silec. Sulp. ac. Thuy. Verat. or
Zinc.: —-    Burning sensation in, Nux M. Nux
V. Phos. Rus. Tox. or Sambu.
- ----   Cold hands and feet, the proper medicines are Ammo. C. Carb. Veg. Chin. Coni. Hell.
Hyosc. Iodi. Kali. C. Lyc. Merc. Natr. M. Nitr.
ac. Nux V. Plati. Petrol. Phos. Phos. ac. Puls.
Phytol. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sombu. Scill. Sep. Silec.
Spong. Stann. Verat. or Zinc.
- Hands or feet dry or itching, Alum.
Ars. Baryt. Camp. Canth. Lyc. Merc. or Rus.
Tox.
Frozen, use Ainic. Iodi. Rus. Tox
[See Asphyxia.]
Cramps and spasms in, give Arnic.
Colocy. Coni. Iodi. Kalmi. Lat. Lach. Lact. Vir.
Lyc. Mosch. Natr. M. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand.
Opi. Phos. Ran. Bulb. Prun. Sp. Phytol. Plati.
Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Selen. or Caust.
Cramps and spasms in, Sep. Silec. Spig.
Seneg. Stann. Sulp. ac. or Tabac.
Dead sensation, give Rhbodod. Sec. C.
Sulp. Tart. Anti. Vcrat. or Verba.
- Excoriations on, use Arnic. Iodi. Rus.
Tox.
Fingers and toes stiff and numb. The
proper remedies are, Coni. Lach. Rhodod. Rus.
Rad. Sabi. Sambu. Sang. Sars. Sec. C. Sulnip. ac.
Tereb. Thuy. or Valer. or Caust.




136        HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
feet or toes swelled, give Kreoso.
Lach. Lact. Viro. Led. P.Lobeli. Lye. Merc. Nicc.
Nitr. ac. Nux V. Opi. Petrol. Phos. Phos. ac.
Phytol. Prun. Sp. Puls. Ran. Bulb. Rus. Tox.
Sabad. Sep. Stann. Thuy. or Zinc.
toes contracted, Coni. Rhodod. Sec.
C. Sep. Silec. Sulp. or Sulp. ac.
toes gangrened, use Kali. Bic. Kali. C.
Kalmi. Lat. Kreoso. Phos. or Sec. C.
Feet stink, Sep. Silec. Thuy. or Zinc.
Feet or soles, burning or pain in-give
Caust.,Colocy. Coni. Scill. Sep. Stann. Stramo.
Sulp. or Zinc.
Feet swelled, Scill. Sep. Stann. Sulp. ac.
- Feet or hands, soles, or palms painful,
use Sarss. Sec. C. Seneg. Sulp. Sulp. ac. or Zinc.
or Caust.
Feet or hands burning in-give Rhodod. Rus. Rad. Sabad. Silec. Sec. C. Seneg. Selen.
Sep. Silec. Sulp. or Sulp. ac.
Feet' or toes, or fingers swelled, or
numb, give Caust. Kreoso. Lach. Lactu Viro.
Led. P. Lobel. Lye. Mag. S. Mere. Nicc. Nitr. ac.
Nux V. Opi. Petrol. Phos. Phos. ac. Phytol.
Prun. Sp. Puls. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sep. Stann.
Thuy. or Zinc.....-    Feet or toes, or fingers cramps in-use
Colocy. Oleand. 01. Anima. Opi. Phos. Phytol.
Plati. Prun. Sp. Ran. Bulb. Sec. C. Sep. Silec.
Spig. Verat. or Zinc.




EXTREMITIES.             137
Fornication, or crawling sensation in
— Scill. Sec. C. Sulp. ac. Thuy. or Zinc.
Gluteous itching  or pain  in —give
Colocy. Oleand. Phos. ac. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox.
Stann. Staph. Sulp. Sulp. ac. Thuy. or Zinc.
Hands chapped, Petrol. Sulp. or Zinc.
(See Rhagades.)
Extremities-hip-joint, diseases of-these are
of several kinds. It may be acute inflammation,
or it may be of a rheumatic affection, either
acute or chonic, or the disease may be a chronic
inflammation or a scrofulous affection; or it may
be a sciatic, of a neuralgic character, which is
described under the term sciatica.
In treating the diseases of this important part,
all those affections ought to be examined into, and
the case treated according to the peculiarity of
the symptoms.
If there is simple inflammation of the parts
about the joint, the usual remedies for such a disease ought to be used, as Acon. Arnic. Bell.
Canth. Colocy. &c.
If it is a rheumatic affection, the remedies for
this disease detailed in their proper place, will be
requisite.
If there is chronic inflammation, use Colocy.
ITep. Iodi. Kali. Bic. Lach. Led. P. Merc. Phos.
Ran. Bulb. Sabad. Sepi. or Rhodod.
Should it be considered of a scrofulous nature,
the general remedies will be, Iodi. Bell. Rus. T.




138        ROM(EOPATHIC PRACTiCE.
or Calca. Colocy. Sulp. Silec. phosphate of lime,
or phosphate of iron.
If it seems to be sciatica, reference should be
made to that head for the remedies there laid
down.
---- Fingers and toes jerking or cramps in,
give Caust.
- Hip-joint-sprain bruising or drawing
pain or trembling, Caust. Colocy.
Paralysed, Nux V. Petrol. Rus. Tox.
or Verat. or Caust.
Painful, the remedies will be similar
to the preceding, Acon. Colocy. Rus. Rad. Sabi.
Sang. Sarss. Seneg. Sep. Silec. Spig. Stramo.
Staph, Sulp. ac. Tereb. Verat. or Valer..-.-.- Cramps or stitches in-the suitable
remedies are, Acon. Bell. Colocy. Coni. Iodi.
Lach. Mosch. Nicc. Nux V. Oleand. Petrol. Phos.
Plati. Podoph. P. Ran. Bulb. Rus. Tox. Sabad.
Sambu. Stann. Staph. Sulp. ac. Tereb. Thuy.
Valer. or Verat.
-  Hot and cold sensation alternating,
Opi. Morph. Phos. Phos. ac. Ran. Bulb. or Rus.
Rad.
-  Joint bubbling sensation —jerking and
stitches in-use Ran. Bulb. Scill. Rhodod. Spong.
Stann. Staph. or Sulp.
-Luxated sensation spontaneous —Rus.
Tox. or Thuy.




EXTREMITIES,'         139
Sprained sensation, Arnic. Sep. Silec.
Sulp. ac. or Valer..-..-  Knees cracking, Ran. Bulb. Selen.
Seneg. or Verat.
-- Lamenessa orpainful soreness, give Agnu. C. Bismiu. Bryo. Bovist. Calc. Cann. S.
Caust. Caps. Hep. Iodi. Kalmi. Lat. Kreoso.
Lach. Lact. Viro. Nux V. Oleand. Petrol. Phos.
Phos. ac. Puls. Rhodod. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox,
Sabad. Sambu. Seneg. Silec. Stann. Stramo. Sulp.
or Verba.
Legs drawn spasmodically apart, Colocy.
Spong. Rus. Tox. or Tereb.
----  Swelled, Phos. Plumb. Rus. Tox. or
Scill.
Limbs drawn up to the body, Oleand.
Paralysed, pained, or go to sleep, —
Sabad. Scill. Rus. T. Sep. Silec. Stramo. Sulp.
Thuy. Verat. or Zinc.
Nails blue, use Silec. or Sec. C.
Nails malformation, Cale. or Sec. C.
Sep. or Silec.
Nails, ulcers about them, Sang. Silec.
or Stann..-..- Neck stiff, or pained, give Lach. Lyc.
iRhodod. Tarax. -Tart. Anti. Tereb. Verat. or
Zinc. (See Back.)..... Pain, heat, or stiffness in-use Ammo.
C. Arg. N. Ars. Bell. Bromi. Caust. Gum. Gtt.
HIep. Iodi. Kali. Bic. Kali. Iodi. Kalmi. Lat,




140        HOMaEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Lauroc. Lobel. Merc. Nicc. Nux  V. Petrol.
Plumb. Acet. Rus. Rad. Rus. T. Stramo. Sulp. or
Tereb.
-    -Pain intermittent, Oleand. Petrol. Sabi.
Scill. Sep. Spig. or Sulp. ac.
-  Pain or stinging, or blisters on, Lach.
Sabad. Seneg. Silec. Stann. Staph. or Tarax.
-- -— Paralytic affection, use Coni. Canth. Ignat. Lach. Mangan. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Opi. Petrol.
Phos. ac. Plati. Plumb. Podoph. P. Rus. Tox.
Sabad. Sambu. Silec. Stann Sulp. Thuy. or Verat.
or Colocy.
do. or numbness, or beating in —Coni.
Lauroc. Lyc. Mere. Mosch. Muri. ac. Nux V.
Oleand. Opi. Petrol. Phos. Phos. ac. Plati. Plumb.
Acet. Puls. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sang.
Sarss Silec. Staph. Sulp. ac. or Zinc.
------ do. and numbness of hands or feet, Agnu.
C. Bell. Bovist. Calc. Caust. Coni. Hyosc. Kali.
C. Kreoso. Lach. Sep. Silec. Verat. or Rus. Rad.
- Rheumatisml. (See this article.)
- SCIATICA is described a pain of the hipjoint,'very severe. It partakes of a rheumatic, neuralgic character. The pain frequently runs down to
the knee or foot —the remedies are, Acon. Bell.
Colocy. NuxV.; or in the progress of the disease,
Ars. Cham. Ignat. Rus. Tox.
Sensitive, Tereb. Verat.
Shoulders pain or stitches in, Lach.
Lauroc. Led. P. Lobel. Lye. Mag M. M. ag. P.




EXTREMMrIEs.            141
M[osch. Nic. ac. Nux V. Oleand. Ox. ae. Phos.
Phytol. Plati. Plumb. Prun. Spig. or Ran.
Bulb.
Shoulders pain or stitches in-Caust.
Rata Rus. Tox, Sang. Sep. Stramo. or Sulph. ac.
- Spasms of —give Colocy. Lye. tMoseh.
Mur. ac. Nice. Nux V. Petrol. Phos. Phos. ac.
Plati. Ranan. Bulb. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sabad.
Selen. Stramlo. or Sulp. ac.
Stiff-Ambr. Anaeord. Ammo. C. AngIust. Colocy. Caust. Ignat. Kali. Bic. Kali. Iod.
Kalmi. Lat. Lauroc. Merc. Mur. ac. Nitr. ac. Petrol. Phytol. Phos. Ran. Bulb. Rus. Tox. Sabad.
or Sulph. ac. or Caust.
Sprained-use Arnic. Iodi. Kalmi. Lat.
Lach. Lact. Viro. Masch. Nux V. Oleand. Phos.
Phytol. Plati. Silec. Spig. or Sulp. ae.-use externally Arnic. and cold water.
Sweating of hands or feet-Nitr. ac.
Nux V. Opi. Petrol. Phos. Plati. Plumb. Acet.
Podoph. P. Puls. Sabad. Sep. Silec. or Stann.
- Tingling sensation-Coni. Rus. R. Sulp.
Tabac. or Zinc.
- Tired sensation —Phytol. Rhodod. Sambhc. See. C. Sellen. Sep. or Sppng.
--- -Tendons contracted —Lach. or Rus. T.
~-  Tittillation or pricking sensation in hands
or feet-Seneg. Stann. Staph. or Sulp.....-  Tremor in-give Caust. Lach. Lauroc.
Led. P. Natr. C. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Plati. Phos.




142        HIOMCEOPATIT  PlRAOCTE,
Sabad. Sambuc. Silec. See. C. Spong. Stramo.
Tabac. Tart. Anti. Thuy. Valer. or Verat.
----- ~ esicles on —Lach. Rus. R. Sulp. or
Zinc.
a Warts or exereseenses on feet, Calc,
Iach. Spig. or Thuy.
Weakness in, Chin. Plaati. Prin., Sp. Ra.
Jnan. Bulb. Rhodod. or Sep.
EYES.
The importance and delicacy of this organ
makes it worthy of' a careful and extended enumeration of the diseases to which it is subject
and tthe various remedies for them, which are,
detailed as follows:
EYes. —Amblycpa, impaired vision from nervous affection or weakness of the nerves. The.
remedies are Anacard. Auru. Bell. Caust. Hyosc.
Ignat. IKalmi. Lat. Kreoso. Lach. Lact. Viro,
Lauroc. Lye. lMerc. MoAsch. Natr. C. Nice. Nit. ac,
Nux V. Oleand. 01. Anima. i-Phos. ae. RBus. Rad,
Sabad. Sang. Sep. Staph. Stramo. Snlp. Tart,
Anti. Thuy. Verat. Verba. or Zinc, or Colocy.
--    AmurQses, paralysed state of the optic
nerve, use Lauroc. Opi. Phos. ae. Plati. Plumb.
Acet. Bus. Tox. Seill. See. 0. or Sep. and the
above.
- - Balls drawn in or sunken, Seeneg. Spong.
Staph. or Valeri.




hYES.                143
---- — Balls pain in, Staph. Strol. or Tabac.
Blue rings around them, Sabad. Sabi.
Sulp. or Verat.
Bleeding from, Bell, Carb. Veg. Lobel.
Millefo. Nux V. Tart. Anti..
-.-.-.  Brows falling off, Plunmb. Acet. or
Selen.
Burning ai d itching in, use Ammo.
Claust. Coni, Camp. Ephras. lodi. Kreoso. Mere.
Mosch. Muri. ac.. Natr. (I Natr. trM. Nitr. ae.
Oleand. Phos Phytol. Plumb. Acet. Prun. Sp.
Puls. Petrol. Ran. Bulb. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sepi.
Stron. Sulp. Tart. Anti.. Thuy. or Valer.. —-   Cateract, Ammo. C. Baryt. Cann. S.
Caust. Coni. Digital. Lye. Nux V. Phos Puls.
Seneg. Silec or Sulp.
Cataract absorption, when broken, promoted by giving Cale. Seneg. or Silec.
-—: Contracted, Plati. or Plumb.
-.-  Cornea, llcers and pustules on —tured
by Ars. Bell. Cale. EphraS. Ephorb.  Hep. Lach.
Natr. C. Nitr. ac. Petrol. Plumb. Acet. Rhodod.
Rus. T. Selen. Spong. or Thuy.
- Cramlps and spasmas in, give Natr. M.
Nitr. ac. Nux V. Petrol. Plunmub. Acet. Rhodod.
Rus. T. Selen. Spong. or TZuy.
----- CCreeping sensation in, Sep. Silec. Spong.
or Sulp.
--- -Dazzling sensation, Camp. Coni. Natr.




144        HOMaCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
M. Nitr. ac. Phos. Phos. ac. Seneg. Sep. or
Stramo.
-- Debility of, Anacard. Kali. C. China. Iodi.
Lauroc. Iatr. C. Nux V. Nice. Petrol. or Plati.
Double vision, Arnic. Baryt. Coni.
Muri. ac. Nitr. ac. Petrol.
--- Drawing and stitches in, give 01. Anima. Sarss, Selen.
--- -iDryness, Nitr. ac. 01. Anima. Plati.
Puls. Seneg. Staph. Sulp. Thuy. or Verat.
- Fire balls  sensation of,'in-Caust.
Camp. Coni. or Zinc.
- Fistula- lacrymalis, the remedies are,
Arinic. Cale. Caust. Lyc. Nitr. ac. Petrol. Puls.
Silec. Stann. Sunlp. or Zinc.
-Flickering sensation-Coni. Lach. Nitr.
ac. Opi. Puls. or Zinc.
G — azing sensation, Coni. or Verba.
Glands about them diseased, Bell. Coni.
lodi. or Spong.
Glistening sensation. Sol. Nig. or
Stramaro
Hordeolum, (sty.) Amnmo. C. Baryt.
Graph. Lye. Puls. Seneg. Staph. Sulp. or Thuy.
Inflammation of. Use Acon. Ars.
Bell. Hell. Kali. Iod. Kalmi. Lat. Kali. Bic. Mere.
Mag. M[. Muri. ac. Natr. C. Nux V. Plumb.
Acet. Seneg. Sep. Spong. Staph. Sulp. Tart. Anti.
or Zinc.
--- do. Chronic. Camp. Canth. Chin. Colocy




EYES.                145
Coni. Calca. Euphras Ignat. Iodi. Kreoso. Lact.
Viro. Led. P. Puls. Phos. ac. Sabad. Silec. Stramo.
or Verba. or Caust.
Inflammation of inebriates. Calc. Nux
V. Opi. Phos. Sep. or Sulp.
Itching in. Chin. Rus. R.
Lacrymation. Natr. M. 01. Anima.
Rhodad. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sarss; Sang. Selen.
Sep. Silec. Spig. Spong. Staph. Stramno. Sulp. Tabac. or Zinc.
-.. Lids burning in. Colocy. or Vinca.
Min.
Contracted. Tabac. or Tart. Anti.
-   Excrescenses on. Sulp. Sulp. ac. or
Thuy.
Lids inflamed and swelled or ulcerated.
Acon. Bell. Cann. S. Coni. Euphra. Hep. Iodi.
Kali. Bic. Kali. C. Kreoso. Mere. Mag. S. Muri.
ac. Nitr. ac. Opi. Puls. Rus. T. Sarss. Seneg. Sep.
or Spong.
Lids, glands of; diseased. Bell. Eupra. Iodi. Rhodod. Seneg. Sep. Spong. Verba.
Verat. or Zinc.
Lids painful and jerking in. Ranan.
Bulb. Rus. R. Sepi. Scill. or Spig.
- do, Paralyzed. Alum. Caust. Cupr. Plati. Plumb. Phos. Sep. Spig. Sulp. ac. Verat. or
Zinc.
Pressure on. Sulp. Sulp. ac. Tabac.
Tart. Anti. Thuy. or Valer.




146         HOMoSiOPiATHIO PRACTICEJ.
Swelled, Phytol. Plumb, Acet. Puls,
Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sec. C. Scill, Sep,
Stann. or Thuy.
Long sighted or seeing at a distance,
Petrol. Stramo. Valer. or Verat.
Luminous or dazzling illusions, Sec,
C. Seneg. Silec. Staph. Straino, Stron. Sulp. Valer. or Verat.'
M~ercurial affections. ACon. Arnic,
Alum. Cale. Cupr. IHep. Nitr. ac, or Sulp,
--- echanical injury. Arni. Bell. Iodi
Rus. Tox.
Mloats, sensation of, before, Tereb,
Thuy. Valer. Verat. Verba. or Zinc.
- Myope (short sighted.)  Ammo,  C.
Auru. Carb. Veg. Petrol. Phos. Selen. or Sulp. ac.
Objects half seen,  Mlur. ac.
Pain in (Photophobia.)  Caust. Coni,
Colocy. Ephras, Ignat. Lach. Mur. ac. Nux V.
Oleand. Puls. Rus. Rad. Seneg Sep. Spig. Staph,
Stann. or Verat.
do, and heavy sensation. Nitr. ac. Phytol. or Puls.
do. and pressure in. Chin. Coni. Lach,
Morph. Petrol. Phos. ac. Phytol. Plati. Puls. Ran,
Bulb. Rus. Tox. Sarss. Scill, Sep. Spong. Stann.
Stron. Stramo. Tabac. or Thuy,
Pupils contracted.  Canmp. Hyose,
Plati. Plumab. Acet, Puls. Rhodad. Sambu. Sec,




C. Scill, Seneg..Spig. Stramo.- Staph. Stann. Sulp,
Tarax. or Verat.
Pupil dilated, Agnu. C.Camp. Eupras.
MIerc, Mosch. Opi. Phos. ac. Plumb. Acet. Puls,
Rhodad. Sambu. Sec. C. Sol. Nig. Spig. Staph.
Stron. Sulp. Tabac. Taxax. Thuy. or Verat.
-  Psora'Opthalmia, (itching, swelling,
or ulceration of the lids.) Amemo. C. Caust,
Euphras. Hep. Ignat. IKreoso. Kali. Bic. Natr. C,,
Kicc. Nux V. Puls. Staph. Selen. Sepi. Silec. or
Sulp.
Rainbow, sensation of seeing one,
Stann. or Stramo.
Red ball, or red rings, sensation of
seeing. Ephorb. Lach. Sulp, Sulp. ac. Thuy,
Zinc.
Scrofulous affection of. Arnic. Ars,
B3aryt. Cale. Chin. Hep. Iodi. Ignat, Puls. Rus,
Tox. Sep. Spong, or Stann.
Sensibility  diminished.  Seneg. or
Spong.
Sight or shining in the dark, Valer,
do. Vanishing suddenly. Zinc.
Smarting. Colocy. Podolph. P. Ran,
Bulb. Rhodod. Sarss. Sep. Spig. Spong. Stann,
Staph. Stramo. Stron. Sulp. ac.Valor Zinc, or Mer,
Specks, or films, on cornea. Arn. Auru.
Calc. Cann. S, Euphorb, Euphras. Hep. Kitr. ae,
Seneg Silec. Sulp. Verat.
Specks, black before, Sep,




148        HOM(EOPATEIC PRACTICE.
Stareing or contortion. Camp. Caps.
Mosch. Scill. Sec. C. Stron. Tabac. or Thuy.
Stitches in. Verat. or Zinc.... — Strabismus, (squinting.) Alum. Bell.
H-yosc. Verat.
-  Syphilitic affection. Auru. Merc. Mezo
Nitr. ac. or Puls.
Trembling sensation. Nitr. ac. Petrol]
Phos. Rata. Rus. Tox. or Verat.
T- winkling sensation. Anacard. Coni.
orj Sep... Ulceration of. Ars. Bell. Calc. Euphorb. Hep. Lyc. Mag. M. or Spong. or Sulp.
Vesicles on. Seneg. or Thuy.. —. Vibrating sensation. Sabi. Sep. Stra.
mo. Sulp. or Zinc.
Vision, blue, green, or yellow shades,
Zinc.
--   -  Web appearance. Tabac. Tereb. or
Zinc..-..-  Wheels of vision in appearance. Use
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FACE.
FAcE. —When this is bloated or red, give Bell.
Canth. Hep. Iod. Kreoso. Nitric. ac. Nux V.
Oleand. Petrol. Plumb. Acet. Puls. Sol. Nig.
Spong. Stramo. Sulp. Vinca. Min. or Zinc.
Blue. Lyc. Mere. Nux M. Nux V.
Phos. ac. Plati. Plumb. Acet. Puls. Samb. Sang.
Staph. Stramo. Tart. Anti. Verat. or Zinc.
-  Bones of, pained.  Coni. Nitric ac.
Sep. Spig. Spong. Staph. Zinc.
B- urning heat in. Use Caust. Colocy.
Lach. Nux V. Phos. ac. Plati. Plumb. Pnls. Rus.
Tox. Sang. Silec. Spong. Staph. Stramo. Tabac.
Tart. Anti. Verat. or Zinc.
- Cheeks jerkiing. Valer. Zinc.
Red. 01. Anima. Rus. Tox. Sabad.'Spong. Stramo or Stron.
Clay colored. Chin. Opi. Plati. Plumb.
or Verat.
-       Cold sensation. Ars. Hyosc. Ignat.
Ipe. Iodi. Kali. C. Mag. C. 01. Anima. Plati.
Plumb. Rus. Tox. or Verat.
Coppery color. Stramo or Verat.
Countenance brown, or anxious expression. Stramo. Solan. Nig. or Verat.
-    Creeping sensation. Sulp. or Tabac.
Cramps in. Staph. Tart. Anti. Valer,
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~ —- Deathly look. Plumb. Acet. Sec. C.
Staph. or Verat.
Distortion. Lach.
--- ~~Dry, sticky feeling. Sulp. ac.,
—; —-- Eruptions or vesicles on. Canth.
Calc. Coni. Lach. Lauroc. Led. P. Nitr. ac. Nux
V. Oleand. 01. Anima. Petrol. Phos.Phytol. Rhodod. Sabi. Sambu. Sarss. Scill. Silec. Stann. or
Sulp.
-     Freckles on. Calc. Carb. Anim. Hep.
Kreoso. Lauroc. Led. P. Lyc. Natr. C. Oleand.
Sep. or Sulp.
-  Hot sensation. Rus.. Tox. Sabad. Sang.
Sarss. Sep. Stann. Tabac. or Thuy.
Itching. Coni. Lach. Merc. Natr. C.
Nicc. Nitr. ac. NIux V. 01. Anima. Petrol. -Plumb.
Acet. Prun. Sp. Rheum. Rus. Rad. Sabad. Sabi.
Sarss. Sep. Silec. or Zinc.
~ —-- -  Lips dry or sore.  Nitr. ac. Nux V.
Phos. Scill. Stann. Sulp. ac. Tarx. Tart. Anti. or
Thuy.
do. Chapped or sore. Hep. Silec. Tabac. Verat. or Zinc.
or mouth distorted or swelled. Lach.
Opi. Verat. or Zinc.
Pain or drawing, or bruised sensation.
Give Caust. Colocy. Sulp. Sulp. ac. Tart. Anti.
Tereb. Valer. or Zinc.
~ —--- do, or twinging sensation. Ambr. Arnie.
Bromi. Bismu. Hep. Kalmi. Lat. Kreoso. Lach




Lauroc. Lyc. Merc. M. Mosch. Nitr. ac. Phos. Rus.
T. Selen. Spong. Staph, or Verba.
- Pale. Bell. Calc. Canth. Chin. Coni.
Hyose. Kali. C. Kali. Iod. Lach. Merc. Mosch.
Nitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand. Opi. Petrol. Phos. Phos.
ac. Phytol. Plumb. Acet. Puls. Rus. Tox. Sabad.
Samb. Sang. Spig. Spong. Stann. Snlp. Sulp. ac.
Tart. Anti. Tereb. Verat. or Zinc.
-   Paralytic numbness. Caust. or Rhanan. Bulb. or Verat.
_-___-  Pimples on. Ars. Bell. Colocy. Coni.
Graph. Hep. Lyc. Merc. Natr. C. Natr. M. Nicc.
Phos. ac. Rus. Rad. Sulp. ac. or Verat or Caust.
Pricking or biting sensation in. Rhodod.
Red  or hot cheeks.  Chin. Silec.
Spong. Stron. Stramo. Sulp. Taxax. Tart. Anti. or
Valer.
----  Spasms in. Give Caust. Chin. Lauroc.
Lyc. NIux. V. Opi. Petrol. Phos. Puls. Ran. Bulb,
Rus. Rad. Sep. Spong. Stramo. or Sulp.
-- -  Sunken appearance. Chin. Lyc. Opi.
Scill. Sec. C. Sep. Verat. or Zinc.
Swelled. ArL. Auru. Bell.  Hep,
Scill. Sec. C. Sep. Silec. Spig. Staph. or Verat.
~..... Sweating. Chin. Verat.
Vesicles. Plumb. Acet. Rhodod. Seneg.
Sep. Spig. Verat. or Zinc. or Caust.
Fainting, Acon. Ars. Asa. Cham. Ignat. lodi. Mosch. Nux V. Qpi. Oleand. Puls. Rns.




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Tox. Sep. Stann. Stramo. Tart. Anti. Tereb. or
Verat.
Fatigue appearance, Aeon. Arnic. Bell.
Bryo. Coff. Iodi. Lye. Morph. or Nux V.  (See
extremities tired.
FELON OR WHITLOW.
FELON OR WHITLOW. This a very painful disease which locates on the fingers or hands, of an
inflammatory nature; the inflammation or germ
of the disease is deep seated at the bone; if matter
forms there, it is attended with difficulty to work
its way out to the surface, by which it produces
great pain and swelling, this affection is generally
rendered tedious and serious by injudicious treatment, by the use of hot poultices and hot irritating articles; the proper remedies for it are the
internal use of Acon. Bell. Bryo. Ipe. or Silecia.
and very low diet; as local applications, use cold
water or ice; solutions of acetate of lead applied
cold, or use this in the form of a cold poultice;
if these means do not check the disease, it is sometimes arrested or cured by holding the part in
lye as hot as it can be borne.
But the best, shortest, and surest remedy is,
as soon as the disease is formed, to make a free
incision into the tumefied part with a lancet,
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and puts an end to the disease at once Then it
is converted into a simple incised wound, which
will heal up in two or three days; one half minute's suffering in this way, will save the patient
weeks and months of painful anguish, and perhaps, the loss of a joint. If however, the disease
does progress, towards suppuration, give Hep.
Silec. or Sulp. and apply warm emmolient poultices; as soon as the matter is formed, a free
opening should be made to let it out. This may
prevent sinuses forming, and afford a chance to
apply dressings, when the ulcer must be healed
in the common way.
FEVER.
FEVER. In most all morbid affections of the
body fever is produced. It may be merely symptomatic of an injury, or of a local affection; or
it may be a primary disease, brought into action
by a genesal disturbance or deranged condition
of the system. Or it may be produced as symptoms of specific morbific virus, producing contagious disease. There have been a great many
definitions of fever or its proximate cause.  It
would extend this article to an extreme length to
describe them, which would not be very useful.
Most authors consider fever an increased degree
of heat, an accelerated pulse, a furred tongue,
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154         HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
ranged.  It will suffice to enumerate the various
kinds of fever, and the appropriate Homceopathic remedies for them as here detailed.
The general remedies for it are, Acon. Bell.
Bryo. Coce. Ipe. Ignat. Lach. Lauroc. Merc. Xitr.
ac. Phos. Puls. Rus. T. Sepi. Silec. Spong. or
Tart. Anti.
~ —--- Catarrhal, common cold, the remedies
most useful are, Acon. Arnic. Nux V. Puls.
Phos. Rus. T. Snilp. or Tart. A. (See Angina.
Catarrhalis.)
At the commencement when the head and nose
are stopped, and affected with a snuffling, use Dulcam. Nux V. or Puls.
If there is fever and slight sore throat, use
Acon. Bryo. or Ipe.
If the throat is inflamed and sore, use Bell.
Bryo. or Puls.
In children, who have a dry cough and are
restless, use Acon. Charn. Dulcam. Sulp. or
Nux V.
If there is a painful, bruised feeling, give
IDrosera. or Arnic.
If there is a raw apthous state of the throat,
give Coni. Merc. Borax. or Ipe.
When the joints are swelled and painful, use
Bryo. Sulp. ac. or Rus. T.
If there is inveterate cough, with pain in the
front part of the head, Bell. Lyc. Puls. or
Nux V.




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If there is a distress of the head, and loss of
taste, give Puls.
with chills and heat alternating, give
Bromi. Cann. S. Kali. Bic. Kali. Iod. Kreoso. Lach,
Mosch. Nux V. Opi. Podoph. P. Puls. Ranan.
Bulb. Sang. or Thuy.
- with chills and shuddering, give Acon.
Cham. Rus. R. Rus. T. Sambu. Sabad. Sang,
Seneg. Sepi. Scill. Spig. Spong. Tart. A. Tereb.
Verat. or Caust.
-   with clammy sweat attending, Thuy.
------ cold stage, give' Acon. Arnic. China.
Dulcam. Hyosc. Kali. Iod. Kreoso. Lach. Merc,
Muri. ac. Nitr. ac. Nux. V. Opi. Phos. Rus. T.
Sabad. or Spig. C. (See Ague.)
cold marble appearance of the skin
during, give Camp. Tart. A. Verat. or Cupr.
--  cold and sweating of the limbs, Verat.
--  Coma in, Bell. Cocc. Hyosc. Nux V.
Opi. Rus. T. or Sabad. (See Coma.)
-  Crawling sensation, Sambu. Sec. C.
Staphy. or Sulp.
- Delirium  in, Bell. Cocc. Hell. Opi.
Phos. ac. Phodoph. P. Rus. T. Sabad. or Sulp.
—. Heat or burning great, give Acon
Sambu. Sang. Scill. Silec. Spong. Staphy. Sulp. ac.
Thuy. or Verat.
Pulse  small, or imperceptible, use
Camp. Sec. C. Scill. Sol. Nig. Stramo. Sulp. ac.
Tabac. Tart. A. Thuy. or Verat.




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- —. Pulse intermittent, Sec. C. Stramo. Tabac. Tart. A. Verat. or Cupr.
Pulse slow, use Plumb. Acet. Podoph,
P. Rus. T. Sabad. Sec. C. or Thuy.
Pulse violent or rapid, give Acon. IKalmi. L. Mosch. Selen. Seneg. Spig. Sulp. Thuy. or
Verat.
--- Pulse falling suddenly, Nux V. IHyosc.
Phos. Scill. Lyc. or Verat. are proper remedies.
Pulse variable.  Kalmi. L. Oleand.
Puls. Rhanan. Bulb. Rus. R. Sabad. Sambu. Sol.
Nig. Sulp. Tart. A. Valer. or Verat.
Pulse, violent beating. Selen....- Sensitive to cold. Spong. or Tact. Ant.
Spasms in. Klux V. Opi. Rus. R.
Sabad. Silec. Stramo. Sulp. or Verat.  [See
Spasms.]
- - Sweating to excess, or to promote
sweating, give Acon. Ipe. Mur. ac. Natr. M. Nux
V. Podoph. P. Rus.T. Samb. Sec.C. Seneg. Staphy.
Stramo. Sulp. Tart. A. A. Thuy. Valer. or Verat.
Thirst excessive. Acon. Camp. Mur.
ac. Podoph. Verat. Cold water freely.
FEVER, GASTRIC, REMITTENT, OR CONTINUED.Under this head are arranged all those fevers
which put on a continued character, when, in
some part of the day, the fever is high, the heat
and uneasiness great; at other parts of the time,
the fever is less; the patient is more calm
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or sweating takes place, but an intermission or
entire suspension of the fever does not ensue,
The fevers which more generally prevail in the
autumnal season, in temperate and northern latitudes are termed Remittent, Bilious, or Gastric
Fevers, and those which run into a form of a
Typhus character, are all Remittent Fevers, and
present one Veneral set of symptoms in the beginning. The fevers connected with inflammatory
affections, when the inflammation is seated on
some local part, are also somewhat remittent or
continued, but they take on the name of Inflamtory fevers, as will be seen by referring to the
article headed Inflammations.
The Remittent Fever is ushered in with chills,
rigors, or ague, or-shuddering; the stomach is
often deranged by pain or a sin'king sensation,
nausea, or vomiting., There is frequently severe
pain in the head and in the limbs generally, attended with a loss of strength. As the chill
abates or subsides, fever sets in more or less severe, the bowels are generally disordered, sometimes they are costive, and at others a diarrhcea
is attending. The tongue has a whitish fur on it,
which soon becomes yellowish or brown; the
pulse is generally pretty full and firm, though it
is sometimes depressed, small, and compressible.
A train of other symptoms succeed, and these are
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158        HO.MEOPATHIt PRACTiCE,
For this form of fever the most advisable riemedies at first are those to check the agiue, which
may be found under the head Ague. If there is
nausea or vomiting, give Ipe. or Tart. Anti, in
high attenuations, perhaps the twenty or thirty
would be preferable; or it may be best to give
Acon. in alternation with one of the above named
medicines. This course may be pursued with
great benefit. As soon as the ague is over and
the stomach quieted, give Acon. steadily until the
febrile symptoms are moderated; or Bryo. may
be used to succeed the Acon. If there is considerable headache and red flushed face, give Bellh
In the more advanced state, when the active
type has abated, the most useful remedies are
Ipe. Merc. Nux V. Podopylin. This last remedy
will be very useful to procure evacuations from
the] bowels, which may be important. Other remedies, which will be useful in the progress, are
Puls. Rus. T. Sabad. Sulp. or Verat.
If the mind gets to be impaired, Chain. Colocy.
or Phos. ac.
If there are cramps or spasms, Ignat. or NuxV.
If there is colic or heat or burning in the abdomen, Ars. or Colocy.
If the tongue has a yellow or brown coat,
Merc.
If nausea continue, Ipe. Colocy. or Ars. or
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If there is a sinking faintness and cold skin,
Verat.
If there is a fretid taste of eructations, Carbo V.
If debility and great weakness ensue, Chin.
Quini. or Ars. or Wine.
If delirium or nervous irritation take place,
consult the articles Delirium and Spasms.
FEVER, HECTIC.
FEVER, HECTIC. This disease may be brought on
from various causes. It is a febrile state, dependent
on or connected with a diseased condition of an
internal part, and most generally connected with
a disease of the lungs. It commonly comes on
insidiously and slowly, attended with pain in the
chest, short, dry cough, uneasy and irregular
sleep, sore throat, dryness of the palms of the
hands, flushed cheeks in the afternoon, with slight
fever; and as it advances there are night sweats,
a small quickened pulse; and as the case progresses there are more numerous and aggravated
symptoms. The best remedies in the early stage
are Acon. Arnic. Bell. Calc. C. iep. Kali. Iodi.
Ipe, Iodi. Lach. Lyc. Merc. Iodi. Puls. Sulph. or
Ars.
For further information of the treatment, see
Consumption and Chest Diseases and Cough.
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160        HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Acon. Bell. Bryo. Hyosc. Ipe. Nux V. Puls. Rus.
T. or Sulph. See Inflammation.
-- Lethargy in. Give Bell. Cham. Cocci.
Opi. See Coma.
FEVER, NERVOUS.
FEVER, NERVOUS AFFECTION. Give Ambr. Ars.
Bell. Camp. Canth. China, Hyosc Lach. Lye.
Merc. Mosch, Nux V. Opi. Phos. Rus. T. Selen.
Stram. or Verat. See Typhus.
FEVER, INTERMITTENT.
FEVER, INTERMITTENT. This form of fever and
the manner of attack is so well known, as ague and
fever, chills and fever, &c., that in a work of this
kind, it seems unnecessary to enter into a detailed
description of it.  In many instances it is very
tedious and troublesome, and difficult to cure.
The remedies most useful are, Acon. Arnic.
Ars. Bell. Bryo. Calcara. Chin. Cedron. (cotton
seed) Euphorb. Eupatorium. Ferr. Ipe. Puls.
Petrol. Rus. T. Stann. Sulp. Verat. or Quinine.
One of the best remedies to use first, to prepare the system for after treatment, is allowed to
be Ipe. followed by Nux V.
It is best to give the medicine thus, a dose
about every three hours.
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continued through the pyrexia and the apyrexia,
or intermission, are, Arnic. Bell. Bryo. Calca.
Lach. INux V. or Ipe. or Pals.; and one of those
medicines given in this way often; is capable of
effecting a cure.
The plan of treatment which experience has
proved to be the most useful, and pursued generally during the cold stage or ague or chills, is to
use such remedies as will most readily check
the ague, and shorten it as much as possible.
The best for this purpose is Agar. Ammo. C.
Acon. Ars. Ipe. Nux V. or Puls. (See Agues)
It will be best to give hot toast, tea, or some
other simple hot drink. If the chills continue a
long time, warm  fomentations or warm  water,
should be applied to the feet and legs; as soon
as the ague or chill abate, and reaction comes
on, and fever rises, then those remedies which
are well known to be best to allay fever should
be used. The most efficacious of these are, Acon.
*Bryo. Bell. Ipe. Tart. Anti. and cold water, freely
used as a drink. If there is pain in the head, or
of other parts, or nausea, or distress of the stomach, or abdomen, or nervous irritability or
cramps, or other local affections, then give in alternation with one of the medicines above mentioned for fever or a substitute for it, a medicine
which will be particularly adapted to those symptoms which is laid down under the heads in the
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162        HOMCEOPAMI  PRACTICE.
repertory for the peculiar affections which may
be present; for instance, if the head is distressed,
turn to head, and you will find the proper remedies, and so of the other affections.
The remedies to be used during the intermission, and those generally given, are Calca. China.
or Quini. Ferr. or Angust. Eupatori. or Cedron.
Intermittent, in the cold stage, give
Acon. Agnu. C. Angust. Baryt. Bell. Dulcamo
Opi. or Phos.
There is a popular remedy we have known
used with so great success, that it seems to be
worthy of a place here. In obstinate protracted
chills, or ague and fever, take a cup of hot coffee, add to it the juice of one lemon, and drink
it hot as soon as the chill comes on; in many cases this has broken up the ague and fever....-   do. If it is produced from marshy exposure, China. Ars. or Carb. V. Rus. T. Verat. or
Ferr.
do. In warm weather or hot climate, Bell.
Ipe. Caps. Calc. Bryo. Carb. V. Digit. Puls. or
Verat....-    do. When coldness predominates, Ipe.
Puls. Sabad. Phos. Carb. V. or Caps..-.- do. When there is excess of heat, Acon.
Cocc. Nux V. Ignat. Ars. Bell. Ipe. Sabad. or
Vale'.
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and sweating, give Ipe. NuxV.Quini. Caps. China.
Puls. Rus. T. or Verat.
do. If it is attended mostly with heat and
sweating, Bell. Bryo. Caps. Chain. Hep. Ignat. or
Quini.
do. If there is dull headache inclining to
stupor, give Opi. Cocc. Bell. Nux V. Hyosc.
Stramo.
I do. (Edematous swelling taking place
in the progress, give Bryo. HIell. Ars. Prus. ac.
or China.
In places where intermittent fever is prevailing, or when persons are liable to contract it, remedies may be used as preventives to guard
against an attack, such as China. Ipe. Nux V.;
a dose of one of these taken every day, or one of
them on one day, and another the next day, and
so on, is said to prevent an attack, and guard the
system against it.
PEUERPERAL.
PEUERPERAL. —The most proper remedy at the
first stage is Acon.; after a short time, if there
should be a good deal of excitement, or nervous irritation attending, it will be proper to give Nux V.
or Ignat. or one of these medicines in alternation with Acon.; after the first or urgent symptoms are over, it will be neecssary to give one of
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164        HOMIEOPATHIO PRATITCE.
toms-Ars. Bryo. Canth. Chain. Colocy. Mere,
Puls. or Veratrum.
If the pains continue severe, use Bryo. Colocy.
or Verat.
If cramps or spasms are attendant, Ignat. or
Nux V.
It there is retention of urine, Canth. or Uva.
U. or Merc.
For the weakness which may ensue, use Chin.
Phos. Calc. or Wine. (See Women, this article.)
PLAGUE.
PLAGUE. —From the best information had,
it is thought that the most useful remedies
for it in the first stage, are, Acon. Bell. or Ipec.
or Ars. As Guaco. is highly useful in the violent fevers of Central America, no doubt it would be
useful in the plague. The other remedies enumerated are Nitr. ac. Kreoso. Silec. Carb. V. or
Lach.
RAPHANA. ECLAMPSIA TYPHOIDES.
RAPHANA.-This, fortunately, is a rare disease.
It is attended with nausea, vomiting, foul tongue,
nauseous taste, headache, giddiness, cramp of the
stomach, and throwing up black matter. In the
progress, there is a cold clammy skin, great
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vanced stage, a putrid state ensues, with delirium
and stupor.
For this severe disease, Hahnemann found Solanum Nig. one of the best remedies-almost
specific. Others recommended are Acon. Bell.
Sec. C. Cupr. Rus. T. Hyosc. Stramo. or Ars. At
first, when there is fever, Acon. If burning heat
and redness of skin, Bell. Palpitation of the
heart or cramps, Ignat. of Hyosc. Brain affected,
Stramo. or Hyosc.  Cold skin, Cupr.  Quick
pulse, nervous agitation, and extreme prostration,
Ars. or C.
Rheumatic —Acon. Bell. Bryo. Caust.
Colocy. Cham. Dulcam. Mere. Nux V. Puls. Rus.
Ranan. Bulb. are the most useful.  (See Rheumatism.)
do. Petechiai. The remedies are the
same as for nervous, typhoid, or putrid fever.
do. Putrid. This state takes place in the
advanced stage of typhus or malignant fevers.
It is a low prostrated condition —the remedies
are, Ars. Canth. Carb. V. China. M~/erc. Phos.
Muriatic acid, or Sec. C. and good Wine or
Porter.
SCARLET FEVER.
SCARLET FEVER. This disease makes its appearance nearly every year, in particular districts, or
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166        HOMcEOPATHIO PRAoCTICE
radic and rather mild, at other times it prevails
as an epidemic, and with great severity; it is considered contagious, and when it spreads as a
severe epidemic, its contagious character is
very manifest.
It comes on with the general symptoms of fever, attended with pain in the head, and limbs,
and abdomen, with chills. The throat soon gets
sore and somewhat swelled, a dry cough sets in;
after a day or two, a fine red eruption appears;
sometimes there is a flushed redness without
much visible eruption; this generally begins on
the face and neck, and then spreads over other
parts.  At this time the throat and tongue are
very red.  In severe cases when not checked,
swellings and ulceration take place in the throat.
If there is considerable fever at the commencemnent, give Acon. say ten drops of the second or
third dilution, or a higher attenuation as the
prescriber may prefer: put it into half a gill of
water, and give a tea spoonful every two hours,
or two or three grains of a trituration of the
same attenuation may be mixed in the same
quantity of water, and given in a like way. Those
who prefer the medicated pellets will use them in
preference. As soon as the active fever is moderated and the red eruption appears, give Bell.
in the same manner as above directed for using
Acon.  This is the specific remedy for this form
of the disease. With the early and proper use




of these medicines, most cases are so checked as
to render the disease moderate, or it is cured
altogether.
Let the patient drink cold water, and aypply a
cloth wetted with cold water to the throat and
chest; other remedies recommeded and used in
some states of the disease, are Baryt. -C. Lach.
Mere. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Opi. Puls. Phos. Rus. T.
or Stramo. If the disease continues obstinately
and the throat gets ulcerated, give Mere. alone,
or in alternation with Bell. or Rus. T., or such
medicine as may be indicated by the symptoms.
If there is prostration, use Ars. or Nux V.
When there is burning of the skin, chillness,
or stupor, use Opi. Cocc. or Rus. T.
If the stomach is deranged and face pale, Puls.
or Ignat. or Nux V. are the proper medicines.
If the throat and fancies are inflamed or
swelled, give Spong. Hep. or Ars. or Mere.
If repercussion, or receding of the eruption
takes place, give Bryo. Bell. Cupr. Acet. or Hell.
Iodi. Phos. or Rus. T.
In the sinking or typhoid form, give Ammo. C.
Muri. ac. Opi. Phos. Phos. ac. or Quinine. In
this condition a spoonful of yeast often repeated
is advisable, or use wine in the salne way.
For the secondary or swelling state, give Ars.
Auru. M. Baryt. M. Camph. Hep. Hell. Muri. ac.
Nitr. ac. Nux V. Phos. Rus. T. Tart. A. Sulp. or
Apis. Mell. When the scarlet fever is prevail



168        HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
ing in any place, to prevent an attack, it is found
that Belladona is a preventive of the disease; by
using it, the disease is so modified, if persons are
seized with it, that the case is but a mild one.
The proper mode of giving it is, to use three or
four drops of the third or fourth dilution once a
day, or every other day; or a grain of the second or third trituration may be used in the same
manner; or the medicated pellets may be used
instead of either of the above named preparations.
SHIP.
SHIP, or jail, or nervous.-In this affection,
it will be advisable to bear in mind the observations made in the succeeding article on typhus. The mode of treatment generally detailed
for the treatment of typhus will be suitable for
this disease. If the case is attended with nervous sensibility and continued fever, the remSdies are, Acon. Bell. Bryo. or Hyosc. or Stramo.
Should there be an inclination to stupor, slow
fever, or nervous affection, use Bell. Rus. T.
Tertian —Acon. Bryo. Ipe. or Ars.
Angust. China. Verat. (See intermittent fever, for
a detail of the remedies.
TYPHUS FEVER.
TYPHUS FEVER. That kind of disdase termed
typhus, or that which runs into a typhus state.




SCA MLET -i' Ew.
NOTE ON SCAREL r FEviE. —In the first stage,
Nwhen the'e is'iasea or vomitino' as there often
s, g~ive ILgc. in a high a'ttenuation, say 3d, 36th, or
higher, in very iminute doses, this allays the vomiting in a short tiIme   if there is mnuch fever as
there generally is, give Acoin. in alternation with
the Ipecac. or. when the nausea subsides, omlit
the Ipecac. and continue the  Acon.
When the eruption or fluslhy redness appears,
give Bell. and this mzay be  Wveil al(one every two
or three holurs, or if there is a good deal of fever.
give Acon. in alternation with it-the Bell. oucght
to be continued until the flushyv redness abates or
subsides, but it    l had )etter not be usel over 30 or
50 hours, ifo  there is danger of its producing a
Belladona  aggravattion, whic1h, if contillnued
will cause injurious effects.  The best application
to the neck at the early stage is cloths wet in
cold water, and if there is a good deal of inflamniation and heat, ice had better be added to the water.
Ille best and only drink recluired, or that a child
will take is cold water or ice water; small drinks
of it should be often given.  After this stage has
passed, if the fever and swelling at the neck continue, give Bryo. Ipec. and occasionally Bell. or
Canth., or if there is a stinging sore pain in the
throat, Dolioh. will be a good remedy.  in ttbe
more advanced stage, when the glands of the
throat are enlarged, give Mere. and Ipec. in alternation.




SC!3I0ALET FEVrEVn.
With this treatment at this stage of the c'se,
the disease is generally arrested,. a1nd thoe patient
recovers.  Bult sometimines as tile case advances,
the swellino' of -lie glands oi th3 throat and neck
become laroge inside as well as outwardly, and.
excoriations, a)tlhea or ulcers -frna o-n  th'e tonsils
and tfaces and teLre takes place a fllanss and
stuffing up of tle nose or throat, o both; 01ometimes a tough ropy corrosive ninucs forms and is
discharged. in this condition and stage, tie best
remedies are Carbo. of Ammonia or i-Bichromlate
of IPotash, given in small repeated doses, and
BAer-c. should be given in alternation with one of
these medicines, whichl will be vev y usefil.  In
this condition, an excellent application to the neck,
(it is rather a domestic remedy, and one   I have
often used,) apply a slice of salt pork taken friom
the brine, and let it be kept applied to the nelck.
By this course, I have carried some severe cases
of this kind safely through.
My observation and experience is against the
use of blisters or Imustard plasters and volatile
liniments applied to the throat and neclk.  With
this treatment, there are objections to them, and
nore ddedly agyainst the use of gargiles of
cayenne pepper~, acnd such like stimulating and iriitating applications to the mouth and throat internally; if any thing of this kind is used, it had
better be some mild flui9d and rather to dilute
and wash out the mucus, than to corrode or astringe the part.
2A plan of treatnment of which this is an outline,
has almost unilfbrmlv succeeded for years in carrying these  cases and the little sufferers  safely
through to health.




FEVER                  1.69
Illn the progress of the case which appears in the
country hereabout, and in the City, we have reat
son to infer and believe, that there has been somle
erroneous opinions held respecting it, and sometimes an equally erroneous mlode of treatment
pursued, and that those opinions so influence the
management of cases as to be a means of producing a typhus state, a protracted course of disease, and an increased state of danger.  As far
as we have been able to investigate this subject
for a series of years, we have observed that fevers
of this description, or the remittents which runs
into typhus, as they appear in this climate or
latitude, in the first stage, or at the attack, are of
a phlegmasial or compound inflammatory or congestive nature; hence the weakness and debility
which is often apparent at this stage is a prostras
ted condition, and proceeds from  an obstructed
circulation of the blood, and an interruption of the
vital and muscular powers. This character of
disease, no doubt, is a different condition of the
system  from the low typhoid fevers which take
place in jails, ships, and among a dense crowded
population.
Should the prescriber consider the case before
him of a typhoid tendency in the begining, an [
prone to direct debility, so as to induce him  i:
avoid the use of remedies to relieve phlegmasial
action, or to remove congestion, and he directly
has recourse to exciting or stimulating- sudorific re




I T' 0        0MoWoPATLIo0 PRAtcICe,
medies, or opiates, or mercurials, as sometimes is
done) they bid fair to have a protracted typhoid
case; sometimes prescribers are inclined to give
cordial stimulant articles, and even wine, early,
to guard against typhus, and to prevent the patient friom  rtu.nning clozown, as it has been termed;
they also resort to the use of calomel and opium
early, reasoning  that if the  system  can  be
brought under a mercurial action, the disease,
may be controlled and broken up. M[ost practitioners may be aware that these remedies used at
the first stage of phlegmasial disease, tend to aggravate the affection, and may convert a simple
case into an obstinate protracted one. In making
these remarks, we do not mean to be understood
as objecting to the use of cordial stimulant articles in the advanced stage; after the action or
acute febrile symptoms are removed, a very great
error practised in the cure of the sick, seems to
have been the use of cordial stimulant remedies,
in the beginning of febrile phlegmasial diseases,
as the history of the severe violent diseases of
our country amply shows.  (See appendix A.)
When fevers of this character in the first stage
are treated with remedies best calculated to remove a compound inflammatory condition, and
regulate the action of the blood vessels and the
system, the disease may generally be interrupted,
and an intermission obtained in about five to
seven days  there will seldom  be a case which




FEVER.                171
runs on to or beyond nine days; then very slight
or no typhoid symptoms appear. Such has been
the result of our observation for many years.
Several years ago, Dr. Maygel delivered an address before the New York State Medical Society
on the typhus fever of this country, in which it
was argued that those fevers were in the first
stage of a compound inflammatory nature, and
that the advisable and proper remedies at first,
were those best calculated to -relieve that condition
of the system. In Armstrong's treatise on typhus,
a similar doctrine is advocated, and a recommendation of a similar treatment.
When the system is laboring under a severe attack of such a disease, by giving freely spicy
stimulating or opiate articles, in the first or early
stage, tends to overload or depress it still more,
or increase the phlegmasial congestive condition;
and the more violent the action or depression is at
first —if not restrained or relieved or aggravated by remedies, the sooner it runs its course,
and the disease changes its type to a typhoid or
gangrenous state.
In attempting to treat this kind of disease, disposed to become typhoid, with  Homcepathic
remedies, which have been pretty well proved to
be preferable to those generally used by Allopathic practitioners, the general maxims above
detailed had better be borne in mind. The remedies to be selected for the first stage should be




172        HOM]EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
those best adapted to cure compound inflammatory or congestive states of disease; at first, use
Acon. This should be steadily continued until
the chills are over.  If there should be nausea
or vomiting, it wtll be advisable to give some
globules of a high attenuation of Ipec. or Anti.
either before the Aecon. or in alternation with it,
and to continue this course until the urgent symptoms are allayed. If there is severe headache and
a red face, give Bell. or Iris. Versic. Or should
there take place crampy symptoms, give Nux V.
alone, or in alternation with Acon. If there exist marked symptoms of phlegmasial action, use
the remedy best adapted to relieve and subdue
this state of disease.
If the fever continues high, it will be advisable to
continue the Acon. alone, or in alternation with
other remedies, which may be indicated. It will
be important to procure free evacuations from
the bowels, by the use of some of the medicine
named under Constipation, or if these do not
succeed, a very useful and efficient one may be
found in the podophyllin.
It appears some Homceopathic practitioners as
we are well informed, suffer cases of disease of
this kind to pass along five, six, or more days,
without procuring an evacuation from the bowels;
this is a very unsafe and injudicious course to pursue. In remittent fevers, and particularly those
inclined to become typhoid, there is an accumu



FEVE.                17
Ration of material in the alimentary canal which
ought to be evacuated, and this effect aids much
in producing a favorable termination of the case.
The mode recommended by Hamilton of using
agents to act on the bowels, is one of the best
means in Allopat-hic practice to cure this kind of
disease; and it is doubtful, whether such agents
would loose all their efficacy combined with Homceopathic remedies.
When by the course above detailed, the active:state of fever and the compound inflammatory
symptoms are removed early, much of the subsequent di-ffitulty will be obviated.
If the disease with fever continues, use BryoCham. Puls. or Tart. Anti.
If there is a dullness of the head or stupor,
give Cocc. Hyosc. or Opi.
If there is uneasiness or irregularity of the
bowels, use IMerc. or Chain. or Nux V.
Should there becolic pains, give Colocy. Ignat.
or Nux V.
If there is difficulty or irregularity in the uriary organs or functions, use Canth. Uva. Urs. or
Petrol.
If there come on cramps of the bowels, or'tenesmus, give Ignat. Nux V. or Sulp.
Should the skin become cold or a watery diarirhcea set in, then use Veratrum. or Arsen.
If prostration or typhoid symptoms occur, give
Carb. Veg. Silec. or Ars.




174        HOMCEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
For the debility which succeeds the fever, use
China. Quinine; Chain. Wine, &c.
If delirium or coma comes on, examine the articles under these heads for a suitable remedy.
Should there be a disposition to an affection of
the brain, give Acon. Cocc. Bell. or Lach. Stramo.
Phos. or Cupr. If there is a pressure on the
lungs, with distress of the chest and heavy respiration, give Bryo. Ammo. C. Rus. T. Nux V.
Phos. or Ars. or Verat. Should there be distress,
pressure, and derangement of the stomach, use
Puls. Ignat. Nux V. or Bryo. or Chin. If the
case shows a disposition to gangrene, give Merc.
Carb. V. or Ars. Chin. Canth. Sulp. ac. Nux V.
or Mosch. and some good yeast, Porter, or Wine.
(See appendix B.)
Some one hundred and eighty cases of fever,
which assumied the typhoid form, are reported to
have been cured by- iahnemann, by Bryona. and
Rus. Tox. given alternately.
TYPHUS ABDOMINALIS.
TYrPHs ABDOMINALiS. The remedies useful in this disease, are such as are recommended
above. When the diseased action locates on the
stomach and bowels, as the term implies, the remedies should be directed to this part. In the
first stage, use Bryo. Chain. or Nux V. it will be
important to procure evacutions from the bowels.




FISTULA.              175
In the advanced stage, -hen there is low fever
and nervous derangement, use Ars. fMur. ac. or
Carb. V. Canth. Rus. T. Phos. ac. or Mosch.
(See nervous fever.)
TYPHUS CEREBRALIS.
TYPHUS CEREBRALIS. Aeon. Bryo. CoccRus. T.; the other remedies are the same as those
for typhus generally.
YELLOW OR TYPIHUS ICTEOROIDES.
YELLOW OR TYPHUS ICTEOROIDES. In the first
stage, give Aeon. Arnic. Bell. Bryo. Canth. or
Ipe. If the disease advances, and the symptoms
are severe, the remedies most approved are Crotal. Lach. Merec. Nux V. Ius. R. Rus. T. Verat.
or Guaco. or Puls. China. or Ars.
FISTULA.
FISTULA is an ulcer of a protracted kind. They
often form deep holes or cavities in the adjacent
parts, or they run along under the skin; these
are called Sinuses. Sometimes the sides of these
cavities become covered or lined with a hard
callous substance; then they are termed Callous
or Fistulus Ulcers, meaning a pipe; from their
likeness to a tube or pipe, they have attained
this name.




ti7       HOMCEOPATHIG PRACTICeE
By the use of Homceopatlhic remedies, internally used, this disease is said frequently to be
cured. The remedies proper are Calea. Caust.
Coni. Lyc. Mur. ac. Nitr. ac. Phytol. Silec. or
Snilp.
-    In Ano. This disease is produced by
an abscess forming at the extreme lower end of'
the bowel on the outside of it and directly above
the anus. The matter works its way out and discharges by the outer side of the anus and near tco
it; though in some cases the openings is made
through the bowel (gut) and the matter is dis —
charged into the rectum, and so passes off in the
usual way with the excrements. The latter mentioned opening may be one, two, or three inches.
up-from the sphincter ani. When the abscess
breaks into the bowel, it is called an incompletefistula; when the opening forms by the side of
the anus, it is termed a complete sinus or fistula
in ano.
This disease appears to have improperly ob,
tained the name of Fistula in Anol, when it is generally only a sinus; but in progress of time fistuIonus or callous edges may form  in it, and then.
the term pipe or fistula would be proper enough.
This disease is often connected with prolapsus
ani, or slipping down of the bowel or some variety of PILEs. The internal remedies proper for its.
cure are Cale. C. Caust. Carbo. Ani., and some
one of those above mentioned remedies. Also,,




Iveous.               17 
local treatment for the ulceration and diseased
state of the parts will be requisite. This, however,
we leave to the judgment of the medical atten-d
dant.
Cases of Fistula in Ano are reported to have
been cured by the use of Homceopathic treatment.  We have known caustic and sulphur
used-a dose of each given in a day, and continued several months, with occasionally Nux V.,
succeed in curing a fistula, attended with prolapsus ani and bloody purulent discharge.
There are cases of Fistula, however, which
cannot be cured by any means short of a surgical
operation for this disease, and this course, in
many cases, is entirely safe, and the shortest and
surest to pursue.
It has fallen to our lot in a number of cases to
perform  this operation.  We have adopted a
mode of doing it considerably different in some
respects from that described by surgical writers
or pursued by practitioners. It appears to be of
importance enough to render a description of it
worthy of a place here.
Instead of using a probe pointed history, take
a long, slender sharp-pointed one, and guard the
point with a small piece of beeswax as large as a
pea. Introduce this instrument into the sinus or
fistula; pass the point up to the upper end of the
sinus; if the fistula is on the right side of the
rectum, the left hand should be used; if on the




178        HOH(EOPTHIC PRACTICOE.
left side of the rectum, use the right hand. The
index finger of the other hand should be guarded
with a smooth pine splint, about half an inch
wide, a little hollowed on the side next to the
finger, and rounded on the opposite side. This
splint should extend fiom the point of the finger
into the hand, so as to keep it steady; the finger,
thus guarded, introduce into the anus, carry it
up as far as the sinus extends and opposite to the
point of the bistory; then press the point of the
instrument forward toward the splint, and it Cuts
through the wax, and the rectum and the point
settles into the guard; then draw both hands to~gether out and away, keeping the point of the
instrument pressed into the splint. The parts are
now smoothly and freely divided all the way out,
and the sinus fully laid open. Then stuff the
cavity with lint, and treat the patient in the usual
way.
A number of cases of Fistula in Ano have been
operated on in this manner, which has uniformly
been successful, and a radical cure has been the
result.
FLATULENCE.
FLATULENCE. —For this affection, which is well
known, give Chain. Carbo. Veg. Kali. Iod. Kali.
DBic. _lux V. Phos. Silec. or Verat.




GANGLION.             179
FROZEN FEET.
See Asphyxia, Frost Affection, Chillblains.
FUNGUS.
FuNGus.-An unnatural growth of spongy
flesh or granulations, which form  in ulcers,
called proud flesh. The internal remedies most
useful for it are Graph. Iodi. Petrol. Sep. or Tart.
Anti. or Sulp.
This affection will also be benefitted by a local
application of gentle astringents or exciting or
caustic remedies, though severe caustic remedies
are often injurious.
-   Hematoides.-A species of fungus excrescence. The remedies for it are Phos. Silec.
Staphy. and the preceding articles.
GANGLION.
GANGLION.-This is a small bard tumor, unattended with pain, seated on a tendon. They are
somewhat movable, and contain a fluid resembling the white of an egg, which is enclosed in a
sac; the growth is slow; they seldom become




180        HOMEOCPATTHC MPRACTICE
larger than a nutmeg; the limb generally is
weaker than the other. If they ulcerate, a painful and foul ulcer is produced. (These are popularly'called Weeping Sintews.) The remedies for
them are Amrmo. C. Arnie. RRus. T. Silec. or Zinc.
Compression to the part may be used with very
good effect.
GANGRENE OR MORTIFICATION.
GANGRENE OR MORTIFICATION.-I1l the first
stage of mortification, it is termed GangreneThis disease takes place under a variety of conditions of the body; it affects a part locally, or
becomes the effect of a general disordered state
of the system. The treatment will depend somewhat on the nature of' the disease with which it
may be united.
The remedies generally most useful are Ammo.
C. Ars. Bell. Chin. Ephorbi. Iodi. Kreoso. Silec.
or Sec. C. In some stages, wine or porter may
be proper. But when gangrene is the effect of
acute inflammation from local or mechanical injury, it is better to be cautious in using wine or
alcoholic stimulants. Serious injury may result
from a free use of these remedies. Cases are
sometimes rendered more fatal by a free use of
those remedies.




GENITALS.             181
GASTRALGIA.
GASTRALGIA. —This is a painful affection of the
stomach. The remedies for it are Ars. Bell.
Baryt. M. Bismuth. Carb. V. Colocy. Ignat. Iodi.
Lach. Lobel. Mere. Nux V. Sabad. Silec. or
VQrat. —[See Stomach.
GASTRITIS.
See Inflammation of the Stomach.
GASTROSES.
See Dyspepsia.
GENITALS.
GENITALs.-These organs are subject to a large
variety of diseases. Some of the prominent ones
affecting the male organs, will be treated of under this head. The affections of the female organs are considered in the section for diseases of
Women; the diseases of the Bladder are placed
under that head; that of Gonorrhoea under that
head, &c.
cold and swelled situation. The remedies are Argent. Agnu. C. Baryt. Cann. S. Natr.
C. or Sulp.
-- epididymis swelled or enlarged. —Sulp.
Thuy. or Zinc.
----- impotence. This is a loss of the virile




182         HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
powers of erection.-The remedies for it are
Anacard. Ignat. Iodi. Merc. Nicc. Nitsr. ac. Nux
V. Petrol. Phos. Rus. T. Silec. or Sulp.
ONANISM.
ONANISM. —This is one of the causes of impotence, the effect of a depraved, libidinous mind,
and a deranged state of the body, and of those organs in particular.
Onanism is derived from the cognomen of a man named ONAN, Genesis, ch. xxxviii.
ver. 9: as the term is used, it is incorrect. Onan's
crime was not self-pollution —see the verse quoted.
A great many persons of both sexes are not aware
that a practice does prevail to a considerable extent, by means of which, friction made on the
genital organs, a pleasureable sensation is experienced, somewhat similar to that produced by
sexual connection; which act, when done per se,
or by one's self, is termed self POLLUTION or Onanism. The practice is often followed by a train of
disease or debility, such as nervous affections,
impaired state of the mind, loss of memory, dementia, weak back, emaciation, a loss of the use
and the powers of the sexual organs; this latter
state is called IMPOTENCE. We have witnessed
some serious cases of this kind.
To show the correctness of our statements, we




GENITrrLS.            183
make the following abstract from among a variety
of cases.
A gentleman from the south, aged 34, unmarried, came under our observation in 1845. He
had for a long time practised Onanism, (as
termed.) Although intelligent, and had held a
prominent office in the Texan army, he was not
aware of the injurious effect of the practice. At
last, he experienced the evils, by his health giving way, he was entirely impotent, the testicles
were diminished in size, soft and flabby, had dyspepsia badly, was very costive, pain through the
chest, severe pain in -the back and hips, intense
headache and vertigo, sight impaired and flickering, was languid and weak, mind wandering
and indifferent, retiring, and avoided female company, depressed in spirits, skin cold and torpid
involuntary nocturnal emissions.
By continuing under our care, in the persevering use of Homceopathic remedies, about
eight months, he entirely recovered.
The remedies which are recommended and
most useful to cure the propensity to such a practice, are Cod liver oil, Iodine, and the medicine
mentioned above for impotence. Also, advice
and moral restraint ought to be impressed upon
the mind, so as to induce the person to abstain
from and abandon so injurious a practice.
Itching of. Arnic. Anacard. Auru.
Ignat. Iodi. Merc. Nice. Natr. C. Xux V. Petrol'




184        HOM(EOPATHIC P1RAOTICE.
Phos. ac. Puls. Rus. Tox. Selec. Stann. Staph. or
Sulp.
- Lasciviousness. Canth. Baryt. M. Iodi.
Stramo.
Pain or burning in.  Podoph. P.
Raph. R. Rhodod. Spong. Stann. Staph.,Sulp.
Thuy. Verat. or Zinc.
Penis blue. Arg. Nit. Agnu. C. Bromi. Sulp.
Cordee. Give Canth. Cann. I. Silec.
Tereb. orJBromi.
Penis emissions, involuntary. Use Calc.
Canth. Caust. Merc. Mosch. Nux M. Petrol.
Phos. Plumb. Acet. Ran. Bulb. Rus. Tox. Sabad.
Selen. Sepi. Stann. Staph. or Sulp.
- Penis-erections frequent. Canth. Baryt. M. Spig. Rhodod. Tarax. or Thuy. are the
proper remedies.
do. eruptions on. Silec. &c.
do. excrescences or condolymata on.
Sabi. Thuy. (to be used internally and externally.)
do. fig warts on. Sabi. Staph. or
Thuy.
do. glans itching or swelled. Colocy. Sarss. Rhodod. Sep. Spig. Spong. Stramo.
Sulp. Sulp. ac. or Thuy.
do. inflamed and pain on tip of the
glans, Give Acon. Cann. S. Colocy. Coni. Lyc.
-Merc. Mangan. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Sep. or Zinc,




1 kAArHam1reOS.          185
Penis, erections, jerking sensation in. Stann.
Zinc.
do.  pain and beating in. Sabad.
Sabi. Spong. or Thuy.
PHIMOSIS.
PEIMosIS. This is a contraction of the
Prepuse or fore-skin, so that it cannot be drawn
back over the glands penis, the part is generally
inflamed and swelled. The treatment should be
adapted to the nature of the affection. If it is produced by friction or chafing, use Anica. internally,
and apply it externally. If there is much pain and
swelling, fomentation may be very useful; the
other prdper remedies are, Calend. Rus. T. or
Puls.
If the disease is owing to Gonorrhoea, the remedies for that will be proper.
If to Syphilis, use Merc. Nitr. acid, or Thuy.
with same local treatment as above stated.
If Pus forms under the fore-skin, and is confined there, it may be necessary to divide the
skin to let it out, it is then better to apply dressings.
Other useful remedies are Cann. S. Nux V. or
Sulp.
PARAPHIMOSIS.
PARAPHIMOSIs. When the fore-skin is drawn
back of the glands penis, and retained there, it is




186        HOMKEOPHAMTHIO PRAOTIOfl.
known by this term. The remedies for it are
warm water or,fomentation to the part; aided by
giving Acon. Merc. and remedies suitable to
those for Phimosis. If the stricture is considerable, and does not give way, it should be divided.
If gangrene of the part is threatened, give Ars.
or Sec. C.
Penis, itching and  sore.  Colocy.
Natr. C. Puls. Silec. Spong. Sulp. ac. or Verat.
do.  Priapism.  Use Canth. Caps.
Colocy. Graph. Kali. C. Lach. Lact. Viro. Lye.
Merc. Muri. ac. Natr. MI. Nux V. Nitr. ac. Phos.
Seneg. Sepi. Spong. Thuy. or Zinc. See Cordee.
do.  Swelled.  Plumb. Acet. Rus.
Rad. Spong. Sulp. or Thuy.
do.  Tittillation of glans.  Phot.
Feet. Sabad. Spong. Sulp. Tarax. Tart. Anti.
Thuy. or Zinc.
do. Twitching in. lNatr. M. 01. Anima. Phos.
Pubes, hair falling off. Calc. Zinc.
Scrotum swelled. Rhodod. Rus. Rad.
Rus. Tox. Samb. Silec. Spong. Sulp. or Thuy.
do. Itching and twinging in. Nicc.
Nux V. Petrol. Plumb. Puls. Rhodod. Selen.
Silec. Spig. Spong. Staph. or Sulp.
- Spermatic  cord  pained.  Coni. or
Zinc.
do. do. enlarged.  Coni. Phos. ac.




PARAPHIMOSIS.            187
Plumb. Acet. Podoph. P. Sec. C. Silec. Spong. or
Sulp.
Sexual desire or erections increased by.
Agnu. C. Canth. Iodi. Kalmi. Lauroc. Lact.
Viro. Nitr. ac. Nicc. Nux Jug. NKTux V. Phos. ac.
Plati. Puls. Ran. Bulb. Sabad. Sabi. Silec. Stann.
Staph. or Sulp.
do. restrained by. Caust. and some of
the preceding medicine.
do. do. diminished by. Bart. M. Mag.
C. Lyc. Nitr. ac. Nux 31. Rus. Rad. Sabad. or
Stramo.
Smell strong or rancid.  Xatr. M.
Phos. Rus. Tox. or Thuy.
Testicles, cramps in. Tereb.
do. diminished in size. Coni. Cocc.
Kali. Iod. Stramo.
do. drawn up.   01. Anima. Phos.
Plumb. Rhodod. Sec. C. Sep. Tereb. Thuy. or
Zinc.
do. indurated or scirrhous.  Coni:
Calend. and those medicines for an inflamed
or scirrhous state.
-do. inflamed.  Acon. Auru. Bell.
Baryt. C. Coni. Dulca. Hep. Lyc. Mere. Nitr. ac.
Phos. ac. Phyto. Sep. Silec. Spong. Staph.
Sulp. Tart. Ant. Thuy. or Zinc.
- do. Scrofulous affections of. Agnu. C.
Ars. Bell. Baryt. Chin. tHep. Iodi. Lye. Rus. R.
or Spong.




188         HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
do. Syphilitic affection. Aura. Merc.
Nitr. ac.-[See Syphilis.
-   -  do. Ulcers on. Coni. Thuy. or Sulp.
-  do. Cancerous. Thuy. and those medicines for scirrhous.
--  Urethra, burning and itching in. Arg.
N. Auru. Baryt. Bell. Cann. S. Camp. Colocy.
[See Bladder, this article.
r —-- - do. Bleeding from.  Arnic. Auru.
Bell. Coni. —[See Bladder.
-   -  do. Smarting or itching. Canth. Colocy. Lyc. Merc. Mosch. Nux V. Phos. ac. Prun.
Sp. Sabad. Silec. Sulp. ac. Thuy. or Zinc.
do. Stricture in. Coni. Petrol. Silec.
Sulp. or Thuy.
GLANDS.
GLAND. —That part of the body termed the
Glandular System is subject to diseases somewhat
peculiar to these organs. The remedies for the
various forms of diseased glands will now be detailed.
Cervicle or axilla, diseased, inflamed,
or indurated, the remedies are Coni. Iodi. Lyc.
Lach. Natr. M1. Nitr. ac. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sep.
Silec. Spong. Staph. or Sulp.
- enlarged. Give Bovista. Coni. Dulcam. Iodi. Rus. Rad. Sep. Spong. or Thuy.
Indurated. Use Arnmo. C. Ars. Auru.




GOITRE.              189
Baryt. Coni. Calandu. Carb. Veg. Iodi. Phytol.
Rhodod. Sep. Silec. or Staph.
Inflamed. The general remedies are
Acon. Arnic. Baryt. Brimi. Rep. Iodi. Lach.
Merc. Kitr. ac. Petrol. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sep.
Spong. Staph. or Sulp. ac.
- Inguinal, inflamed, and enlarged. Give
Hep. Iodi. Kalmi. Lat. Lach. Mere. Natr. C.
Nitr. ac. Rus. Tox. Sep. Silec. Spong. Staph.
Stron. Thuy. or Terb.
Lymphatics diseased. Ars. Coni. Iodi.
Sep. Silec. Stramo. or Sulp.
Prostate, enlarged. Auru. Coni. Kali.
Iod. Puls. Spong. Thuy. or Uva. Urs.
Scirrhous. Give Ars. Auru.. Bovist.
Bryo. Coni. Calind. Carb. Anima. Dulca. Hep.
Merc. Nux V. Phos. ac. Plumb. Acet. Rhodod.
Sep. Silec. Staph. or Thuy. [See Cancer.
Sublingual, diseased. Plumb. Acet.
Rus. Tox. Sabad. or Staph.
-   Tonsils enlarged. Bell. Baryt. Calca.
Ignat. Iodi. DMerc. Mosch. Phos. or Silec. [See
Angina, Tonsilitis.
GOITRE.
GOITRE.-This disease is similar to Bronchocele,
which see.




190         HOMCEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
GONORRH(EA.
GONORRTHEA.-This disease is generally communicated by impure sexual intercourse. It is
attended with a discharge from the urethra of
males and the vagina of females, of a muco-purulent matter. At first, the parts are affected with
smarting and pain of the parts, particularly so on
passing the urine.
The proper remedies for thi~s disease in the
first stage are those adapted to the cure of inflammation of those parts; such as Acon. Cann.
S. Kali.;Nitr. Avoid the use of exciting stimulating articles; the diet should be low and mild.
It is better for the patient to keep quiet and cool.
This course, followed up early, in a few days will
frequently succeed in checking or curing the
case.
If the symptoms are moderated, or the disease
continues, the following medicines will be proper
and are recommended: Bals.Cop. Can. Ind. Canth.
Lact. Viro. Merc. Natr. C. Puls. Petrol. Petroselinum Sepi. Tussilago Petasites. This last
is highly recommended in this disease. It frequently requires great care in selecting and using
the remedies.
When there is smarting in passing the urine,
use Bals. Cop. or Petroselinum, one or two drops
of the first or second dilution.




GLEET.                191
If the gonorrheea continues with phimosis, use
Merc. and Nux in alternation.
When there is a muco-purulent discharge, Hep.
Silec. or Merc.
When the inflammation is relieved, and the
discharge is serous, with some pain, use Sulp.
If there is but little pain or swelling, and the
running continues, give Merc. Sulp. or Silec; a
few globules two or three times a day.
In severe or protracted cases, some of the
other named medicines will be useful and worthy
a trial.
GLEET.
GLEET.-This is a secondary or chronic stage
of the preceding disease. It is often produced by,
or is the result of improper or injudicious use of
remedies for the first stage of gonorrhea. The
acrid and irritating remedies and injections of
this sort, used at first, may check the running,
but are frequently followed by a troublesome
gleet. It is attended with a discharge of whitish
mucous matter. This generally is not very painful, though sometimes it is so, and becomes very
tedious and troublesome. The  remedies are
Ammo. M. Canth. Clemat. Cubeb. Cann. Ind.
Kreoso. Mere. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Petrol. Sepi.
Silec. Sulp. or Thuy.
This affection is often very obstinate, particu



192        HOM(EOPATHIIC PRACTICE~
larly in females, where it is generally blended
with leucorrhcea (whites.) In the treatment, it
will be required to change the remedies, and try
to adapt them to the peculiar symptoms.
GUM BILES.
Gum  BILEs.-The remedies for this affection
are Ammo. C. Bell. IKreoso. Nux V. Phos. or
Sulp. [See Jaws,
GOUT-AITHRITIS.
GOUT-AITHRITI. — This disease  affects the
joints very similar to rheumatism. It is considered to be somewhat of a hereditary nature,
though not particularly so,.for it takes place in
persons who have not been contaminated by any
hereditary taint. It often attacks severely, continues a length of time, gets relieved bymedical
treatment, or by an effort of nature, it passes off,
and the patient may be well. Some persons are
liable to have periodical attacks; in others it takes
on a chronic form, and requires a long and careful course of treatment to cure it. The remedies
which have proved most useful in it are Acon.
Arnic. Ars. Auru. Bell. Bryo. Benzo. ac. Colocy.
Caust. Colchi. lodi. Nux V. Puls. Phos. Sulp.
Tart. Anti. or Chloride of Lime: the latter is said
to be very efficacious.
In robust, full habits, give Aeon. or Bryo.




GOUT.               193
If the pains shift from one part to another, or
are worse at evening, give Puls.
If there are dyspeptic symptoms, use Nux V.
or Puls.
If the pain is increased by the part being exposed to the air, give Ars.
If the pain is severe at night, the countenance
pale and haggard, give Ferr. or Rus. T. or
Chin.
When the pains increase towards morning, and
there are cramps or paralytic symptoms, give
Nux V.
If the pain is increased by motion, Bryo. is
proper.
If the joints are swelled and painful, give Sanguinaria.
CHRONIC CAsEs. —There are a great
number of remedies recommended for this stage.
Those enumerated at the head of this article are
the leading ones. Also, compare this with rheu,
matism, for which the remedies are very si,
milar.




194         HOMCEOPATHIIO PRACTICE.
ILEMORRITAGE.
I-TiMORRHAGE.-This term  means a discharge
of blood from some part of the body. It may be
the product of a full plethoric habit-then it is
termed active or aculte HIemnorrhIage-or it mnay
be connected with a state of weakness and debility; this is called passive bleeding. Tle relnedies mest usefil. fior the first or acute variety are
Acon. Bell. Ipe. Kali. Iod. Millefo. Nux V: Nitr.
ac. Scill. Tart. Anti. or Ilamamelis. [ill. and Hanali may be esteemed the most efficacious.
The remedies for thle passive or protracted state
of bleeding are Ars. Chin. Coni. Kileoso. Nitrl. ac.
Petrol. Plati. Sabi. Sec. C. Scill. or Capr. or Terebinth.
The states of the excitement of the system vary
and run into each other, so that it is difficult to
draw a line of distinction between the active and
passive conditions. The remedy, however, may
in a measure be learned by observation and some
experience, and by examining the Pathoganesis
of the drii gs.
From the Anus, iHcemorroids.  Give
Ignat. Lobeli. Lye. }Iillefo. Nux V. Sec. C. or
Sulp. [See h-I-aemorrhoids.
-   -- From  the Lungs, Ilcemoptesis. The
lungs are very liable to have blood discharged
from them. When it does not often occur, and
then only in smtall quantities, it gives but little




H-EiIORHRlAGE.           195
inconvenience; but when the bleeding is free or
returns often, it becomes a serious matter, and
requires attention.
The remedies most beneficial for it-if it is a
case of active bleeding-are Acon. Bell. Ipe. Millefo. or Hamamelis and other medicines mentioned above for the active condition of this
affection.
If it is attended with weakness, or if the case
becomes protracted, the following remedies will
be proper: Ars. Chin. Coni. Kreoso. Nitr. ac.
Plati. Sabi. Cupr., &c.
If it occurs in females who have a suppression
of the catamenia, use Puls. or Sepi. or iyosc. or
Hamnamelis.
If the attack is caused by mechanical injury,
Arnic.
If there is crampy symptoms or an irritable
temper, Nux V.
Those who are liable to attacks of this kind
of a disease may do much towards preventing
them by daily taking a dose of the 2d or 3d
attenuations of Calca. C. or the second or third
trituration of Ferr.
From the Nose, (Epistaxis.) The remedies for this disease are the same as those above
mentioned, and the same indications should be
observed respecting the active and passive states
of the system.
7*




196         OMCEOPFATHIC PRACXICE.
If the hsernorrhage seems to be from congestion of the head, Acon. Bell. Coni. or Chain. or
Alum or Rus. T. or Millefo. or -Hamam.
In females who have a diminished catamenia
or a suppression of it, Puls. or Sepi. or Sabi.
In weakened patients, OChin. Ferr. or Nitr. ac.
If from worms, Merc. or Cina.
If those remedies named do not answer, it will
be advisable.to try some of the others named.....-    From  the stomach, (Hematemesis.)
Blood discharged from the stomach is generally
by vomiting or eructations; it is supposed to
come off from the veins instead of the arteries.
If there is a full habit, attended with fever, use
Acon. or Ipe.
If there is venous fullness at the stomach, torpid state of thle bowels, or hoemorrhoids, Nux V.
If there is moderate pain and bringing up
small quantities of blood, Ars.
If it occurs.in females when there i4 suppression of the cataminia, Puls. or Sabi.
When there has been considerable blood thrown
up and debility:ensues, Carbo. V. or Chin. or
Ferr.
Caution should be observed about the diet; it
should be light, of a mild kind, and easy of digestion.




HAMIORRHOIDS.           197
HIEMORRHOIDS. (PILES.)
HEMORRHOIDS.-This disease affects the anus in
a painful and troublesome n-anner; sometimes
little lumps or tumors form on the margin of the
anus, or just within it. In other cases, there are
discharges of blood from the vessels of this part,
called haemorrhoidal bleeding; and another form
in which this part is affected is by a thickening or
enlargement of the inner surface of the rectum,
so that a portion of it protrudes, forming prolapsus ani.  This protrusion  more particularly
takes place when there is an evacuation from the
bowels, and then it gives great pain; sometimes
it is very-difficult to return it.
For this disease the following medicines are
the most useful. To effect a cure or permanent
relief they should be used a long time, and in
this manner cases may generally be cured or
relieved. Acon. Aloe. Ambr. Ars. Calca. C.
Carb. Ani. Carb. Veg. Chin. Colocy. Graph. Ignat. Iodi. Lach. Mere. Muri. ac. Nux V. Seneg.
Stramo. Sulp. or Thuy.
Experience shows that external applications
are not to be relied upon for a` permanent relief
of this or those diseases, though considerable may
be done by them to palliate the symptoms. For
this purpose some astringent, soothing applications are useful. As some preparations of Lead




198        HOMCEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
with Laudanum, Stramonium  Ointment, Arnic,
Iodine in Ointment, &c.....-   Anus, bleeding from. The proper remedies for this variety of haemorrhoids are Gum. Gtt.
Hep. Ignat. Lye. Led. P. Millefo. Nux V. Rus.
R. Sabad. Sepi. Silec. Sulp. Thuy. or.Zinc. or
Hamamreli.
- Anus, bleeding from with burning, or
smarting of the part-give Ammo. C. Cann. S.
Caps. Caust. Colocy. Coni. Mere. Nux V. Oleand.
Phos. ac. Pirun. Sp. Rus. R. Sabad. Sulp. Thuy.
Verat. or Zinc.
do. affected with cancer warts-use
Thuy. and some of the remedies named above.
do. excrescences or condylomata on it,
Nitr. ac. or Thuy.
Anus contracted.  For this difficult
affection, give Plumb. Rhodod. Sec. C. Silec.
4o-. creeping sensation in-Plati. Sabi.
Silec.
-  d. drawing sensation in —Rhodod.
do. Fissure in, the remedies which are
detailed for this troublesome disease in No. 1 of
the Nort/h A  erican Hoinmwpathic Journal, page
70, and following, are thus arranged. Nitr. ac.
Ignat. Plumb. Ars. Sulp. Lach. Sepi. Caust.
or Silec.
In 1850, we had a case of fissure and contracted anus in a lady. It was very painful in passing a
Ptoo1, which was produced only by cathartic arti



cles; the stricture was very rigid.  She was extremely costive. On examllination, the pain was
so exquisite, and the anus so contracted, that the
finger could not be introduced into the anus.
We put her upon the alternate use of Nux V.
and Sulp.; about the second attenuation of each.
She gradually improved so that in six months,
she was perfectly cured, and continued so over
two years; after that we did not hear fiomn her.
Anus, herpes on —Lyc. Natr. M. Petrol. Sabad. Staphy. Sulp. Thuy. or Zinc.
-  Anus, itching in-Aeon. Anacard.
Arg. Borax. Baryt. Bromi. Caust. Coni. Colocy.
Ignat. Iodi. Kali. Bic. Lyc. MIur. ac. Nitr. ac. Nux
V. Ing. Petrol. Plati. Phos. Rus. T. Sabad. Silec.
Sulp. Tereb. or Zinc.
-   do. Pain in-Nux V. Spong. Scill.
Sulp. Tabac. Thuy. or Verat.
do. paralyzed-Nux V. Nit. ac. Sabi.
Silec.
I-Iemorrhoids, anus prolapsus. This troublesome and painful disease is connected with what
is termed piles; it is a passing down. or slipping
out of the inner lining or diseased portion of the
lower part of the rectum, more so when there
takes place an evacuation froml the bowels. The
proper remedies to relieve or cure it are, Aloe.
Cale. Carb.'V. Caust. Gum. Gtt. Hyosc. Ignat.
Muri. ac. Nux V. Phos. Plumb. ac. Podophy.
Rus. T. Silec. Staphy. or Sulp.




200       tHOMlOPATHIC PRACTICE.
There are cases in which the quantity of
the morbid enlargement comes out in a considerable mass, sometimes as large as a black walnut,
a hen's egg, or larger; they become inflamed and
are very painful, if this condition continues long
and the diseased portion cannot be returned into
its place, gangrene may take place; when the excrescence is large and troublesome, and does not
yield, or the part is frequently slipping down,
it may be advisable to pass a ligature around
it at the base, so as to remove it.  This
generally relieves the patient from all further
difficulty by a cure of the disease. There is no
particular risk in removing the morbid part in
this manner. Such has been the result of our
experience in several cases operated on in this
way. We refer to two patients among many
others who had been affected very painfully and
annoyed a long time; there were two clusters of
this spongy diseased mass from each removed by
a ligature applied around their base; the mass
soon digested off. This happened twenty years
ago: they have had no inconvenience from this
disease since, and are now enjoying good health.
do. tumors or varicess -n-Lach. Phos.
Phos. ac. Plumb. Rata. Sabi. Sep. Silec. or
Thuy.
do. Ulcer on-Sarss. Sulp.
do. Warts, Fig. Thuy.




HEADACHE.             201
HAIR.
HAIIR falling out. The remedies to prevent
this are, Ammo. C. Arg. Calc. Carb. Veg. lhep.
Hell. Ignat. Iodi. Kali. Iod. Merc. Natr. C. Nitr.
ac. Phos. Petrol. Silec. Staph. or Sulp. (See
Scalp.)
HEADACHE.
HEADACHE and affections of the head. The general remedies are Acon. Arnic. Ammo. C. Ars.
Auru. Agnu. C. Anacard. Bell. Bryo. Bromi.
Camp. Caps. Canth. Carb. Ammo. Carb. V. Cocc.
Colocy. Coni. Glionine. or Dulcam. Hep. Hell.
Hyosc. Ignat. Iodi. Iris. Versic. Kreoso. Kalmi.
L. Lauroc. Mosch. Morph. Nux V. Opi. Petrol.
Phos. Puls. Rus. R. Rus. T. Ranan. Bulb. Sabad.
Staphy. Sulp. Vinca. Min. Thuy. Verat. or Zinc.
The remedies should be used in this order.
- Beating or throbbing in the head, or
hot sensation, give Canth. Colocy. Rus. R. Sang.
Sepi. Spig. Spong. Sulp. Verat. or Vine. Miin..-.-.- Burning sensation in-Bell. or Valer.
Congestion in-Acon. Bell. Cocc. Hyosc. Millefo. Morph. Nitr. ac. Oleand. Opi. Petrol.
Phos. Rus. R. Sabi. Sang. Silec. Stramo. or Tart.
Anti.
Creeping or itching feeling in-SScill.
Spig.




202         HOMcEOPATIIC PRACTICE.
Dizzy sensation in-Nux V. Stann.
Staphy. Tart. Anti. Verat. or Zinc.
Dull sensation in it, Bell. Hell. Lauroc. Lyc. Nicc. Nitr. ac. Oleand. 01. Anima.
Petrol. Phos. Phos. ac. Plumb. Acet. Puls. Ran.
Bulb. Sabad. Sabi. Silec. Spig. Staph. Thuy. or
Tart. Anti.
---- Falling backward, sensation of-Rhodod. or Caust.
- do. forward, sensation of-Staph. Sulp.
or Sulp. ac.
- Giddy sensation, Caust. Lacli. Nux V.
Rhodod. Rus. Tox. Sabi. Sambu. Sang. Seneg.
Sep. Spong.Staph. Straimo. Sulp. or Zinc.  (See
Vertigo.)
- Jerking sensation, Colocy. Silec. Scill.
Stramo. Sulp. Sulp. ac. Tart. Anti. Thuy. Valer.
or Verat. or Caust.
- Intoxicated sensation, Cann. Ind. Rhodod. Tabac. Tereb. Valer. or Zinc.
- Loose sensation, Sulp. ac. or Zinc.
N'ervons or sick headache. For this
troublesome affection of the head, the following
medicines are found to be the most useful. It
will be necessary to vary them, and perhaps, to
try several of them in many cases before a cure
will be effected.: Ars. Bell. Bryo. Colocy. Glionine. Ignat. Iris. Versicolor. Kali. Bic. lKreoso.
Kali. Iod. Lach. Mosch. Nux V. Puls. Petrol.
Phos. Prun. Sp. Rus. T. Stron. Tabac. Sulp. ac.




HEADACHE.              203
or Verat.-Iris. V. is said to be specific; by comparing the symptoms with the medicine in a pure
Materia Medica, a most suitable remedy may be
selected.
Pain over the eyes. Bell. Rus. R. Selen. Stron. Sulp. Tabac. Tereb. Thuy. Valer.
or Verat.
do. IHorrid in -Iris. V. Lach. Sol. N.
Stramo. Thuy. Vinc. Min. or Zinc. or Colocy.
do. intermittent, Ars. Chin. Spig. Tart.
Anti. Verat. or Verba.
do. worse in the night, Hyosc. Stron.
Sulp.
do; periodical, Ars. Chin. Prus. ac.
Sep. Stron. or Rus. T. or Caust.
do. Semilateral, Coni. Colocy. Puls.
Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Rhodod. Samb. Sec. C. Seneg. Sep. Spig. Spong. Sulp. Tart. Anti. Thuy. or
Zinc. or Caust.
d- do. in the temples, Valer. Verat.
Verba.
do. on top, or in the Occiput, Scill.
Stron. or Zinc.
- Pressing or gloomy sensation, Lach.
Merc. Mosch. Mag. S. Niicc. Nux V. Oleand. 01.
Anima. Petrol. Phos. Plumb. Prun. Sp. Ranan.
Bulb. Rus. Tox. Sabi. Samb. Sang. Silec. Stann.
Sulp. or Tart. Anti.
Pain pressing outward, Spig. Stann.
Sulp. Tabac. Tarax. Thuy. or Zinc.




204        HOiMOOPATHIC PRACTICE.
~ —---- Shaking sensation, Sep. Silec. Spig. or
Tart. Anti.
Staggering sensation, Rhodod. Sabad.
Seneg. Silec. Stramo. Stron. Sulp. Thuy. or
VTerat.
-- ~Stitches in, give Caust. Natr. C.
Natr. M. Nitr. ac. Oleand. 01. Anima. Phos. Ran.
Bulb. Rhodod. Rus. Tox. Rata. Sarss. Sep. Scill.
Silec. Spig. Spong. Stann. Valer. or Chin.... —   Stupifying sensation, Bell. 01. Anima. Opi. Rus. T. Sabad. Sepi. Spong. Staphy.
Straino. Sulp. ac. Tabac. Tart. A. Tereb. Thuy. or
Verat.
V- ertigo, Lach. Morph. Nitr. ac. Nux
M. Nux V. Opi. Petrol. Phos. Plumb. ac. Prun.
Sp. Puls. Ranan. Bulb. Sabad. Sabi. Sambu.
Sang. Seneg. Sepi. Spong. Stann. Staphy. Sulp.
Tarax. Tart. A. Tereb. or Zinc.
- Violent pain in the back of the head,
running to the neck, Kreoso.
If the head feels like bursting, burning and piercing, worse at night, give Merc. or
Sabad.
If the pain is owing to masturbation
or onanism, the sight impaired -sees luminous objects, has watery eyes.-Agnu. C. Kux V.
---- - If the pain is rending or jerking in
the temples, Puls.
If the pain runs upward from the
nape to the top of the head, Silec.




HEADaCIE.              205
Pains in the night with heavinesss,
and burning, and cold, on the top of the head,
Sulp.
Hemicrania, connected with sycoses.
The remedies are Thuy. Nitr. ac.
In young maidens, or hysterical females, with nausea or vo0niting, Verat. is the
remedy.
- Roaring coming on, in the morning
increased by talking, particularly on mental subjects, or Haemorrhoidal cases, Gold.
--. When from reading or studying, there
is a throbbing pain, buzzing, cold face, pain over
the eyes, Calcara.
- The following valuable selections are
from Dr. Peter's work on headache.  Nervous
or sick headache, similar remedies to those already mentioned, Iris. Versicolor. is recommended, it quickly allays the nausea.
Hemicrania, Aeon. Arnic. Bell. Valer.
Ammo. C. Nux V. Lach. or Sulp.
-   Congestive, or stupid states. Opi.
lHyosc. Bell. Stramlo. Coff. or Phos.
Menstrual, Sabi. Puls. Stramo. Auru.....-.Throbbing pain, Camph. or Valer.
If froml loss of blood, China. Ferr.
Mag. C.
-  Rheumatic or gouty patients, Acon.
Bryo. Puls. Rus. T.




200         zOrIMEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
In inflammatory or congestive state,
Acon. then Bell. or Sulp.
When from blows or injury, Arnic.
followed by Colocy. or INux V.
Congestive state sleepiness, Agaricus.
te*    From  liver complaint, Colocy.-if
there is throbbing or tossing, Ars.
Attended with full red face, Bell.
Phos.
Pain in the forehead pressing outward, stitches increased by stooping, Bryona.
When there is throbbing, and beating,
and red face, Camph.
Nervous giddy sensation, Camp. in
doses of four or five drops is said to be very effectual.
Pain raging and rending on one side,
increased on stooping or laying on the back, Colocynth.
Stupifying sensation, use 01. Anima.
Opi. Rus. T. Sabad. Sepi. Spong. Staphy. Stramo.
SnIlp. ac. Tabac. Tart. Anti. Tereb. Thuy. Valer.
or Zinc.
Vertigo.  The remedies are Lach.
Morph. Nlitr. ac. Nux M. Nux V. Opi. Petrol.
Prun. Sp. Puls. Sabad. Sabi. Samb. Sang. Scill.
Spong. Staphy. Sulp. Thuy. Tart. A. Tereb. or
Zinc.




HEART.                207
HEART.
tHEART. This organ may be considered the
most important in the body; it is the active
agent in its functions? and on this action the continuance of life immediately depends, while all
other organs and functions of the body are at
times more or less quiet and at apparent rest,
the heart is always il active operation to propel
the sanguineous fluid through the arteries, to
every part of the body. When this organ ceases
to act, the circulation of the blood stops, and the
vital principle soon leaves the corporeal tenement.
In some conditions of disease an increased
quantity of blood is forced upon the heart, or it
accumulates in the lungs, so that its action
is curbed or obstructed, and it is unable freely to
discharge the quantityj of fluid from it in the ordinary and necessary manner, when an increased
energy or relief in some wal is required to
overcome the resistance. ESee pages 15 and 16,
and the article on Congestion.] As one instance of
this kind, congestion of the lungs may be mentioned; in such cases the circulation is slow, the
pulse is flaccid, and there is evidence of a diminished quantity of vital air in the system.
The supreme and controlling position of the
heart, as being the first moving power of life, the
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208          OM(CEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
tinual efforts to preserve and perpetuate lifewould seem  to- be sumficient to shield it fiom
reproaches frequently cast upon it, such as a depraved heart, an evil heart, a malignant heart, a
wicked heart, and a heart continually inclined to
evil and vice;, it may be suggested whether w/il or
dis2osition, would not be a better term. The heart,
however, is subject to diseases, such as dropsy, inflammation,-the substance of it may be
diseased by enlargement, forming organic affection, or as it is termed hypertrophy,in the cells and
cavities where ossification sometimes takes place.
Aneurism of the great artery where it arises from
the heart may take place; we have witnessed a case
of this kind where the aorta was distended to
four times its natural size, yet, singular as it may
seem, the patient lived in this state many months.
From pressure of the tumor and pulsation against
the clavicle, the clavicle was absorbed through it,
at length a rupture of the vessel took place over
the top of the clavicle, a copious hbemorrhage ensued, and life soon was extinct.
But the most common disease affecting the
heart is an increased nervous sensibility, producing palpitations and irregular actions f various kinds.
Inflammation of the.-When this takes
place, it is very difficult to distinguish it from
similar diseases of the adjacent parts; there
is fever, severe pain through the part, and a




EA.RT.                2o09
fulI quickened pulse. The remedy first is Acon.
and cloths wet in cold water applied to the side.
It would be proper to follow this with Ipe. or
Bryo.
If there are crampy symptoms, use Nux V.
The general treatment would be similar to that
for inflammation of the lungs or chest.
-For organic affection and aneurism, Ars. Coni.
and Nux V. or Lyc. would be the best medicine.
See also Hyperthrophy.
The remedies for nervous irritability and palpitation, Acon. Arnic. Ambr. Angust. Ars. Auru.
Bell. Caust. Coni. Digital. HIep. Lach. Nux V.
Oleand. Opi. Phos. Puls. Rus. T. Silec. Spig.
Staphy. Sulp. Verat. or Zinc.
Cramps in or about it. —Ambr. Kreoso.
Lach. Morph. Opi. Oleand. 01. Anisi. Phos. Rus.
T. Sec. C. Thuy. or Zinc.
- Double beat, or violent *or irregular
action, Natr. M. Opi. Oxalic. ac. Spig. or Stramo.
Dropsy of the.  Acon. Arnic. Are.
Colchi. Spong. and the other remedies for
heart diseases.
-    Hypertrophy or organic enlargement,
Digital. Rus. T. or Ferr. Chin. Ignat. or Ars.
Iodi. ox. ac. Phos. Spong. Spig. oi Verat.
Nervous irritation of. Arg. N. Asa.
F. Bismu. Cham. Coni. Lach. Lact. Viro. Lauroc.
Nux V. Oleand. Phos. Puls. Plati. or Verat.
Palpitation of. Acon. Arnic. Angust.




210         H0MCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Arg. N. Ars. Arnie. Bell. Carb. Ani. Cale. Chin.
Colocy. Ignat. Ipe. Iodi. Kaini. L. Kreoso. Lach.
Lye. Mere. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand. Phos. Silec.
Podophy. Puls. Rus. R. Sabad. Staphy. Sulp.
Sulp. ac. Thuy. Valer: or Verat.
Pain in and about it.-Morph. Oleand.
Opi. Rus. R. Sang. Sulp. Sulp. ac. Thuy.
Spasms in. See Cramps.
Tremulous action. Spig. and the remedies for Cramps.
HERNIA OR RUPTURE.
HERNIA OR RUPTURE.-From some deficiency
irn the structure of the parts and fibres composing
the surrounding sides of the abdomen, or from a
strain or violent action, a yielding or giving way,
which sometimes occurs, and a portion of the
bowel or contents of the abdomen are pressed
through the aperture, forming what is termed a
Hernia or Rupture.
Those who have this disease should wear a
truss well adapted to keep the bowel up in its
place. Unless this precaution is used, the part
slipping down is apt to become larger and more
troublesome; sometimes by neglect or other
causes the protruded part gets to be distended,
inflamed, and swelled, so that it cannot be easily
returned to its place; then a contraction or stricture is formned at the place where it passes out of
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such cases it is often very difficult to return the
contents, and the circulation of the blood in the
bowel protruded, and the passage of the contents of
the canal is cut off and interrupted. If it is not very
early removed, gangrene of the part takes place.
The part where the rupture commonly takes
place is in the groin, at what is termed the abdominal ring.  Though ruptures do occur at
other places, such as at the navel, on the sides or
under Poupart's ligament in the upper and inner
part of the thigh, &c. When a rupture is strangulated; to reduce it, place the patient on the
back, and in a position to relax the muscles of the
abdomen, then with the hands make a pressure
on the tumor according to the rules laid down in
the books on surgery.
If there is much resistance and difficulty, the
process may be aided by giving the patient a
few doses of Acon. Bell. Nux V. Opi. or PLus. T.
If by these means used five or six hours the
reduction cannot be effected, surgeons direct
taking a large quantity of blood to produce a
relaxation of the system, by which also violent
inflammation may be prevented and the stricture removed. In some instances we have witnessed happy results from this course.
If the stricture is not relieved by these means,
it is recommended to give a large dose of an
Opiate; this produces a favorable effect after the
loss of blood.




212         HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
The proper remedies for external use are
cloths wet in cold water, or ice applied to the
tumefied part.
If by these means the reduction is not effected,
and particularly after bleeding, it will be very
serviceable to use warm fomentations to the part.
By these means perseveringly used the patient
may generally be relieved.
When all these means fail, as sometimes they
do, there is great danger in a short time of gangrene and mortification of the protruded part
taking place.
To prevent this fatal result, it will be proper
and sometimes necessary to perform the operation for strangulated hernia. Surgical writers
and teachers have given advice that after strangulation takes place, and proper means are used
to relieve it, and if they do not succeed in twentyfour or thirty-hours, there is great danger of gangrene and mortification.  Therefore, by this
lapse of time, or soon after, the operation for the
patient's safety had better be performed.
In the course of our professional experience
several cases, as above detailed, have come under
our care, and a sense of duty placed us in a situation to attempt a relief of the patient by the
operation; fortunately, they have thus been attended with success.
It may be important and worthy of record,
particularly to the reader, to state that when the




HERNIA OR RUPTURE..213
bowels or part of the contents of the abdomen
protrude, as above stated; a hernia or rupture is
formed; generally, this takes place just over the
pubes, in the groin. When the contents of the
rupture become inflamed or obstructed, it distends,
swells, and is very painful; the part or opening
where the bowel passes out, contracts and forms
a band like a ligature around the bowel. If this
stricture is not removed early, the life of the
protruded portion may be destroyed, and the
death of th6 patient is likely to ensue.
The operation for incarcerated hernia consists
in cutting through the skin over the tumor, dissecting down through the subcutaneous parts so
as to arrive at the ring or place where the stricture is formed; then by a delicate cutting instrument divide the fibres which form the band or
ligature; this removes the stricture; then the
bowel or contents of the rupture may be safely
and readily returned into its place in the abdomen, "when the parts should be brought together,
and the wound dressed in a surgical manner. By
this course, if the operation is well performed,
the life of the patient is preserved, and the part
where the protrusion took place -may likely unite
and grow so firmly together that it will not be
necessary to wear a truss afterward.
The Homceopathic remedies which will be useful to prevent and cure this disease are Auru.
Coni. Ignat. or Nux V.




214         HOM(0OPATHIC PRACTICE.
Some one of these medicines used steadily for
a length of time, particularly in infants and
young persons, will sometimes cure the complaint
or very much lesson the difficulty, though the
patient should wear a truss, and it would be advisable to consult a Homceopathic physician.
To illustrate this matter, and to show the importance of prompt and correct action in such
cases, we trust it may be a useful admonition to
those immediately interested in such diseases to
refer to some cases.
Many years ago, (about twenty,) a medical
council was called to a case of Mrs. C -, of
which we were one. It was about twenty miles
from the county-seat, and in the country. It was
ascertained that she had a femoral hernia; the
part had protruded out under Poupart's ligament. It was.now three days since it occurred.
Judicious. means had'been used by the medical
attendants for its relief, without success. The
council of six members concluded that the only
chance of relief was by an operation, and at once
that was proceeded with. By a free incision of
the skin, and dissecting down to the sac, we
opened it, when the intestine appeared. It was
purple, and in a gangrenous state. By a slender
bistory, we now divided the fibres which formed
the stricture, when the bowel was, without difficulty, returned to its place in the abdomen. She
became very quiet and comfortable, and — con



HERNIA OR RUPTURE.          215
tinued so two days, when symptoms of mortification of the bowels came on, and, after lingering
two or three days, she died. Had the operation
been done in twenty-four or thirty hours after
the incarceration took place, this patient, no
doubt, would have recovered.
About two years after this, a farmer, 1Mr. Mariott, who lived several miles farther in the country than the former, had an inguinal hernia,
which became strangulated. We were informed
by the friiends thait persevering means were used
for his relief, but no operation was performed,
and the hernia was not reduced. After suffering
three or four days he died!
In about two years after this case, a respectable farmer, Mr. Carpenter, residing near the
previous case, had an inguinal hernia, which became strangulated. On visiting this patient, we
learned that the disease had existed twenty-four
hours. The tumor was large, extremely ]hard and
painful. The mleans for its reduction had been
ijudicions.  After some further trials, it wao
found impossible to reduce it. To obtain further
useful surgical advice was equally impossible, the
nearest surgeon being 20 miles off, which would
delay an operation about 24 hourls. The question was then submitted to the patient, and his
Quaker friends, who were numerously in attendance, whether the operation should be performed
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216        HOMCEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
last mentioned case of their neighbor and friend,
they soon concluded in favor of the operation, and
wished it to be performed, with a single assistant.
The operation was commenced, (us was desired
in the call we went prepared with instruments.)
After a free incision of the skin with a calm mind
and steady hand, the dissection was continued
until the stricture of the abdominal ring was arrived at. When the contracted fibres were cut,
and the protruded contents were returned into
their place in the abdomen, the parts were
brought together; the wound dressed; the patient was soon calm and quiet, and recovered in
a reasonably short time. After this he did not
find it necessary to wear a truss. At the time of our
writing, he is in the enjoyment of good health.
- Hydrocele. This disease is often classed with hernia, but properly belongs to dropsy
where it is placed.
-  Inguinal rings pressing on them, as if
hernia would proturde; in such cases, use Colocy.
IKreoso. Lye. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Petrol, or Silicia.
Spasms or crampy pains in it, Mosch.
Nux V. or Ptoleum.
HERNIA strangulated, or pain in it similar to
strangulation, give Acon. Bell. Nux V. Opi.
Phos. Silec. Sulp. or the remedies above detailed.
- Umbilical, similar treatment to that
above recommended-apply a compress over the
navel with a bandage round the body.




HERPES.               217
Sensation as though a protrusion of
hernia was coming out, give Auru. Nux V. or
Silec.
HERPES.
HERPES. The skin is subject to a great variety
of diseases of an eruptive kind; the general name
for them is herpes.  Also there are other names
used for them according to their variety or peculiarity.  Affections of the skin are frequently
very obstinate and difficult to cure; but the process of cure is rendered much more certain now,
than it was formerly, by the use of specific Homcepathic remedies given internally. In most
cases it is thought not advisable to use external
applications to those diseases, for as they are the
effect of a peculiar impure state of the system
or the fluids, local remedies drives the exciting
cause or humor back into the system without
eradicating it, which may produce other and internal diseases of a serious nature.
The general remedies are Acon. Ammo. C.
Ars. Arnic. Baryt. Bryo. Calc. Canth. Clemat.
Coni. Graph. Hep. Kreoso. Ipe. Kalmi. L. Kali.
Bic. Kali. Iod. Lach. Lye. Mere. Muriate of Gold.
Nux V. Oleand. Petrol. Phos. Psorinum. Ranan.
Bulb. Rus. R. Rus.-T. Sepi. Silec. Staphy. Sulp.
Tart. Anti. or Zinc.
Crusta lacta, a blotchy eruption, Sars.
Sep. Silec.




218         HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Dry scabby variety, Sep. or 5uip.... —.~  Eccema, Ammo. C. Dulcama. Kali.
Iod. Kali. Bic. Merc. Petrol. Phos. or Verat. or
Caust.
Of the face, Acne. Ars. Arnic. Canth.
Dulcam. Graph. Kali. Iod. Kreoso. Lach. Merc.
Sol. Mluri. ac. Rus. T. Sep. or Verat. or Caust.
do. swelled, use Ars. Arnic. Carb.
Animi. Merc. Nux V. Sep. or Sulp.
--- --    Fine eruptions, AMosch. Oleand. Petrol.
Phos. ac. Rus. T. Sang. or Sulp.
Furfuraceous, or scaly scabby state of
the skin, Arnic. Ars. Auru. M. Oleand. Sepi.
Sulp.-externally apply Iodine very much diluted.
- Impetegines, Ambr. Amlmo. C. Ars.
Carb. V. Coni. Graph. Hell. Kali. Bic. Lye. Mere.
Oleand. Rus. T. Sep. Sulp. or Tart. Ant.
-  Itch-common itch, Arg.. Nit. Barbaris. Carb. V. Caust. Crot. Tig. Kreoso. Lach. Lobel. Nitr. ac. Psorinum. or Ranan. Bulb. Rus. T.
Sulp. or Tart. Ant.  Dr. Hering recommended
Psorinum. as the most specific.
- itching and burning sensation, Arg. r.
Ars. Carb. V. Caust. Coni. Iodi. Kreoso. IKali. Iod.
Lobel. Merc. Nitr. ac. Oleand. Rus. T. or Sulp. or
Sepi.
Of the scalp, Graph. Lyc. Oleand.
Silec. or Sulp.




HOARSENESS OR APHONIA.        219
----  Lichen or nettle rash, Carb. V. Graph.
Iodi. Phos. Rus. T. Tart. Anti. or Sulp. (See skin.)
Rash fine eruption, iKali. Bic. Led. P.
Pnls. Sarss. Sep. or Puls.
Small pox like eruption, Stramo.
Sulp. Vaccina. or Variolin.
-  Tinea capitis (dow worm) Bell. Hep.
Petrol. Phos. Sep. Silee. Stramo. or Sulp. and
the other remedies for herpes.
-   Vesicles, Lach. Lye. Petrol. Ranan.
Bulb. Zinc.
HICCOUGH.
HICCOUGH. The remedies for this affection are
Ammo. C. Agar. Ambr. Ars. Bell. Carb. V.
Caust. Camp. Carb. A. Hyosc. Iodi. Mere. Mur.
ac. Nitr. ac. Nicc. 01. Anisi. Petrol. Sabad.'
Spong.'Stramo. Sulp. Tart. A. Vegetable acid
Verat. or Verba. These remedies must be used
according to the peculiarity of the case. For a
guide in addition to this head, see Dyspepsia,
Flatulence, Gastrioses and St~omach.
HOARSENESS OR APHONIA.
HOARSENESS. An imperfect state or loss of the
voice-this is a very common affection, as a consequence of colds, or affections of the fancies and
throat. The remedies for it are, when there isconsiderable fever and soreness of the throat, use




220        HOM(ECOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Acon. or Bell.; in the -nmore advanced states, or
when there is little or no fever, give Ammo. C.
Bryo. Coni. Caust. Colocy. Mere. Nitr. ac. or
lMuri. ac. or Phos.
If there is a smarting sensation-in throat, Caps,
or Dolico. or Tart. Anti.
In chronic lingering cases, Iodi. Kali. Iod. Rus.
T. Sabad. Seneg. Spong. Thuy. or Verat.
HYDROPHOBIA.
HYDROPHOBIA or canine madness, is a disease
produced by the bite of an animal in a madened
state, from a peculiar animal poison introduced
into the system. The remedies found most useful for this disease are Belladona Lach. Hyoseramus, Stramonium, br Cantharides Cuprum,
or Hydrophobin, (the matter of infection.)
In the North American Journal of Homeolpathy, vol. 1, p. 273, Cedron is recommended; it
is used in Central America, and stated to be specific for this disease. Dr. C. Hering and others
recommend dry radiating heat to be applied to
the wound. This should be used in this manner;
a red hot iron or -live coals, or any other convenient heat must be placed as near the wound as
possible without burning the skin, or causing a
too sharp pain; keep up the heat steadily a long
time, confine it to the wound as much as possible,
apply oil or grease to the wound, and this should




HYDROPHOBIA.            221
be repeated whenever it' becomes dry.  The
heat should be continued in this way, until thepatient shivers; the process should be continued
about an hour, or until the morbid symptoms
diminish. Internal remedies should be administered at the same time; a little Brandy or wine
will be useful. If the pains shoot towards the
heart, give Arsenicum, in doses of three or four
globules of the 2d or 3d attenuation, in a spoonful of water; if the suffering continues, the dose
should be repeated in half an hour, or if there is
an aggravation of the medicine, it will be better
to wait two or three hours. In cases where Ars.
doesnot afford relief after being given three or four
times, it is best to use Bell. in the same way.
Hahnemann statesqthat he considers Belladona,
a very small dose given after the bite, every
three or four days, to be a certain preventive of
tihe disease.
As soon as convulsions set in, Lach. should be
given-two or three globules every one or two
hours.
If there comes on drowsiness, or burning of the
throat and frothy mucus in the mouth, or an inclination to drink, which is refused, or there is a
stricture and suffication of the throat, or a glowing fulness of the face, or inclination to strike or
bite with convulsive twitching, give Belladona,
place a few globules on the tongue, repeated as
directed for Lachesis.




222        HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Should the convulsions be severe or of long
durations or there is not much inclination to bite
or spit, with moderate spasms in the throat, and
shootinog or burning pain, a dread of fluids, or
severe convulsions, or raving, or dread and fear
of.people, use 1-Tyosciamus.
When convulsions are produced by looking on
a glass or a brilliant object, or mentioning to the
patient water, fits of laughter or singing take
place, or are attended with great fury, wildness or
pupils dilated, give Stramonium, in the same
manner as directed for Lach. and Bell.
If there is great dryness and burning in the
mouth or great aggravation in attempting to
swallow, it is recommended to give C:antharides.
As one of the most effectual remedies, the Itydrophobin is recommended; it is recorded that
cases have been cured by it; also, for animal
poisons. It is stated in the journal above named
that Guaco. is used with great success in South
America.
In the North American Journal of Ilomceopathy, No. 6, page 518, there is an account of
several cases of hydrophobia being. cured or prevented by Euphorbium.
HYPOCONDRIA.
HYPocONDRIA.-This disease is considered an
affection of males somewhat similar to hysterics in




females. Persons liable to it are those of nervous temperament, dull or melancholy disposition. They have pain and distress in and about
the abdomen, flatulence and eructations; they
are subject to erroneous and fancifill ideas; apt
to imagine themselves more ailing or sick than
they really are.
In the treatment of such cases the fancies of
the patient should be indulged and endeavors
made to direct the mind to other and agreeable
subjects. The remedies proper to use are Acon.
Anaeard. Arniic. Arls. Auru. Bell. Bromi. Hyose.
Lach. Mere. MIoseh. Nux V. Petrol. Phos. Rus.
R. Staphy. Sulph. Tereb. or Verat.
If there is fever, with flushed face, give Aeon.
or Bell.
If there are crampy, nervous sySmptoms, Nux
V. Bromi. or Hyosc. or Staphy.
If there is ill humor, Anacard. Hyosc. or
Sulp.
When there is low spirits, Cale. or Auru.
There should be an endeavor to select and use
the remedies according to the peculiarity of the
case.
HYSTERIC.
See this article, under the head of Women,
Diseases of.




224         HOMEOPATMC PRACTICE.
IMPOTENCE.
See Genitals.
INFLAMMATION.
INFLAMMATION.- There are very few diseased
states of a general nature, of a febrile character,
which take place, without being attended, more
or less, with inflammatory action.
This condition is defined by writers and in Lexicons plogosis, or phlegmasia, a disease characterized by heat, pain, redness of the skin, attended
more or less with tumefaction and fever. Inflammation is divided into two species, phlegmonous and erysipelatous; besides these distinctions, inflammation has a great variety of species
and forms of appearing, such as acute, chronic,
congestive, and passive.
In this article the diseases which, in the early
ssage, are attended with features of acute inflammatory symptoms, will be treated on with the
suitable remedies for them detailed.
The remedies generally most useful for this
class of diseases are, Acon. Bell. Bryo. Ipe. Kalmi. T. Tart. Anti. Nux V. or Phos. and many
others will be proper as the condition of the cases
may present.
-- Inflammation of the brain, phrenitis,




INFLAMMATION.            225
and encephalitis. We introduce a description of
this disease taken from Dr. Pulte's book. " The
brain and its two coverings are subject to inflammation separately, and the symptoms show themselves particularly in the beginning of brain fever, the first species called meningitis, when the
duramater is inflamed.
The acute meningitis attacks a person suddenly,
exhibiting immediately stupor and drowsy symptoms, the patient cannot be raised easily to keep
the head erect; he complains of vertigo and
dizziness, reels in walking, pupils contracted, cannot bear the light, eyes are not red yet, constipation, scanty red urine, fever with a soft pulse.
Second species, or (arachnoides) when
the next covering of the brain is inflamed-this
commences with pain violent over the whole head,
increased by congestion and violent beating of
the blood vessels, attended with wakefulness,
muttering, pulse quick; if not early relieved,
stupor and deliriumn  ensues, and the patient is
likely to die.
--    - The third species is inflammation of
the substance of the brain. It begins with violent symptoms of congestion and pulsation of the
arteries of the neck and head; the face is red
and bloated, the eyes blood-shot, intense heat in
the head and delirium; the patient tosses about,
is very sensitive to light, skin dry, violent thirst,
8




226        HOMLEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
hard full pulse, fever high, frequent retchings or
vomiting."
In practice it will be extremely difficult to distinguish between the varieties of diseases of the
brain above laid down, but fortunately, there
are some general remedies which apply pretty
well to them all.
For the first species, it is recommended to use
Opi. or Hyosc. with other remedies for fever.
In the second variety, use Aconite, Bell. or
Elyosc.
For the third variety, Acon. is the remedy to
use first; this should be followed by Bell.
When, from the foregoing symptoms, or from
there being fever, severe pain in the head, a
flushed face, red or blood-shot eyes, it may be
pretty satisfactorily ascertained that the patient
has an attack of inflammation of the brain, or its
appendages; begin by giving Acon. at once; the
dose should be repeated every half hour at first;
after three or four hours, the period should be
lengthened to an hour, and after a few doses are
given in this way, the periods may be lengthed to
two hours. If the patient is of full or plethoric
habit, blood should be taken from the arm. We
should have no confidence in a temporising inefficient mode of abstracting blood by leeching or
cupping in such cases. A neglect or refusal to
bleed may very much jeopardize the life of the
patient.




INFLAMIATDOM.           2~7
We have had a good deal of experience in this
matter. Cold water or ice should be applied to
the head, and cold water given freely as a drink;
the feet should be put in water as hot as it can
be borne, let salt be put in it; keep the feet there
-a long time; when taken out of the warm water,
keep them warm, apply cabbage leaves to them,
or some softening article; many useful remedies
may be found which will keep them moist and
warm, and be useful in the various syniptoms
which will be presented
After there is a mitigation of the symptoms,
the proper remedies to use are Bell. Digital.
Hell. or Opi.
After the acute stage of the disease is over,
or the violence. of it is checked, the most proper
remedies are Ars. Hyosc. MNerc. Puls. or Sulp.
In this stage of diseased brain, and in congestion, Hahnemann and Teste recommend warm
water and spirits applied to the head in preference to cold applications.
The patient should be kept in a dark cool room.
Inflammation of the brain firom  concussion.
From blows on thehead, falls and other injuries,
the brain may receive such a severe shock or
concussion as to produce Inflammation. In such
cases the first remedy should be Arnica; also
apply it very much diluted externally, on the
part injured. If reaction comes on so as to produce fever and pain, give Aeon. Digital. or Sulp.
8*




228          OKICEOPATHIC PPRAC'fICE
If stupor or darting crampy pain takes place,
use Cocc. Camp. Ignat. Nux V. or in a'late stage
of the case, give Ars. (See Injuries Mechanical.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER7
(CYSTITIS.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER, CYSTTI[S. Thi,
organ among others is subject to attacks of inflammation, the symptoms attending it are pain,
and a burning heat through the part in the bladder; it soon becomes full or distended, the urine
is hot and passed with difficulty; fever is attending, the pain extends to the bowels, back, and to
the ribs.  Acon. will be the proper medicine, but
early after it, Canth. Carps. Cann. S. or Uva.,
Urs. will be required and necessary, in more advanced stages, Arnic. Digital. Iodi. Nux V. Phos.
Puls. Rus. T. Scill. or Terebinth will he proper
to be used, according to the symptoms presented.
In this manner, if there is a difficulty of  urinating, give Cann. S. Canth. or Digital.
If there is pressing clown on the neck of the
bladder, Canth.
If there are urgent efforts with pain to pass
urine, Nux V. Phos. or Scilla.
If Cantharides may have caused the disease,
give Camphor.
If there is diminished action in the parts, and
inability to pass urine, Terebinth. (Refer to Disease of Bladder.)




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INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS,
(ENTERITIS.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS, ENTERITIS. This
disease is characterised by pain more or less
severe in the bowels; sometimes it is very severe,
this is attended with fever. The pulse is small
and fine, or hard; in some cases it appears in the
form of a colic, attended with cramps or twisting
pains —the bowels are costive.
This disease appears in the form of primary
acute inflammation; also it is frequently either
symptomatic of, or connected with other diseases,
such as indigestion, colics, dysentery, &c.
It is the first, or acute nature of the disease
which will be directed for in the treatment here
(leaving the other forms to be considered along
with the disease with which they may be connected.)
The first remedy should be Acon., and this is
to be given often; a dose every half hour or hour
at first; it should be continued until the fevermoderates. Apply cloths wet with cold water to
the abdomen. Dr. Currie recommends a free
use of this article in this way, and Dr. Abercrombie directs cold water to be dashed on the
abdomen. Let the patient take cold water as a
drink in small quantities, repeated often; and
after this early period passes, give Bryo, or if
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If the pains are of a colic kind, give Colocy.
If the symptoms continue obstinate, and the
skin becomes cold, use Ars. or Verat.
It is not advisable to attempt to give purgative
medicines in the early stage. Let the bowels
remain quiet until the inflammation is removed
and the stricture passes away; then it will be
proper to procure an evacuation.
We have long observed, it is a very common practice among practitioners that in the
treatment of such cases, which is generally called
Bilious Colic, attempts are made at once to force
a passage through the bowels byactive and sometimes drastic purgative medicines, in which there
is very frequently a failure; and we have often
learned that cases of this kind, and under such
treatment, have terminated fatally.
The better and proper way is to cure the inflamed state of the bowels, and to relieve the
stricture which exists at the diseased parts, before harsh attempts are made to produce evacuations by Cathartic medicines.
If there is much pain and colicy symptoms,
give Opi. Puls. Rus. T. or Colocy.
Should the fever and sickness continue, give
Merc. Nux V. Tart. Anti. or Ipe.
After the first stage, we have observed great
benefit to accrue from fomentations with alkaline
solutions applied to the abdomen.
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times the preceding disease as well as in other
states, the inflammation assumes a lingering chronic form, attended with pain and soreness of the abdomen, irregularity and griping; a part of the
time, fever; the proper remedies are Bell. Bryo.
Cham. Mere. Sulp. or Zinc.
INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS.
(NEPHRITIS.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS. The indications
for the existence of this disease are pain in the
lumbar region, of a shooting severe kind; it extends to the bladders and to the urethra, producing urinary obstructions; the urine is high colored; the testes are drawn up and painful, in the
progress, pain and cramps affect the legs, fever
sets in with a full tense pulse.
The first remedy is Acon. when the fever or
pain is somewhat moderated, give Bell. or
Cann. S.
If there is a pressing pain on the bladder or
urethra, Cantharides will be useful, or alternate
this with Acon.
In the progress of the case, the other useful
remedies will be, Bals. Cop. Merc. or Tussilago.
When the pain is severe or of a darting form,
Ether is a valuable remedy.
When the acute type is somewhat mitigated,
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vice to use Canth. or if the use of this drug may
have produced the disease, give Camp.  For
other remedies, see Bladder, Kidneys, Colic and
Nephritis.
INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER.
(HEPALITIS.)
INFLAMIATION OF THE LIVER. This disease is
defined a severe pain in the region of the liver,
attended with fever and derangement of the bowels; it is often attended with nausea or vomiting.
It appears in an acute or chronic form; the
latter is called liver complaint, and may be of a
very protractcd nature.
The acute type will be considered
here, and the chronic form we refer to the head
of Liver and its diseases. The remedies most
useful for this affection are, Acon. B3ell. Merc.
Lach. or Bry. Cham. Nux V. Puls. or Sulp. At
the beginning during the fever and pain, give
Aceon.; continue it until the fever and pain have
abated; at this stage it will be best to make cold
applications, such as cold water or ice, over the
liver. After this course, if there is rather dull
pain in the part and fulness of the chest, a pressure to the head or gi idiness, or faintness, give
Bell. This may be followed to advantage by
Merc. or alternated with it. Dr. Beach found
Bell. and Bryo. alternated, very useful for this
disease.




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When the pains are shooting and there is great
tenderness at the part, or there is derangement of
the stomach, give Nlux V.
If in the progress there is burning pain, heat
of skin, anxiety, or vomiting of dark matter, give
Ars. Puls. or Sulp.; or Cham. or Lach. may be
very useful in the latter stage. (See Liver.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS.
(PNEUMONIA.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. This disease is characterised by rigors, chills, pain or stitches in the
side or chest; these hre soon followed by fever;
the respiration is short and hurried, a short dry
cough, a scanty tough expectoration; this is generally tinged or mingled with blood; the pain
in the chest is generally severe, though at
times there is more of a pressing fullness than
pain. The pulse is commonly full and tense, but
sometimes it -is small, slow, and compressible;
the face is red and flushed, but in some cases, it
is of a dull and purple or dingy color.
For this disease early and active treatment is
required; at first use Acon.; this should be often
repeated, and continued until there is an abatement of the symptoms; let the patient drink cold
water freely, and apply cloths wet in cold water
over, the chest, or use a bag of ice.
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234        HOM(EOPAT HIO PRAOTIOE.
hours, or Tart. Anti. will be a very useful remedy instead of Bryo.
If there is a full flushed face, with some headache, give Bell.
The following medicines are recommended in
the progress of the case, Ipe. Mere. Phos. Rus.
T. Sambu. or Amlmo. C.; it will be better for the
patient to be in a cold or cool room.
If the expectoration is streaked with blood, or
a sore throat, Bell. or Ipe.
In the progress of the case, Tart. Anti. is
highly recommended; also in this condition,
Phos. will be very useful, particularly when there
are shooting pains in the chest or dry hoarseness.
In the advanced stage, when there is heaviness
across the chest and scanty expectoration, Ammo.
C. will be very useful.
For the use of other remedies, reference is
made to Chest, Cough, &c.
INFLAMMATION OF THE PERITONEUM.
(PERITONITIS.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE PERITONEUM.  As this
membrane immediately invests the bowels lining
the abdomen, it is rather difficult to distinguish
this disease form Enteritis. It is attended with
pain and tension of the abdomen, tenderness to
the touch, constipation, difficulty of urinatingthe other symptoms are similar to those of Enteritis.




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The remedies are about the same as those
pointed out for Enteritis.
Treatment during the acive fever, use Aeon.;
as soon as the active fever has moderated, Bell.
When the symptoms are considerably moderated, Mere. is a useful medicine.
If there is distension and pain, Nux V.
If symptoms of prostration ensue, Ars.
Other remedies useful are Canth. Lach. Cham.
Lye. Colocy.; the remedies further will be very
similar to those for Enteritis.
INFLAMMATION OF THE PLEURA.
(PLURITIS, PLEURISY.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE PLEURA. The membrane
which lines the ribs on the inside of the chest, is
the seat of this disease; the lungs are directly in
contact with it, so that when the pleura is inflamed, the portion of the lungs on that side is
very likely also to partake of the disease. The
symptoms of it are, a pain or stitch in the side,
difficulty of breathing, and dry barking cough.
Slight expectoration at fitst, which is sometimes streaked with blood; the skin is hot and
dry, pulse full and tense, great thirst, urine high
colored, with active fever
At first give Aeon. let it be continued until the
fever and pain moderate, then Bryo. will be
proper.




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When there are cutting pains or burning sensation, or a mucus expectoration, and this streaked
with blood, Bryo. or Millefo.
These remedies being used, and there is a mitigation of the disease, use Sulp.
If there is headache and red face, Bell.
When the active fever is checked, and pain
and dyspnoea continue, Merc. or Arnica.
If the disease has been produced by contusion
or injury, use Arnica.
Other remedies recommended are, Phos. Tart.
Anti. or Digital. Ipe. Sabad. Scill.;' these should
be used as the symptoms are presented, much in
the same manner as are stated for inflammation
of the lungs: reference is made here for a detail
of the remedies.
INFLAMMATION OF TItE PSOAS
MUSCLES. (PSOITIS.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE PSOAS MUSCLES.  The
symptoms are pain in the lumbar region, moving the limbs up or down, gives pain; turning,
or any exertion increases the pain, the kidneys
being placed on this part, and are somewhat connectedl with this inflammation. The symptoms
are similar-inflammation of this part may lay
the foundation of that serious disease termed
Psoas abscess.
The remedies for Lumbago under IRheumatism,
will be useful for this disease; during the active




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stage, use Acorn   This should be succeected by
Bell.
If there is contraction or cramps in the part,
Colocy.
If there are symnptoms of suppuration, Staphy.
Silec. or HIep. (See Nlephritis and Psoas abscess.)
INFLAMMATION OF TIIE SPLEEN.
(SPLENITIS.)
INFLAMMATION OF.THE SPLEEN. The symptoms
are sharp darting pains through the spleen, with
fever; the part is enlarged; it is attended with
vomiting of blood, or the passing of bloody
stools.
This is a rare disease, and is difficult to be
distinguished frorm other inflammations of the
abdomen.
If there is active fever, give Acon. or Bryo.;
in the progress Arsen. is well recommended, also
Nux V. or Arnic. or China.
If it is complicated with Ague, Ars. or China.
The chronic form, when the spleen is enlarged,
is termed ague cake: for this state Ars. Baryt. M.
Lye. Carbo. Tig. Ferr. Stann. or Sulp. are the
proper remnedies.
INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH.
(GASTRITIS.)
INFLAMMATION OF TIHE STOMACH. There are two
forms in which this disease appears, one is an in



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flammation of the coats of the stomach proper,
the other is an inflammation of the internal lining of the stomach or villous coat.
The former is the one to be treated here, the
lattei' or villous inflammation of the stomach and
intestines, are to be found under ChIolera and
Dysentery.
The symptoms are severe pain, burning or
pricking in the part, heat, distension of the stomach, retching or vomiting, hiccough, a prostration, or sinking sensation, features sunken in, and
cramps, pulse is small and quick, and firm,
though sometimes it is compressible-high fever
enllsues.
The remedies most useful are Acon. Canth.
Bell. Ipe. lux T. Anti. Puls. or Bryo. lHyosc. or
Ars.
In the first stage, give Aeon. in doses of high
attenuation often repeated.
If there is nausea or vomiting, let Ipe. or
Camp. be given in alternation with Acon..; apply
cloths wet in cold water over the stomach'; after
the symptoms have somewhat moderated, use
Bell.
Should nausea continue, Ipe. ar Anti. or a high
attenuation of Ars. should be used.
If the patient has indulged in alcoholic drinks,
or there are crampy pains in the region of the
stomach, use Nux VT.




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If there is a good deal of retching and a coldiess of the skin, give Ars. or Verat.
As thile case advances, some of the other remedies named will be useful.
When the first or acute stage has passed, fomentations with hot alkaline solutions, will be
very useful.
If the disease does not yield and become considerably moderated in twenty-four or forty-eight
hours, it may be advisable and even necessary for
the safety of the patient to resort to blood-letting;
sometimes by the aid of this remedy, with the
continuance of the I-Iomceopathic remedies, the
disease will very soon yield, and the patient approach toward a cure. Such has been our observation.
In tile milder cases, when- it may be caused by
suppression of the catamenia or coldness of the
stomlacbh Puls.
If there is burning pain in it, Canth.
If there takes place an apparent sinking, with
a fluttering pulse, Ars. or Verat.
In the latter stage, when there remains uneasy
soreness, Chain. or Sulp.
INFLAMMgATION OF THE TESTICLES.
(H-EIRNIA HIUMORALIS.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE TESTICLES.-This disease
nay be produced by external injury or' from




240         HOM(EOPATHIO PRACTIlCE.
gonorrhcea. One or both testicles may be affected.
The testicle swells, is painful, and tender to the
touch; the spermatic cord swells, and is also
painful.
Tile remedies for inflammation generally will
be proper for this disease, such as Acon. Bell.
Bryo. or Ipe. The patient should lie in bed. For
local remedies, a solution- of Acetate of Lead or
Muriate of Animonia, applied cold or in the form
of cold poultice, will be very useful; or Arnica
in the same way, will answer a good purpose.
After the first or acute stage is over, these articles applied warm will be very proper; or if there
is a good deal of pain, Laudanum imay be added
to them with great advantage. Also, at the more
advanced stage, give Mlerc. Ipe. Anti. or Puls.
For the induration of the testicle, use Coni. or
Iodine.
A popular and very useful remedy is a poultice of white beans.  When the patient sits up or
walks about, the testicle should be suspended in
a truss or bandage.
If there is irritation and pain of the urethra,
give Puls.
If the swelling is the effect of external injury,
Arlic. should be used internally and externally.
For other remedies, consult Genital Organs
and Indurated Glands.




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INFLAMMATION OF THE TONGUE.
(GLoSITIS.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE TONGUE.-It is attended
with swelling, redness, and heat.
The medicine best adapted to this affection are
the following:If there is acute inflammation, swelling orl
fever, give Acon. After thiis used, the useful
articles will be Arnie. Merc. Bell. Lach; and in
the advanced stage, Ars.
INJURIES, MIECHANICAL.
INJURIES, MECHANICAL.-There are e a great variety of ways by which bruises, cuts, contusions,
and lacerations of the body externally, are produced and from this cause many serious internal
diseases are caused. When these occur, in the
first place, the patient will need immlediate atten-..
tion for conmfort. The wound, if any, should be
cleansed and dressed. If there is dislocations or
fractures, -they should be properly reduced, and
the bones put in place. The proper and most
useful remedy for internal use is Arnica; give
the 2d or 3d dilution, or a higher attenuation; a
dose every half hour, or hour or two at first, and
after awhile, at longer periods, according to the
severity of the injury. For external use, mix a
teaspoonful of the Tbilcture of Arnica in a gill of
water or a larger quantity, and use it to bathe




242        IOIcE0OPATHI  PRACTICE.
the injured part with; apply it to the part, often
changing it. Generally, it will be best to add a
little spirits to this lotion. All the external remedies should at first be used cold. In the same
manner, instead of Arnica, it will do well to use
(Calendula, Conium, or Euphorbium. In the progress of the case, instead of Arnica, it will do
well to give HIep. Iodi. Nux V. Rus. T. or Sulp.
SPRAINS.
SPRAINs —Wrenches and Injuries of the Knee
and other Joints. These frequently occur; they
require particular attention to prevent inflammation, which.may prove tedious and very serious.
Avoid at first using any warm or hot application
to the part, or hot stimulating articles.
The plan of treatment above detailed will be
preferable to any other.
In severe or extensive cases of injury taking
place, particularly if the vital functions or important organs are injured-as soon as the reaction of the arterial system  takes place, blood
should be taken in small or large quantities,
answering to the severity and urgency of the
case; so say Laurie and Hull.
INJURY OF THE BRAIN FROM MECHANICAL CAUSES.
INJURY OF THE BRAIN.-This organ is liable to
have concussion, compression, lesion, laceration,




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and inflammation produced from this cause.
Generally, the use of Arnica, as above directed,
at first it will be proper to use and for other
remedies; they may be found under Inflammation of the Brain, Congestion, Coma, and HIead
Diseases.
Although injuries to so delicate an organ as
the brain often leads to serious and fatal results,
yet under sonle circumstances it sustains great
and serious diseases, when by prompt and proper
means it recovers from their effects. This principle may be illustrated by recording an interesting case.
In June, 1836, P. Butler, a farmer near the
city of Poughkeepsie, went out with a large musket to shoot crows that were pulling up his young
corn. On firing at them, the birds were unhurt,
but the gunner was prostrated and wounded; the
explosive power forced out the breech pin of the
gun in a reverse direction towards the man; the
point entered the cranium near the centre of the
forehead, and penetrated two inches into the
brain. He was prostrated and insensible, but
before I arrived, he had somewhat recovered
from the stupor, and the iron had been drawn
out. On clearing away the coagulated blood, I
ascertained that the bone was fractured, that portions of it- were driven in upon the brain, and the
brain was seriously wounded. To keep down the
inflammation he was freely bled, and prepara



:~:   HBIZOM(EOPATMIO PRACTICE.
tions were made for trepanning him. As soon as
things could be got ready, and with the assistance of some medical friends, I proceeded to the
performance of the operation. After perforating
the bone at the injured part, the fragments of the
fractured bone were removed fiom  the brain,
and the depressed portion of bone elevated. An
important point now was to guardl against inflammation of the brain. Here was impressed upon
my mind the principle laid down by Sir Astley
Cooper, in such cases to keep down the increased
arterial action by abstracting a portion of the
blood to prevent inflammation and congestion
from taking place on the brain, which would likely prove fatal. As the action of the arterial system came up or was increased, the patient was
bled, so that the inflammnation was kept down;
he had very little severe. pain to encounter; in all
he lost about 70 ounces of blood. The sanies and
matter passed off from the woundC; the aperture
in the bone closed up in a reasonable short time,
and he was restored to health, and resumed his
labor. He enjoyed good health for twelve years
or more afterwards. A fair inference is, that the
copious bleeding kept down the inflammation of
the brain, and was the means of saving this man's
life.
M Mechanical, of the Brain. Use the
remedies,. similar to those mentioned above, at
first.




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If there comes on a heaviness or dull stupor,
give Bell. Cocc. or Ifyosc. or Opi.
If considerable fever sets in, give Aconite.
do. Concussion of the Brain.  Give
Aeon. Arnic. Coni. Hep. Iodi. Opi. or Rus. Tox.
Externally, apply Arni. Iodine or Rus. Tox. in
the form and manner above pointed out.
INFLUENZA, OR GRrPPE.
INFLUENZA.-This disease affects very similar
to common cold, though it is more severe and
more general in the attacks on a great number of
persons at a time. Among the symptoms, the
following are enumerated:The nose and throat are stuffed up; there are
chills and' fevers; soreness, of the throat and
upper part of the chest; severe headache, giddiness, red eyes, cough, and hoarseness.
It frequently prevails in an epidemic form,
and when it does, it attacks people mnore uniformly and extensively than any other disease. Instances are stated that in a town where it prevailed, not a single one was known to escape it.
The remedies most useful for this disease are
Acon. Anti. Ars. Camph. Coni. Dulcam. Ipe.
~Merc. Nux V. Sabad. Verat. or Phos. or Puls.
At the commencement, a few doses of Dulcam.
or Camp. will frequently prevent or cure it.
Should there be fever, use Acon.




246        HOM(EOPATHIO PRACTICE.
If the throat gets sore with cough, Bell.
If there is shooting pains'or crampy feelings in
the neck or chest, give Nux V.
If the case continues obstinate, with cough,
cramps, &c., use Merc. or Ars. Sabad. or Verat.
If there are secondary symptoms of tumefaction or little lumps on the skin, or hoarseness,
&c., use Caust.
ITCH AND ITCHING.
See Herpes.
JAWS AND GUMS.
JAWS AND GUms.-These parts are subject to
many important diseases, many of which may be
relieved by Homceopathic treatment.
do. Articulation, pain and stiffness in,
give Bell, Colocy. Rus. T. Phos. Silec. or Verat....-    do. Bleeding. Calc. Iodi. Mag. C.
Millefo. Nux V. Phos. Sepi. Silec. or Sulp. ac.
do. Painful. Ammo. C. Bell. Cann.
S. Colocy. Hep. Iodi. Merc. Nitr. ac. Petrol.
Phos. Stramo. Sulp. Sulp. ac. Thuy. or Verat.
do. Brown, black, or yellow  gmls.
Plumb. ac.




KIDNEYS.              24:7
do. Excrescences on. Stann. or Thuy.
do. Falls and  raises  involuntarily.
Lach. Sang. Valer.
do. Glands on them inflamed'. Bell.
Sepi. Silec. Spong. Stann. Sulp. or Thuy.
- do. Soft and swelled. Nitr. C. Nux
V. Petrol. Phos. Spong. Sulp. ac. Verat. Zinc.
do. Tittillation, easily. Staphy.
do. Ulcerated. Iodi. Merc. Nitr. ac.
Nux. V.
JEALOUSY AND MADNESS.
JEALOUSY AND ]MADNESS.-LyC. Lach. Nux V.
Stramo. See Emotions, this article.
JOINTS.
JoINTs.-See Extremities and Injuries, Mechanical.
KIDNEYS.
KIDNEYS.-These parts are subject to inflammation, which has been treated of under that
head, and to colic or spasms, to burning sensation, ulceration, morbid secretion of urine, pro



248        HOIGMEOPATHIC PRAOTICE.
ducing diabetes, and to what is termed Bright's
disease.
For colic and spasms, termed Nephritic Colic, the remedies are Ether. Bell. Canth.
Lye. Nu x V. Sulp. Tereb. or' Uva. Urs.
If the spasms or pains are severe at first, give
Ether or Nux V.
If there is a burning sensation, Canth.
If there is dull pain, with fever, Bell.
In the progress if there is suppression of urine,
Uva. Urs. or Can th.
When the acute form has passed over, if there
is pain and difficulty in passing urine, Tereb. or
some of the other remedies may be useful.
Ulcerated condition. Give Iodi. Merec.
Nitr. ac. or Nux V. See Psoas Abscess.
BRIGHT'S DISEASE.
BRIGHT'S'DISEASE. —In Copelacnd's Meedical Encyclopcedia, it is stated under the head of Dropsy, that "attention has been called to glandular
disease of the kidneys, as described by Bright. It
is considered as a primary inflammatory affection, attended with a secretion of albuminous urinaria.  Cases have been published, in which
B]right's disease existed without albuminous urine;
and, on the other hand, albuminous urine was
present without Bright's disease. By some, who
look upon glandular disease of the kidneys as the




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result of inflammation, glandular disease has
been thus regarded. However, it is owing to an
eiror of the system, which is inexplicable."
The Homceopathic remedies for this disease are
found to be Tart. Anti. or Muriate of Mercury.
LASCIVIOUSNESS.
LAsscvIorsSEss. —A disposition to this practice,
or an indulgence in it. The medicines for it are
Canth. Chin.. Graph. Lyc. Phos. Silec. Stramo.
Sulp. or Verat.
LANGUOR, OR A TIRED SENSATION.
LANGUOR.-Give Cliin. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Phos.
ac. Plati. Seneg. Silec. Stramo. Sulp. ac. or Zinc.
See Extremities, this article.
LEPROSY.
LEPRosY.-This loathsome disease, so much noticed in Sacred Writ, which caused great annoyance and suffering, and one which was the
means of degradation among the chosen people,
has not been much noticed by modern writers,
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250        HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
mode of treating it has been pointed out, until
the Homceopathic method was introduced, and
determined the properties and powers of drugs,
by learning their effects on the healthy person. By this means some remedies have been
discovered, which prove very useful in curing
this kind of affection. They are Alum. Ars.
Carbo. Ani. Carbo. Veg. Caust. Petrol. Rus. T.
Silec. and Sulp.
Many cases of disease presenting this character, afe reported to have been cured by those
medicines, given in minute doses, and long continued.
LETHARGY.
LETHARGY.-For this condition qJ disease, the
remedies are Baryt. Cocc. Tart. Anti.  See
Coma.
LIVER.
LVER. —This organ holds an important place
in the body, from its office being to furnish bile
to aid in the process of digestion and in the support of life.
It is subject to diseases which interferes with
its functions and operations, and may produce
affections of a serious kind, though it is very
doubtful whether the bile proceeding from the
liver has as much to do with producing disease




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and causing morbid derangement, as some are in
the habit of charging to it; for there cannot be
an ailment of the stomach or a febrile attack, nor
a derangement of the system, of almost any kind,
but what it is by some ascribed to the bile, or it
is a bilious affection or bilious interference with
the animal economy, when in a great portion of
those cases the bile has very little influence in
the case or nothing to do with it.
The term bilious has a very indefinite meaning,.
but it is said that this term furnishes an excuse
and a reason among Allopathic practitioners for
many of the remedies used, frequently to treat a
disease that does not exist. The liver is, however,
subject to inflammation, which has been treated
of under that head.
-  To a burning sensation in it, with painful stitches. For this affection, give Bryo. Calc.
Lye. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Sabad. or Sulp.
Gall, Bladder, pains in or through it.
The remedies are Sabad. Sabi. or Oleander.
Gangrenous symptoms present. Ars,
Sec. C. Silec. or Carb. V. and Wine.
Heavy, lumpy sensation in it. Sulp.
Induration of it. Arg. N. Ars. Auru.
Coni. Iodi. Kali. C. Lye. Lauroc. Mere. Nux V.
Silec. or Sulp.
Chronic disease or chronic inflammation of it-There is a large number of medicines
useful for this affection; the following are the




25 2       HOMMOPATHIC PRACTICB.
most prominent among them; they are Ambr,
Cale. Carb. Veg. Caust. Colocy. Coni. Hep. Iodi:
Kali. Bic. IKreoso. Lyc. Mere. Nitr. ac. Nlux V.
Puls. Rus. T. Sabad. Sulp. or Zinc.
Jaundice, this is connected with the
preceding affection or produced by it; give
Ambr. Berba. Coni. Chain. Lyc. Mere. Nux V.
Puls. Rus. T. Sulp. or Sulp. ac.
Pain of a cutting nature attended
with shuddering-N-Iux Jug. Nux V. Phos. Prun.
Sp. IRus. R. Sabad. Stann. Tabac. or Valer.'W"
do. Intermittent in-Ars. or Zinc.
Spasms or stitches in-Nux V. Sulp,
Tabac. or Zinc.; Ulcers in it-Ars. Chin. Lach. Seler,
or Silec.
LICE, BODY.
LICE, BODY.  The remedies are Ars. Chin.
Merc. Sabhd.; these should be given internally,
and a lotion or ointmnent of the latter applied
outwardly.
Cralb, Sabad. internally and externally
to be used.




IANIA AND ALIENATION OF' THE
-MINID.
]MANIA AND ALIENATION OF THE MIIND.-There
are a great number of causes which operate upon
the body and mind, which are calculated to produce this state of disease. The peculiar causes
firom.which these diseases arise and their pathological nature, have been very ably examined
and explained by medical writers,. yet the subject is still enshrouded in much obscurity and
darkness. It is the intention here merely to lay
down the symptoms presented, and the manner
of attack, with approplriate remedies for them.
It will be required to use the remedies in a
measure according to and corresponding with
the symptoms.. Those affected with this disease
should have mild indulgent treatment, as far as
is consistent with their safety and comfort, and
that of their attendants and friends-they should
be indulged in their fancies, and have their minds
diverted and amused as much as possible.
The remedies which are'found to be most useful, are Am. Anacard. Ars. Auru. Canth. Coni.
Lach.'Opi. Origani. Plati. Puls. Quini. Sec. C.
Sepi. Stramo. or Sulp. Tart. Anti. or Verat.
If the disease is in consequence of a fright, use
Opi. or Aecon. Bell. Anti. or Verat.




254        HIOM(EOPATEIOC PRACTICE.
If it seems to be caused by home sickness,
Phos. ac. Staphy. or Colocy.
If it is produced by disappointed love, give
IHyosc. Ignat. or Phos.
If from jealousy, Lach. Hyosc. or -Nux V.
If it is brought on by passionate anger or sense
of revenge or insult, Ignat. Plati. or Colocy. or
Staphy.
When it seems to have been produced by religious excitement or frenzy, Stramo. Hyosc. or
Pnls. (See Emotions.)
When it proceeds from intemperance, Nux V.
Opi. or Hyosc. (See Drunkenness.)
When it is the effect of a full sanguineous habit,
or the patient is of such a temperament, attended
with fever, give Acon. Bell. Hell.
If the derangement is on one particular subject, termed MONO MANIA, give Auru. Stramo. or
some of the preceding named remedies.
When there is a state of debility and feebleness
of the body, givs China. Ferr. or Quinine.
For other indications and remedies, the reader
will please examine Emotions, Coma, Delirium,
Drunkenness, Onanism, Mind and Memory, and
Melancholy.
MARASMUS. (ATROPHIA.)
MARAsMUS.  This affection is described by
writers as a depressed habit of the body, an apparent-deficiency in the process of nutrition; there




MEASLES.              255
is a wasting away and emaciation of the system,
attended with a feeble languid state.
It is divided into marasmus of old age; termed
Senelis, or the decay of old age; and marasmus
Infantile, or that affecting infants. The remedies
for that of old age are Conium. Baryt. Opium.
nourishing diet, and whatever may seem to add
strength to the patient and vigor to the system.
The marasmus of infants will be treated on under the article on Infants.
MEASLES, (RUBEOLA.)
MEASLES. This is a contagious disease; it may
spread about sporadically or mildly, or it may
prevail as an epidemic with great severity; this
disease is in itself not a very serious affection,
but it is often rendered severe and malignant by
injudicious treatment, which is often used by
kind friends, and by some others, (allusion is here
made to the use of warm heating, and stimulating remedies to drive the eruption out; this increases the fever and makes the case worse.) The
case commences with symptoms of common cold;
sneezing is one of the common symptoms, watery
red eyes, dry cough, and there are generally
symptoms of fever. As all these eruptive diseases
and common colds are attended with fever, and
begin very much alike, the nature of the case
cannot be exactly known until the eruption comes




256         HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTI(CE.
out; but as the. remedies for inflammatory fever
would be very proper in either case, there need
be no error about the treatment.
The proper remedies for it are Acon. Bell. Ipe.
or Anti. Give cool drinks, and keep the patient
in a cool room.
In the first or inflammatory stage, give Acon.
or Bell.
When the disease is determined on, give Acon.
If there is a catarrhal affection and a stopping
up of the head or nose, use Dulcam. or Puls.
If the throat is. sore and inflamed, give Bell.
If the eruption does not come out, give Bryo.
If vomiting and distress at the chest attends,
give Tart. Anti. or Ipe.
If there is a belching from the stomach, give
A.s. 30th, or in a high attenuation.
In the early period, let the patient drink cold
water, and gargle the throat with it.
If delirium  comes on, give Bell. Coce. Opi.
Stramo. or Hyosc.
MELANCHOLIA.
MELANCHOLIA.-This disease, which affects body
and mind, is very difficult fully to understand,
and equally in some cases difficult to cure. It
appears in various forms and degrees. The patient is gloomy, dejected, and gets discouraged;
the mind dwells on  unpleasant, discouraging




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topics; strange and inconsistent fancies pervade
the mind, The remedies most generally found
useful are the following, from which such may be
selected, as on examination of the Materia Medica, if needful, appears best for the case.
Acon. Agar. Anacard. Arnic. Ars. Auru.
Bucci. Calc. Caust. Coni. Hyosc. Ignat. Kreoso.
Nux V. Xitr. ac. Opi. Petrol. Puls. Plati. Runs
R. Sec. C. Silec. Stramo. Staph. Sulp. Verat. or
Zinc.
-  If there is deep melancholy, give Ars.:Auru. Lach. Nux V. or Sulp.
If the patient is gloomy and silent, use
Ignat. Cocc. Lyc.'Puls. or Sulp.. - If it is an impaired state of mind,
caused by religious excitement, Auru. Bell.
Lach. Puls. or Sulp. are most appropriate..-...- Should there be a disposition to commit suicide, give Ars..Bell. Hyosc. Puls. Scill. or
Auru.
-- Should there be an inclination to rove
about, Bell. Ifyosc. or Stramo.
------ If there is anger and inclination to
curse and swear, give Hyosc. or Bell. or Stramo.
If there is rage, give Bell. Hlyosc. Verat. or
Stramo.
See Emotions, for other peculiarities,
9




258        1RCEOOPATHIC PRACTICE
MIND AND MEMORY.
1IND AND MEMoRY.-This furnishes another
variety of an impaired condition of the mind to
those of alienation, melancholy, and those states
of the mind mentioned under emotions; they all
appear to be more or less connected together in
the symptoms exhibited.
do. Anxiety, excessive. The remedies
for this state are Sepi. Stramo. Sulp. ac. Thuy. or
Verat.
--- -Cheerfulness.  Sabad. Sec. C. Spig.
Staph. Stramo. Tarax. or Thuy.
Desponding. Sep. Thuy. or Zinc.
Fanciful and Visionary. Cann. Ind,
Rhodod. Stron. Stramo. Sulp. or Tarax.
Imbecility. The remedcies are Acon,
Arnic. Anacard. Ars. Auru. Camp. Hyosc. Ignat.
EKreoso. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Opi. Petrol. Plati. Puls.
Phytol. Plumb. Acet. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sec.
C. Seneg. Sep. Silec. Staph. Stramo. Sol. Nig. or
Sulp. ac.
Gloomy. Sabad. See Emotions and
Melancholia.
L- oss of. Agnu. C. Angust. Ars. Baryt.
Hyosc. Kali. C. Lach. Ignat. Opi. Phos. Plati.
Rus. Rad. Silec. Stramo. Sulp. ac. Tart. Anti.
Thuy. or Verat. or Caust.
Sad. Sep. Stann. Staph. Stramo. Sulp.
Thuy. or Verat. or Caust.




MSEROURY.            259... —-.Thinking and talking faculty, loss of.
Sec. C. Silec. Staph. Stron. Sulp.
Wild and morose. Ran. Bulb. Sang.
Verat.
MERCURY-DISEASES FROM IT.
MERCURY.-Within the present century this
article has been brought into use much more extensively than it was at any former period. It
was found to produce very searching and influential operations on the body; it was thought to
have a specific power to overcome and eradicate
diseases; and as' it proved capable ofproducing a
diseased action on the system, peculiar to itself,
it was resorted to as a counteracting agent to
raise up a new train of action, by which, on
the plan of using counteracting agents for the
cure of diseases, it would probably suspend the
existing diseased action, regulate the secretions,
and bring about a favorable state of health.
For these or some other reasons, within the last
half century, this drug has become very generally and extensively used. However salutary and
useful mercury may have been when moderately
and judiciously used in some cases, the free and
excessive manner in which it has been employed,
has no doubt produced great injury on the
body, and the means of ruining many constitutions. This drug is not used at all by Homceo9*




260         HOMEOPATIEIO FRACTICO.
pathic practitioners in doses to _produce apurgactire efect, nor to bring about a salivation, neither
to efect what is termed a mercurial action on the
system. By the Hormeopathists it is only used in
an attenuated form, or in infitismal doses. By its
effects it is shown that in many instances it leaves
a train of diseases on the body, which marks well
its contaminating deleterious effects; these furnish a great number of cases for Homcepathic
practitioners to detect,- prescribe for, and to
cure.
It is the morbid consequences of this drug, and
the remedies for them, that will be considered
here.
There are some medicines which experience
has shown to be very salutary to relieve and cure
those diseases.
The remedies are Angust. Auru. Ars. Carbo.
V. Hep. Lyc. Mezere. Nitr. ac. and Sulp. or
Kali. Iod.
Its effects on the bones, attended with
nodes, pain, tenderness, and caries, give Angust.
Kali. Iod. Mezere. Nitr. ac,
----- Mouth and throat sore, and painful
from it. Arg. N. Caust. Ignat. Kali. Bic. Mezere.
Nitr. ac. or Sulp..-.- Salivation. To check it, use Baryt.
Bromi. Calc. C. Ephorb. Nitr. ac. or Sulp.
Hahnemann directs the body to be bathed in
warm water and acid.




MRCURMY.              261
For chronic lingering cases of disease derived
from it, the proper course will be to use some one
of the remedies herein named, in small, highly
attenuated doses, a long time, by which the patient will be very much relieved or cured.
The reader may consult to advantage the article Mercury, in Jkar's Symptomen Codex.
The opinions of two distinguished members of
the profession on this subject are introduced
here:As the injudicious use of mercury has been
mentioned in this place, we think proper to
refer to some eminent opinions on that subject. For many years before his demise, Dr.
Hosack, as he often expressed-it, abstained from
its use as a common remedy in fevers and diseases. In remarking on the common and rather
promiscuous use of mercury in diseases of the
liver, he said, that it produced more liver diseases than it cured.
The following remarks are stated as being a
part of a lecture, given by Professor Chapman,
of Philadelphia, extracted from the Homieopathic
Examiner, vol. iii. page 124:"Gentlemen, if you could see what I seepersons in the very last stage of wretched existence, emaciated to a skeleton-with the skull
almost perforated-the nose half gone-rotten
jawr —ulcerated throat-breath more pestiferous
than the poisonous Upas —limbs racked with




262        EOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
pain-mind imbecile-a disgusting spectacle to
others-you would exclaim, as I often have done,
O! the lamentable want of science, that dictates
the abuse of that noxious thing Calomel, in
the Southern States —what merit do gentlemen
flatter themselves they possess by being able to
salivate a patient. Cannot the veriest fool in
Christendom  salivate; give calomel?  But I
will ask another question-Who is it that can
stop the career of Mercury, after it has taken the
reins in its own destructive and ungoverable
hands?  He who for an ordinary cause, resigns
the fate of his patient to Mercury, is a vile enemy
to the sick."
MOUTH, DISEASES OF.
MOUTH), DISEASES OF.-Abscess in. —Borax.
DMerc. Natr. C. Rus. R. Sabi. See Jaws and
Gums.
Bleeding. Chin. Mag. C. 1Millefo. Nitr.
ac. Nux V. Phos. ac. Staph.
-  Burning or itching in. Colocy. Mag.
C. Merc. Mere. Iod. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Phos.
ac. Prus. Sp. Rus. Rad. Staph. Sulp. Tart. Anti.
Tereb. or Verat..-....- Distorted. Opi. or Verat.
-.- Dry or hot. Canth. Nat. M. Plumb.
Rus. Rad. Rus.;ox.Sang. Silec. Verba.




MOUTIJH              263
Gangrene or black appearance. Carb.
Veg. Chin. Lach. Sec. C. Verat.
Lips cracked or peeling. Puls. Ran.
Bulb. Spig. Sulp. or Verat.
— do. Spasms of. Ran. Bulb.... —-   Mucus collects in it to excess, Camp.
Canth. Lach. Scill. Seneg. Staph. Verba. or
Zinc.
Palate, pain and smarting in, Valer.
Putrid smell from, Chin. Coni. Puls.
IRfis. Rad. Sabad. Spig. Stann. or Sulp.
-   Saltish taste, Sunlp.
Saliva in excess, Merc. Sabad. Spong.
Stramo. Sulp. ac. Tarax. Tart. Anti. Valer.
Verba. or Zinc....-   Scalded sensation in, Rus. Rad. Rus.
Tox. Stramo. or Zinc,
Sore and painful, give Coni. Mag. S.
Mangan. Mere. Iod. N!atr. M. Nitr. ac. Nux V.
Phos. Puls. Rhodod. Rus. Rad. Sabad. Seneg.
Staph. or Verat...-    -Spasms in, Nux V. Sulp. or Verat.
Swelled, Kali. Iod. Lach. Lauroc. Rus.
Rad. or Verat.
Tongue brown or yellow, Chin. or
Verba.
do. Burning, Canth. Colocy. Plumb.
Acet. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sarss. Seneg.
Sulp. Tereb. Thuy. or Verat.
-  do. Coated or brown, green, or yellow,




264        HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
or burning, Puls. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sabad.
Sang. Sarss. Seneg. Spong. Sulp. ac. Tarax. Tart.
Anti. or Thuy.
do. Cold, Camp. Phytol. Rus. Rad. or
Verat.
do. Cracked, Merc. Puls. Ran. Bulb.
Spong. Sulp. or Verat.
do. Numb. or paralysed, Canth. Kali.
Iod. Kalmi. Lat. Lact. Viro. Mag. C. Merc. Mere.
Iod. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand. Opi. Petrol. Phos.
Plumb. Acet. Puls. Sarss. Silec. Seneg. Stramo.
or Valer.
do. Peppery Taste, Camph. Sep. Sulp.
or Verat.
do. Red and prickling, Rus. Rad. Sabi.
Sang. Stann. Tabac. or Thuy.
do. Spasms in, Sec. C. Stramo. or
Snlp.
do. Speech impaired, Nux V. Oleand.
Phos. ac. Silec. Stramo. or Verat...... do. Sore and painful, and blistered,
Sep. Silec. Tarax. Valer. Verat. or Zinc.
- Ulcers in, Canth. Mere. Merc. Iod.
Natr. C. Natr. M. Nitr. ac. Nux M. ZNux V. Opi.
Petrol. Plati. Silec. or Thuy.
Watery drooling, Natr. M. Plumb.
Rus. Tox. Sabad. or Silec.




MORBUTS NIGR.            265
MUCUS MEMBRANES.
MucUs MEMBRANES. This portion of the body
which forms the lining or covering of the internal surface of most or all the cavities and tubes
of the system, such as the bronchial tubes of the
lungs, the internal surface of the alimentary canal, the; urethra of the male and the vagina of
females, are subject to diseases, which at first are
generally of an inflammatory nature, either acute
or chronic; the acute form requires remedies
for the cure of this variety of disease generally,
such as Acon. Ipe. Tart. Anti. or Cann. S. Nux
V. or Spong.
For the chronic kind, Ars. Auru. Baryt. M.
Canth. Bals. Cop. Mere. Nitr. ac. Iodide of Mere.
Puls. or Sulp.
MORBUS NIGER.
MORBUS NIGER. A black disease, or black death,
as it has been called. This condition of disease
sometimes takes place in the progress of violent
malignant cases; it is the effect. of previous violent inflammatory action, or deep congestion of
the system; when it does occur, the remedies for
it are, Ars. Carbo. Veg. Carbo. Ani. China.,Quinine. or Sec. C. and Wine or Porter.
In the 14th century, there was an epidemic of
a malignant type spread over Europe, attended
with great fatality, in which the patient turned




266        HOMEOPATHIC PRAOTICE.
brown or black during life, and after death putrefaction took place very rapidly; this was called
the black death eqpidemic.
In the description of this disease, it is represented to have been attended with " violent inflammation; the brain was affected and delirium
attended-a burning thirst with a hot pestiferous
breath; abscesses and diseased glands took place;
there was decomposition of the blood, and sud.
den death."  From this short description, it is
shown to have been a very highly inflammatory
disease, and that'the blackness was the result of
the blood being deprived of vital air, and a process of decomposition suddenly taking place.
This condition has more or less taken place in
more modern epidemics.
NAUSEA AND VOMITING.
NAUSEA AND VOMITING. This disease appears
under a variety of forms, either as a primary affection, or connected with other diseases; there
is a great number of iemedies useful for it;
among them may be enumerated, Acon. Anisi.
Arg. N. Bell. Calc. C. Camp. Caust. Coni. Hyosc. Ipe. Mosch. Morph. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Phos.




NEURALGIA.              267
Petrol. Puls. Silec. Sulp. Tart. Anti. Verat. or
Iris. Versic. or Thuy.
If feces are discharged, give Petrol.
Sabadil. Sang. Sol. Nig. or Thuy.
~ —     In ordinary cases, use Acon. Camp.
Ipe. or Anti.
In cholera morbus, Acon. Camp. Ipe.
Ars.
For sea sickness,: Petrol. Nux  V.
Kreoso; Petrolium. is recommended to be specific.
During pregnancy, Acon. Ars. Coni.
Tlyosc. EKreoso. Lach. Nux V. or Sulp.; the
other medicine will also be useful in many cases.
NEURALGIA.
NEURALGIA. The remedies most useful for this
painful disease are, Acon. Agar. Anacard. Asa.
F. Caust. Camp. Cham. Colocy. Ferr. Iris.
Vers. Guaco. Mosch. ZNitr. ac. Nux V. Petrol. Phytol. Plati. Phos. Puls. Rus. R. Rus. T.
Stramo. Sulp. Thuy. or Verat.
When the face is affected, (as in Tic
Doloreux) give Acon. Bell. Caust. Phos. Staphy.
or Veratrum. or Nux V. —Cream, mixed with a
little Veratrum, and used as a lotion on the affected part, is very efficacious to quiet pain; Colocy has been very effectual in some cases.'
When the digestive organs are dis



2658       HOMCIIOPxTaIC PRAOTICE.
ordered, use Nux V. Puls. Plati. Ipe. or Bryo.
or Cham.
- When it is connected with derangement of the womb, give Nux V. Puls. Plati.
China. Ignat. or Sepi.
If it is influenced by.worms, give
Spig. Bell. Cina. Ferr: Graph. or Sulp.
If rheumatism  accompanies it, use
Acon. Bryo. Rus. T. Mere. Phos. Puls. Nux V.
Lach. or Rus. T.
-- -  In gouty subjects, give Nux V. Rus.
T. or Caust. IMerc. or Colch. or Colocy.
When there is an inflammation of
the part with fever, give Acon. Bell. -Bryo. or
Mere. Staphy. or Verat. or Thuy.
Should it be from  the, effects of
mercury, give Auru. iep. Bell..  itr. ac. or
Sulp.
If it is connected with Mumps, or
disease of the parotid glands, Acon. Bell. Puls.
Merc. Mezere. or Silec.
In young persons of full habit, use
Acon. Bell.*Phos. or Lach.
- In persons of a nervous irritable habit,
give Bell. Lach. Spig. Nux V. Ignat. or Verat.
For other nervous affections, consult Spasms.
NECK SZTIFF, AND WRY NECK.
-NECK STIFF, AND WRY NECK. The neck is liable to become stiff, so that it is very painful to




NmIGHT MARE.            269
move it, or to move the head; this is produced
by several causes   It is often connected with
common colds, when the parts of the throat and
the muscles of the neck are inflamed; in such
eases, the remedies adapted to the cure of the
cold will be proper fori the neck.
It may be produced by sprains or wrenches-;
in such cases, give Arnica. and apply externally
a lotion of diluted Tincture of Arnica. to the
neck.
It frequently is a rheumatic state of disease;
then the remedies pointed out for that complaint
will be propere.
WRY NECK.
WRY NECK.. This commonly is a sudden stitch,or pain of the part, of the nature of nervous
cramps; during'the attack, the neck is often al-most immovable; the head is frequently turned
to one side. The remedies for it are Lycopodrium, Nlux V. or Ether, or Phosph.
NIGHT-MIARE.
NIGHT-MARE.  This well known disease sometimes takes place in a distressing form, when remedies are required for it; those most useful are
Ammo. C. Agar. Aembr. Asa. F. Puls. Sulp.
Snlp. ac. or Thuy.




270          OMhOPXTHIC PRAOTIC2E.
NIGHT SWEATING.
NIGHT SWEATING. To check this excessive and
weakening discharge, give Phos. Sambu. Sang.
Silec. Sulp. ac. or Ferr.
NOSE.
NOSE. This organ is subject to a variety of
diseases, which are here detailed with the appropriate remedies for them.
Bleeding, Acon. -Bell. IKali. Iodi. Il[illefo. Merc. Mosch. iMiuri. ac. Nitr. ac. Phos.
Spong. or Thuy. (See lHlemorrhage.)
- Bleeding and burning condition, Petrol. Phos. Plumb. Puls. Rus. R. Sabad. Sang. or
Caust.
- Bleeding and mucus discharge, Sepi.
Silec. Sulp. or Ammo. M.
Ca- ancer on, or in it, Ars. Calend. (See
Cancer, in its alphabetica;l place.). — ~      ~Caries of the bones of-Ars. Angust.
Arnic. Calc. IMerc. Phos. Silec. Sulp. or Verat.
Coryza, (Catarrh so called.) The remedies most useful are Alum, Ammo. C. Ars. Caust.'Coni. Euphorb. Hep. Ignat. Iodi. Kreoso. Kali.
Bic. Calc. Iod. of Mere. Mezere. Petrol. Puls. Sabad. Spong. Staph. Sulp. Tart. Anti. Thuy. or
Zinc.
--   Coryza dry, Ignat. Lyc. Lauroc. Nux




V. Oleand. Petrol. Silec. Spong. Rus. R. Rus. T.
or Thuy....- Coryzax-chronic state, Alum, Anacard.
Colocy. Caust. Graph. Lye. Lauroc. Mag. ML
Nitr. ac. Sepi. or Silec.....-   ramis in, Nux V. Sulp. or Zinc.
-  Creepinri sensation, Tabac.
-   -  Eruption on it, Ammo. C. Ars.
Kalmi. Lat. -Iodi. Kreoso. Oleand. Petrol.
Plumb. ac. Rus.. T. Sarss. Silec. Spong. Sulp. -or
Thuy.
t- tching, or hot, or red, Ammo. C.
Arg. Baryt. Canth. Caust, Coni. Iodi. Kali. Bic;.
Kreoso. Merc. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Petrol. Rus.
R. Rus. T. Spig. Samb. Staph. Seneg. Sulp. or
Verat.
-.-  do. on the tip, Sabad. Selen. Sep. Scill.
Spig. Sulp. or Arg. N.
--  Xmcus in excess in-Coni. Ranan.
Bulb. Rhodod. Rus. R. Scill. Tereb.
- -  Numb, or stinging sensation, Oleand.
Stron. Zinc.
- -  Ozena, Auru. Bryo. Caust. Coni. Kali.
Bic. Kali. C. Kreoso. Lach. Lye. Muri. ac. Nux
V. Phos. ac. Puls. or Rus. T.
NOSE. (OZENA.)
NosSE. For ulcers in the nose, or a green discharge from it-give Ars. Auru. Scill. Sep. Silec.
Snip. Tart. An. or Thuy.




27~2         OMMEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
-    Obstrcted, Sabi. Silec. Spig. Staph. or.
Tereb.
- Red from  intemperance, Ars. Carb.
Anima. Canth. Caps. Caust. iep. Kali. Iod. Mere.
Mezere. Nux V. or Verat.
-~ —'-_Pain in it, Coni. Nitr. ac. Petrol.
Puls. Sang. Selen. Seneg. Silee. Spong. or Zinc.
- Polypus in —Arnic. Calc. Coni. StaphL
2Nitr. ac. Phos. Sep. Silec. or Seneg.
-  urf on —Thuy. Sulp. or Caust.
--- Smell acute, Sabad.
do. Hforrid sensation in-Coni. Plumb.
Acet. Rhodod. Seneg. or Sep....-  do. Loss of-Arg. Aura. Arnic. CaustL
Coni. Kali. Bic. Kali. Iod. Plati. Sep. Sulp. Zinc.
or Garlic or Sabad.
-  -   SnuffSling, Sep. Sabad. or D ulcam.
r —--- Sneezing to excess, Anacard. Ars.
Canth. Mosch. Nitr. ac. Oleand. Phos. Rus. Rad.
Rus. Tox. Sabad. Stramo. Sulp. Tabac. Tart.
Anti. Thuy. or Zinc.
Sore or Smarting in, Staph. or Rus. T.
Swelling or itching, Arg. Arnie. Ars.
Auru. Bell. Caust. Hep. Kali. Iod. Kreoso. Nux
V. Rus. Tox. Scill. Sepi. or Zinc.
Syphilitie afection, Mezere. Mere.
Nitr. ac.'(See Syphilis.)
Ti- ngling sensation in, INitr. ac. 0>.
Anima.
--- Titillation, Seneg. Spig. Sulp.




&VREREATING.            273
T- -  T  cold, or pricking in, Sarss. Silee.
Sulp.
--- Vesicles on or in, Sec. 0. Spig. Tereb.
or Zinc.
CEDEMA.
(DEMA.-ThiS affection is noticed under Dropsy, by the term Anasarca.
OSTOITIS. IFLAMMATION OF THE BONES.
OSToITIs.-The bones or the membranes immediately connected with them, may become inflamed and very painful. This affection may lead
to or terminate in caries. The remedies in the
early stage are Acon. Bell. Bryo., and cold applications to the part, calculated to check the
inflammatory disease., In the progress of the
case, it will be beneficial to give Angust. Asa. F.
Auru.. Colocy. tHep. Merc. Silec. or Nitric. ac.
or Sepi.
OVERHEATING.  COUP DE SOLEIL, (termead
Stan Struck.)
OvERHEATING. —When this condition is prodauced, and prostration or fainting takes place in




274        HOMCEOPATHIC PeRATICIE.
consequence of sudden or excessive heat of the
sun. It is advisable not to drink cold water until
sometime has elapsed; then it may be given in
small quantities; wet the hands and feet with
cold water, also the head. Give Acon. at once,
or Bryo. Ipe. or Anti. To counteract congestion of
the brain, which is likely to take place, use Bell.
Cocc. or Opi.
If nausea or vomiting occurs, Silecia gives relief, or use Ipe. or Anti.
If the patient revives and regains his faculties,
he should be-kept quiet, placed in a cool place,
and some of those remedies to aid reaction of the
powers of the system, and to prevent an increase
of fever, should be given.
PAIN.
PANw.-The great variety of pain, its frequent
occurrence, and the various parts of the body
liable to be affected with it, renders it important
to arrange a list of those cases, with the remedies
suitable for them, in the following manner:---  Of the Anus. Give Aloe. Ignat. Lobelia.
Lauroc. Merc. Nux V. Rus. T. Sulp. or Thuy.
(See IHemorrhoids.)




PAIN.               275
Abdomen, in. Acon. Ars. Bell. Chain.
Nux V. Sulp. (See Abdomen.).-... Iri the Bones. Thny. or Zinc.
-- In the Chest, Plurodynia.  Arnic.
Bryo. Cann. Ind. Chain. Iodi. Puls. Ran. Bulb.
or Rus. Tox. (See Chest.)
In the Face. Aeon. Bell. Caust. Merc.
or Nux V.
In the Joints. Aeon. Arnic. Bell. Bryo.
Colocy. (See Rheumatism.)
I In the Night. Hyosc. Phytol. Puls. or
Rus. Tox.
Increased by motion. Phytol.
Of the Stomach. Aeon. Arnic. Bell.
Bryo. Camp. Carb. V.Colocy. Lauroc. Nux V. or
Plumb. (See Stomach.)
-  --  do. and Burning. Bell. Camp. Lauroc.
Nux V. Verat. or Ars..-.- Sternum under it. Bryo. Nux V.
Oleand. Rus. Tox. Sulp. Verat.
In the Hip. (See Extremities, Hip.)
Aeon. Bell. Chain. Puls. IIep. Colocy. Ars. Merc.
Rus. Tox. or Digita. Silec. Kreoso. Arg. Auru. or
Nux V.
— In the Knee. Nitr. ac. Auru. Phos. ac.
Lyc. Sulp. Silec. Rus. T. or Sabi..... — Of the Loins. (See Lumbago.)
Of the Neck. (See that article.)
- Which moves from one part te another.
Puls.




276       fOScEOPATEIC   PRACTIORL
---- From injuries mechanical. Acon. A.rnic. Baryt. Bell. Lach. Nux. V. or Rus. T.
Of the Pharynx. Ars. Baryt. C. Iodi.
Mur. ac. Caust. or Coni.
--     - Of the Shoulders and upper parts.
Kreoso. Plumb. ac. Rus. Tox. or Bryo. (See
Back.). —.  Tone and potvers -of motion, sudden
loss of, like Intoxication. Give Cann. Ind. or
Sabad.
-  -- Of the Tongue. Caust. Coni. Mere.
Nux V. Sabadt
PALATE.
PALATE.-The palate or uvula frequently becomes inflamed or elongated from colds or some
other cause. When this is the case, it'produces a
-tickling or irritation on the tongue, and an unpleasant condition of the parts. It is frequently
recommended and practised in such cases to cut
off a piece of it, but this is an unadvisable and
unnecessary course to pursue.
It may generally be relieved by giving Nux
V. or Bell., two or three doses in twenty-four
hours. If these do not afford relief, use Merc. or
Calca. Sulp. or Dolicho. By these means followed up, the affection will, in short time, be
removed, and the patient curedl




PALSY.               277
PALSY.
PALsY. —This disease is described by authors
as a loss of the muscular powers, and an inability
to use the limb or part affected. It is frequently
attended with numbness of the part or diminished
sensation.
The remedies which are most useful for this
affection, and generally recommended, are Ambr.
Ammo. C. Amrmo. M. Arnic. Ars. Bell. Bryo.
Caust. Kreoso. Kali. Iod. lIIyosc. Lach. Lye. Mere.
Mosch. Nux V. Oleand. Plati. Plumb. Rus. T.
Silec. Stram. or Sulp. or Cinebar.
The following is a general mode in which they
should be used, according to the conditions of
the case.
When the disease is brought on, or is the effect
of apoplexy, we refer to this article for a detail of
the treatment.
- If it is connected with, or owing to,
Rheumatism, give Arnic. Bryo. Colichi. Rus. T.
Lye. Silec. or SuTp. (See Rheumatism, for further detail.)
Should the affection proceed from general debility or sudceed any exhausting sickness,
give Chin. Ferr. Baryt. C. Nux V. Kali. Iod.
Plumb. or Sulp.
If it proceeds from, or is caused by
suppressed cutaneous eruptions, use Lach. Sulp.
or Hep. Kali. Iod. or Rus. Tox. or Puls.




mOMaEOPATIO  PR3AUC2B.
-- - - If it is produced -by the effect of lead,,
a  is sometimes the case in painters, give Opi.
Beil. Plati. or Alum. Bell. Puls. Nux V. or Sulp.
or Castile Soap. (See Colic, fromn Lead.)
----   emiplegia. A cBse of this kind of
palsy came under our treatment sometime since,
which we think of importance enough to relate
here.
Mrs. S., aged about fifty years, of spare frame,
was suddenly seized, and. at once completely
paralyzed in the left side, and was nearly speech —
less. The foot was almost insensible to touch or
pinching. We gave her Nux V., by which, in a
short time, the speech returned; some other remdies were used without a perceptible benefit,
when she took Rus. Tox. Mother Tincture, one
drop twice a day, which was increased a drop
day until ift.y drops were given at a dose.
In a few days she began to improve; she
felt a prickling sensation, and had twitches in
the limbs,'and soon began to move the arm;
there came feeling and warmth in the foot and
leg; the limb was rubbed with a hot solution
of salaeratus, and cloths wet in it were wrapped around it. This was all that was applied
externally, and she gradually improved from day
to day till she used the hand, and walked the
room at the end of fifty days; then the medicine
was diminished one drop a day until it run out,
when she had fully recovered and walked the




PALSY.
street. (We refer to Jhcar's Symjptomen Codex,
article Rus. Tox., for this authority for using
Rus.)
----  Of the Anus Sphincter. Aloe. Hyose.
Rus. Tox. or Nux V.
Of the Muscles of the Face. Caust.
Kali. Iodi. or Nux V.
Of the hands or feet. Ars. Bovista.
Ferr. Kreoso. Plumb. Rus. T. Sabad. Silec. or
Thuy.
There does not seem to be much benefit derived
in paralytic cases by the external use of exciting
or other remedies; the host of those recommended- and used, frequently produces much
inconvenience, and may do injury. If it is recollected, that in cases of general palsy, the origin of
the disease is in the brain or at some large nerve,
it will appear unlikely that irritating the extreme
points of the nerves at the skin can be of much
use. The remedies which are likely to be useful
and' effect a cure, mfist be given internally.
Hahnemann disapproves of the use of external
exciting remedies; he also condemns the use of
electricity, and says it may give some temporary
relief at first, but exhausts the nervous energy,
and thus proves injurious in the end. If it is
used at all, it should be in a mild manner.




280         HOMCEOPATHIO PRACETI-.
PAMPHIGUS.
PAMPPHIGUS.-A  kind of fungus excrescence
raising up on the skin. The remedies for it are
Asa. F. Auru. Bell. Coni. Graph. Hep. Iodi. MIerc.
Rus. T. or Sulp. or Caust.
PLICA POLONICA,
PLICA POLONICA. —This is a disease which affects the inhabitants of Poland and some others
of the North of Europe; the hair of the head
becomes adherent or plaited together, produced
by some morbid gummy secretion, which exudes
from the scalp.
The remedies found useful for it are such as
are used for scald head; to wit, Calc. C. Nitr. ac.
Nux V. Petrol. Podoph. P. Rus. T. Sepi. Sulp.
or Thuy.
The hair should be cut off close, and the skin
washed and cleansed with soap and water, and
such dressings applied to it as are used for scald
head.
PURPURA RUBRA.
PURPURA RUBRA. —This affection is considered a
modification of cutaneous disease, somewhat similar to scarlatina. The skin is represented to
exhibit a brownish or purple appearance. The
remedies are Acon. Bell. Dulcam. Iodi.




RHEUMATISM.            -281
In the American Journal of Hommcopathy,
-No. 3, p. 391, it is stated that Spirits of Turpentine is a specific remedy for it.
PYROSES-COMMONLY CALLED HEARTBURN.
PYROSES. —It is an unpleasant and sometimes
a painful affection. There is a burning sensation
at the stomach, somewhat similar to those of
eructation, and the effects are much the same.
The remedies for it are Calc. C. Morph. Nitr.
ac. Nux V. Petrol., and the medicine for eructations.
RHEUMATISM.
RHEUMATISM. This troublesome and painful
disease which affects the limbs, the joints, and
more or less all parts of the body, is produced by
various causes, and appears under different circumstances. It is well known, and its effects are
so visible, that a detailed description of it seems
to be unnecessary. It is generally divided into
acute and chronic rheumatism, but the line of distinction cannot easily be drawn.
The most advisable method of treating the
acute form will be here detailed. The remedies




282        HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
are, Aecon. Ars. Bell. Bryo. Cann. Ind. Colch. Hyosc. Ipe. Kali. C. Kali. Iod. Kalmi. L. Nitr. ace
Phos. Podoph. P. Puls. Ranan. Bulb. Rus. T.
Sang. Stramo. or Tart. Anti.
In the first stage, when there is fever,
pain, swelling, or inflammation of some parts,
Acon. is the best medicine; give three or four
drops of the 2d to the 6th dilution, every three
to six hours; or give a grain of the 2d or 3d trituration at a dose. If there is shooting pains at
night, or the part is red and swelled, give Bell.
In continued pain, with moderate fever increased on motion, if Acon. or Rell. does not
check it, give Bryo. Puls. or Hyosc.; when
there is a numbness or cramps in the part, use
Nux V.
If the pain is deep seated, give Kali. Iod. or
Merc.
If the pain is changing from one place to another, use Camp. Puls. or Kalmi. L.
When there is torpor, numbness, or trembling,
worse when still, Rus. T.
If the pain is dragging, or burning, or lancinating, Ars. is proper.
When the stomach is deranged, use Colch. or
Kux V. The other remedies may be selected if
these fail, and they should be used in accordance
with the symptoms compared with their properties, as shown in pure Materia Medica.
When the pain seizes a part, and suddenly




RHEUMATISM.               283
leaves it and fixes on another part, give Puls. or
Acon. or Tart. Ant. or one of these latter may be
used to advantage, alternated with Puls.
In the acute or inflammatory stage, apply cold
water freely to the painful part; cloths wet in
ice cold water are the most useful; to this may
be added to advantage, a little acetate of lead,
Muriate of Ammonia, or tincture of Arnica.;
leave the pained part to the open air as'much as
may be convenient.
This course has been pursued in a great number of cases, and for years, with decided advantage; generally in a short time it may be expected that a cure will be effected.
-.. CChronic.  In many cases it will be
difficult to distinguish this kind from the preceding; the points of difference mostly relied on,
are, that in the acute rheumatism, there is swelling and severe pain in the part; the skin is red,
there is fever; and these symptoms are frequently quite severe, though in this variety at times,
there is not much fever, pain, or sickness.  In
the chronic rheumatism, the case is more protracted; it continues worse and better a length
of time, without much swelling or fever: the
part sometimes is numb, or partially deprived of
usefulness.
The same remedies frequently are useful in
each form; those most useful in the chronic or
protracted- kind, are, Ars; Auru. Bryo. Cann.




284        HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Ind. Caust. Colch. Colocy. Kali. Iod. Kreoso. Lyc.
Mere. Nux V. Phytol. Puls. Sabi. Stramo. Sulp.
Thuy. or Verat.
The directions given for selecting a proper remedy on page 10, should be observed here, as
well as in other cases.
If the pain runs about and changes from one
part to another, or runs upward, give Arg. N.
Asa. F. or Caust. Lyc. Puls. Thuy. or Verat.
When the pain is fixed in a joint, give Acon.
Bryo. Bell. Rus. T. Tart. Anti. Ars. Lobel. Sulp.
or Arg. N.
If the upper extremities are the seat of the
pain, use Acon. Bryo. Lyc. Puls. or Rus. T.
If the pain is worse at night than in the day
time, give iHyosc. Stron. or Bell.
If gout is connected with it, see Gout.
RHEUMATISM, LUMBAGO.
RHEUMATISM, LUBAGO. The remedies which
prove most useful for this painful disease are, if
there is fever, use Acon. Bryo. or Ipe.; when
there is'not fever, use Iodi. Kali. Bic. Kali. Iod.
Kreoso. Lach. Mere. Phytol. Prun. Sp. Rus. R.
Rus. T. Sabad. Staphy. Sulp. Tabac. Verat. or Zinc.
-  If the skin is inclined to be cold, or
has an itching on it, give Ammo. C. Arg. N. Bell.
Bryo. Ipe. Iodi. or Prun. Sp.. —.-. If the parts are stiff and rigid, give




RHEUMATIML.            285
Carb. Ani. Camp. Ipe. Lach. Led. P. Phytol. Silec.
or Staphy.
If there is numbness with the pain, or it
appears to be connected with a syphilitic contamination, give Kalmi. L. Mere. Mezere. Nitr. ac.
Petrol. or Podophy.
- If the pains are increased by a chill,
give-Acon. Bryo. Dulcam. Merc. or Sulp.
Should it be brought on, or increased
by stormy weather, use Rus. T. Dulcam. or Lye.
or Verat.
When any change of the weather brings on an
attack, guard the system by taking Calcara. Silec.
Sulp. or Lach. or Rus. T.; or if the pain sets in
at the time, one of these medicines will be the
proper remedy to take.
It will be observed that external remedies are
not recommended here, except cold water, and
articles combined with it to reduce fever and inflammation; but if there should be a rigid stiff
state of the affected part in the advanced stage,
some mild emollient or softening remedies would
be proper and useful. But the multitude of exciting and stimulating articles recommended and
used for the cure of this disease are generally of
very little use, and experience proves, that they
frequently have a tendency to aggravate the pain.
When Homceopathic treatment is pursued,
all those articles are inadmissible.  In this
as well as in other difficult diseases, it will




286        HOMMEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
be well to run over the list of medicines named in
a Materia Medica, to see which corresponds best
with the case, and then fix on that.
RICKETS.
RICKETS. This disease commonly affects young
children. The indications of it are, a large develppemeut of the head, a prominent forehead,
the breast bone is full and prominent, the ribs
flattened, the abdomen is enlarged; there is
emaciation, and a state of languor and debility;
as the case adivances the muscles become flaccid,
the skin pale, the bones distorted, curved, and
deformed, attended with a slow fever and poor
appetite.
The most useful remedies are Asa. F. Bell.
Calc. C. Colocy. Iodi. Mere. Sol. Nitr. ac. Silec.
or Sulp. (See Cachexia.)
RING-WORM.
RmNG-WOR. This is a species of Herpes; the
remedies for it are Ars. Graph. Merc. Rus. T.
Sep. or Sulp. (See Herpes.)
RISUS SARDONICUS. SARDONIAN OR INVOLUNTARY LAUGHTER.
RISUS SARDONI us.- The remedies for it are
Ranan. Bulbosa. This affection is nearly allied




SCIRIHUS.              287
to Chorea, which is placed under Spasms. (See
Spasms.)
SALT IRHEUM.
SALT RHEJUM.-OFcr this inveterate and troublesome disease, the most useful remedies are Ars.
Hep. Petrol. Thuy. or Sulp.  Hep. is allowed to
be the most certain. (See Herpes.)
SCALD HEAD. TINEA CAPITIS.
SCALD HIEAD. —This well known disease is
also called -Dotw form. Seome one of the following medicines will be capable of effecting
a cure; they should be continued a long time.
Ars. Baryt. Calc. C. Carb. V. Graph. Hep.
iKreoso. Lye. iMere. Oleand. Petrol. Psorinum.
Rus. T. or Sulp. (See Ierpes.) Apply to the
scalp Citron Ointment or solution of Nitrate of
Silver, or Muriate of Mercury, and wash and
cleanse it every day.
SCIRRIIUS.
ScIRRmus. —The most appropriate remedies for
this disease are Bell. Calendula, Conium. Sep.
Silec. or Ars. (See Glands, Cancer, &c.)




288         HOMMEOPATHI0 PRACTIMC
SCIATICA.
SCIATICA is defined by surgical and other writers
a disease of the sciatic nerve at the hip joints,
partaking of an inflammatory, neuralgic nature.
The pain is often very severe, sometimes it extends to the knee and foot-it differs from the
disease of the Hivp Joint proper, so cacled, which
is an inflammatory affection of the ligaments and
parts about the joint. That disease may and does
at times partake of a scrofulous or rheumatic
character. This is more confined to the nerves.
The remedies most suitable for Sciatica, are Acon,
Bell. Cham. Ignat. Nux V. or Ars. Colocy. or
Rus. T.
When there is considerable fever, give Aeon.
or Bell.
If there is dragging or burning pain in the
joint, Ars. will be a proper remedy.
If the pain is most severe in the night, with
irritability of temper, and it is irregular, use
Cham. or Ignat.
If the pain is more severe towards morning,
with a stiff paralysed feeling, Nux V.
If the pain increases towards evening, or when
the patient is still, Puls. or Rus. T.
When the pain is aggravated by anger, or there
is an irrascible temper, Colocy. or Hyosc.
If the pain is more severe when the patient is
at rest, Rus. Tox. or Puls.




scALr.                28 9
For the other symptoms of the part, examine
Rheumatism, Scrofula, and Hip Joint disease,
for other remedies which may useful.
SCALP.
ScALP. The scalp or skin of the head is subject to a variety of diseases and pains, somewhat
peculiar to it, which are thus arranged.
Pain and soreness in it, use Lach.
Lauroc. Led. P. Muri. ac. Nux V. Petrol. Ranan.
B. Spig. Sulp. Verat. Valera. or Caust.
do. in the bones, Auru. or Nitr. ac.
do. in the front part, Staphy. Sulp.
Sulp. ac. or Verat.. Creeping or itching in it, Caust.
Hair falling off. (See this article in its
place.)
Paralyzed numb feeling, Coni. Lach.
Petrol.
Very sensitive, use Lach. Sabi. Sarss.
Selen. Spig. Spong. Sulp. Sulp. ac. or Zinc.
Spasms in, Nitr. ac. Phos. ac. or Nux
V. (See INeuralgia.)
Tingling sensation, Nitr. ac. Petrol.
Phos. ac. PRus. Tox. or Sulp.
~-      Tumors on, give Petrol. Silec. or Sulp....... Ulcers or abscesses on, Ars. Coni. Sep.
Sulp. ac. or Zinc. will be among the most useful
remedies.
10




290         HOMMEOPATHIC PRACTIOCo
SCROFULA.
SOROIFULA. This disease is an impaired state ofthe
system, arising from a peculiar morbid condition;
it is described as an affection of the glands in different parts of the body, particularly those of the
neck, under the chin, behind the ears, and in other
parts, such as the mesenteric glands; there is
impaired digestion. They become hard, enlarged,
and form indolent tumors, not very painful, but
slow in their progress. If not arrested, they proceed on to suppuration, when an indolent ulcer
is formed, which discharges a thin serous whitish
whey-like matter. The general health is impaired, attended with a feeble, enervated.state of
body, the skin is pale and flabby. This disease
sometimes locates on the joints, producing a tedious disease, rather difficult to cure, frequently
destroying the joint.
The most advisable remedies for it, are Ars.
Auru. Bell. Baryt. Calc. C. Caust. Coni. Ferr.
Iodi. Kreoso. IMerc. Mluri. ac. Nitr. ac. Phosphate
of Iron; this latter medicine in many cases is
efficacious; or Silec. Spong. or Sulp.
When there is a scrofulous constitution, by a
long continued use of some one or more of these
medicines, in small or highly attenuated doses, a
cure may generally be effected, or the case will
be very much benefited.
If the joints or lbones are diseased, Sulp. ac.




SCROFULA.               991
Calc. or Silec. or Iodide of Mercury, or Auru. or
Phos. will be very useful. It will be of service
to examine other diseases which may have aided
in bringing on the complaint, or which are connected with it.
- Bones diseased; when this is the case,
give Asa. F. Auru. Carb. Veg. Ferr. Phos. Silec.
Lyc. Merc. Mezere. or Silec. are the useful
remedies.
-----  Ulcers. When the diseased part proceeds to ulceration, it is generally advisable to
dress the ulcer with exciting stimulating articles,
and such as communicate oxygen to them, and to
continue the internal use of the medicine; much
depends on this. One of the best remedies to
use to raise up a healthy action in these ulcers,
is the Oxalis Acetosella (wood sorrel.). It should
be gathered when green and fresh, pound it till
a pulpy mass is formed, then mix with it an
equal quantity or more of Indian or oat meal.
It is best to moisten it with sour'Milk or whey;
in this form of a poultice, apply it to the ulcer;
it soon causes so much excitement and pain, that
it will be necessary to -add more meal to it. The
ulcer soon changes the flabby livid -appearance to
a'more florid healthy color.
It was.the opinion of Dr. Bedoes, that by the
use of this article, Oxygen was directly communicated to the ulcer.
This article has been used in some parts of the
10*




M9I2        ROMOPATH1I PRACTICEi
country by the people for such indolent ulcers
with much success.
The sorrel may be gathered when fresh, and
fornled into an electuary, so as to retain its properties for use at periods and places when the
fresh' herb. cannot be had.
SCURVY.
ScuRvy.-This disease is distinguished by debility, pale and bloated countenance, cedemateous state of the inferior extremities, livid spots
on the skin, foul ulcers, bleeding from the part7
offensive urine, fietid stools, the gums are spongy,
and bleed easily.
The most usefill remedies., fr it are Ammo.
MHuri. Caust. Carbo. Veg. Nitr. ac. or Sulp. or
Ars., together with a free use of vegetables and
vegetable a.cids.
SEA SICKNIESS.
SEA SICKNEs. —For this troublesome and dis~
tressing disease, the following remedies are recommLended, Ars. Coce. Kreoso. Nux V. Versico,
Petrol. The -latter medicine has obtained considerable reputation to check or cure this affectiocn




SKIN,'293
SKIN.
SXiN.-There are a large class of diseases which
affect the skin; many of them are noticed under
Herpes, and there are many others, such as the
following:Skin, blotches on. Silec. Sulp. ac. Tabac. Tarax. or Tart. Anti....-    do. Gangrenous.  Use Garb. Veg.
Lach. Sec. C.
Blue spots on or lead color. Lach.
iNux M. Plumb. Acet. Sec. C. Sulp. ac. Thuy. or
Verat..-...- Boils. To prevent or cure them, give
Led. P. Lyc. Mag. C. Mur. ac. Nitr. ac. Nux V.
Phos. Phos. ac. Phytol. Puls. Rata. Sec. C. Silec.
Staph. Stramo. Sulp. Thuy. or Zinc. These remedies are the proper ones.
-. —.- Burning excrescences on. Ars. Coni.
Mosch. Morph. MTir. ac. Nitr. ac. Oleand. Petrol.
Phos. Phytol. Puls. Rus. Rad. Sabad. Sarss. Sec.
C. Sol. Nig. or Staph.
Cold or smarting sensation of. Use
Auru. Baryt. Borax. Camp. Caust. Ipe. Iodi.
Launoc. Mere. Oleand. or Tart. Aigti.
Icy sensation of. Tart. Anti. Verat.
or Zinc.
Creeping sensation. Phos. ac. Sabad.
Scill. Sec. C. Spong. Stramo. or Sulp. ac.
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Xatr. C. Nitr. ac. Nux M. Petrol. Plumb. Acet.
Sabad. Sang. Sec. C. Sulp. or Tart. Anti.
Ecchymosis. Sec. C. Sulp. ac. Thuy.
Eruptions, fine on. Caust. Merc. Natr.
C. Nitr. ac.'Oleand. Phos. Ran. IRulb. Rus. Rad.
Bus. Tox. Sabad. Sang. Selen. Sep. Silec. Spong.
Staph. Stramo. Sulp. Tarax. or Zinc.
- Hot or Itching, or Red Rash.:Kali.
Iod. IKalmi. Lat. Lye. Morph. Mere. Viv. Oleand.
01. Anima. Phos. ac. Puls. Rus. Rad. Sarss. Sep.
Sulp. ac. Tereb..or Verba.
-  Exanthernata or Vesicles on. Kreoso,
Lach. Led. P. Merc. Mur. ac. Nux M. Oleand. Ox.
ac. Phos. ac. Phytol. Plurmb. Acet. Puls. Ran.
Bulb. Sang. Sarss. Staph. Sulp. Tart. Anti. Tereb.
Thuy. or Zinc. or Ars.
Itching or pain. Agar. Alum. Arg.
Ars. Baryt. Caust. Coni. Iodi. Kalmi. Lat. Iodi.
Led. P. Lyc. Mag. S. Morph. Nitr. ac. Nux V.
Nux Jifg. Phos. Plati. Ran. Bulb. Rts. Tox. Sang.
Selen. Stann. Sulp. or Verat.
do. great. Silec. Spong. Staph. Sulp.
ac. Tart. Anti. or Zinc., or the above medicine.
Itching and Inflamed.  Use Acon.
Ammo. C. Ammo. M. Anacard. Arg. N. Canth.
Caust. Colocy. KIali.- Bic. Kali. Iod. Kalmi. Lat.
Merc. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand. Phos. Plati.
Rus. Rad. Rus.' Tox. Sabad. or Scill.
do. In various parts.  Scill. Spong.
Stramo. Sulp. Tarax. Thuy. or Verat.




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Numb sensation. Oleand. Opi. Petrol.
Sabad.!  Petechia. Sec. C. or Sulp.
Pustules and Vesicles, or spots on.
Give Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sep. Sol. Nig. Stramo.
Sulp. Thuy: or Tereb. or Ars.
Pricking sensation in-use Rus. Tox.
Sulp. ac.
Sensitive, Morph. Oleand. Phos. Podoph. P. Rus. Rad. Sec. C. Silec. Thuy. or Zinc.
or Caust.
- Shingles, (Zona,) ther emedies for this
are, Acon. Bell. Graph. Merc. Puls. Rus. Rad.
Rus. Tox. or Silec. (See Erysipelas.)
Soft, to make it so, Podoph. P.
-  -- Spots on, red, or nettle rash, Bell.
Coni. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sang. Sulp.
Sulp. ac. Tereb. Verat. or Zinc. (See Herpes.)
----- do. Yellow, Sep. or StranTo.
Sweating to excess, Sol. Nig. Stramo.
Sulp. ac. Tarax. Tart. Anti. or Tereb.
--  Tumors gangrenous, Carb. V. Sec. C.
Scill. or Sulp. ac.
do. on vertex, painful, Morph. Phytol,,
Plati. Rus. Rad. or Zinc.
---  Urticaria, Led. Pelust...-...- Vesicles on, give Caust.




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SLEEP.
SLEEP. There are frequently morbid symptoms of a sleeping state which become proper
subjects of medical treatment.
-  --  Sleep, anxiety during it. The remedies are Lauroc. Lyc. Morph. Muri. ac. Nitr. ac.
Phytol. Puls. Sabi. Sec. C. Sepi. Sulp. or Tabac.
Cold skin during, Silec. or Verat.
Cramps in, Hyosc. 3Nux V. Sep. Silec.
or staph.
Dream anxiots or vivid, Verat.
do. of the dead. When these affect
the patient, give Thuy.
do. Lascivious, Samb. Sarss. Silec.
Stann. or Stramo.
--  do. Pleasant or unpleasant. To regulate them, give Morph. 01. Anima. Petrol. Rus.
Tox. Sabi. Sam. Silec. Spig. Stann. or Sulp.
Deathly appearance during, Sabad.
Silec. Stramo. or Tabac.
Depression great during, Rus. Tox.
-    - - Erections and nocturnal emissions during, Agnu. C. Canth. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sabad.
or Sarss.
- - Fall into, during day. To prevent it,
give Sep. Spong. Staph. Stramo. Sulp. or Sulp.
ac. or Caust.
Immoderate, or greatly inclined to,
Bell. Bromi. Kali. C. IKali. Bic. Kalmi. Lat. Lan



SLEEP.               29T
roc. Nitr. ac. Kux V. Oleand. Opi. Petrol. Phos.
Podoph. P. Puls. Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox..Sabad.
Thuy. or Zinc.
- Intoxicated feeling. Cann. Ind. Morph.
Opi. Rhodod. or Stramo.
Jerking during-. Hyosc. Opi. or Tart.
Anti.
- Legs and feet cold. Thuy. or Verat..~-    Lethargy and Coma, Vigil.  Cocc.
lIyosc. Opi. Tart. Anti. Verat. or Zinc.
Muttering and snoring. Stramo. or
Sulp.
Pulsative sensation. Sabad.
Screams and howls in, Stramo.. —.- Somnambulism. For those addicted
to walk during sleep, the remedies are Bryo.
Bromi. Kali. Bic. Opi. Stramo. or Silec. or Artimesia Vulgo.
Starts in, Sarss. Sec. C. Seneg. Silec.
Spong. Stramo. Staph. Sulp. Sulp. ac. Tabac. or
Tart. Anti..-.-  Talks in.  Bell. Caust. Sep. Silec.
Stramo. Thuy.
Wakeful and uneasy. Acon. Bell. Carb. Veg.
Graph. Hyosc. iHep. IKali. Bic. Lach. Kreoso.
Mosch. Mur. ac. Morph. Xatr. C. Ran. Bulb.
Rus. Rad. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Samb. Sang. Sep.
Silec. Sec. C. Seneg. Spong. Tereb. Thuy. Valer.
or Verat. or Caust.
do. toward day. llyosc. Ipe. Lach.




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Lye. Merc. C. Mag. M. Mur. ac. Nux V. Opi.
Mur. ac. Ox. ac. IRus. Tox. Sabad. Sep. Silec.
Spig. Staph. Thuy.
Weeping in. Thuy.
Yawning in. RUS. R. Rns. T. Sabad.
Sang. Sec. C. Seneg. Sepi. Silec. Spig. Spong.
Stann. Staphy. Sulp. ac. Tabac. Tart. A. Valler.
or Verat. Or Ca1ust.
SMALL POX. (VARIOLUS.)
SMALL Pox. The serious character of this disease' is pretty well known; it is considered the
most contagious of any one in the catalogue of
morbid affections. It commences with the general symptoms of inflammatory fever, attended
with a chill, high fever, headache, pain in the
back and limbs, skin hot, thirst gre'at, pressure
at the stomach, nausea, eyes sensitive to the light,
mind impaired, prostration of strength; this stage
continues about three days, when the eruption
begins to appear; first, on the face, then on the
body.
It cannot be fully determined whether the case
is small pox or not until the eruption appears;
when it shows itself, the fever and pain considerably abate; this has been considered a, very tedious, loathsome, and dangerous disease, and there
have been good grounds for such an opinion.
After the pustules appear, they pass on in



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creasing in size, to about the ninth day, when
they arrive to their maturity, containing purulent watery fluid or lymph; then they begin'to'turn brown; first on the face, and continue' to do
so over other parts of the body; they generally
dry, and if the patient does well, the scabs begin
to peel off, and a gradual recovery ensues.
When the case is very severe and the progress
unfavorable, the fever is high, stupor:and delirium take place, congestion of the brain forms,
and a typhoid state comes on, the scabs or surface turn brown or black, and from the eleventh
to the fifteenth day, the patient probably dies.
Treatment during the febrile or promonitory
stage; the treatment should be active, and such
as that for inflammatory fever; give Acon. Bell.
Ipe. Anti. or Camp.
In addition to these medicines, a valuable
antidotal preventive has been discovered and introduced as a remedy, which promises much to
mitigate this disease, and remove from it a great
portion of its danger and malignancy.
We take occasion to mention for this purpose,
the VARIOLIN. The antidotal properties of this
article were discovered by experience; it is
based entirely upon the Homceopathic mode of
ascertaining the properties of drugs, and the law
of cure on which they are founded.
We proceed to give an account of the remedy
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300        HOIMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
using it.  It appears that this medicine given
early in the case has the property of neutralizing
or correcting the virus of the disease in the system, so as to check the progress of the disease.
Sometimes the case stops short, in a'manner so
that the pustules do not fill, or if they progress,
they are in a manner moderately sore and painful, and small in size; therefore, as soon as the
case is suspected or ascertained to, be Varioloid
or Smnall Pox, then begin to give this remedy;
at the-time omit the use of all other medicines.
The dose proper to give is about one or two
grains of the 2d trituration, or three or four
drops- of the second dilution; the dose at first
should be repeated every three or four hours;
some Homceopathic practitioners nmay prefer giving much higher attenuations, and at much longer intervals, but these are such as we have used
and found to answer the purpose.
After about forty-eight hours, the time of giving the doses had better be lengthened to about
six hours; the remedy should be continued until
the eruption is checked, and it begins, to flattteh,
and turn brown on the face; then, or soon after,
it may as well be discontinued, for it may now be
inferred that the antidotal effects have been introduced; the flattening of the pustules, or a
check to their enlarging, often takes place by the
fifth or sixth day, then, of course, they do not fill
with lymph, but dry and shrink up, and prepare




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for peeling off; sometimes, however, the disease
continues until the eighth or ninth day, when
lymph forms; but the patient has very little pain,
fever, or suffering during the time.
In the first stage of this disease, there should
be caution used in giving hot or stimrulating articles to bring or drive out the eruption, as it is
termed, for it is an old maximwell established,
that the eruption and severity of the disease will
be very much in proportion to the mildness or
inflammatory premonitory symptoms; thus attempting to drive out the eruption by such heating means is an error, and a remnant of former
opinions long since exploded.
The patient should be kept moderately cool,
and allowed to drink cold water, to gargle the
throat, and to have it applied to the eyes'
If there should be severe symptoms during the
use of the Variolin, some suitable medicine may
be given for them; for instance, if there is much
fever, use Acon. or Ipe. If there is headache or
flushed face, Bell.; but these remedies are seldom needed.
If the Variolin cannot be obtained, the Vaccina
may be used in lieu of it, with very good effect
and great advantage.
In March, 1852, we read a paper before the
Hahnemann Academy of Medicine on Small Pox,
in which attention was directed to the Variolin,




302        HOMMEOPMAIU PRACTCIZ.
as an antidotal remedy for it. In that paper,
several cases were related.
The Academy at the time passed this resolution:
"That the thanks of the Academy be tendered
to Dr. Sherrill, for the interesting and valuable
paper read; and that a copy of it be requested,
to file among the archives of the Academy."
An outline of one case, it is presumed, is
worthy of a place here.
In January 6, 1852- Miss Mi., aged sixteen
years, had not been vaccinated. After being
very sick with fever, pain, &c. on the fourth day,
she broke out with Small Pox; the eruption was
very thick, and it soon became confluent on the
face. On the third day of the eruption, the face
and eyes were swelled so that she was blind;
became delirious; was restless; hoarse, and had
sore throat, and was seized with a severe stricture of the chest.
A2fter considerable pains, we procured some
~ariolin; this was given her in this'manner —a
dose of about the first dilution every three hours..
All other medicines were left off, except cold
water, as a drink. In twelve hours, she was
quite calm;. the delirium had subsided, and in
twenty-four hours the fever was gone; had very
little thirst; pain allayed; pustules on'the face,
drying. In about two-days more, the pustules
on the face began to flatten and turn brown; they




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continued to recede ancl dry up. About the
twelfth day, they began to scale off, and she
regularly improved to a recovery. It was a gratifying circumstance to observe that the. face was
very slightly pitted, although it was covered with
a general scab. This has been the result in all
the other cases.
In a former' edition of this work, several cases
of Small Pox are recorded, which was treated by
the use of Vaccina; the'success in them was complete. Since the time mentioned of treating the
preceding case, about forty cases of Varioloid
and Small Pox have come under our care; about
an equal number of each. The treatment above
detailed has regularly been pursued in all of
them. Whenever the remedies have been used
early, and fully continued, the patients have recovered.
In several cases iof children who have had the
disease, and who took the medicine early, were
not much in bed, but continued up and about the
room. The pustules sometimes recedes and dries
away by five or six days.
The other Hlom eopathid remedies for this disease are Rus. T. Stramo. Sulp. or Mere. Nux V:.
Puls. Zinc, or Ars.
If there arise secondary syrmptornsof cedematous swellings, give Ars. Baryt., and such other
medicines as are placed under Dropsy fori Anafarca.




304        HOMCEOPATHIC PrACTICE.
There is a prospect that the Variolin may
be useful, that is, as a profylactic agent to proeect the system against an attack of Small Pox
when exposed to its virus, on a similar principle
and plan, by which Belladonna prevents the Scarlet Fever.  For this purpose, a grain of the
second trituratioh, given once a day, appears to
have the effect of guarding the person against an
attack. In several families, where Small Pox
prevailed, by taking those powders not one real
case of Small Pox has come to appearance.
As far as we know, the case here related is the
first that was treated in this city in the manner
detailed above. There was an imperfect account
published, that the Variolin had been used by
some of the Homceopathic physicians of Germaniy,
which furnished a hint that it might answer a
useful purpose here.
To Dr. SIERRILL:
Sir-I here give you the result of the action of
the Variolin you kindly furnished me, and a
short account of the case. Mrs. Mariott, aged
thirty-four years, had severe symptoms peculiar
to small pox; an eruption came out, which
proved to be the.worst kind of that disease, of a
confluent form. I treated her six days in the
usual way, when the face and eyes were swelled




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so much that she was blind. One scab covered:
the whole face; she was in a state of stupor; very
uneasy and feverish. The case seemed most
likely to prove fatal, when you called my attention to the Variolin. I gave one grain of the
second triturration every three hours; the eruption matured well; she soon became calm; the
fever left her; the swelling of the face subsided;
the desquamation regularly took place; she had
no secondary fever, and' passed readily on to
recovery. The face is but slightly pitted or disfigured.
Yours, respectfully,
HENRY S. FIRTH, M. D.
April 1, 1854.
SPASMS. SPasMI.
SPasMS. —There are a large number of diseases
which pervade the body, and are attended with
convulsive or spasmodic action. It would be a
difficult' task to explain their nature and point
out the remote or proximate cause of them.
Much has been written respecting them, explanatory of their nature, founded partly on'facts and
partly on hypothesis, without arriving at a very
satisfactory explanation of their pathological
nature.
The attempt made here will be merely to notice




306        HOMRcOPATHIC PRACTICE.
the varieties of the symptoms, and point out the
most useful remedies for them.
Spasm is defined "a sudden and'more or less
violent but brief contraction of one or more inuscles or muscular'fibres. Spasm is either chronic.or tonic. In chronic spasms, the muscles contract and relax in quick succession, (as in convulsions.) In tonic spasms, the muscles contract
in a steady and uniform manner, and remain contracted in a regular and comparatively long
time."- IWebster.
The general remedies for them are Acon. Anacard. Arg. N. Arnic. Ars. Bell. Cann. Ind. Calend. Camp. Chin. Cocc. Cicuta. Colocy. Coni.
Hyosc. Ignat. Iodi. Kali. Iod. Kreoso. Lauroc.
IMerc. Mosch. M1orph. Nux V. Opi. Phos. Prus.
ac. Rus. T. Silec. Stramo. Strong. or Verat.
If they take place in consequence of
mechanical injury, the preferable remedies are
Arnic. ILdi Hyose. Opi. or Mosch., with the
treatment detailed under Injuries Mechanical,
which see.
-    Agitation.  If this condition occurs
without general disease, give Acon. Arg. Nitr.
Bell. Cann. Ind. Lach. Mosch. Kux V. Stramo.
or Staph.
Chronic cases. When the patient has
been a long time subject to spasmodic affection
or fits, as it is termed, the remedies found the




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most usefu'l are Ars. Ammo. C. Arg. Nitr. ChamCanth. Cupr. or Stramo. or Colocynth.
-  Convulsions. This seems to be a general name used for spasmodic attacks, more so
when they take place in infants and children,
The remedies are the same as for spasms generally, such as Agar. Aeon. Ammo. C. Chamn.
Cupr. Hell. Ignat. Kreoso. Merc. KNux V. Opi.
Puls. Sabad. Sec. C. Silec. or Sol. Kig. These are
to he used according to the symptoms presented.
For information on this subjectl'eference is made
to Emotions and to Neuralgia.
CATALEPSY.
CATALEPSY.-This happens to be a rare disease,
though when it does occur, it is a serious affection. When this work was about thus far printed, the work of Dr. Frilegh came into our hands.
We take leave and pleasure to gather some aid
from it in relation to this disease. In this it is
described thus: "It is a sudden suspension of
motion and sensation, the body: remaining in the
same position that it was in when seized." In the
course of our experience, the following cas& came
under our observation: An unmarried female,
of about twenty-six years of age, was suddenly
seized; she was motionless and insensible; the
spells or fits lasted fifteen or twenty minutes, or
even eight or ten hours, when she came to, and




308       IHOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
remained quiet awhile.  Afterwards she had
another attack; the breathing was slow and labored; the pulse was very little changed; the
limbs could be placed in any manner, and there
they would rigidly remain; the body could be
easily raised to any position, and there it would
firmly continue; it might be elevated to an angle
of forty-five degrees; when there it stationary
continued. - These positions could be changed by
an assistant.
The remedies recommended for this disease,
are Acon. Arg. Nitr. Bell. Cham. Cann. Ind.
Nux V. Stramo. or Ferr., or some others may be
useful, which are named for spasms.
In the case above mentioned, after using a
number of remedies without much effect, the patient was depleted, and put on the use of Argent.
Nitr. In a short time she got well.
If there is hippocratic countenance, give Cham.
If there is a full flushed face, Bell. or Hyosc.
If the patient has a sunken, deathly appearance, Lauroc. Asa. F.
If the patient has fits of passions or anger,
llyosc. Hell. Stramo.
Should it be caused by disappointed love,
Hyosc. Ignat. - (See Emotions.)
If there is stupor or wildness, Stramo. Staphy.
If there is a continued rigidity, Argent. Nitr.
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COREA  SAN1TA  VITA. ST. VITUS' DANCE.
COREA SANITA VITA.-This disease is described
as an irregular action of the limbs; sometimes
there are convulsive motions, though it-is generally of an involuntary movement, without convulsive action; it affects one or both sides indiscriminately; sometimes it is attended with pain,
though generally there is very little pain attending it; sometimes the patient is feeble and
dejected; at other times they are not so, but
tolerably cheerful.
The remedies are Asa. F Ars. Caust. Chin.
Cocc. Cupr. HIyosc. Ignat. Rus. T. Stliamo. or
Sulp. or Argeint. Nit.
In treatment, we have observed the best results from Ars. and Cuprum.
If there is debility, Chin. or Ferr.
If it occurs at the age of puberty, Puls. Sabi.
or. Ars.
If there is distress of the head or determination
of blood to it, Bell. Cocc. or Opi.
If there is eruptions on the skin, or these suppressed, Rus. T.
If there is an impaired mind, with wildness,
llyosc. Stramo. or Cuprum.
If the case partakes of Hysterics, Asa. F. (See
Emotions, for other remedies.)
Coffee and Colchicum, in alternation, are stated
to have been successful in curing some cases.




310        HOMOE)OPATHIC PRACTICOL
In the North Americacn ffomcepathic Jouronat,
No. ix. p. 81, some cases are reported to have
been cured by Artimesa Vulgaris.
ECLAMPSIA  RAPHANA. MORBUS CERALIS
OR TYPHOIDES.
ECLAMPSIA RAPHATNA.-This disease is noticed
under fevers; rit seems to partake of the character of Typhoid Fever and Spasmodic Affection.
It is thus defined:-'" A sensation of splendors
brightness, effulgence; a flashing or light scintillation; a sparkling which affects the eyes. Sometimes in Epilepsy or in obstinate cases of Typhoid
disease." Hahnemann is of opinion that Sol. Nig.
Hyosc. Stramo. or Cupr. Acetis, are the most
useful remedies for it, or Plati. or Sec. C. may be
used to advantage.
EPILEPSY, EPILEPSIA.
EPILEPSY, EPILEPSIA. This malady consists in
spasms of the chronic kind; it comes on in fits;
the patient is seized with violent convulsions; a
loss of consciousuess and voluntary motion; they
generally froth or foam at the mouth; from their
falling down quickly, it has obtained the name of
FALLING SICKNESS.
A girl of 15, in the hospital, had them in
rapid succession; the attendants stated that she




had 600 in less than two weeks; she finally recovered. In other instances, there is a fit once a
week, or month, or at longer periods.
The medicine mostly indicated, and found useful, are Acon. Agar. Asa. F. Artimes. Astor.
Rub. Bell. Cann. Ind. Cupr. Silec. or Phos. ac.
Sulp. or Argent. Nitr.
The remedies should be selected and used according to the symptoms presented.
In full plethoric habits, especially if there is a
determination to the head, give Acon. Bell. Nux
V. Opi. Puls. Sulp. or Verat.
If it is connected with a loss of blood and exhaustion, Chin. Phos. ac. or Calc. C. Millefo.
Silec. or Sulp.
Should it arise from worms, Cina. Ferr. Hyosc.
Mere. Spig. Stann. or Sulp.
If it is connected with hysterics, Asa. F. Cocc.
Ignat. Mosch. Nux V. or Stramo.
If it is caused by intoxicating drinks, give Nux
V. Ignat: Cupr. or Cham. See articles Drunkenness and Delirium Tremens.
In other cases, care should be taken to consult
the diseases with which they may be connected
under the proper heads, such as Emotions, Dyspepsia, Neuralgia, Suppressed Eruptions, &c.
In chronic and protracted cases, Argent. Nit.
Cupr. and Ars. are some of the best remedies.
In the N. A. Jouzrnal of Homoeopatthy, No. IX.




,j12        ME OEmoPATmO  PRAOTIOE.
several cases are related as having been cured by
Artimesia Vergaris.
HYSTERIA.
HYSTERIA. This disease is peculiar to females.
The symptoms are anxiety, shedding of tears,
dyspnoea, nausea, palpitation of the heart, fullness
of the chest, rising to the throat as though a ball
was raising up, (globus hystericus,) spasms, jaws
set, moving and agitation of the body, crying or
involuntary laughter, screaming, foaming at the
mouth, &c.
The best medicines are Agar. Aembr. Asa. F.
Bell. Cocc. Coni. Hyosc. Mosch. Nux V. Phos.
Puls. Sepi. Stramo. Verat. Viola. Odorata.
If the attack arises from suppression of the
catamenia, Puls. Sepi. Asa. F. Iyosc. or Coni.
Sabi. &c.
If from Menorrhagia, Ml[illefo. iamameli. and
other remedies for this affection.
If there is a contraction of the muscles of the
jaws and cold skin, Verat. In various conditions,
the other remedies will be useful, which may be
determined by, examining the other nervous affections, and sometimes the pathogenesis of the
medicine.




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SPEECH AND THE JAWS AFFECTED
BY SPASMS.
SPEECH AND JAWS AFFECTED BY SPASMS. Jaws
arising and falling involuntarily, Lach. Morph.
Opi.
Impaired or impeded. Bell. Caust.
Euphob. Graph. Merc. Nux V. Stramo. or Verat.
STOMACH.
STOMACH. This part is subject to cramps and
spasms; which may be very distressing and become serious. In most cases, one of the best
remedies is Nux V.
If it is produced by dyspepsia or from intemperance, use Ignat. Nux. or Ars.
If it is from constipation or a contraction across
the stomach, or attended with nausea, Ipe. Anti.
or Nux V. or Sulp.
The other remedies useful ia such cases, are
Iyosc. Iod. Kali. C. Lach. Lauroc. Verat. or
Colocy.
TETANUS OR SUBSULTUS.
TETAiUs oR SUBSULTUS. This disease is characterized by a rigid contraction of the muscles;
there are four varieties of it, named as follows:
when the jaws are firmly set, it is termed LocxJAW. When the body is bent backward, it is




314        HOMCEOPATHIC. rRACTICE.
termed: Opisthotonos.  When the body is bent
forward, the name is Emprosthotonos. If the
body is bent to one side, Pheurosthotonos.
The remedies found most useful for this affection, are Acon. Anacard. Bell. Camp. Cham.
Caust. Hyosc. Ignat. Lauroc. Merc. Mosch. Nux
V. BRus. T. Sol. Nig. Stramo. or Verat.
First, endeavour to ascertain and remove the
direct cause.
If there is fever, with a flushed full face, give
Acon. or Bell.
If it is the effect of mechanical-injury, Arnica,
and other remedies for such symptoms as may
succeed, as Opi. or Hyosc.
If there is a wound, apply Arnica to that.
If there is a great bending of the body, Ignat.
Rus. T.
If the stomach is affected, and other severe
spasms, Nux V.
If there is agitation or trembling, Lauroc. or
SoL Nig.
If there is wildness or passionate disposition,
Hyosc.
The other remedies named, will be useful in
some conditions, and worthy of a trial.
STAMMERING.
STAMMERNG. —The medicine best adapted for
the cure of this affectioni are Cann. Ind. Caust.




STOMACH.              315
Lach. Merc. M. Plati. Plumb. Sec. C. Stramo. or
Verat.
While using a medicine, care should be taken
to reform the practice and endeavor to change
the habit of the patient.
STINGS OF BEES OR INSECTS.
STINGs.-It is stated that Ledum P. or Guaco.
is a specific to cure in such cases. The poison
from the stings of insects or scorpions is cured
by the same means.-North Am.erican Journal
of Homeopathy..
STOMACH.
SToMAcH. — This organ is very sensitive to morbid derangement, and subject to a variety of
affections. Some of them are treated of under
other heads; some others will be noticed here,
with the remedies for the symptoms.
Al...  Burning sensation in. Amlbr. Auru.
Calc. C. Camp. Caust. Colocy. Hep. Hyosc. Lauroc. Lobel. Mosch. Nux V. Puls. Rus. R. Sabad.
or Sulp.
do. Horrid sensation. Sabad. Sabi.
Silec. Stramo. or Caust. Colocy. or Verat.
Cancer of. Ars.-Coni. Kreoso. Nux
V. Silec. (See Cancer.)
Distension of. Give Coni. Caust. Nux
V. Petrol. Plati. Sulp. Sulp. ac. or Thuy.
Empty sensation. Oleand. Sabad. Sepi.
Stranio. Sulp. ac. Verba. or Zinc.




316         HOM(EO- PATHIC PRACTICE.
Eructations, taste like hepar sulphuris. Colocy. Lach. Rhodod. Valer. or Zinc. (See
this article.)
Flatulence. Anisi. Camp. IKali. Iod.
Lauroc. Mag. C. Nitr. ac. Nux M. Nux V. Puls.
Rus. Rad. Stann. Sulp. ac. or'Zinc. (See Abdomen, this article.)
--  Flatus Foetid. Morph. Oleand. Petrol
Phytol. Plumb. Snlp. Sulp. ac. or Zinc.
Gangrene, symptoms of. Ars. Carb.
Veg. Kreoso. Rus. Tox. or Sec. C.
Griping in. Nux V. Opi. Stann. Thuy.,
----- HIematemesis, (bleeding.) Acon. Ars.
Bell. Hyosc. Iodi. Millefo. IMerc. M. Sec. C.
Stann. Sulp. ac. or Zinc. (See Hoemorrhage of
Stomnach.)
Hunger, excessive. Colocy. Rus. Tox.
Sabad. Sec. C. Seneg. Sep. Valer. or Zinc.
Itching  and  creeping  sensation in.
Plati. Rus. Tox. or Verba.
Intermitting throbbing. Oleand. Phos.
Podoph. P.
Insensible sensation in.  Sarss. or
Sulp. ac.
Jerking sensation. Coni. Sang. Sulp.
or Verat.
-.- Live Animals, sensation of their being
in it. The remedies for it are Sabad. Sepi.
Stramo. Sulp. or Thuy.




STOMACH.              317
NAUsEA AND VOMITInG. This proceeds from
various causes, and appears under different conditions. There are a large number of medicines
indicated for it. The most useful ones will be
enumerated. Acon, Amnmo. C. Chin. Caust. Calc.
Camp. Cann. S. IHep. Hyosc. Ipe. Kali. Iod. Lobel. Mag. C. Merc. lNitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand.
Phos. Rus. T. Sabad. Silec, Sulp. Sulp. ac. Valer.
Verat. or Zinc. (See Nausea and Vomiting.).-. — -Nausea and vomiting of black matter,
(black vomit.) Ars. Cupr. Carb. V. Guaco. Sec,
C. or Verat.
Pain and inflammation of the villous
coat. Acon. Camp. Coni. Colocy. Plumb. Acet.
Puls. Stramo. Stron. Sulp. Tart. Anti. Thuy. or
Verat. (See Cholera and Gastralgia.)
-Paralysed state. Nux V. Puls. Rus.
T.
Pressure on. Chin. Coni. Mosch. I/[uri,
ac. Phos. ac. Puls. Rus. T, Sabad., Silec. Spong.
Sulp. Tereb. Thuy. Verat. or Zinc.
IRegurgitation. Lach. Nitr. ac. Nux
V. Oleand. Rus. T. Tart. or Anti.
- Rumbling in, Stann. Sulp.
Scirrhous or cancerous affection. Ars.
Kreoso. lMorph. Natr. C. Nitr. ac. Nux Jug. Nux
V. or Phos.
Sensation like a ball in it. Valer.
------ Sour belching from. Ferr. Mangan.




318        R3s~HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Mosch. Natr. C. lNitr. ac. Oleand. Phodod. Sabad.
Sarss. Sulp. ac. or Zinc.
Spasms or stitchesin. Colocy. Merc.
Nitr.'ac. Nux V. VPetrol. Phos. Plati. Plumb.
Acet. Puls. Silec. Sulp. Tabac. Thuy. Verat. Verba. or Chin. or Caust.
Sweet, great desire for. Sulp.
Trembling sensation. Plati. Rus. Rad.
Rus. Tox. or Sulp. ac.
- Various affections. Sep. Silec. Spong.
Stramo. or Sulp. ac.
Pain after eating. Caust.
Worm-like sensation in it. Natr. C.
iNicc. Nitr. ac. Nux V. or Oleander.
do. vomiting of. Sabad. (See Nausea and Vomiting, and Worms.)
W —    eakness of. China. Ferr. Sep. Stann.
Sulp. ac.
STUPOR.
STUPOR. This is a state of insensibility and
loss of consciousness. It takes place in a large
number of diseases, to wit, in Apoplexy, Drunkenness, Mechanical injury of the Brain, Low and
Typhoid states of Fever, &c. It is very similar
to Coma, which see. The remedies for it are
pointed out under the various affections with
which it is connected.




SWEATING.               319
SWEATING.
SWEATING.-There is a constant exhalation from
the surface of the body of a fluid in the state of
vapor or perspiration, which is essential to
health. When this is increased to a considerable
extent, it becomes sweating.
In febrile diseases, in the first or active stage,
it is of very great importance to produce a free
perspiration or sweating, when it can be done by
mild unexciting remedies. The treatment generally used has a, tendency to increase the perspiration,or produce sweating; this commonly
takes place at the termination or crisis of a paroxysm of fever.
This discharge from the skin, however, sometimes is so large and excessive as to become a
disease, and subject to medical treatment.
When it is the effect of debility from exhausting disease, means to restore the general health
and strength will be required; such as Anugust.
China. Ferr. Quini. Sulp. ac., and good nourishment, &c.
If it is connected with hectic fever, then the
remedies for that disease would be proper.
If it is the effect of some general morbid condition of the body, that state will require treatment. The remedies recommended for it are
Acon. Bryo. Ipe. Sambu. Sep. Sulp. ac. or Chin.




320        HOMiOPATIIC PRRACTICE.
Ferr. &c. Those remedies which are termed
sudorifics, are some of the most useful for it.
In the great Epidemic, sweating sickness,
-which in Europe prevailed about the year 1484,
small and repeated bleedings, and the use of
those medicines termed sudorific, proved the
most successful treatment.-Donaldson's History
of Epidemics.
Some of the French writers.haye compared
this Epidemic to that of Epidemic Cholera; in
that the serous portion of the blood passed off by
the skin, while in Cholera it is discharged by the
alimentary canal. Blood drawn in small and
repeated quantities, in either case, seemed to
correct the morbid state of the blood-vessels and
restore the system to a more healthy grade of
action, so as to check the evacuations.
of the Feet. When this takes place
to excess, or in.a troublesome manner, the feet
should be frequently bathed in warm water;  this,*
if continued, will sometimes effect a cure. It will,
also, be very serviceable to use a lotion of a weak;
solution of Arnica. Iodine. or Rus. Tox. Internally give Silec. Rus. Tox., a few pellets, or a
high attenuation of one or the other, every day,
or at longer periods. This is considered the best
course; but other useful medicines are Baryt.
C. Graph. Calca. Mlere. or Lyc. Plumb. ac. Carbo.
Veg. or Nitr. ac.
It is attended with danger, in such cases to




SYPHILIS.              321
use much cold bathing or violent astringents to
the feet.
SYPHILIS. LUES VENER~E.
SYPHILIS. —The character of this disease, as it
appears, and the mode of treatment merely, will
occupy a place here. It is now understood that
there are two kinds of venereal affection which
considerably differ in their nature: one is known
by the term at the head of this article; the other
by that of Gonorrhcea. Both of these diseases are
communicated by intercourse of a healthy person
with one who is affected with either of them;
though it does not entirely depend on this manner
of infection, as accidental or casual application of
the virus to the genitals, or to a sore or raw surface
of the skin may produce it.
This variety is described "'a morbid poison,
which, when applied to the body, has the
power of propagating itself and acting both
locally and constitutionally." The tirus generally
first attacks the glans penis of the male, and the
labia of the genitals, or parts just within them,
of the female. First, a small pimple or rawness
occurs, then it spreads and becomes larger.
This is termed Chancree. From this the virus is
carried along the absorbents, or small vessels, to
the groin, where it causes irritation and swelling
of the glands, and produces a Buzbo. From
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322        HOMEOPATEItI PRACTICE.
here the virus enters the system. This is the most
common way; but to this course there are exceptions, though if the disease is not arrested, the
system becomes generally affected.
When the chancre is discovered, it is best to
apply to it a powder of about one-fourth part of
Muriate of Mercury to three-fourths of prepared
Chalk, or some other mild substance dusted on, or
a little Calomel used in the same way. Some recommend the chancre to be gently touched with
Lunar Caustic. By these means the virus may
be destroyed, and the sore ohanged to a healthy
condition, so as to heal up.
Internally, give Mercurius Solubus, the first or
second trituratiop, half a grain or a grain, two or
three times a day.
Some practitioners use less or higher potencies,
but this seems to answer well. By this course
the chancre generally soon heals. After using
the powder externally two or three days, it may
be diEcontinued, and the sore dressed with a simple ointment. The mercury should be continued
until the ulcer is healed, or if it does not heal
readily, it may be better to omit the mercury,
and give Nitr. ac. Hep. or Sulp., or alternate one
of these with the mercury.




BUBO.               823
BUBO.
BUBO. —If the above treatment does not check
or eradicate the virus, the glands in the groin
become diseased with inflammation and swelling-forming this disease-then it is an object of
much importance to check and disperse the
swelling. The mercury should be continued internally, and to allay and arrest the inflammation
and swelling, cloths wet in cold water, or a cold
solution of Acetate of Lead or Arnica should be
applied to the swelled part, or a poultice made
with the solution of the above named medicine,
may be applied cold.
If there is a good deal of pain in the part, the
surface of the poultice should be moistened with
Tincture of Belladona or Laudanum.
If, however, the swelling does not subside, and
is likely to suppurate, warm poultices should be
applied to promote that process, and the mercurial remedies should be continued.!If there appears a flushed redness about the
swelling or on the skin, a few doses of Belladona had better be given alternately with the
mercury.
If the suppuration is tardy in coming to maturity, the exhibition of Hep. Silec. or Sulp. will
hasten the process; also, those medicines will
have a favorable effect towards healing the ulcer.
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324        HOM(EOPATHIO PRACTICE.
the effect of the mercury, for the quantity given
would not be likely to produce such an effect, but
from the action of the disease, use Carbo. Veg. or
Carbo. Ani.
In protracted cases, much benefit will be derived by giving Nitr. ac. Auru. Staphy. or Sulp.
or Cinibar. This latter medicine is highly recommended in the North American Jou/rnal of
HomeopcathAy. By continuing this course, it is
represented by writers that the disease may be
generally soon cured.
If it is not cured, and the general system
becomes affected, producing a protracted or secondary stage, then constitutional symptoms take
place.
There are many cases in which the treatment
in -the early stage has not fully cured the case
and eradicated the virus from the system, when
a train of general symptoms are exhibited, such
as obstinate spreading ulcers in the groins, from
a bubo not being cured, or ulceration of the
throat; ulcers and blotches on various parts of
the body; also nodes and other diseases of the
bones; and frequently an affection of the lungs,
inclining to or running into a consumptive disease.
It is admitted by many Allopathic authors, and
it is a general opinion of IHomcepathic writers
that a great deal of the disease and suffering sueceeding venereal affection is owing to the large




VUJES VENERA.           325
quantity of mercury injudiciously giveni in the
early stage, producing a mercurial poisonous
condition of the system. (See Dr. Chapman's
opinion, page 261.)
LUES VENEREA.
LrES VENEREA.-The following abbreviated
outline of a plan of treatment for this state of the
disease is collected from medical authors and arranged for this purpose. The remedies recom —
mended are Mercurius Vivus, Mercurius Cor.
Sub. Nitric acid, Hepar Sulphuris, Phosphorus,
Sulphur, Silecia or Arsen. Carbo. Veg. Lach.
or Thuy. They are to be used thus:When the sore has a hard base or margin, Mercury is the best remedy; give Mlerc.
Viv., one-fourth of a grain to two grains of the
second or third trituration once or twice a day;
some practitioners would give much less. Continuq this treatment a few days till good pus is
formed, when the taking of medicine should be
stopped a few days, and then it may be given
again.
If granulations do not appear, give three or
four doses of Sulphur, the second or third trituration.
If the granulations are flabby and pale, give
Nitr. ac.
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326         HOMcEOPATHIO PRAcTIC9.
Should the ulcer remain hard on the edges,
irritable, and bleed easily, give Ars.
If there is a good deal of pain and inflammation, after the foregoing remedies have been used,
give Acon. and Sulp. in alternation, every ten or
twelve hours.
When the ulcer has a raised and rough edge,
give Nitr. ac. Hep. S. Sulp. Ars. Silic. or Mercurius in alternation, with one of those preceding.
For a more full and detailed mode of treatment in protracted cases, the reader is recommended to more elaborate Homoeopathic treatises
on this disease.
Secondary states 9f the disease: "This form of
the disease, so called, generally is the effect of
the patients having taken large quantities of
mercury, and frequently is more a mercurial
disease than one produced by the natural operation of syphilitic virus."
The remedies found best for the various features of this condition of the system are the antidotes for mercurial disease, such as Hep. S.
Nitr. ac. Bell. Lach. Sulp. Silec. Thuy. or Ars.
Alumina or Lycop. They should be used as directed and indicated under the various heads
laid down in this Repertory, under which the
diseased state and the symptoms are treated.




TEETH.               327
SYCOSIS.
Sycosis. —The syphilitic disease at times produces this affection; the remedies advised for it
are Staphy. Silec, or Thuy.
Warts and excrescences are among the secondary symptoms which form on the skin. The remedy for these is Thuy.
TABES MESENTERICA.
TAB-Es MESENTERICA. The remedies for it, are
Ars. Baryt. Caust. Calc. Iodi. Merc. Muria. ac.
or Sulph.
This disease is similar to Marasmus, which see.
TEETH.
TEETH. There are a great number of diseases
which affect the teeth and gums. A number of
them are enumerated here... —- Black appearance of them. Scill. or
Verat.
Caries and painful. Use Baryt. Euphorb. Ignat. Lach. Merc. Petrol. Silec. Sulp. or
Zinc.
----- GGums, subject to bleeding. Ammo. C.
Bell. Carb. V. Colocy. Iodi. Merc. Muri. ac.
Nitr. ac. Rus. T. Silec. or Tart. Anti. (See
Mouth.)




328        HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
-  Grating of them. Ferr. Ignat. Plumb.
Nux V. Spig. Sabi. or Zinc.
Loose or lengthened sensation. Prun.
Sp. iNatr. C. Nux V. Opi. Phos. Plumb. Sang. or
Spong. or Iris. Versico.
Odontalgia, (Toothache.)  The most
useful remedies for it are Acon. Ars. Bell. Coccinell. Hep. Hyosc. Kali. Iod. Lyc. Merc. Iodi.
Nux V. Puls. IRus. T. Tart. Anti. Verat, &c.
If there is fever and swelling of the gums,
Acon.- Bell. Anti.
If there is pain without fever, Ars. Coccin.
Hyosc.
If there is throbbing or jerking pain, Kali.
Iod. Nux V. or Stramo. or Hyosc. Great relief
may be obtained by wetting a little cotton with
Tinct. of Bell. Hyosc. or Nux V., and applying
it to the pained part. When the saliva should
be swallowed, the remedy ought to be diluted with
water, so as to consist of one-fourth of tincture.
If there is jerking pain, Sabad.
If there is jerking or beating sensation, Spong.
Stann. or Zinc.
THROAT AND FAUCES.
THROAT AND FAIaCEs. The throat and fauces
are subject to a great variety of diseased affections; some of the symptoms are connected with
other diseases; others are peculiar to these parts.




THROAT AND FAUCES.         329
Sonle of the prominent of those affections are included in this article.
Contracted feeling or sensation. The
most useful remedies for it are Ars. Bell. Bryo.
Calc. Kreoso. Iodi. Lach. Lobel. Mangan. Nicc.
Nux V. Phytol. Rus. Rad. Rhodod. or Rus. Tox.
Cramps or spasms in it. Camp. Cocc.
Colocy. Kalmi. L. Kreoso. Lach. Lauroc. Lobel.
Sarss. Seneg. Spong. Stann. Staph. Sulp. Tabac.
Verat. or Zinc......-    Creeping sensation in it. Colocy. Seneg. Sulp. or Tabac.
Dry obstructed  sensation.  Oleand.
Phytol. IRus. IRad. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sambuc.
Sec. C. Selen. Sep. Silec. Stann. or Sulp. ac......- Foreign Body, sensation of one in it.
Camp. Lach. Lobel. Rtis. Rad. Sabad. Sep. Seneg.
Sulp. Tabac. or Zinc.
- Hoarseness. (See this article.)
-  Larynx, inflammation of, cough or
bloody expectoration. Camp. Canth. Caust. Led.
P. Lobel. Lyc. Mosch. Nitr. ac. Nux V. Oleand..Puls. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Sang. Silec. Spong. Sulp.
or Tart. Anti. (See Angina, this article.)
E- Esophagus, burning in. Dolich. Nitr.
ac. Phos. Phytol. Plumb. Acet. Rus. Rad. or
S abad.
do. Sore and painful. Colocy. Dolich.
Nitr. ac. Sabi. Sang. Scill. Seneg. Spong. Stann.
Tart. Anti. or Thuy.




330        HOMGEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
-  Pharynx dry with hoarseness. Bromide of Potash, Caust. Lach. Seneg. Sepi. Silec.
Spig. Spong. Sulp. ac. Tart. Anti. or Zinc.
do. Itching and sore. Colocy. Kali.
Iod. Kali. C. Kreoso. iMerc. Merc. Iod. M[ulri. ac.
Morph. Nux V. Petrol. Phos. Puls. Rus. Rad. or
Tart. Anti.
----- do. and Trachea seems burnt. Colocy.
Seneg. Sep.
Rattling in. Plumb. Acet. Puls. Ran.:Bulb. Rapha. Rus. Rad-. Sabi. Sep. or Tart. Anti.
-   -  Stricture on. Arg. N. Arnic. Caust.
Cann. S. Canth. Gum. Gtt. Hyosc. Ipe. Kreoso.
Lach. Led. P. Lobel. Kux V. or Sabad.
Suffocating Sensation.  Mosch. Opi.
Silec. Spong. Sulp or Verat.
--    Swallowing impeded, Pharynx paralysed. Give Arg. Arnic. Bromide of Potash,
Caust. Canth. Caps. Dolich. Hyosc. Ignat. Kalmi.
Lat. Merc. Nux V. Puls. Rus. T. Tart. Ant.
Verat. or Zinc.
Thirst excessive. Camp. Sec. C. Spig.
Verat. or Zinc.
--- itillation in. Bell. Scill. Seneg. or
Sulp. or Caust....-  Tonsils burning in. Lach. Tart. Anti.
Thuy. or Zinc.
do. Swelled, enlarged, or ulcerated.
Iodi. Lyc.'Merc. Yiv. Phos. Silec. or Verat. (See
Tonsils, in Angina.)




TREMOR OR TREMBILING.        331
Those persons who are very liable to have inflammation of the throat and quinsey, may prevent the attacks by taking every day or two -a
small dose of Ferri. or Baryt. C., or what is more
sure Sepi. See those articles in Jhacr's Symp
tomen Codex.
- Trachea, burning sensation in. Bell.
Ignat. 01. Anima. Rus. Rad. Sabad. Selen. Tabac.
Tart. Anti. Yerat. or Zinc..-...- Inflamed and sore. Acon. Bell. Caust.
Dolichos. Hep. Ipe. Kali. Bic. EKreoso. IMerc.
Iodi. Kux V. Puls. Rus. Tox. Sabad. Scill. Seneg.
Sep. or Tart. Anti.
- and Larynx, tingling sore sensation
in. Baryt. Dolichos. Kali. C. Merc. Viv. Merc.
Oleand. Phos. ac. Phytol. Plumb. Acet. Rhodod.
Bus. Tox. Seneg. Spong. Stann. or Zinc.
or Trachea paralyzed.  Coni. Lach.
Nux V.
-  Ulcers or mucus in.  Camp. Lach.
Merc. Nitr. ac. Samb. Thuy. Verat. or Zinc.Uvula swelled or elongated.  Bell.
Seneg. Tart. Anti. Thuy. or Chin.
------ Sore. (See Angina, Quinsey, &c.)
TREMOR OR TREMBLING.
TRPMOR OR TREMBLING. This state is produced
from nervous weakness or, sensibility, and in a
feeble state of health. The remedies are, Coni.
Selen. Seneg. Sepi. Stramo. or Verat. or Ferr.




332        HOHCEOPrATHIC PRRCTICE.
TUMORS.
TuMoRs. These are a preternatural enlargement or swelling of a part.- They are of various
inds, and may be formed of different matter and
texture. The following are those most commonly
met with, and the Homeopathic remedies detailed, which are found to be the most useful as
a curative.
of the bones, composed of bony matter,
such as exostoses. They may be connected with
a rickety constitution, or they may proceed from
the effect of venereal virus; they are termed
nodes, or tophs, or exostoses.
If they are produced by rickets, the remedies
for that disease will be proper.
When they are the consequence of venereal
contamination, the appropriate remedies are
those for Lues Venerea.  (See  Bones and
Syphilis.)
Encysted. Under this head, are placed
those termed Wen. The remedies for them, are
Baryt. Caust. Calc. Kali. C. Kali. Iod. Silec. or
Ammo. Causticunm.
When they become large and troublesome, it
is advisable to remove them by an operation.
of or about the knee. These at times
occur, formed of a gelatenous or indurated material; the remedies are Silec. or Iodine. Externally, a lead or soap plaister and compression.




TUMORS.               333
Fungus Hlematoides, or bloody mass
or excrescence, composed of a fungus or flabby
excrescence, and partly of blood, which they frequently emit. The remedies most useful for this
disease are Calca. C. iKalmi. L. Millefo. Phos.
Silec. Rus. T. or Thuy.
-   Inflammatory. All inflammatory and
painful swellings and tumefactions will come
under this head. The remedies are those used
for inflammations generally, such as Acon. Bell.
Bryo. Canth. Ipe. or Tart. Anti., together with
such local remedies and applications as may
seem to be required by the nature of the affection.
------ do. of the Joints, or White Swelling.
In the first or early stage, use Acon. Bell. Bryo.,
and in the advanced stage, Coni. Iodi. Silec.
Staph. Rus. T. (See Extremities, Joints, Acute
Rheumatism, &c.)
Lymphatic. These are frequently connected with a scrofutous predisposition or constitution.-. The leading remedies for them are Ars.
IBaryt. Calc. iep. Iodi. Phos. Sep. Silec. Spong.
or Mere. or Kali. Iod. Phosphate of Iron is a
very useful and efficient remedy. (Consult Scrofula.).....-    Scirrhous. Ars. Calendu. Coni. (See
Cancer.) It is stated in Jhar's Symptomenr Codes
that scirrhous and cancer may be produced or
aggravated by the use of Scilla. It may be in



334        HOM(EOPATHIO PRACTICE.
ferred from this fact that squills would be a
useful remedy for this disease.
TOE NAILS, INCURVATED OR TURNED IN.
ToE NAILS, incurvated or turned in.  Many
persons are troubled with this painful affection,
who have consulted surgeons and taken counsel,
and used a variety of remedies without obtaining
very material permanent relief. We have the
confidence to believe that here we can furnish
such sufferers with a permanent remedy. The
difficulty in this disease consists in the nail being
too broad, and from the edges turning down, so
that they grow into the skin and flesh.'Two
indications are required for a cure: first, to produce a narrower nail; second, to have it grow
fat,
Scraping or paring the nail down in the centre
will sometimes induce it to grow so fiat as not to
curve down into the skin on the sides. But a
more sure and certain plan is to cut a piece out
of the centre, in the shape of a V; thus, let it run
half or two-thirds of the length of the nail, and
occasionally pare off a little of the inner edges of
the V; this produces a contractionr of the nail in
width; the edges are drawn out of the flesh or
skin, and the nail becomes more flat, and the
trouble is obviated.




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We have had the pleasure of relieving many
cases of this painful affection by this simple
operation.
ULCERS.
ULCERS. There are a variety of those affections
and of different natures; the prominent ones
among them with the appropriate remedies will
be pointed out under. this head.
The general medicines which are the most important to dispose them to heal,'are Ars. Bell.
Calc. Carb. Veg. Coni. Cinebar, Cupr. Graph.
Lyc. Mere. Puls. Silec. Selen. Sepi. Sulp. or Zinc.
These may, with benefit, be used in the following
manner:If the ulcer has a livid appearance, bleeds
easily, or has an ichorous bloody discharge, hard
edges and burning pain in it, give Ars. or Carbo.
Veg.
If it emits a foetid effluvia, is spreading, or is
of a dark hue, use Carbo. Veg. or Lach.
When the ulcer is deep, and forms a thin offensive matter, use Mercurius, Silec. Sulp. or Ars.
When there is itching, or burning, or smarting, Sulphur will be very useful.
In chronic ulcers, with hard edges, and having




336        HOA(EOPATHIC PRACTIOE.
a thin serous discharge, use Silec. Nitr. ac.
Sepi. Lyc.
If proud flesh or fungus form on them,
give Silec. or Ars. Sepi. or Sulp.
- If there is ulceration of the alimentary
canal, the proper remedies are Ars. Coni. IKreoso.
or Nux V.
If bleeding from  them  takles place,
Ars. Lach. Millefo. Sulp.
Callous.'They frequently form hard,
indurated, or callous edges or surfaces; in such
cases give Calendula, Coni. Canth. Iodi. Phos.
Sepi. Silec. or Aster. Rub.
Cancerous. The leading remedies for
these have been laid down under Cancer, (which
see.)
a- -  M Carious.  For this affection of the
bones, use Asa. F. Merc. Nitr. ac. Rus. T. Silec.
Staphy. Silec. or Sulp.
of the face. Ulceration and blotches
on the face may generally be cured by Ars. Bell.
Graph. Hiep. Nitr. ac. or Petrol.
Fistulous. These may be very much
benefitted or cured by using Arnic. Cale. C.
Caust. Phos. Silec. Sulp. or Tart. Anti. By continuing one or other of these medicines a length
of time, those ulcers-may generally be cured.
Fungus. For these use Calca. Graph.
Iodi. Petrol. Sepi. or Sulp.
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appearance, give Ars. Bell. Carbo. V. Ilep.
Kreoso. Merc. Rus. T. Silec. Sec. C. Thuy. or
China.
Itching in. Coni. Puls. Rus. Tox.
Painful sensation or burning. Coni.
Rus. Tox. Silec. Sulp. or Sulp. ac.
Phagadcenic. Give Ars. Clamat. Canth.
Coni. Kreoso. lMerc. Hep. or Silec., or Cinebar is
very efficacious in bad cases of ulcer.
Scorbutic. (See Scurvy.)
Scrofulous. The remedies for Scrofula
generally are required to be used for this state of
the disease, such as Ars. Bell. Calca. Carbo. V.
Iodi. Rus. T. Silec. or Sulp. (See Scrofula,)
Externally, use Oxalis Acetoella. This is very
useful.
-  Putrid.  Give Ars. Carb. V. iep.
Silec. Sulnp. Mur. ac. or Puls.
- Syphilitic. For these one of the most
useful remedies is Mercury; it ought generally
to be continued until the ulcer is healed, though
other medicines may be brought in to its aid,
such as Iodi. Mezere. Nitr. ac. Thuy. or Auru.
(See Syphilis.)
of the Throat. These may take place
from various causes, and as being produced by
different diseases or connected with them; which
ought to be examined and referred to in regard
to the treatment. The remedies most generally




338        HOM(EOPATHIO PRACTICE.
useful are Bell. Iodi. Hep. Merc. or Lye. Silec.
Sulp. or Thuy.
of the Toes around the nails. Canth.
Kali. Iod. Petrol. Phos. Rus. T. Touching those
ulcers with Lunar Caustic has a very favorable
effect to heal them.
Indolent. Sepi. Phos. ac. Carb. Veg.
or Ars. Silec. or Sulp.
Inflamed.  Acon. Ars. Muri. ac. or
Rep.
Insensible or torpid. Euphorbi or Ars.
- Irritable and painful, bleed easily.
Ars. Asa. F. Hep. Mere. Phos. Silec. Sepi. Puls.
Nitr. ac. or Coni. Thuy.
Itching in them. Sulp. Silec. Phos. ac.
or Ars. Alum. Bovista.
Burning in.  Ars. Carb. Veg. Lye.
Silec. or Hep.
The dressings and external remedies are omitted, to be used by the judgment and experience
of the attendant.
VA CCINATION.
VACCINATION. Since the discovery of the law
of cure by Hahnemann, an opinion has been held
that Vaccination was based on the Hoinceopathic




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principle, as an instance that like remedies cure
like diseases.
An opinion also prevails, that the vaccine and
variolus virus are of a similar nature, but different in degree, so much so, that the action of one
on the body prevents the operation of the other.
Some recent experiments seem to show that the
internal use of the virus counteracts or neutralizes the morbid influence of the variolus-matter
on the system.
VACCINATION may be performed at all periods
of life-the child had better be a month or more
old before it is done; if there is danger of infection, it had better be done sooner. Pure lymph
should be obtained and used for the purpose:
the mode of doing it is well known. In about
four days after vaccination, a redness appears at
the place; a pustule rises up, and by the ninth
day, it comes to maturity, though this varies to a
day sooner or later. Now there is a fluid watery
lymph in the pustule; this is the time to take infection; it should be taken soon after it is formed;
after it gets of a purulent appearance, it is more
uncertain to communicate the disease. After
this period, a circular inflammation and swelling
forms round the pustule, and sometimes it is quite
sore. After a few days, the swelling abates, the
disease recedes, and passes off.
To prevent the eruptions and affections of the
skin which sometimes succeeds Vaccination, give




840       tnOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
Sulphur of high attenuation, one dose a day for
three or four days; this also renders the virus
more pure and free from a Psoric contamination.
After the close of the case, give a small dose of
Sulphur a day, for three or four days; —it prevents eruptions and sores.
VARICELLA. CHICKEN Pox.
VARICELLA. This disease considerably resembles
Small Pox, though it is a much more mild affection, not very contagious, neither does it. appear
in very numerous cases. It requires very little
medical treatment; an attention to the diet and
regimen generally is all that is required; although
in some cases there is high fever and headache.
The eruption fills with a watery fluid, and does
not have the purulent nature of Small Pox.
If there is much fever, use Acon. or Ipe.
If the face is flushed, attended with headache,
Bell. or Sol. Nig.
If there is irritation. or a general uneasiness,
Nux V.
VARIOLOID.
VARIOLOID. This is a modified state of Small
Pox. It takes place after the patient has had
kine pock or Small Pox. It is a secondary action of the Variolus virus, after the system has
been once subjected to the operation of one of
those viruses, from the body not being fully acted




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upon by the vaccine infection, or from  its rutnning out as it is expressed. There are a few instances, where the subject takes this disease; if
the cases are'compared with the great number
vaccinated, those cases are very few. Formerly,
this disease, when it appeared in nurses and
those engaged about Small Pox patients, it was
termed Nurse Pox. At length, the disease became more prevalent, and better understood,
and this distinction was made, and name given
to it.
It appears very much like Small Pox, only
generally in a milder form, and the pustules are
different, in this they raise up with a pointed top,
which is hard on the point;.they fill up with a
watery lymph, and come to a height in five to
seven days; then they recede,, dry up, and frequentty pass off in a branny scurf.
Though in some instances the case progresses
to abort the appearance of Small Pox, and to the
same length of time, when the pustules fill very
much in the same manner; so that it will be
very difficult in some cases to fix on a line between the two diseases.
It is considered that a second or third vaccination protects against this disease. Dr. B13ell, in
an Essay on it, states that the vaccine infection
may operate four times, when the system is fully
protected from the variolus.
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342        HOMCEOPATIOa PRAOTICE.
siderable extent along the HIudson River. We
collected some sketches and facts respecting it,
which were published; and what was then written, has been supported by subsequent observation.  By those statements it appears, "that
the pustules are small, not attended with the circular inflammation of Small Pox. They have a
peculiar horny prominent top; before the ninth
day, they generally recede, and return to the
skin, or go off in branny scales. The following
conclusions seem to be warranted:
1st. That Varioloid will produce Varioloid.
2d. That in a subject that has not had kine
pock orLSmall Pox, Varioloid will produce Small Pox.
3.d That Vaccination, in most all cases, is a
preventative of Small Pox and of this
disease.
4th. That the Varioloid will attack after
Small Pox or kine pox."
The treatment for this disease should be similar
to that pointed out for Small Pox.
VERTIGO.
VERTIGO is a dizziness and giddiness of the
head; it is a variety of headache. In selecting
the medicines for it, much benefit will be gained
by examining the article Headache. It may be
occasioned by a great variety of causes, which it




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will be advisable to ascertain, if it can be done.
The remedies generally used, and found the best,
are the following: Acon. Ammo. C. Arg. Nit.
Asteria. Rub. Bell. Broini. Camp. Hyosc. Ignat.
IMerc. Kali. Bic. Kalmi. L. Lauroc. Merc. iMosch.
Mur. ac. Nux V. Oleand. Opi. Petrol. Phos.
Puls. Rus. Tox. Sep. Sol. Nig. Stann. Sulp. Sulp.
ac. Thuy. Verat. Verba.  (See the head, this
article.)
-  If it proceed from a disordered state of
the stomach, the medicines are Arnic. Nux V.
Cham. Puls. Chin. Cocc. or Rus. T.
-- ~If from diseased irritation of the brain,
Nux V. Arnic. Bell. Chain. Hep. or Puls.
- Should it be in consequence of suppressed eruptions, give Hep. Calc. Puls. or Sulp.
- When it is brought on by riding or
irregular motion, Cocculus, Hep. Petrol. or
Sulp.
If it is caused by rush of blood to the
head or congestion of the brain, Acon. Aloe.
Bryo. Arnic. Bell. Coni. Lach. Merc. Nux V.
Opi. or Sulp.
If it is increased by raising the head
or stooping, Acon.; or if it is attended with nausea or vomiting, Iris. Versico... —-. If there is nausea or impaired appetite, Antimo.4pe. or Iris. Versico.




344        HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
VIPER BITES.
VIPER BITES.-Viper bites and stings, or scorpions, musquitoes, &c., Cedron or Guaco cures
with great certainty. —N. A. Hoom. Journal, No.
11, p. 272, 274.
WARTS.
WARTs.-The remedies for this disease are
Arnic. Caust. Calc. Dulcam. Natr. C. Natr. M.
Rus. T. Sang. Sepi. Sulp. Thuy.
--  Fig. Thuy.
WHITE SWELLING.
Wn TE SwELLING.-This term is used for the
tumnefactions and diseased states that take place
in the joints, when there is little or no discoleration of the skin. At first this disease may be of
a dropsical rheumatic, scrofulous, or inflammatory nature. Under one of those heads the treatment is pointed out.
WORMS.
WoRMs.-Ascarides, (Pin or Flat Worms.)
They are situated in the lower part of the rectum. The remedies for them are Acon. Agnu.
C. Aloe. Merc. Nux V. Petrol. Puls. Sabad.
Stann. Tereb. Viola. Odorat.




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-- ~I Lumbrici, (common round worm.)
The most useful remedies for these are Aeon.
Bell. Cale. China. Cina. Cicut. P. Ferr. Filax.
Mas. Ignat. Mere. Kux V. Sabad. Silec. Spig.
Sulp. It is advisable to use them as follows:
When there is fever, irritation, or itching at
the rectum, give Aeon. Ignat. or Mere.
If the bowels are irregular, the appetite poor,
and the health feeble, give China. or Ferr. The
latter is one of the most useful remedies for
worms.
If there is frequent inclination to stool or tenesmus, use Mere. Nux V., or one of those in alternation with Ferr.
If there exists a relaxed state of the body, or a
snuffling of the nose, or catarrhal affection, or
rumbling of the bowels, the remedies are Dulcam.
Snulp. Cale. or Sabad.
When the digestion is impaired, or there is
nervous cram py symptoms, use Ignat. Nux V.
or Ferr.
If those remedies do not cure, some of the
others named had better be used, selecting them
according to the circumstances of the case and the
pathogenesis of the drug.
WORM TIENIA. (TAPE WORM.)
WORM  TIENIA.-The medicines which have
been.found to be most useful to expel this worm,




346        HOM(EOPTHIMO PRACTIOE.
are Filax. Mas.; this has gained considerable
reputation; also, Sabad. Graph. Fragaria Vesica
has been used with success in some cases. The
Guaco, a remedy latterly come into notice, is
represented to be very efficacious; other remedies recommended are Carbo. Anima. Carb. Veg.
Kali. C. Phos. Petrol. Plati. Stann. Terebinth. or
Sulphur.
In selecting a medicine, a -regard should be
had to the peculiar group of symptoms, so as to
use a remedy, as much as possible, adapted to
the case.
WOUNDS.
WoUIDS. —The general treatment for these will
be found under Injuries, Mechanical; the detail
for a particular treatment properly belongs to
Surgery.
WRY NECK.
See Neck, Stiff.




FEMALE DISEASES.
DISEASES peculiar to females will be considered
in this division of the work.
The. conformation and habits of females, and
the important operations which they are designed
for by Nature to pass through in the process of
generation and the procreation of. the human
species, is such that there are some habits peculiar to the sex; which for their welfare and safety
it is necessary to attend to, so that a regularity
in some of the habits may be preserved. Among
the most important of the peculiar habits and
functions, next to the procreative operations, is
the process of Xenstruation. This evacuation is
liable to be interrupted or suspended from various
causes, when it becomes the subject of medical
treatment to restore it, or to bring about a natural and periodical evacuation. This condition is
termed
MENSTRUATION.
MENSTRTATION.-This affection is generally divided into two varieties: First, that which re



348        HOME31OPATHICO PRACTICE.
lates to a beginning of menstruation of young
females at about the ages of thirteen or fourteen,
termed "' the age of puberty;" Secondly, that
which attends females during a subsequent period of life.  In perhaps the majority of instances in young females, this process commences
without much difficulty, but in many cases it is
retarded beyond the proper period. When the
health becomes impaired, sometimes seriously so,
this state is called
CLOROSIS OR EMANSIO, MENSIUM.
C(LOROSIS OR EM~isIo. — The symptoms attending it are paleness of the face, flushes of heat,
depraved appetite, longing for chalk, charcoal,
and other uncommon articles; there is a languor,
lassitude, weakness, emaciation, and edematous
swelling of the feet and legs, tumid abdomen;
disordered stomach, headache, cough, irritation
of the lungs, expectoration; and, if not relieved,
these symptoms increase, and there is often an
approximation to disease of the lung, which may
end in consumption.
The medicines most useful for this condition
are Acon. Ammo. C. Ars. Bryo. Call. C. Ferr.
Lyc. Puls. Sulp. or Graph.
If there is indigestion or semi-lateral headache,
use Puls.
If there is congestion of the head, red flushed




FEMALE DISEASES.          349
pale face, oppression of the chest, use Graph. Sepi.
or Sulp.
If there is hysterical symptoms, pale countenance, or dark spots on the skin, use Sepi. Puls.
or Carb. C.
When there are symptoms of fulness of the
head, bleeding of the nose or lungs, Bryo. Millefo.
Sabi.
When there is pain in the back of the head, or
eruptions of the skin, Sulp. or Lye. or Rus. T.
If there is cedema, with debility, Calc. C. Ferr.
Sulp.
In some conditions, other remedies for amenor.
hcea will be useful, to be selected by the experience and judgment of the prescriber.
The patient should rise early and take free
exercise in the open air.
AMENORRHCEA. SUPPRESSION OF THE MENSES.
AMENORRHE( A. —After the habit is once formed,
and menstruation has taken place, if it becomes
interrupted or suppressed, it is known by this
term.  These evacuations, to be regular and
healthy, should appear about every thirty days,
although a few days, sooner or later, has no material effect to cause disease. The period of its
continuance varies in different females, from
three to six days. All authors recommend to the
sex to observe special care to preserve this habit




350        HOMIEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
and periodical affection as regular as possible, for
on this the-health greatly depends.
The general remedies for it are Acon. Agnu.
C. Ammo. C. Ars. Auru. Baryt. Berba. Yulg.
Bryo. Calc. Caust. Coni. Cupr. Dnlcam. Ferr.
llyosc. Kalmi. L. Iodi. Kreoso. Lauroc. Lyc. Nux
V. Plati. Petrol. Podoph. Puls. Rus. T. Sabi.
Sec. C. Stramo. Sulp. or Verat.
- When the suppression is in consequence of a
chill or exposure to cold, use Acon. Bryo. Puls.
or Nat. C. Dulcam. Sepi. or Sulph.
If it is brought on by a fright, Acon. should
be used first; after this, Lach. or Verat.
In chronic cases of weak debilitated subjects,
give Sulp. or Sepi. or Coni. Ars. China. or Ferr.
When there is an irregularity or subsiding of
the menses, or'as it is called a turn of the life,
the proper medicines are Cocc. Coni. Caust.
Bromi. Colocy. Iodi. Graph. Nitr. ac. Nux V.
Phos. Puls. Plati. Sang. Sec. C. Sepi. Sulp.
Verat. or Zinc.
If there is not a full suppression, only an irregularity, use Sulp. Verat. or Ferr.
When there is indigestion, headache, palpitation of the heart, Puls. is indicated, or Bryo. Lyc.
or Sulp.
If there is congestion of the head or chest, cold
hands and feet, or flushed face, Graph. Bell.
When there is fulness of the head, bleeding of




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the nose, dry cough, or spells of shivering, Acon.
Bryo. Millefo. are the remedies.
In cases of pressing pain at the back of the
neck, humming in the head, eruptions on the
face, fulness of the stomach, irritable and angry
disposition, give IHep. Sepi. Sulp. or Hyosc.
If there is dyspncea or swelling of the feet and
legs, use Calc. or Ferr. or Lyc. or Sepi.
If there is stricture of the throat or chest,
Valer.
If the abdomen is enlarged or tumid, Lach.
or Ars.
UTERUS.
UTERUS.-The diseases peculiar to this organ
or connected with it, will here be considered.
BARRENNESS.-In many instances, in a matrimonial state, there is a failure to be favored with
an offspring-sometimes on account of interests
or family connections or influences —it may be
very desirable to have an heir.
When conception does not take place, the use
of remedies by the female may predispose the
uterine organ to conceive. The remedies most
useful and recommended are Agnu. C. Caust.
Auru. Borax. Plati. or Sulp. One or two attenuated doses of some one of these medicines continued a length of time will likely bring about
such a result.




352        HOM(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
CONCEPTIONS, TO PREVENT.-This probably may
be a more desirable result to produce than the
preceding one. The remedies most useful are
01. Sabi. Canth. Sec. C. or Plumb. These should
be taken in the same manner as is pointed out
for the preceding affection.
DISTENSION OF THE ABDOMEN.-When in an unmarried state, from  several causes, this takes
place, it is commonly attended with a suppression of the menses.
The remedies generally for it are Ars. Lyc.
Sabi. or Mere. Nux V., &c.
If it is connected with a suppression of menses,
pursue the treatment to be found under Amenorrhcea.
DYSMENORRII(EA. M:ENSTRUAL COLIC.
DYsMENORRHEA.,-There are many young females who suffer very much from this disease
during the menstrual period; frequently they
have severe pain and pressing down of the uterine parts, with cramps and spasms, vomiting,
headache, and various other symptoms of suffei'ing. One of the most useful remedies for it is
Nux V.; a proper dose would be grr. of the
second trituration, repeated every one or two
hours till the pain is mitigated; or in moderate
cases, if it is repeated every two or three hours,
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be more efficient than to use the dilution; but
the dilution of Nux may be used with, good
effect; two or three drops, or the second or third
attenuation, given in the manner mentioned for
giving the trituration, would be proper. The
other remedies which are indicated and used, are
Puls. or Coff. Hyosc. Sepi. or Cocc; and also
the others recommended are Caust. Opi. Petrol.
Kalmi. L. Rus. T. or Iodine.
It will be very desirable to use means to prevent such attacks, and guard the system against
such an affection. Some medicine used during
the interval may do much to afford such relief;
the most advisable for this purpose are Caust.
Sepi. Kalmi, L. or iNux V.; a dose or two of one of
these articles, given every day or two during the
interval, or beginning ten or twelve days before
the time of the sickness, are likely to afford relief
and facilitate the menstrual process. By this
course, the habit after awhile may be changed,
so that such treatment would be unnecessary. If
the body can be protected against such severe
attacks, at will prove a great comfort and blessing to delicate and suffering young females.
Groins, pain in them during the catamenia, give Nux V. Sepi. or Tart. Anti.
HYSTERIA. UTERINE SPAsMs. —-This disease is
placed under Spasms.




35~4       oI0M(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
- - Itching in the Pudendum. Use Coni.
Mag. C. Mere. Nice. Petrol. Sabi. or Sepi.
do. in the Vagina or Vulva. Kalmi.
L. Kreoso. Lye. Nux V. Rus. T. Sepi. or Zinc.
Irritation or bearing down pains. Bell.
Canth. Coni. Ignat. Muri. ac. Nux V. Puls. Sepi.
or Sabi.
Itching in the parts of the Uterus.
Ambr. Ammo. C. Gale. C. Carb.V. Coni. Kreoso.
Petrol. Sepi. or Sulp.
-  Mole in, or false conception. In some
instances a mass of fleshy, or an unorganized mass,
forms in the uterus and grows to a large size;
the female may suppose she is pregnant. At the
proper period, life of the foetus is not felt; still
the case progresses to the period when labor is
expected. But here again is a disappointment;
labor or delivery does not take place, and at
times the female is doomed to carry the uncomfortable and unwelcome burthen. The remedies
recommended for this affection are Plati. Sec. C.
Sabi.
— ~- Mons Veneris, pain in it. Tereb. Thuy.
or Verat.
UHEMORRIIAGE METRORRHtAGIA.
HIMonRR.- AG. —When the discharge of blood
from the uterus becomes more free and copious
than that attending common menstruation, it is a




FEMALE DISEASE.            3555
diseased state, and receives this name, and becomes a subject of medical treatment.
It is generally attended with pain in the back,
in the uterus, and some pressing down, though
not always, for sometimes flooding occurs with
little or no pain, or pressing down.
The remedies are Acon. Arnic. Bell. Calc. C.
Ferr. Hyosc. Ipe. iMillefo. Nux V. Rus. T. Sepi.
or Verat. or Hamameli. Millefo. and Hamameli
seems to be the most useful; there are  many
other medicines recommended, which are useful
in some conditions.
When the discharge is excessive, with
pain resembling labor pain, give Ipe. Millefo.
Sabi. Nux V. Cham. Plati. or Sulp.
If the discharge is dark colored, give
Mill or Hamameli.
- If'it is bright red, and in a full habit,
prone to miscarry, and labor-like pains, Sabi.
Sec. C. or Millefo.
When there is great debility, give Chin. or Ferr.
When the flowing frequently comes on or continues a long, time, ol, is attended with cramps,
Nux: V. or Calc. or Plati. or HIamameli.
If it recurs in hysterical subjects, Ambr. Ignat.
If it is attended with bearing down pains,
Platina.
If the menses come on too early, attended with
diarrhcea, Verat. Muri. ac. Sabi. or Sepi.
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35'6'       HOMEOPATHIC EPICTICE,
When there is excessive discharge, with clot.
or offensive fetor, Mdillefo. or Kreoso. are; proper
medicines.
The other medicines will be useful. in many
cases.
LEUCORRHCEA. FLUORo ALBUS. (Whites.)
LEuCOrRRHEsA.-This is a very common and
unpleasant affection, with which many females
are troubled;, it is a discharge: from the vaginal
or os uteri, of a white yellowish matter, though
frequently the matter is of a mucus character; it
does at times affect infants and young females,
but it is generally confined to grown women.
Treatment.  In full habits, give Acon. Agnu.
C. or Ambr.
If the discharge is reddish, Coec. or Ammo. C.
Should the parts become excoriated, or there is
a greenish discharge, use MAerc. Sepi. or Puls,
If there is a whitish corrosive discharge, Calc.
C. Sulp. or Ammo. M.
If the discharge is of a cream  color, Puls. or
Calc. C.
If it is a whitish matter, particularly in child
drell, give Cali. C. Snalp.
If it is attended with harnorrboids, Nux. V.. or
Merc. or Sulp.  Other relnedies,  which are useful,. are Ars. Auru.~ Cann. S. Caust. Coni. Copaib.
Bals. Ferr. Nitr. ac. Petrol. or Plati.




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In weak, debilitated patients, the general
health should be improved by the use of Chin.
Ferr. or Ars., and a generous diet, with exercise
in the open air.
If the internal use of some of the remedies
named do not succeed in curing, it would be advisable to inject cold water into the vagina, or a
solution of Sulphate of Zinc or Acetate of Lead
or Nitrate of Silver.
NYMPHOMANIA.
NYMPHOMANIAb-The remedies for this affection,
and to allay and quiet the veneral orgasm, are
Bell. Canth. Cann. S. -Iyosc. Sulp, ac. or Zinc.
OVARII& INFLAMED.
OVARIA INFLAMED. -When it is ascertained
that this is the case, use Acon. at first; after the
fever is reduced, Bryo. Canth, or Rus. T.
do. Enlarged or indurated, give Ars.
Baryt. Iodi. Merc. Sepi. or Sulp.
-    Os Tinsa, or os uteri, indurated. Ars.
Coni. Natr. C. or Sep.
PROLAPStJS, OR PROCIDENTIA. FALLING
OF THE MOTHER, (SO CALLED.)
PRoLAPSUS. —From long diseased action or
weakness of the parts, the uterus settles down
into the vagina; in some cases it passes so -low
that the os uteri is out even with or beyond




358         O0Mt(EOPATHIO PRACTIOCE
the labia. Among females, there is a good deal
of anxiety about this affection; but from what
they are told, sometimes by one of the medical
profession, who may be willing to work upon
their excited feelings, they are of opinion that
they have prolapsus, when it is not so.
When, however, there is a prolapsus, the remedies for it are Ars. Auru. Bell. XNux ~V. Platit
Sec. C. Sepi. or Stann.
By.a steady continuance in the use of some one
of these medicines, the patient may be greatly
relieved or cured. We have known both results
to take place.
A great variety of pessaries, abdominal supporters and instruments have been introduced
and recommended for this disease; a great portion
of them do not answer much purpose, further
than to afford some tempoqary relief. Patients
are often deceived by flatt6ring representations
in their favor, and by such means females are
imposed upon. The only reliable and permanent
remedies are those for internal use.
PUDENDUM OR LABIA.
PUDENDUM OR LIAMIA.-Burning pain in it, use
Sepi. Silec. Staphy. Sulp. Tereb. Thuy. or Verat.
-   do. Inflamed and swelled. Acon. Bell.
Kreoso. Muri. ac. Nitr. ac. Nlux V. Sepi. Thuy.
or Verat. It will be serviceable to apply to the




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part cold liquid applications of Arnica or Acetate of Lead.
Sexual embrace, great inclination for.
This is similar to Xpmphonamia. Canth. Sabi.
Sarss. or Sulp....-    do. Deficient inclination. Agnu. C.
Canth. Iodi.
Scirrhous, or Cancer of the WTomb.-This
organ, as well as other parts of the body, is
liable to be effected with this disease. It comes
on by slow degrees, attended with pain through
the uterus; pressing down; a prominent state of
tje abdomen; the menses are irregular; there
may often be a slight flowing from the vagina;
the pains become shooting and burning; the
health is greatly impaired.
The most advisable remedies for this disease
are very similar to those for scirrhous and cancer,
pointed out under Cancer, such as Ars. Auru.
Baryt. M. Coni. Kreoso. Phos. ac. in the advanced
stage of this disease. Phosphate of iron is a
valuable remedy; it quiets pain very much, and
affords.relief otherwise; or use Sepi. Silec. or
Thuy.
To show the salutary influence of the use of
those remedies, some notes of a case contained
in the previous edition of this work, are transferred.
In August, 1842, Mrs. C., after suffering three
years with uterine disease, had an enlarge



360  IOMIOMOPATHIO PRACTICE.
ment of those parts.  The abdomen extensively distended; frequent hemorrhages; prolapsu's
uteri; violent pain; about every six weeks an
abscess formed in the uterus; it burst out, and
there was a copious flow of pus, blood and water;
the uterus.was indurated and'very large. She was
confined to bed; had been under Allopathic
treatment over two years, and she was now pronounced incurable. In this condition she came
under my care. She took Ars. Nux V. Cann. S.
Silec. Agar. Bell. Kreoso., generally in the second
attenuations, varied, and adapted to the symptoms as near as judgment directed.
She soon began to improve, and continued on.
In six months she was up, walking about; in
nine months was fully cured, and has enjoyed
good health till this time, 1854.
- Throbbing or jerking in, sensation of.
Prunus Sp. Sepi. or Zinc.




PREGNANCY
DISEASES OF PREGNANCY.-In the early period
of this condition, as well as sometimes in: advanced states, females are troubled with a loss of
blood from the uterus, and other diseases.
If this state is attended with occasional discharge of blood, or somewhat like menstruation,
use Cocc. Millefo. Phos. or Plati.
If these medicines do not answer to check or
regulate the evacuation, some of the other medicines set down for Uterine Hemorrhage, should
be used.
When they are troubled with morning sickness, or nausea, or vomiting, give Ipe. or Nux V.
lKreoso. or Ars. Coni. Nitr. ac. or Mag. C. or
Phos. Bryo. Lyc. or Acon. Bell. HIyosc. Sep.
Sulp. or Tart. Anti.
It will sometimes be required to vary and
try several of those medicines to meet the peculiarity of the symptoms. Kreosote and Petrol.
has obtained a good deal of reputation'for sickness at this period.. For fainting and hysterical




362        HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
affections. (See these articles under their proper
heads.)
Toothache and affection of the jaws, (see these
articles in their place.), Swellings'of the legs and veins of the legs.
When there is inflammation and pain in them,
give Puls. Sulp. or Acon.
If this affection is connected with hemorrhoids
or costiveness, give Ignat. Nux V. or Sulp. after
the others, or in alternation with them.
If there is blueness of the veins of the legs, use
Ars. or Carb. V.
If an erysipelas or blotchy eruption comes out
on the legs, give Bell. Rus. T. or Thuy., or Agar.
Graph; Carb. V. Sepi. are useful in these affections.
PREGNANCY UTERUs.-Abortion threatened. To
restrain this disposition, give Bell. Canth. Cham:
Chin. Kali. C. Nux V. Opi. Sabi. Sec. C. Sepi. or
Sulp. Great benefit is gained by introducing a
small piece of opium into the vagina, and giving
Ferr. or China.
~ — ~.Abortion or catemenia, to produce
durin'g the time. The most certain medicines
are Artimes. Kreoso. Nux M. Plati. Plumb. Sabi.
Silec. or Sec. C.
Appetite deficient during. Chin. Cham.
Mag. M. Natr. C. Petrol. or Tart. Anti.
- Convulsions or spasms in. Bell. Cocc.




ACCOUCHEMENT.  8-18
Colocy -Cham. Hyosc. Nux V. Plati. Puls. Sabi.
or Staphy. (See Spasms.)
~- - - Costiveness. Bryo. Lyc. Nux V. Opi.
Podoph. Sep. Sulp. (See Costipation.)
- Diarrhcea. Camp. Cann. S. Dulc. Ipe.
Hyosc. Phos. Rheum. Sulp. or Tart. Anti.
-      --    ~ Dyspepsia. Calc. Cocc. Coni. Nux V.
Puls. Phos. or Sulp.
When the fcetus is very active, use
Silec.
-  Moral affections impaired, Acon. Bell.
Cupri. Plati. Puls, or Stramo.
P- ain and bearing down.  Natr. C
Nux V. Puls. Sabi. Sec, C. or Sepi.
When there is severe dutting pain about the
uterus, Colocy. has afforded great relief..-..- Pain in abdomen, Bell. Bryo. Chamin,
Nux V. Sepi..... Spasms epileptic. Mosch. (See this
article in Spasms.)
ACCOUCHEMENT AND THE DISEASES
SU1BSEQUENT TO IT.
AcCorUcam NT. —In the majorityyof cases of
labor, it beoins with moderate pains in the uterine
region or in the back. These increase moreor less;
sometimes they are very slow and lingering; at
others, the pains are in quick succession and
pressing down. There is generally some anxiety




364        HO3MEOPATHI0 PRA(rIC]E.
with the patient or nervous-excitement, for which
it will be of service to give a few doses of Coff. or
Nux V.
If the pains are lingering or irregular, or if
there is a full habit of body, or a feverish state,
give Acon, or Bell.
When the labor lingers with feeble pains, use
Iodi. Puls. Sepi. or Secale C.
If there is an irritable state of mind or habit,.
Cham. Nux V. or Staphy.
In latter years, the Sec. C. has probably been
used to promote parturient pains more than any
other article. As this may be attended with some
danger, and produce injury to the infant, it is
proper to remark and give a caution respecting
it. In large doses it produces a stupifying effect
and.torpor of the child. In Dr. S. Bard's.Midwifery, some precautionary remarks are made, in
substance thus: "That before giving Ergot, the
uterus should be well dilated; there should be
caution in not giving very large doses, that a large
dose, and continued action of it, might stupify
and destroy the child."
In JAar's SympSomen Codex, by the late Dr. G.
W. Cook, it is stated that before giving Sec. C.,
the accoucher should be well satisfied that the
uterus is amply dilated and the presentation natural. - The mode of giving it here' mentioned is
to make a decoction of one drachm in a gill of
water, and give a table spoonful every five




ACCOUCHEMET.              3
minutes till three spoonfuls are taken. This is
enough to answer the purpose, and is capable of
producing'very salutary effects.
If the labor is protracted, and attended with
severe and distressing pain, Bell. Coff. Nux V.
or Opi.
If there are cramps, and if so, they are likely
to partake of hysteria, give Asa. F. Ambr. ilyosc.
or Nax V.
Sometimes the labor is protracted; the pains
severe; the patient has severe headache, and she
finally gets congestion of the brain, with stupor.
In such cases, give Bell. Cocc. or Opi. Writers
on midwifery recommend bleeding freely in such
cases. It is a question whether the attendant
would do justice to the patient to omit this reme-,dy. The child should be delivered as soon as
possible. If this cannot be effected by ordinary
neans, by manual assistance, (recollect the pains
are suspended,) then recourse should be had to
the' use of the forceps. Success in such cases depends on prompt and correct action.
If the course here suggested, by using the
forceps,' is pursued, the child. may be delivered
alive, and probably the mother -saved.. Such has
been the result of our experience.
Now, a word on the use of the forceps. They
may, and often have been- used, without materially injuring the child, and it may by them be
brought forth alive; but in many cases where it




366.       HOMLEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
may be advisable to use them, the infant is dead
beforehand, then the sooner it is delivered the
better. In such cases of difficulty, there gemerally are causes which deprives the child'of life,
without referring it to the use of instruments.
It is gratifying to be able to state that very
few cases occur where such means are required.
The first thing after delivery is to bring away the
placenta, or after-birth, by making a gentle extension on the cord. T-his may generally be done in
10 or 15 minutes, and seldom any inconvenience
ensues by this course. If there is a delay, it will
be proper to wait for some expulsive pains, and
give the patient some of the remedies named
bove, to promote the Pains of labor.
TREATJMENT AFTER- DELIVERY.
TREATMENT- AFTER  DELIVERY. —The patient
should be: quietly placed in bed, and have a
bandage applied around the waist; give her
some'doses of Arnica in an attenuated'form; this
relieves the soreness and quiets the after pains;
or give Bell.
FLOODING OR METRORRHAGIA.
FLOODING OR METRORRHAGIA.-It is customary
and necessary for there to be some discharge
from the womb after delivery, but this sometimes
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produce serious and alarming effects; then the
case requires medical treatment. The mbst usefal medicines for this purpose are Millefo. Hamameli, Ipe. or Sepi. Tincture of Cinnamon is
highly recommended, four or five drops given as
a dose, and to be repeated several times. It seems
this would be best adapted to passive or advanced
stages of the case; we have observed good results
from it.
LOCHIA.
LocmA.-This discharge from the uterus, after
delivery, varies very much in quantity in different females; the quantity may be very small,
though it is important that there should be some
evacuation. If it is checked or suppressed within
six or seven day or more, pain and uneasiness
ensue, fever sets in, and sometimes a train of serious symptoms take place. The remedies to
restore this evaeation are Puls. Sabi. Nux V.
Sec. C. or Hyosc.; fomenting across the abdomen,
witwh alkaline solutions, are very useful.
MILK.
MILK. —This nutrifying matter for the infant
sometimes is furnished in excessive quantity,
when care should be taken to have the breasts
drawn, or there will be danger of inflammation
and gathering of themm  The patient should be




3608      eHOMMEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
kept on low.diet, and given two or three doses of
Calc, in a day.
The milk is often deficient in quantity to supply the demand of the infant; this may be increased by giving Agnu. C. Garbo. Animalis or
Caust. two or three times a day. Carbo. Ani.
has a great influence to increase the quantity of
milk.  Another article comes highly, recommended for increasing the milk —it is Ricinus
Communis or Bofcera. The leaves or'juice of
this plant applied to the breast produces a great
increase of milk in the fenmale. —_/. A.. Jouwrnal of
H.omeopatthy, No. 1, p. 386.
It has been suggeste.d that the oil from the
plant rubbed on the breast might answer the
purpose.
INFLAMED BREASTS.
INFLAMEp BREASTS.-One of the great difficulties from which females suffer after parturition, is
inflammation and suppuration of one or both
breasts. There are a variety of exciting causes
which tends to bring on this disease; these we do
not undertake to examine, but proceed at once to
give the proper treatment.
It may be remarked that this disease is very
often aggravated and rendered tedious by the injudicious use of hot stimulating articles. Nnurses
and good old women have some specifics of this




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kind, and cures for ague of the breast, and some
doctors are too much inclined to such a practice.
It should be borne in mind that this is an inflammatory disease, attended with fever, and
ought to be, treated as such. The proper remedies are Acon. or Bell.; use one of these until the
fever and heat of the breast is moderated; then
Bryo. will-be proper.
If there are shooting or twinging pains, Ignat.
or NuX V.
Apply cloths wet in cold water to it, or to the
water add Arnica, Acetate of L'ead, or Murikte of
Ammonia, or ice. By these means, early used,
the disease may be checked and the case cured;
but if it progresses, and there is a prospect 9f
suppuration taking place, it will be proper to
apply warm poultices to it; also give Hep. Mere.
or Sulp.
If suppuration takes place when it is matured,
if the pus does not form an opening for itself, it
will be advisable to open it: the incision had better be large, for after that the ulcer more readily
heals.
INDURATED BREASTS.
INDURATED BREAsTS. —When a breast becomes
inflamed, if the disease is not fully relieved by
resolution or suppuration, a hard indurated state
frequently takes place in some part of it or in the




I70        noM;EoPaIrm  PRACTICE.
whole substance of it. If this progresses, a scirrhous tumor may be formed. The remedies for it
are Baryt. C. Cale. C. Coni. Phos. Silee.- or Sulp.
NIPPLES, SORE.
NIPPLES, SORE.-This is a very annoying,and
painful disease for nursing females to endure. The
inteirnal remedies for it are Arnic. Calc. C. Hep.
lod. Merc. Nux V. Silec. or Sulp. In addition
to those, external applications to the nipple may
be used to advantage.' For this purpose a great
number are introduced, and among the best are
the following: Moisten the nipple often with a
diluted tincture of Arnica, or Iodine, or a weak
solution of borax in brandy; or this preparation is very soothing: Make a solution of Borax of
moderate strength, add to it Oil of Almonds and
a little Carbonate of Soda; form a linament,
which apply to the part.
PHILEGMASIA DOLENS, OR MILK LEG.
PHLEGMAsIA DoLEs. —This is a general swelling of one or both legs, which sometimes takes
place during child-bed state; the skin is white,
not discolored; it is of the nature of Anasarca, of
a peculiar nature; sometimes it is painful; at
others it, is not very much -so. The remedies
found most useful for it are Acon. Arnic. Ars.
Hell. Iodi. Nux V. Rus. T. or Silec.




CHILD RED.              37
If there is eonsiderable fever, Acon.
After this the most prominent remedy is Arniec
If there is general weakness and a spongy
swelling or burning pain in the leg, Ars.
If there is a deficiency of the lochial discharge,
Puls. or Rus. T.
If there is nervous irritation or crampy feelings,
of the leg, Nux V.
For the weakness which ensues, give Chinm
Iodi. Silec., &e.
PAINS AFTER.
PAINS AFTER.-After confinement, the patient
is saubject to a continuanceof pain similar to those
of labor; some have them  very mildly, others
very severely.
Directly after delivery, and the good lady is
made comfortable in bed, give Arnic. or Bell.; a
few doses, one every two or three hours, more or
less, as the pain and soreness may be; this relieves the soreness, and, in some measure, prevents or lessens the after pain.
If they continue severe, give Coff. Nux V.;
these generally are sufficient. When they continue severe, a firee evacuation from the bowels
will be of great service.




3 Z2       HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
PUERPERAL FEVER, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB.
PUERPERAL FEVER. -In many instances this
disease succe'eds the time of parturition. Like
other diseases, this sometimes is only an occasional and mild affection. At other periods it is
very prevalent, seizing on a great number, and
exhibits an epidemic character. It frequently is
attended with great severity, and under some
modes of treatment is very fatal.
A number of Allopathic writers, such as Denman, Gordon, Hey, Armstrong, and Drs. Bard
and Hosack, consider this an inflammatory disease. The many cases we have seen well confirms those opinions. It commences with chills
or rigors; tenderness and pain of the abdomen; a
distension of the abdomen, which is tender to the
touch; the lochia suppressed. In addition to
these symptoms, we have observed others with
Violent pain in- the head, back and sacrum, and
terrible screaming; sometimes there is congestion of the uterus. In some instances, and in
particular localities, it is represented that this disease partakes of a typhoid nature. This may be in
some measure induced by a mode of treatment.
Treatment.-The lHomoeopathic remedies for
this disease are:If there are chills or fever, give Acon. After
using this awhile, or until the symptoms are




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somewhat moderated, it will be proper to give
Arnic.'Bell. or Bryo.
If there is nervous irritation or spasms, Nux
V., either alone or in alternation, with one of the
preceding medicines.
If the first period has passed, and there is soreness through tlhe part, and uneasiness of the
urinary organs, Canth. Colocy.
When the active symptoms are moderated,
some of the other remedies will be required, to
wit:If there is irregular chills or perspiration,
Merc. or Puls.
If there is anxiety of mind and uneasiness, give
Chain. Ignat. Coff. or Bryo.
In feeble constitutions, where there has been
loss of blood, give China. or Quini.
Should there be great sensibility of the uterus,
give Nux V. Sepi. Bell. Cham. or Coni. Cocc.
IKreoso, Mur. ac.
Should cramps or spasms supervene, use Cocc.
Ignat. Hlyosc. (See Spasms.)
If ulceration at the os tinica takes place, Carbo.
V. Graph. Sulp. or Silec. or Ars.
Pot-bellied or protuberant abdomen,
Lach. Sec. C. Silec. or Sep.




INFANTS.
There are a-series of diseases which affect infants. A consideration of them will form the
mnatter of this division, without entering into an
examination of the causes or their pathological nature. The plan will be followed in this
work'of noticing the diseases, symptoms, and
detail the treatment.
ACIDITY OF THE STOMACH.
ACIDITY OF THE STOMcH. —Infants are very
liable to have sour belchings from the stomach
or throwing up flatulent acid matter, or the milk
turned sour. The remedies for it are Bell. Borax,
Calc. Rheum. or Sulp. Select one that appears
to be most indicated; if this does not cure, choose
another.
APTHEA OR THRUSH.
APHTHEA OR THRUSsn. —A great portion of infants are  attacked with this disease. It begins
with slight soreness of the mouth; a white scurf
or scum appears, in it; this frequently is only in




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small patches. In other cases it is very generally
spread over the mouth on the tongue, in the
fauces, and even, it is said, to extend to the stomach and through the bowels. In this way it is
a serious disease.
The most useful medicines for it are Borax,
Merc. Sol. It is better to give them in powder
put on the tongue. One may be given -by itself
or in alternation. The case generally improves
during their use. In addition, it may be advisable to give Sulp.
If'the apthous scurf assumes a dark or gangrenous appearance, use Ars. Nitr. ac. or Sec. C.
ASPHYXIA.
AsPHYxIA.-Infants are liable to a sudden suspension of the circulation of the blood and apparent cessation of breathing. Sometimes this takes
place at birth or directly after; when they only
at intervals draw a sighing breath; then place
the child in warm water, and soon as possible
endeavor to aid the breathing by pressing on the
chest, and dilate it again, or blowing in the
mouth; this may bring the lungs'into action.
During the process, apply warm vinegar to the
nose, or some volatile article. If the child is
plump and full, and there is a purlle appearance, or symptoms of congestion, Dr. S. Bard
used to recommend dividing the umbilical cord,




376        HOM1EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
and discharge three or four teaspoonfuls of blood.
This may aid much in bringing about breathing;
it may relieve the lungs and enable the heart to
act. By perseverance in thi course, the infant
may frequently be brought to.
In cases afterwards. The further remedies are Acon. Cham. Chin. Mosch. Opi. Sambu.
or Tart. Anti.
In the first stage, put a drop or two of the first
dilution of Mosch. or Anti. on the tongue. This
should be repeated every ten to twenty minutes.
If there is not an improvement in half an hour,
Opi. should be used in the same way.
If the affection continues, and the face is pale,
China. or Quini. in dilution; one or two drops
should be put in the mouth, and this may be repeated in ten or fifteen minutes.
If the child revives and becomes feverish or
has a red flushed face, Acon. or Bell. will be
useful.
The child should be placed in warm water, or
it may be wrapped in a warm flannel.
ASTHMA.
ASTHMA. -This disease affects infants somewhat
differently from that of adults. At the attack a
suffocatiot is experienced; they give a shrill cry;
often have a livid color of the face; the breathing




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is hurried and laborious; they struggle and gasp
for breath.
Ambra is one of the best remedies for
this affection. If this does not cure or arrest it,
the other remedies proper are Ipe. Sambu. Cham.
or Ars. In protracted cases, Colchi.
of Millar, is described a sudden spasmodic contraction of the top of the windpipe,
like spasmodic  croup, producing  a  crowing,
strangling noise, causing great distress.  The
remedies Which seem best adapted to its cure, are
Acon. Ipe. Ars. Mosch. Asa. F. or Puls. Hep.
Spong. or Sambu. Generally, the first should be
A con.
If there is a rattling in the throat, give Ipe.
alone or in alternation with Acon. At first, if the
symptoms are severe, the doses ought to be
given every half hour, perhaps oftener during
this stage. The addition of Mosch. or Isa. F.
would be serviceable.
If there come on, prostration, or cold sweating
and loss of strength, give Ars.
If the respiration becomes whizzing, the face
blue or inclined to lethargy, give Sambu. At the
latter stage, to remove'the hoarseness and soreness about the larynx, Hep. or Spong. will be
useful.




3T8        HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
CHAFING AND EXCORIATIONS.
CHAFING AND EXCORIATIONS.-Little children
are' very liable to have chafed, raw, and sore
places on the skin, particularly so in the groins
and on the neck. In such cases, care should be
taken to keep the part clean and dry. There are
remedies for internal use, which aids materially
in curing this affection; they are Borax. Ignat.
iMerc. or Hep. S.
If some of these do not effect. a cure, those
named under Herpes may be very useful. Externally apply scorched flour, hair powder, or some
other absorbing, drying article. It may be advisable to moisten the sore part with diluted Arnica
or Iodine.
CHOLERA INFANTUM.
CHOLERA INFAWTUM.-Infants as well as adults
are subject to have diarrhcea, particularly so
during the hot season, when it is called Summer
Complaint or Infantile Diarrheea.
The symptoms are: the child's bowels become
irregular; the stools very often, with grumbling
of the bowels and painful uneasiness; the stools
are slimy, watery, or greenish, or frothy, with an
offensive fetor. The child looses strength, and
becomes pale and feeble.
The remedies are Acon. Bell. Chain. or Rheum.




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tpe. or damph. Calca. C. Cinnamo. Merc. Sol. or
~Verat. or Zinc.
In the first stage, or if there is fever and soreness bof the bowels, give Acon. Ipe. or Camph.
When the above-mrentioned symptoms are
moderated, use Cham. Calc. or Mere. Solub.
If the diarrhoea continue', still it will be advisable to give Rheum. Cinnamo., or continue
Merc. Sol.
If the stools are green, or there is an exhaustion, Ars.
If there are cramps or a cold skin, Verat. or
INux' V.
If the diarrhoea continues after the more acutesymptoms are removed, use Zinc. or Plumbi.
It will be advisable to endeavor to improve
the strength by mild nourishing diet, and by applying a bark bandage'around the body.
COLIC.
CoLIc.-This disease is indicated by pain of
the bowels and griping, worrying and crying. It
is a common affection of infants.'The remedies most useful are Acon. Bell. Ipe.
or Cham.
If there is fever or soreness of the bowels, give
Acon. Ipe. or Cham.
If there is flatulence or rolling of'the bowels,
Borax, Colocy. Senn.




380        HIOM0EOPATHIO PRACTICE.
If there are cramps, Nux V, Staphy. or
Opi.
CORYZA.
CoRzA. —A catarrhal affection, when the nose
and head are stopped and stuffed up,. (as it is
termed.) Dulcam. is the~best remedy. After it
use Ars. Nux V. Puls. Sulp,. (See Angina Catarrhalis.)
CONVULSIONS.
CoNvuLsIoXs.-Infants and small children frequently are subject to have convulsions or fits, as
they are'termed, which create a good deal of
anxiety in the family. When the fit comes on,
give the child free air; keep it as still as possible, and,in a horizontal position; soon as possible put their feet and legs in warm water, and
rub them; but do riot put mustard or any volatile
stimulant in the water, nor have them about the
child: they deprive the lungs of vital air, which
is.very much needed. (See our observations on
Epidemic Cholera.) Such remedies are more objectionable when the treatment detailed in this
work is adopted.
Let the warm  bath be continued twenty or
thirty minutes. After this it may be useful to
give injections of warm water,. or water with
milk and molasses. - The medicines most proper




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are Bell. or Nux V. or Ignat. In most cases this
course will check the spasms or effect a cure in a
short time. If these should fail after a fair trial,
recourse should be had to Acon. Chamn. Opi. or
Stramoo, or some of the other,medicines placed
under Spasnms will be beneficial.  The teeth
should be examined to see if a swelling of the
gums may not be an irritating cautse.
If the stomach seems to have solme indigestible
matter in it, or there is vomiting, it will be well
to attend to that; something given, such as warm
water or other article, to evacuate and relieve
the stomach, will frequently be very useful. (See
Nausea and Vomiting.)
Children subject to fits, may be benefitted to
keep the fits off, by taking a dose of Ferr. or Nux
V. every day, or in two or three days,
COSTIVENESS.
COSTIVENESS.-All that is necessary to recommend in this article may be found under Constipation.
CROUP.
CROUP. —For the treatment of this disease, see
Angina Membrana.




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CRYING EXCESSIVELY.
CRYING EXCESSIVELY. —This, in a moderate degree, is considered a healthy exercise for the
lungs; but sometimes it is excessive, and then
medical treatment becomes proper and necessary.
Care should be taken to see whether a pin or
some other cause does not irritate the child. The
medicines most useful are Bell. Cham. JalapiL
Ipe. or Senn.
If some of these remedies do not relieve the
case, recourse may be had to others mentioned
under Abdomen, where one may be found to
apply to the symptoms.
FEVER REMITTENT.
FEVER REMITTENT.-Infantile Remittent Fever.
At the attack, use Acon.; or if there is nausea or
vomiting up of the food, Ipe. at first may do best.
If there is much pain and uneasiness of the
bowels, give Cham. or Puls.
Should there be considerable heat and redness
of the face or skin, or distress of the head, give
Bell.
If there is an irritable crampy condition, Nux
V. or Mlosch.
In the progress, if there is pressing down-or
tenesmus, Sulp. or Nux V.
When there is bilious affection, use Mere. Sol.




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alone or in alternation, with Cham. or Bryo., or
such other medicine as may be indicated.
If there is a disposition to costiveness, give
Mere. Sulp. or Podoph.
Should inflammation, or irritation, or painfulness continue or affect the bowels, Lach. or Opi.
will be advisable.
If the patient is of a delicate and feeble constitution, or the disease is attended with prostration,
use Ars. Cocc. Chin. Silec. or Sulp.
If there is great prostration, give Ars. Carb.
V. or Quini.
If the face is pale with languor, or if there are
symptoms of worms existing, use Silec. Cina. or
Sabad.
If there is a dullness of the head or inclination
to stupor, give Bell. Cocc. Lach. or Opi.
In the advanced stage care should be taken to
support the strength; for this purpose nutritious
injections will be very useful; also apply a bark
bandage around the body, and wet it with brandy every day. This we have observed to produce very salutary effects.
ITCHING.
ITCHING. — Infants are frequently troubled with
an irritable or itching state of the skin, which
produces uneasiness and fretfulness. There are
some remedies which may be given to allay this




384        HOMlEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
affection; those areSulp. Rus. T. Sulp. or Verat.,
or some of those to be found under Herpes.
LUNGS, INFLAMMATION OF.
LU.; Gs, INFLAMMATION oF.-In this disease, they
have fever, pain in the chest, difficulty of breathijng, and a dry cough..Remedies.-In the early stage, Acon. or Bell.
After these have been given, and the fever moderated, Bryo. Ipe.
In the somewhat advanced stage, if there is
rattling, Puls. or Sang. may be advisable. Examine Inflammation of the Lungs.
MILIARY ERUPTIONS.
MILTARY ERUPTIONS.-A fine running red rash
sometimes affects the skin. Nurses call it Red
Gum. The remedies are Sulp. or Bell. or Rus. T.
NEVI MATERNI, OR MOTHER'S MARK.
-NEvI MATERNI.-Infants often have some
marks, spots, or excrescences on the skin when
born. They bear this name. Sometimes they
are not attended with inconvenience further than
in sight; they cause deformity.  In other instances, they grow and form a kind of excrescence or spongy tumor. The remedies recommended for them are Calca. C. Carb. V. Silec. or
Sulp.




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OPHTHALMIA.
O-HTIALMIA. -Tlle remedies for the diseases of
the eyes of infants may be found under Eyes.
RATTLING OR CRA IPY HOARSENESS.
RATTLINTG  On CrBAMPY  HIOARSENEss.-Infants
frecquently have a cough of a tight, dry, and rattling kind, similar to moderate croup. The rem-edies are Rep. Spong., or if there is fever,
Acon. or Ipe.
RED GUM.
RED GuM. —A fine spreading rash, or inflamnlation of the gums. Use Ars. Auru. Dulcam.
Merc. or Sllp.
RICOKETS.
RICKrETS.-See this article in the general list.
SLEEPLESESS SS, OR A CONTINUED
WAKEFUL STATE.
SLEEPLEsssNEss.The remedies to relieve it are
Bell. Cham. Cocec or Opi.
TEETHI ANTD GUAS,
TEETIT AND GuMrs.-The remedies for these affections may be found under those heads in their.alphabetical place.
I3




38G         HO.moCOOP ATHI PRACTICEi
TABES  ]BESENTERICA.
TABES siESENTERICA.-TIn this disease, the chilcd
looses flesh and strength; is feeble and languid; 
the bowels are irregular; more generally costive;
there is a frequent craving after food, but it does
not afford nourishment and support; the patient
decays and wastes away, There is an enlargement of the glands of the neck, groins, and sometimes of other parts.
The remedies found most useful are Sulp. Cale.
or Iodi.
If they are much emaciated, and the mesenteric glands appear to be enlarged, with nmucns
thin stools, give Calc. Ars. or Baryt. C.
If the skin is dry, shiny and hard" with liollow
eyes, use Ars.
If there are worms, or involuntary passing of
urine, Cina. Spig. or Borax.
If there is a whitish diarrhcea and moist skin,
China. or Ferr.
Should there be bloody discharge from  the
bowels, Millefo. Ianmameli. or Rus. T.
URINE EXCESSIVE, OR INCONTINENi~CE.
UnINE ExcEssIVE.-Asa. F. Borax. Canth. or
Caust~




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EURINE SUPPRESSED OR DIMINISHED IN
QUANTITY.
URINE SUPPRESSED. —Acon. Camph. Cann. -S.
Uva. Urs. (See Bladder.)
WETTING THE BED.
(See Enuresis, Bladder.)
WORMS.
(See the remedies, which ai-e placed- under
Worms.)
COLDS, STOPPAGE OF TIlE HEAD, SNUFFLING.
4COLDS.-This is frequently a very troublesome
affection to little children. One of the best remnedies for it is Dulcam.; but other remedies, recommended for c.eolds and catarrh, under Angina
Catarrhalis, wil be very serviceable.
If the nose is dry, and there is only a slight
discharge from it; and worse at night, give Nux
Y~. or Hyosc.
If there is thick mucus stopping up the nose,
with cough or wheezing, give Samba.
If there be a watery discharge and sore eyes,
Chain.
When there is fever, watery discharges, sore
nostrils, and red cheeks, Carb. V. Calc. C. Pals.
or Sulp.




, 8         tlOMEAOPATCO PRAIECB,.
REGURGITATION OF MILK.
REGURGITATION OF MIL:.-N-J ursing children
are often troubled with throwing the milk off the
stomach. For it, use Ipe, Puls. Anqti. or Nux V-t
Flatulence is likely to attend it, for which use,
Cham. Carb. V. or Sulp.
MILK CRUST, SCABS AND BLOTCHES
ON THE HEAD.
MILKe CRUST. —The proper rei-edies for this
affection will be found under Herpes, Dow
Worm, and Scald Hea d..
JAUNDICE.
JAUNDICE.-TInfants are frequently affected with
a yellownessl of the skin; the eyes are of a yellow tinge; they become dull and languid; the
bowels irregular. The remnedies are Chiam. Merc.7
or if they are costive, or have. pain or cramps,
Ignat. or Nux V.
ERYSIPELAS.
ERYSIPELAS.-This is a spreading. red eruption
on the skin, attended with fever; sometimes it is
slight, at other periods it is severe~ and may be



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come a dangerous disease. The remedies are
Acon. Bell. Camp. or Rus. T. or Ars. or Sulp.
If there is much fever, use Acon.
If there is a fine red rash, Bell.
If there are large eruptions or vesicles, give
Rus. T. or Silec.
In the advanced stage, if there is hard lumpy
places on the skin, or a puffy swelling, give
Ars.
If there is a torpid state or irregularity of the
bowels, use Sulp. or Clematis. Graph. or Silec.
(See Erysipelas.)
LOCKJAW.
LocKJAw. —During convulsions, infants and
children are liable to have the jaws firmly locked
together. The remedies foP it may be found
under Convulsions, Tetanus, and Spasms.
HOT RED SPOTS, OR SPREADING RAS~H.
HOT RED  SPOTS, OR SPREADING RASiH.-By
nurses this is called Hfives. The rash is fine and
red; there is a little reddish watery fluid in
them; sometimes they form incrustations, attended with mild fever. The remedies are Acon.'Rus. T. or Sulp.




390        H01MEOPATHIO PRACTICE.
TEETH.
TEETH.-This period is frequently a trying
one for little children. There is some pain of the
jaw; they become irritable and uneasy; there
is a pressure of blood to the head, producing
an irritable state of the brain and nerves; the
teeth coming forward, presses on the gums'; this
causes some soreness and swelling. In this state
the child is liable to have spasms.
If there is fever attending this state, give
Acon. Bryo. or Ipe.
If there are cramps or spasms, Ignat. Nux V. or
Cupr.
If there is much swelling or pain of the gums,
Bell. or Coff.
Should the symptoms. be severe, examine the
gums, and if a tootti is near coming out of the
skin, cut the gum down to it.
During teething, giving one or two doses a
day of Ignat. or Nux V.; these will allay much of
the distress and aid the process.
IIYDROCEPHALUS. DROPsY OF THE BRA N.
HIYDROCEPHALUS.-The character of this disease
is an affection of the head. The symptoms of it,
as stated in Hull's Laurie, are headache, particularly of the front part; nausea, vomiting, dilated
pupil, slow pulse, stupor, and convulsions. Scro



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fulous children, and those having large heads,
are most liable to have it.  This description
applies mostly to the idiopathic or chronic form
of the disease.
The acute states of disease, which terminates
in what is called Dropsy of the Brain, is ushered
in with inflammatory fever and inflammation or
congestion of the head. In this state the skin is dry,
pulse quickened; the child is worse at night; it
is peevish; grinds the teeth, and screams; becomes indifferent or stupid; pupils dilated, eyes
red, and somfietimes there are cramps. This disease is very likely to take place where the fever,
which the child has had at first, is treated by calomel and opium.
The remedies for the first kind of dropsy of the
brain are Acon. Hell. Iodi. or Ars., and such as
are indicated for -the constitutional disease which
the child may be laboring under.
For the latter type, the proper remedies are
those which are prescribed for fever generally,
and for inflammatory affection or congestion of
the brain, such as Aeon. Bell. Bryo. Cham. Let
the bowels be freely evacuated; this has a great
influence to relieve affections of the brain.
When the fever has moderated, and the urgent
symptoms lessened, use Hell. Ars. Nux V. or
Phos.
It will be of great service to place the feet in




392        HOM(EOPATHI0 PRACTICE.
warm water often, or to put hot cabbage leaves
on them wet.
Cloth wet in cold water should be applied to
the head, and cold water given as a drink.
Consult the articles Fever, Head, and Brain,
in other parts of the work, where the remedies
for the various symptoms are pointed out.




APPENDIX.
[A.]
IT may be inferred that the remarks made in this
work on blood-letting are not warranted by experience.or results. To guard against such an opinion, we have
quoted from medical history to substantiate our observations.
It is inferred that the object of the use'of remedies
and the practice of medicine is to cure the sick, and a
plan of treatment which does that in the most effectual
manner, and in the greatest proportion of cases in a
given number, is th'most advisable.  This is to be
ascertained only by statistical results.
It may be objected by Homce3pathists that these
statistics are taken from Allopathic writers, but as far
as health and life are concerned, they are not the less
important for that, and they may be useful to Homceopathic practitioners, as they show the benefit of occasionally using a remedy which has heretofore had
great influence in curing diseases.  Without pre.
suming to include much of our own opinions or recommendations, the selections are principally those from
other writers. These are calculated to show the supe.
rior success in treating severe and epidemic diseases
where blood-letting has formed a prominent remedy
compared with other modes under Allopathic management.  It is doubtful whether it is advisable or justi32*




894          1HOM'OPATH1IC  IRACTIOS
fiable entirely to reject a remedy, as some have done.
which has for ages proved eminently useful in curing
diseases. We have witnessed cases, and have noticed
accounts of others, which have proved very unfavorable under Homceopathic treatment, which appeared
might' have been cured by the same treatment, pro.
vided there had early been a judicious abstraction of
blood.
In a period oftime, called the dark ages, previous to"
the 16th century, an opinion very generally prevailed
that in violent, diseases, particularly in those of an
epidemic or malignant nature, there took place in the
human system, at the attack, or soon after, a condition
of direct debility and loss of muscular and vital powers,.
and a tendency to a typhoid, gangrenous state, "' that iDr
those cases," says Dr. Rush, c malagnancy and putrefaction were associated together." This led to a method of treatment which was, by the use of such remedies as were supposed to have the greatest influence to
guard against debility and a disposition to gangrene.
The remedies sel'ected for this purpose appears to have
been of an exciting, heating, sweating, spicy, and stimulating nature. By this course, it seems, there was
no allowance made for an inflammatory, -depressed, or
obstructed state of the system, which it might be necessary to remove before using such exciting remedies,
Under the use of such a course of treatment bv the
great Plague of London, in 1665, there were 60,000
died and 28,000 carried off by other distempers.
A physician, who has had some renown, known as
SYDENHAM, objected to the then prevailing opinions
and mode of practice, and recommended blood-letting
and a refrigerant course to be pursued.  As far as his
recommendations were followed, it appeared that the
treatment was much more successful.," Inflammatory
diseases," says'Sydenham, " were more frequent than
ever before known."
About this tine, some discerning person came to the




APPENDIX A.                395
conclusion that those violent' diseases, in their first
stage, were of a " spirituous, inflammatory, or congeslive nature, and those most violent ran their course
soonest to a gangrenous putrefactive state, or a sudden
congestion and fatal termination." In such a condition
of the system, it is contended by able writers that
spicy and stimulant opiate and alcoholic remedies, if
given to a considerable extent in the early stage, the
disease is hurried more rapidly, and the case is likely
sooner to terminate fatally.' The stimulant sweating
plan was called the Alexipharmic method of treatment.
Under this course the epidemics of that period were
extremely fatal.
By the influence of this physician, a very material
change was brought about in the management of acute
and violent disease.
Some idea of this practice and the change which
was produced, may be understood by referring to some
remarks in Dr. Miller's Retrospect of the 18th Century
He says-" To oppose the cardiac Alexipharmic doctrines of the Sylvian school, the illustrious Sydenham
arose, (about 1660.) He was eminently suited for the
purpose. The sagacity of this physician led him by
almost seeming intuition to discover andlobey the dictates of nature, and to afford every proper assistance,
without urging her to useless and hazardous efforts.
The effects of this revolution were immediately seen in
the improved treatment of acute diseases of every description, when, instead of the fashionable Alexiphar.
mic (stimulant) plan, intended to promote imaginary
depurations by additional heat and stimulus, a safer
antiphlogistic bleeding and cooling method was adopted to unload the oppressed, (congestive habit,) to
reduce excessive action, and to preserve the strength
of the system  for future conflict."  Like Hahnemann and others who have introduced improvements
and innovations calculated to benefit mankind, Syden.
ham met with great opposition and. reproach from the




396          HOMr(EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
faculty. and from various sources.  In some instances,
corporate bodies, it was said, and even governments,
interfered to prevent the spread of his doctrine and
practice.
A remarkable instance of this kind is related in Dr.
Townsend's Journey through Spain.  It states " that a
violent malignant disease prevailed there. On the
subject of treatment, the medical men widely differed.  Some of them  were in favor of the Sydenhamic method, whilst others were opposed to it. At
length the government interfered, and they made out a
prescription, composed of many articles, of a spicy,
sweating, heating and stimulating nature. An edict
was passed that the doctors should use for the epidemic
this prescribed plan.of treatment.  Under this course,
there was a total failure-nearly all the cases subjected
to-it were fatal. The government discovered that they
had made an unfortunate prescription, and revoked the
ordinance."
It may be a subject of regret that the Sydenhamic
doctrines and practice has not been more followed out
in modern times.
To elucidate this subject, it will be proper to furnish some facts and statistical statements in reference
to some of the'violent and epidemic diseases, by presenting the Alexipharmic stimulant plan on one side
and the refrigerating and cooling method on the other.
Ii Dr. Rush's Treatise on the Epidemic of 1793, in
Philadelphia, he advocates the Sydenhamic doctrine
and practice by bleeding and other evacuations and
sudorific means. In summing up the results of this
plan, compared with the Alexipharmic stimulant method, he states " that under this mode of treatment the
fatal cases were not over 1 in 50."," I lost' not over 1
in 20 of those I saw on the first day." Again, in another instance, "' I cured 99 in 100 of all who applied
on the first day of the disease."  " Out of 200 patients
I lost but four."  Dr. Griffith says:'By the same




APPENDIX A.                s97
treatment (pursued by Dr. Rush) 49 in 50 were
cured."  Dr. Pennington said,'" that by the same
course, in 43 cases, none died."  "About 6,000 of
the inhabitants of Philadelphia probably owe their lives
to bleeding and purging."
In this work, the results on the other side are also
given.  "Those treated by bark and wine, whole
families were swept'off."  Dr. Compte states "that
when those remedies (stimulants) were used, death
was hastened in every case, and that under the use of
bark, wine, opium, and stimulants, one-half died."
"At the Hospital at Bush Hill, in Philadelphia," says
Dr. Rush, "where bark,.wine, calomel, opium, and
alcoholic stimulants were the principle remedies, out of
807 cases, 448 died."
In Dr. Donaldson's account of the yellow fever
which prevailed in New York in 1822, it is stated
"that I treated 22 cases by free bleediny and refrigerating means, not one of them  died." ("Under the
treatment, by mercurials opiates and-stimulants, which
were used by most of the practitioners, about one-half
died."
In 1811, and some of the subsequent years, an epidemic disease prevailed in this country to a very great
extent. It was not confined to- cities or villages, but
spread in streaks in many parts of the country, particu.
larly in the Eastern States, extended westward to the
Lakes, and proceeded southward.  It was equally
severe as the Cholera; about as fatal under some plans
of treatment, and more difficult to cure.
SYMPTOMS.
Among others, it was attended with the following
symptoms:-"Sometimes it commenced with severe
ague, violent pain in the chest, difficulty of breathing,
intense pain in the head, also in some or all the limbs;
nausea and vomiting, or severe diarrhoea; at times the




398          HOmEOPALTOC PRACOTICEo
pain 6f the chest was -acute, at other periods, there was
a stricture,.heaviness, and inability to dilate the chest;
the tongue in the progress generally was scurfed, and
had lively red edges; there was great apparent debility
to synchope or even full fainting; the most common pulse
was small, flaccid, and at times nearly imperceptible; there
was a disposition to assume a typhoid (gangrenous)
type, particularly when evacuations were not early
made; the face often had a lurid, dingy hue; in some
cases the powers of life were suspended. Similar to
Asphyxia, dissections showed the lungs, heart and birain
distended and gorged with black blood. The pulse rose,
and became more full and firm; after bleeding and other
evacuations, the blood was generally, at first, dark and
carbonated; after the evacuations, the blood became
more florid and lively; the symptoms which followed
depended very much on the mode of treatment.
An opinion became very prevalent that this disease
was so much of a typhoid nature, that blood-letting was
improper, and that the Alexipharmic course of treatment, with free use of calomel, opium, and alcoholic
preparations, were only to be relied on. In many instances whiskey was given by the bottle, and at the funerals, to prevent catching the disease. The liquor freely
went around, and drunkenness mingled in the scene.
"Under this mode of treatment, in some districts,
one-half died. The Rev. L. Burch, of Stanford, who
devoted his whole time among the sick, the dying and
the dead, showed the writer a list he had taken of the
number of that town.  Of about 130 cases, of these, 62.
were dead! The treatment he stated was highly Alexipharmic and alcoholic stimulants. Several physicians, of
the middle and eastern part of the county, gave the
writer very similar statements about the treatment,
with corresponding results.
" An impression prevailed that the disease was directly of a typhoid nature, and this was so mulch in accordance with popular opinion that it required great firmness




APPENDIX A.                 399
to resist the current that set from every direction against,
every species of depletion. Nurses,. old women and
others appeared with hemlock, and other essences, hot.
excitants and stimulants to lop off the head of the hydra
epidemic —whereas, by a moderate use of blood-letting
and other evacuating refrigerant means, the,fatal cases
did not exceed I in 20."-Our History of the Epidemic
in Duchess County.
By the statistics furnished in this work it is shown
that under the stimulant, calomel, and opiate treatment,
about one-half died; and that by bleeding, sweating,
and a refrigerating course, 19 in 20 were cured.
There was no record nor publication which showed
what was the treatment in the county town, but the
physicians and the people there represented it to be
Alexipharmic, mercurial, and stimulating in a high de.
gree. The writer was informed by some of the physicians and the people, that most all the severe cases
were fatal.
The diversity of opinion about the treatment of such
a raging disease,.placed a juvenile member of the profession in a trying and responsible position, as being at
first, alone, in advocating and using blood-letting and
other refrigerating remedies, and opposed to the use, at
first, of Alexipharmic stimulating articles.  However,
facts and favorable results of cases in his district furnished such convincing proof, that shortly opinion was
changed in favor of the refrigerating depleting treatment.
In Dr. Mann's treatise on this epidemic, as it spread
along the northern frontier, from Lake Champlain to
Erie, and in the army, in 1812-13, it is stated " that by
practitioners among the inhabitants in the -vicinity of
the,army, a large portion used the Alexipharmic, mer.
curial, and alcoholic treatment" —'" that under this
course, one-third to one-half died"-" that the mode of
treatment, under his,direction in the army, was bleeding moderately or freely, according to circumstances,




400         IHOM]EOPATHIC PRACTICE.
with refrigerating and sudorific means, the fatal cases
did not exceed 1 in 16."
In Professor Gallup's account of this epidemic in
Vermont, it is stated "' that the Alexipharmic plan, with
calomel, opium, and alcoholic articles, was the most
popular; that under this plan, in some instances, about
half died" —" by the bleeding and other remedies, similar to those recommended by Dr. Mann, 15 in 16 were
cured."
In Dr. Lovel's Hospital Report, from Burlington,
Vermont, it is stated "that in one month, in 1812,
there was at no time less than 20 on the sick list
of the epidemic; that in the time there was only three
deaths; the treatment was similar to that recommended
by Surgeon General 3Mann" —" that among the inhabitants in the vicinity, the Alexipharmic, mercurial and
stimulant course was generally used; that during this
month there were among the citizens, 72 deaths."
In a treatise on this disease by Dr. North, of Connecticut, it appears that the treatment he used in the beginning was Alexipharmic, and that this was increased to a
high degree of stimulation.  The Doctor lamented that
by the use of very large quantities of permanent and
liffusible stimulants, reaction could not be brought out,
and the patients sunk- and died. He overlooked the importance of unloading the blood.vessels and relieving the
system from depression and inflammation before beginning to fill up with such powerful excitants.
In the Medical and Philosophical Register, Dr D.
Hosack recommended a treatment similar to that of Dr.
Man n.
Drs. Ackerly and  Scofield, hospital surgeons at
Staten Island, in their report confirmed a similar mode
of treatment, and say that very few of the soldiers died.
The works referred to were all published after the
epidemic subsided, so they were not of use in the treatment-each one had to rely on their knowledge and ob.
servation to pioneer his course.




APPENDIX A.                401
It would seem that an accurate knowledge of the
history of this epidemic might furnish  indications
enough to enable one to adopt a tolerable successful
mode of treating Epidemic Cholera. In many respects,
the symptoms and constitutional conditions were very
much alike.
Now attention may be directed to a more modern
disease-the EPIDEMIC CHOLERA, This has elicited a
great diversity of opinion and an equally diversified
mode of treatment. It is intended here merely to trace
some; of the prominent modes of treatment in Allopathic
practise, and to give the results.
In this connection a prominent claim will appear in
favor of the benefits of Homoeopathic practice, as it
shows that it may be-used beneficially in the treatment
of violent and epidemic diseases, without running a
chance of injuring the patient and aggravating the case,
by the use of large quantities of drugs which may be
improper in the condition; for such a thing may happen as
to hasten its fatal termination by improper remedies, and
the patient not being permitted'to die, " by the natural
run of the disease," who can say that large quantities of
such articles as Cayenne pepper and alcohol may not
have had a great deal to do with rendering the cholera
fatal.
There was a nostrum sold and puffed here in 1849,
said to be composed of tincture of Cayenne pepper, spirits
of camphor, laudanum and alcohol, to prevent and cure
the Cholera.  No doubt this nostrum  cost the city
several dozen of lives.
> By the use of minute doses of medicine, it appears
that those diseases have been cured, and the patient's
life not jeopardized. by large quantities of inconsistent
drugs.
In the history of Epidemic Cholera, some important
facts are disclosed which show a wide difference between
one mode of treatment and that of another, as the following, among some of the results which have appeared




402          HOMEOPATHIC PSRATIOE.
will show, that when a free use of opiates, calomel, irrita.
ting and stimulating articles have been used in the early
stage, the disease has been attended, with great fatality.
On the other side it is shown that when those articles
have been in a measure excluded, and a refrigerating,
diluting, or evacuating method adopted, the result has
been much more favorable.
It is stated here in regard to this, as well as on all
other occasions, it is the first stage of the case we refer
to, for the treatment and remedies used then often forms'
the turning point of the case, and give shape to all that
follow. In the advanced stage, in most cases, cordial
and stimulant remedies may be advisable and proper..
In 1831, the British Medical Board, at Bombay,
made a report ".that the practice of blood-letting is the
sheet.anchor of hope." —Lon. 11Med. Jour.
Dr. Corbyn, British Surgeon in Asia, says: " Believing as I do that Cholera to be incipient inflammation, blood-letting is the first remedy.-indeed, it is the
most important."-Ib.
A. colonel in a British regiment stationed in Africa,
in 1832, took the treatment in hand himself. By bleeding and giving freely of mild drinks he saved all the soldiers who were attacked with cholera.- Ib.
Mr. Baker, the British Consul General to Egypt in
1832, directed slow bleeding and a free use of mild
drinks, which were attended with uniform  success.Morn. Star.
In France, Brussais and others used bleeding and
cold water with favorable success.' Now, thank God,"
said he, "we give patients as much cold water as they
wish,'  Ib.
Dr. Cruvillier, of France, who had the charge of a
large hospital, treated the cholera as a congestive and
inflammatory disease with much' success. —lb.
Drs. Bell and Conde, in their treatise on Cholera,, say
"that the physicians in Russia, Poland and Germany,
bled their patients with success."'




APPE  DIX A.                403
In England and Ireland several doctors bled to great
advantage.'-Lon. Med. Jour.
All agree that the use of opiates, mercury, and stimulants were very unsuccessful. —lb.
In America, as far as accounts have been published,
it appears that the plan' of treatment mostly pursued
has been by the use of opiates, calomel, spicy vegetables, essences, vegetable and mineral astringents, alcoholic or diffusible stimulants, it is more than probable
that those drugs sometimes increased the pressure on
the brain and vital organs, so as to defeat the object of
cure intended.
In 1832, Professor Chapman, of Philadelphia, published a paper on this disease, in which he recommended
bleeding, and used it with success.
In 1832, Drs. Bell and Conde, of Philadelphia, published a treatise on Cholera, in which they say I" there is
inflammation and congestion"-" the blood was dark,
but grew more florid after bleeding"-"the brain, intestines and liver showed congestion" —" the lungs were
gorged with black blood'-" the stomach showed traces
of inflammation"-" the treatment by bleeding has been
more successful than any other plan"'-"in all cases
where blood-letting has been used, and the chest relieved, a recovery has ensued"-" opium  increased the
congestion" —" many denounced calomel as injurious""by the use of brandy, 32 out of 34 died."
Dr. Sterling, of England, says, " calomel has been
used in all places, yet the patients have died,"-Lond.
Med. Jour.
Dr. Leo, of Russia, states that "c alomel irritates the
alimentary canal, and aggravates-the disease."-Ib.
Dr. Wilson, of EBelfast, says, "I cannot see on what
principle calomel is used, for if the patients recover,
their constitutions are ruined."-Th.
Dr. Clot Bey, physician to the Pacha of Egypt, in
1832, after trying various remedies, all of which failed,
he adopted blood-letting, and gave copious mild drinks,




404          lIOM(EOPATHIC PRAOTICE.
with warm applications to the skin. Great numbers
were cured by this method. The common people adopted
this practice, and by it cured themselves.-lb.
In a report from one of the Cholera Hospitals in
New York, in 1832, by Dr. Ferris,'it was stated that
bleeding was used in many instances, and that there
were 9 out of 10 cured.
In Poughkeepsie, before the appearance of the epidemic in 1832, there had not been much published
which was reliable, and pointing out any particular
method of cure. When it commenced, the people, as
they generally are when a violent or uncommon disease
appears, were strongly inclined to the use of exciting
and stimulating articles to prevent and cure it, and the
medical men generally favored this practice.  When
they can rely upon medical authority, the people adopt
such a course with avidity.
It will appear by the preceding observations that
those stimulant articles have proved very unsuccessful.
In the first case of what seemed to be cholera, we saw
there was a group of symptoms presented which had
been common, and often witnessed in previous epidemics, and which were described by writers. This led to
the conclusion that without much regard to the alimentary evacuations, if the constitutional symptoms
could be cured by treatment similar to what had been
successful in other similar conditions of disease-the
cholera might be cured.
With these views the treatment was commenced. By
examining the cases at page 84, the treatment and the
result will appear. The anticipations were realized by
the success of the course. My feeliigs may be imagined,
and were in a measure expressed in a letter to a friend,
(extracted Lfrom the history of that disease,) thus: —
"The result of those cases produced a pleasing train of
reflections and a hope that for this epidemic, which had
traversed over a great portion of the world, and spread




APPENDIX A.                  405
desolation and dismay in. its progress; there might be
adopted a successful method of cure.'"
It will be perceived that the treatment was bleeding
in small quantities, and that repeated or more freely, as
the case seemed to indicate; by producing nauseating
or gentle vomiting, a free use of mild drinks, (cold
water was preferred,) and by warm applications to the
surface of the body;. Since that time we discover that
the editor' of the London Medical Jo'urnal recommends
this mode of using nauseating remedies. The remedy
for this purpose was equal parts of ipecac. and bloodroot in infusion, given warm: It had a cogent effect to
restore a warmth on the skin, and produce sweating. Bleeding was used in about half of the cases.
After the first and severe stage was over; if the disease continued, other remedies were used which were
proper for the symptoms. Under this plan of treatment,
the fatal cases, as is shown in a register contained in
our history of this epidemic, as it prevailed in Poughkeepsie, was only five per cent.
All the other medical gentlemen used the Alexipharmnic, calomel, opium, and astringent plan, frequently
with a liberal use of alcoholic articles. - According to
the reports of the Board of HIealth of the cases, under the
latter mode of treatment, one-half were fatal.
An observation made in the account of the epidemic
of 1812, will apply well here: "It required great firmness to resist the current that set in from  every direction, (and even from the Board of Health,}, against the
depleting and refrigerating practice.'
My Homceopathio friends will perceive that here
accidentally, was adopted a Homceopathic principle
of small bleedings to relieve congestion and nauseating remedies to cure nausea and vomiting.
In the County Almshouse, about a mile from  the
city, the epidemic prevailed with severity, which was
under the management and treatment of those who
used the Alexipharmic stimulant, calomel, and opiate




406          HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
remedies. By the register of the institution it appears
that there were 95 in 100 died.
In the village of Barnegat, (the Lime Kilns,) on the
banks of the river, six miles south-after the disease
abated in the city, it appeared here with severity, few
or none escaped the premonitory symptoms.' The first
eight cases were subjected to the calomel opiate treatment, and they all died. After this, a meeting of the
citizens was held, when it was resolved that the whole
village should be placed under my care. There were,
beside those in the premonitory stage, about 30 confirmed cases; without an exception, they all recovered.
As an expression of gratitude, the inhabitants presented me with this testimony:"We, the subscribers, inhabitants of Barnegat, certify that the Cholera made its appearance in this place;
that there were about 40 cases, many of which were so
violent that they required much laborious medical attendance; that this was done by Dr. Sherrill and his
assistants. For the efficacy of his services, we form a
a high opinion from the fact that his patients all recovered.
[Signed,]     WM. B. LAWSON, and nine others."
There are some reports and collections of facts which
may be referred to, which show in some measure the
treatment and results of the cholera in this city in 1849.
The corporation established five hospitals for Cholera
patients, furnished them with all the necessaries for the
purpose, and to the Board of Health were added a large
number of medical gentlemen to attend the hospitals.
By the report of the Board of Health, it appears that
the remedies used were opium, camphor in large doses,
mercury, spices, Cayenne pepper, cordials, stimulating
sudorifics, alcoholic articles, vegetable and mineral
astringents; externally mustard, capsicum, lotions, bags
of hot water, &c. To this there was one exception: In




AL-PEANTI  A.               40o'
one of the hospitals "bleedingffrom the arm was used in
some eases with marked benefit."  Post mortem examinations showed congestions, gorgedy and stuffed conditions, of parts, similar to those described by Drs. Bell,
Conde, and many others.
It appears by this report that the results collected
from all the hospitals, the fatal cases were over 54
per cent.
From having a good opportunity to judge, and from
making observations, it appeared that a great deal of
the treatment in private practice was similar to that
reported by the Board of Health. In the upper part of
the city, where the stimulating treatment appeared to
be freely used, nearly "whole families were swept off."
The disease and the fatality was charged to the exhalations' from the bone-boiling establishments. It is doubtful whether these had any influence on the disease one
way oi the other; the greater portion of the cases were
more than a mile from them. It may be asked,' what
had those places to do with the treatment of the disease? Where the mode of treatment pointed out in
this work was used, which it was pretty extensively in
the upper and west parts of the city, there was not a
single fatal case. The register in the City Inspector's
office shows that there were 5,071 deaths by Cholera in
the city in 1849.
There was an understanding among the Hlomcepathic
practitioners to report their cases to the secretary of the
society, Dr. Bowers. Probably these reports were not
very complete. By the publication of them  it was
shown that fhe fatal cases were six per cent.
After the epidemic subsided, the llahnemann Academy of Medicine appointed a committee to collect the
cases attended by its members. They reported that from
the best information obtained, the fatal cases were five
per cent.
In the essay on the disease, heretofore mentioned, by




408                APPENDIX A.
statements made, that according to the plan detailed in
this work, the fatal cases did not exceed two per. cent.
In Dr. Pulte's worlk,it is stated that under his Honmceopathic treatment- in Cinciinnati, the fatality was
three and a half per cent.
In 1849, the-Cholera prevailed in Poughkeepsie again.
From  S. B. Dutton, Esq., President of the Board of
Health for the township, we were informed "that the
treatment was generally by tincture of Cayenne pepper
and other spices, opiates, mercury; heating, sweating
remedies, and alcoholic articles, all largely given, externally, was freely used; also, mustard and other acrid
articles and diffusible, stimulants. In the town ship,
without- the corporation, there were about;80 casesthree-quarters of them:were fatal."
The Secretary to the Board: of Health for the city
corporation, C. Carman, kindly-showed the writer his
book. By the statements' in that, and what he represented, the remedies used here -were similar t6 those
above-mentioned'The; same medical gentlemen used
them.  "There were within the city corporation 400'
cases, and out of these 280 deaths."
It appeared further that in the Duchess County Alms~house, about a mile from the city, and mostly under the
same general medical! attendandts, tthere were -100 cases,
and of these, there were'70 deaths.
-i -:The:isecretary:observed that the stimulating remedies
were used and approved of in the Almshouse to a very
great extent, and even then the'patients'died.
There were two Homeepathic physicians in the place.
The writer was -infoimed that the cases treated by'the
were -generally saccessfil.




APPENDIX.
[B.]
FRoM the position held as President, in the -Duchess
Medical Society, in 1825, the by-laws required me to deliver to them an address. The subject chosen was a review of the;prominent diseases of that locality for the
preceding year. The Remittent Fever, which fiequently
became typhus in the progress, had prevailed to a great
and unusual extent. In that discourse expressions like
these occur c-" I have not for a long time, until lately, observed cases of fever, which, in the early stage,
exhibited the small, soft and obscure pulse which often
took place in the epidemic of 1812. In this the attack
was sometimes mild, and the disease slow in forming;
at others it came on quickly. In some cases the pain
was severe; the head dull and heavy; a sleepy dullness
of the eyes; skin dry and husky; tongue fiery red on
the edges; bowels torpid; a tired languid feeling; countenance lurid; great prostration.
"I believe attempts have been made to cure this
state of disease by Alexipharmic sweating means, and
by mercury and opium. This plan often fails, and if it
does succeed, it is after a long, tedious and protracted
illness. The patient gets a black tongue; a black scurf
on the teeth; dilirium  and nervous irritation, and a
train of those symptoms called typhus.
Whither those fevers in the beginning are typhus, is
a question; I believe they are rarely so. I am aware
that in the treatment causes may occur to give them a
protracted form of typhus, which may be prevented by
early removing the compound inflammatory symptmos.
Under the mercurial opiate or Alexipharmic treatment,
the case often runs on two, three, four or five weeks; a
train of aggravated typhoid symptoms succeed, and frequently ends in death.
14




410'         IHOMICEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
"Those cases may be suc-cessfirlly treated by bleedin-g at
first, and this should be followed by evacuating ani
sudorific means.  If there is prostration or seeming
direct debility, the bleeding had better be small at first,
and repeated if necessary, as it freqrenttfy' is; the blood
in this state is dark, -thick and heavy; whereas, in the
advanced state of typhus, it is said to be dark and thin.
In the first -stage the blood runs slow; after bleeding, it becomes more florid, and exhibits sigllls of inflammatory  action; after this abstraction, the pulse
rises, is more full and firm, and then evacuations formn
the bowels, and sudorifics may beneficially be used.  By
this course, the case is cured in from five to seven days,
(and then there are no'typhus symptoms.)' In this plal
of treatment there has been no fatal case.  When remittent fevers have been treated upon those principles,
I -have not had occasion to prescribe for' a typhoid or a
long protracted case."
In: the disease here referred to, there were a great
number of protracted and typhoid cases, and a large
proportion of them  were fatal.'A similar contrast in
the treatment of sutch fevers, and in the results, was observed for many years.
Had the cases been preserved since the time referred
to, which occurred in that county, there would have
been shown many dozens, which were treated by those
different plans, with a similar difference in the result to
that above stated.
In concluding the labors of preparing' this work for the
press, an extract is made from  the address just referred
to, to show the closing scene of life of a distinguished
member of the priofession, who at the time was President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in this
city. The character presented may funrnish an example
worthy of imitation by others.
"It was a peripneumonic attack that terminated the
life of the first President of this'Society, Dr. Samuel
Bard. In passing this event, a short digression, it i
presumed, will be excused, to cherish the memory of




pat-ron and friend.'As a physician, he had an active,
discriminating mind and discerning judgment, well caleulated to detect the intricate and obscure operations of
morbid:action, and to devise means.to effect their reinoval. Those who had an opportunity of meeting him
w.ithin these walls, will readily bring to mind our then
flourishing situation, when we were stimulated by his
example, and edified by his maxims and his addresses.
Although for many years retired from the city and
from active business, he was not withdrawn from profes-:sional usefulness or benevolent purposes. He constantly,
when required, gave counsel to those around him; and
among the poor, sought out cases of sickness and want,
on which to bestow gratuitous services.:His wife, who
was first attacked with the same disease, was his last
patient, and he her last physician   He being soon attacked, was obliged to end his medical labors, and withdraw from her the day before she died-and in his turn
became a patient. During his short illness, he displayed his usual vigor of mind and promptness of decision. He conversed with mne and with his friends, with
calmness, on the nature of his disease and-the approach
of death. During the last trying night he cheerfully
said-' Ah, Sherrill, you are generally pretty lucky,
but y.ou have got your match now.; you won't save me,
More than once he expressed in substance a couplet that
he had used on another occasion:' 0 God! direct my erring mind to things above;
Teach me to place my bliss in faith,.and hope, and love!'
lie dwvelt on the importance of early' subduing arterial
action, and of preventing effusion in the lungs, which
he anticipated would with hin  be the case.  All he
dreaded, he said, was the suffocating distress that that
would give him. In the former opinion his anticipations were realized —in the latter they were not. Although effusion took place, he became calm, and died
in full assurance of receiving a Christian's reward for a
life well spent,''




CATALOGUE OF MEDICINES
Used in Bomceopathie- practice, wlieh have  een proved
on  the  healthy  subkeot, aid  refeired  to in this
werk.
Tech7nical ifnoe~  Abhreviations..   h.s    Names..
1 Aconitum Napellus, Acon.          Monkshood orW'fsbane
2 LAthusa Cynapum,   2Eth.          Garden H-eemlock.
3 Actea Spicata,     Aetea.         Baneberry.
4 Agaricus Muscarius, Agar.         Bug Agari.
& Agnus Castus,      Agnu_          Chaste Tree,
6 Alce Gummi,        Alo-           Aloes.' Alumina,.          Alum.          Pure Clay.
8 Ambra Grisea;       Ambr.         Ambergris.
9. Ammoniumn Carb..   Ammo& C.     Carbonate of Ammonia10 Ammonium  Murias, Ammo. M.    Muriate of Ammonia.
11 Ammonium,          Ammoni..       Gum AmmoniapC
12 Anygdala Amara,  Amag. Amar. Bitter Almond.
13 Anacardiuna,       Anac.          Malacca Bean.
14 Angustura Vera,    Angu.          Bark of Angustura.
15 Anisum Stellaturff.  Anisi.       Anise Seed.
16 Antimonium Crude, Anti. C.        Cru6e Antimony.
I7 Anthrakokali,      Anth. K..      Allthracrite Coal.
18 Aphis,             Aphi.          Honey Bee.
19 Argenturm,         Arg.           Silver.
20 Argentumr Nitricum  Arg. N.       Nitrate of Silver.
21 Arnica Montana,.. Arnic.          Leopard's Bane.
22 Arsenicurm  Albumn. Ars.          Arsenic Ac.
23 Arsenicun  Hydro- Ans. H.         Arsenated Hyrogemn
genisatum,
24 Artemisia Vulgaris, Art.          Mug Wort.
25 Aurur Maculatum, Arum.            Cammon Aurum.
2.6 Asa Foetida,      Asa.           Gun'Resin, Ferulae
27 Asarum Europournm, Asar.         A-saret of Europe,
28 Asparagus,         Aspar.         Asparagus Common.
2,9 Atharnenta,       Athamn         MoQutairn Parsley.




CATALOGUE OF MEDIOINES.               413
TechnicaZ Names.    Abbreviations.     nglZish fame.
30 Aurum Foliatum,   Auru.          Metalic Gold.
31 Aurum Fulminans.  Aru. F.        Fulminating Gold.
32 Aurum Muriaticum, Auru M.        Muriate of Gold.
33 Baryta Carbonicea,   Bar. C.     Carbonate of Barytes.
34 Barryta Muriatica,  Bar. M.      Muriate ofBarytes.
35 Belladonna,        Bell.         Deadly Night Shade.
36 Benzoic Acid,      Ben. Ac.      Flowers of Benzoin.
37 Berberis Vulgaris,   Ber. V.     Barberry.
38 Bismuthum,         Bism.         Nitrate of Bismuth.
39 Borax Veneta.      Bor.           Borax.
40 Rovisti,           Bor.           Puff Ball.
41 B ranca Ursina,    Branc.        Bears Breach.
42 Bromine,           Bromi.        Nitrate of Bromine.
43 Brucea Antidysen- - Bruo.
terica,
44 Bryona Alba,       Bryo.         White Bryona.
45 Caladium Seguinum  Cal.           Aurum.
46 Calcarea Caustica,   Cal. Cau.    Quick Lime.
47 Calcarea Carbonica, Cal. Ca.      Carbonate of Lime.
48 Calcarea Phosphori- Cal. P.       Phosphate of Lime.
ca,
49 Calendula,         Calend.        Marigold.
60 Camphora,          Camp.         Camphor.
51 Cannabis,  Indicus Cann. Ind.    Indian. Hemp of Bengal
Resina,*
52 Cannabis Sativa,    Cann. S.      Hemp Common.
53 Cantharis,         Canth.         Spanish Fly.
54 Capsicum,          Caps.          Cayenne Pepper.
55 Carbo Animalis,    Carb. A.      Animal Charcoal.
56 Carbo Vegetabilis,  Carb. V.      Charcoal.
57 Cascarilla         Casca.         Croton Cascarilla.
58 Castoreum,         Cast.          Castor.
59 Causticum,         Caust,         Caustic.
60 Cedron Seeds,      Ced.           Cotton Seed.
61 Chamomilla,        Cham.          German Chamomile.
* In the New York Medical Journal for 1844, vol. iii page
390, there is an article on Cannibus Indicus, or Indian Hemp of
Bengal. When this is given in a state of health, it produces
a pleasant delirium and intoxication; it causes epilepsy, catalepsy,
chorea, &c. On this account it is named as a remedy for these
diseases. We. have used it in.a number of instances in diseases,
with great benefit. It is hoped some one will furnish a good
pathogonesis of it.




414           CATALOGUE OF MEDICINES.
Technical Names.    Abbreviations.   English Names.
62 Chelidonium,       Chel.          Great Celendile.
63 Chenopodii Glauci,  Chen G.       Oakleaved Goose Foot.
64 China Officinalis,    Chin.      Peruvian Bark.
65 Chininum Sulphuri- Chin. S.      Sulphate of Quinine.
cllm,
66 Chininum   Hydro- Chin Hyd.    Hydrocyanate of Quini
cyanicum,
67 Cicuta Virosa,     Cie.          Water Hemlock.
68 Cina,              Cin.          Mugwort of Judea.
69 Cinnabaris,        Cinn.         Red Sulp. of Mercury.
70 Clnnamomum,        Cinn.         Cinnamon.'1 Cistus Canadensis,   Cist.       Rock Rose.
72 Citricum Acidum,   Citr.         Citric Acid.'3 Coccinella         Cocci.         Cochineal.'14 Cocculus,         Cocc.         Indian Cockel.
75 Cochleara, Armgra. Coch.         Horse Radish.
cia,
76 Coffea Cruda,      Coff.         Raw Coffee.
77 Colchicum,         Colch.         Meadow Saffron.' 8 Colocynthis or Coly- Colyco orColyc Bitter Cucumber.
centhis,'9 Conium Maoulatum, Coni.           Hemlock.
80 Convolvulus,       Conv.         Bind Weed.
81 Copaivse Balsamum, Copab.        Balsam Compavia.
82 Corallium Rubrum, Corol.          Red Coral.
83 Cortex Male,       Cort. I.      Pomegranate.
84 Cotyledon  Umbili- Cotyl.
cus,
85 Crocus Sativus,    Croc.          Saffron.
86 Crotalus,          Crotal.        Rattlesnake' Poison.
87 Cubele,            Cub.           Cubebs.
88 Cuprum,            Cupr.          Copper.
89 Cuprum  Aceticum, Cupr. A4.       Acetate of Copper.
90 Cuprum   Carboni- Cup. C.         Carbonate of Copper.
cum,
91 Cuprum Oxydatum  Cup. O. Ars. Arsenate of Copper.
Arsenicum,
92 Cuprum   Sulphuri- Cup. S.       Sulphate of Copper.
cum,
93 Croton Tiglium,    Crot.         Croton Oil.
94 Cyclamen,          Cycr.         Sow Bread.
95 Daphne Indica,     Daph. I.      Indlan Daphne.
96 Digitalis Puerpera,  Digit.       Fox Glove.
7 Dictamus Albus,    Diet.         Bastard Ditany.
98 Drosea Rotundifolia  Dros.        Sun Dew.
9




CATOLOGUE OF MEDICINES,               415
TechnicalNames.    Abbreviations.   English Names.
99 Dulcamara,       Dulc.          Bitter Sweet.
100 Elaterium,       Elat.          Wild Cucumber.
0o1 Eugenia Iambos,   Eug.          Malabar Plum Tree.
102 Eupatorium Perfo- Eup.          Thoroughwort.
liatum.
103 Euphorbium Offici- Euph.        Spurge.
nalis.
104 Euphrasia,        Euph,         Eye Bright.
105 EvonymusEuropus  Evony.         Spindle Tree.
106 Ferrum,          Ferr.          Aletalic Iron.
107 Ferrum Aceticum, Ferr. Ac.      Acetate of Iron.
108&FerrumCarbonicum  Ferr (Carb.   Carbonate of Iron.
109 Ferrum Iodatum,  Ferr. Iod.     Iodide of Iron.
110 Ferrum  Magneti- Ferr. Mag,    Loadstone.
cum,
1 11 FerrumMuriaticum  Ferr Mur.    Muriate of Iron.
112 Ferrum  Sulphuri- Ferr. S.      Sulphate of Iron.
cum,
113 Filix Mas,        Fila.         Male Fern.
11~4 Fluoric Acid,   Fluo. ac.      Fluoric Acid.
115 Galvanism,        Galv.         Galvanism.
116 Gentiana Cruciata, Gent. C.     Cros-foot Gentian.
117 Gentiana Lutetia,  Gent. L.     Gentian Lutea.
118 Ginseng,          Gins.         Ginseng.
119 Granatum,        Grana.         Bark of Pomegranate.
120 Graphites,        Grap.         Black Leda.
121 Gratiola Officinalis Grat.      Hedge Hysop.
122 Guiacum Officinalis Guiac.      Resin of Guiacum.
123 Guaco,           Guqco.         New Drug, from  Central America.
124 Gum Gutta,        Gtt. G.       Gumboige.
125 Hamamelis,       Witch.         Witch Hazel.
126 Hmmatoxylum,  Hi emat.          Logwood.
127 Helleboros Niger,  Hell.        Christmas Rose.
128 Helianthus,      Heli.          Sunflower Seed.
129 Hepar Sulphuris,   Hep.         Sulphuret of Lime.
130 Hydrocyanic Acid, Hyd. Ac.      Prussic.Acid.
131 Hydrophobin,     Hydro.         The Virus of Canine
Madness.
132 Hyospiamus  Ni- Hyosc.          Black Hellebore.
grum,
133 Hypericum  Perfo- Hyp. Per.     St. Johnsworth.
liatum,
134 Jalapi,          Jala.          Jalap.
135 Jatropha,        Jatr,          Barbadoes Nut.




416           CATALOGUE OF MEDICINES.
Technicel Names.    Abbreviations.   English Namesa
136 Ignatia Amara,    Igna           St Ignatius Bean
137 Imponderabilla Electricity.      Elect.         Electricity.
138 Intropha,         Intr.          Infernal Fig.
139 indigo,           Ind.           Indigo Plant.
140 Iodium,           Toid.          Iodine.
141 Ipecacuanha,      Ipec.          Ipecacuanha.
142 Iris Versicolor,    Iris. V.     Blue Flog.
143 Juncus Effusus,    June.         Flowering Rush.
144 Kali Bichromicum, Kali Bicb      Bichomate of Potash.
145 Kali Bromatum,    Kali. Bro.     Hydro-Bromate of do.
146 Kali Carbonicam,  Kali. C.       Sub-carbonate of do.
147 Kali Chloricum,    Kali. Ch.     Chlorate of Potash.
148 Kali Iodium,      Kali. Iod.     lodide of Potash.
149 Kali Nitricum,    Kali Nit.      Nitrate of' Potash.
150 Kalmia Latifolia,   Kalm. Lat.    Mountain Laurel.
151 Kreasctum,        Kreoso.        Kreasote.
152 Kausso,           Kuss.          Brayera Anthelmintia*
153 Lachesis,         Lach.          Lechesis,poisonofserp't
154 Lactuca Virosa,    Lact. r.      Strong Scented Lettuce
155 Lamium Album,   Lami. A.         Dead Nettle.
156 Laurocerasus,     Lauro.         Cherry Laurel.
157 Ledum Palustre,   Led.           March Tea.
158 Lobelia Cardinalis, Lob. C.      Scarlet Lobelia.
159 Lobelia Inflata,    Lob. I.      Indian Tobacco.
160 Lupulus,          Lup.           Common Hop.
161 Lycopodium,       Lye.           Wolfsfoot.
i62 Magnesia  Carbo- Mag. C.         Carbonate of Magnesia
nica,
163 MagnesiaMuriatica  Mag. M.       Muriate of Magnesia.
164 Magnesia Sulphu- Mag. S.         Sulphate of Magnesia.
rica,
165 Manganum   Oxy- Mangan.          Manganese.
dum,
166 Menyanthes,       Meny.          Buck Bean;
167 Mephitis,         Meph.          The Skunk Fetor.
168 Mecurialis Peren- Mere.          Dog Mercury.
niis,169 Mercurius Murias, Mere. M.       Corrosive Sublimate.
170 Mercurius Solubus Mere. S.       Merc.Solu. Hahnemann
171 lMercurius Iodatus, Mere. Iod.   Protoide of Mercury.
172 Mercurius Vivus,  Mere. Viv.    Quicksilver.
173 MercuriusAceticus  Mere. Acet.   Acetate of. Mercury.
* See North American Homceopathic Journal, vol. i. p. 116.




CATALOGUE OF MEDIOINESS 4i1
Technical Names.    Abbreviations.    Eng&ish-Kames.
174 Mercurius Precipi- Mere. Precep. Red Precipitate of Metatus,                             cury.
175 Mercurius D-ulcis,  Merc. Dul    CalomeL
176 Mezereon Daphne, Mezer.'.        Mezereon.
177 Millefolium,      Mill.          Millefoil Yarrow.
178 Moschus,          Mosch.         Musk.
179 Muriatic Acidam,   Muri.ac.      Muriatic Acid.
180 Murex Purpura,    Mur. Pur.      Purple Shell Fish.
181 Narcissus,        Narse.         Narcissus.
182 Natrum0arbonic.   Natr. C.       Sub Carbon&e of Soda,
184 Natrum Muriati-,cum,.        Natr. M.     Muriate of Soda.
185 Natrumn Nitricum, Nat. N.        Nitrate of Soda.
186 Natrum  Sulphuri- Natr. S.       Sulphate of Soda.
cum,.
187 Niccolum,         Niec.          Nickle,
188 Nitric Acid,      Natr. ac.      Nitric Acid.
189 Nitricum,         Nitr.          Nitrate. of Potash.
190 Nitri Spiritis Dulic  Nitr. Sp.  Nitrous.Ether.
191 Nux Juglans,      Nux Jug.       European Walnut.
192 Nux Moschata.    Nux M.          Nutmeg.,
193 Nux Vomica,       Nux V.         Nux Vom. Poison Nut.
194 Oleander,         Oleand.        Laurel Rose.
195 Oleum Animale,    01 A.        Oil Animale of Dippelii
196 Oniscus Asellus,   Onis.         Woodlouse.
197 Opium,            Opi.           White Poppy Juice.
198 Opium Morphinum  Morp!.          Morphine.
199 OriganumVulgare, Orig. V.        Origanum.
200 Ortheotoxicon,    Ortheotox.    Serpent Poison.
201 Oxalic Acidum,    di. Ac.        Oxalic Acid.
202 Pceonia,          Paeon.         Peony.
203 Paris Quadrifolia,  Par. Q.      True Love.
204 Petroleum,        Petrol         Stone Oilf Naptha.
205 Petroseliium,     Petros.        Parsley.,
206 Phellandrium,     Phell.         Water Fennel
2017 Phosphorus,      Phos.          Phosphorusa
208 Phosphoric Acid,  Phos. ac.      Phosphoric Acid.
209 Phytollaca   Decandria,          Phyt. D.       Poke.Weed.
210 Pimpinella,       Pimp.          Pimpernel.
231 Pinus,            Pin.           Pine Tree.
212 Plumbum,          Plumb.         Lead.
213 Plumbum  Aceticum,              Plumb. Ac.    Acetate of Lead.
*8..




418          CATALOGUE OF MEDICINES.
Technical Names.    Abbqeviations.    English  ramtcm.
214 Podopyhllum Pel- Podoph.       Hog Apple or Marntatum,                             drake.
215 Pothos Feetidus,   Poth. Fet.   Ictodes Faetid.
216 Prunus Spinosa,   Prun. Sp.    Sloe Tree.
217 Pulsatilla,      Puls.         Pasque- Flowern
218 Rananculus [Bul- Ran. B.       Bulb. Rootof Crowfoot
bosus,
219 Ranunculus Scele- Ran. S   -.   Marsh Crowfoot.
ratus
220 Raphanus Sativus, Raph.        Horse Radish.
221 Ratanhia,        Rat.          Ratany Root.
222 RicinusCommunis  Rici. C.      Castor Oil Plant.
223 Rhabarbarum,     Rhab.         Rhubarb.
224 Rhododendron,    Rhod.         Yellow Rhododendron.
225 Rhus or Rus Radi- Rhus. R.     Ivy Vine.
2 c.ans.
226 Rhus or RusToxi- Rhus. T.      Poison Sumae.
codendren.:
227 Rhus, or Rus Vernix,Rhus. V.   Varnish Tree.
228 Ruta Graveolens,  Ruta G.      Garden Rue.
229 Sabadilla,       Sabad.        Alder -Buckthorn.
230 Sabina.          Sabi.         Savin Shrub.
231 Sambucus Nigra.  Samb. N.      Elder Shrub.
232 Sanguinaria Cana- Sang. C.     Blood Root.
densis,
233 Sapo Domesticus.  Sapo.        Soap Common.
234 Sassaparilla,    Sass.         Sassaparilla.
235 Secale Cornutum,  Sec. C.      Ergot False Rye.
236 Selenium,        Selen.        Selenium.
237 Senega,  Seneg.                Rattlesnake Root.
236 Senna,           Senn.         Senna.
239 Sepia Succus,    Sep.          Scuttle Fish Juice.
240 Silicea,         Sil.          Silica.
241 Solanum Nigrum,  Sol. Nig.     Garden Night Shade.
242 Spigelia,        Spig.         lndian Pink.
243 Spongia,         Spong.        Sponge Burnt.
244 Scilla Maritima,   Scill.      Sea Onion.
245 Stannum,         Stann.        Tin.
246 Staphysagria,    Staph.
241 Stramonium,      Stram.        Thorn Apple.
248 Strontiana,      Stron.        Strontiana.
250 Sulphur,         Sulp.         Brimstone.
251 Sulphuric Acid,    Sulp. A.    Sulphuric Acid.
252 Tabacum,         Tabac.        Tobacco.
253 Tancetum,        Tanac.        Tansy Common.




CATALOGUE OF MEDICINES.               419
Technical Names.   Abbreviations.    English Names.
254 Taraxacum,        Tarax.        Dandelion.
255 Tartarus  Emeti- Tart, E.       Tartrite of Antimony.
cum,
256 Taxus Bacata,     Tax.          Yew Tree.
257 Terebinthina,     Tereb.        Turpentine.
258 Teucrium,         Teucr.        Wall Germander.
259 Thea Sinensis,    Thea.         Imperial Tea.
260 Theridion         Ther.         Theridon of Curacoa.
261 ThuyaorThuja Occi Thuy.         The Tree of Life.
262 Tongo,            Tong.         Tongo Bean.
663 Triosteum,        Troist.       Horse Ginseng.
264 Triongo,          Triong.        Tonquin Bean.
265 Urtica Urens.     Urt.          Stinging Nettle.266 Uva Ursa,         Uva.          Bear Whortleberry.
267 Vaccina,          Vacc.         Kine Pock Infection.
268 Yaleriana,        Vale.         Valerian.
269 Variolin,*        Vario.        Small Pox Infection.
270 Veratum Alba.    Verat.         White,Hellibore.
271 Verbascum,        Verb.         Yellow Mullen.
272 Vipepi Redi.      Vip. R.       Italian Viper.
273 Vinca Minor.      Vinc.         Perriwinkle.
274 Viper Torva,      Vip. F.       German Viper.
275 Viola Odorato,    Viol. O.      Sweet Violet.
276 Viola Tricolor    Viol. T.      Heart's Ease.
277 Zincum,           Zinc.         Zinc Metalic.
278 Zincum  Sulphuri- Zin.          Sulphate of Zinc.
cum,
279 Zincum Oxidum,   Zin. O.        Oxide of Zinc
280 Zinziber          Zin.          Ginger.
* Variolin is the specific virus of small.pox. It- is contained
in the lymph of the pustules,:and probably exhaled from the
person while affected with it. To obtain it for use, take one
drop of lympli from a pustule when at maturity; put this to 99
grs. of sugar of milk, triturate it an hour; this forms the first
turitration. _1 gr. of this added to 99 grs. of sugar of milk, and
triturated an hour, forms the second trituration, and in this
manner any higher grade or attenuation may be obtained.
NoTE.-The names of several medicines are spelled differently.
ina different works; and in some Homceopathic works they vary
from what they are in some Allopathic books. In this. work
there are a few words spelled somewhat differently-both ways
have good authority. On page 137, first- line,- for fornication
retad formication; and'on page 352, line 25, for grr. read gr. 1.




NO:T/ICES OF THE PRESS.
Notices of the Press and from  individuals, of the
Author's works on Epidemic Cholera, and on this
Treatise.
Dr. J.:W. Francis, of New-York, observes —''I
have read with care Dr. Sherrill's Essay. The general
principles -which it sustains is in conformity with numerous facts, which observers must have noticed during
the prevalence of cholera (of 1832.)' His-views are
-good, and the collateral illustrations are in. point."
The former edition of this Repertory received from
the President and Vice President of the New-York
Homceopathic ISociety this recommendation:-" We
having examined the manuscript, are of opinion that
the Manual Repertory, by Dr. Sherrill, will be a usefulg and valuable work, and cheerfully recommend it
to the patronage of the profession and the public."
The author's Essay:on Cholera of 1849, was thus
noticed by the Press:[From the Merohant's Day Book of October, 1849.]'"In his Essay, Dr. Sherrill- attempts to'prove that
Cholera  is-ls t, An inflamrnmat6ry  and  congestive
affection; 2d, That stimulating and alcoholic preparations are improper and injurious remedies; 3d, That




NOTICES.                  421
moderate bleeding is useful and efficacious: 4th, That
by this mode of treatment the fatal cases have not exceeded two per cent. The points assumed are supported by a great number of authorities and statistical
statements.
[From the Weekly Review, New-York, Jan. 9, 1849.]
"A  very  important agent, recommended  in Dr.
Sherrill's Essay,^and bmought into use-one directly
supporting life, is oxygen air for patients to breathe
while in a'state of collapse, which'is the best remedy
that can be used3' It seems that attention was called
to this remedy by the same writer during the cholera,of 1832.
"By applying these doctrines and maxims -to the
treatment of this epidemic, it appears a method has
been adopted, which has uniformly been successfulso much so that in a large number of cases in which
no remedies were used, only such as are recommended
in this Essay, less than three per cent. were fatal.
"On account of these statements and favorable results, this Essay is worthy of particular attention and
careful perusal.  Should this epidemic appear here
again, as it undoubtedly will, this discovery may be a
means of disarming it of its malignity and its terror.
"It is argued that the disease is inherently of an inflammatory or congestive nature, and that stimulating
acrid drugs and a free use of opium, in- the early stage,
are injurious, and likely to render the case fatal."
Opinions of numerous authors and statistics are furnished to sustain the opinions and statements given.
It is urged that moderate bleeding in many cases is
necessary, but by the use of the other remedies recomrnended,'a great majority of the cases may beg cured
without it.  According to those statements.and favorable results, this Essay will be of great importance to
the community. The simple method of treatment and




422                    NOTICES.
successful results shows it to be one of the best that
has been laid before the public."
[From the New York Tribune, May 28, 1852.]
"CHOLERA AND ALCOHOL.-There is a very strong
propensity among the people generally to resort to ardent spirits and other stimulating remedies for the
cure of the cholera.  Those who are attacked, drink
bad brandy to cure the disease, and those who are not,
drink the same poison to' to keep it of.' The prevalence
of the Cholera at the South and Southwest, and the
possibility of its approach to this city, have induced Dr.
H. Sherrill to issue a second edition of a pamphlet essay,
entitled'A Temperance Method of Treating Epidemic
Cholera.' The essay points out the injurious effects
and fatal consequences of alcoholic mixtures in the
treatment of Cholera, and suggests a comprehensive
mode of treatment, in which all stimulating articles are
proscribed.  The opinions set forth in the essay are
fortified by numerous citations from celebrated authors
and by the exhibition of pertinent statistics.  For instance, a large number of cases of Cholera which
came under the care of Dr. S. during its prevalence in
1849, and in the treatment of which no alcohol or
strong  stimulant was used, not over two per cent.
proved fatal."
[From the Organ, June 15, 1852.]
"The Essay points out the injurious effects and fatal
consequences of alcoholic -mixtures in the treatment of
Cholera, and suggests a comprehensive -mode of treatment, in which all stimulating articles are proscribed.
The opinions set forth in the Essay - are fortified by
numerous citations from celebrated authors, and by the
exhibition of pertinent statistics.  For instance, it is
said that- of the many cases of Cholera which came
under the care of Dr. Sherrill, during its prevalence in




NOTICES.                   423
1849,  and in the treatment of which no alcohol or
strong stimulant was used, less than three per cent.
proved fatal."
The Philadelphia Medical Journal gives a flattering
review of the treatise on the Cholera of 1832.
The London Medical Journal, in alludiolg to it and
the principles and practice, states that " they are among
the best that have been proposect."
The Boston Medical Journi al, gave an approving and
flattering notice of ibhis treatise.
Dr. Barnes, President of the Yates County Medical
Society, states -"The Essay of Dr. Sherrill, on Cholera is the first thing I have seen which is satisfactory
in explaining the nature of the disease and nmode of
t-rea;tment."
Dr. Vail, of Kentucky, observes, " With Dr. Sherrill,
I eonsider the cholera a cobigestive disease.  I found
the general method of treatment he recommends very
successful on the Ohio river."
"We have examined the manuscript of the Repertory and Practice of HIoomeiopathly, composed and prepared by Dr. Sherrill.  Tlhe arrangement is very good,
and is an improvement on others of thne kind.
"It will make a convenient and useful book for
ready reference for the profession and for domestic use.
We should be gratified to have it in print.
SAMUEL B. BARLOW, M. ).
M. FRELmIG, M. D,
EDWARD V. BROWN, M. D.
HANNAH COOK, M. D.
C. C. KIER1STED, M. D.
CHRISTOPIER I4 LERSTED, M. D.
HENRY S. FIRTH, M. J).




RULES FOR PRESCRIBING,
IN A)DTfTON TO TIHE DIRECTIONS ON P)AGES 10 AND 19.
The quianltity  ld manner of giving doses is so much
allke in the various diseases, that generally  the medicine
proper in thle case is named, and not the exact dose, for
genertl! irules 1ar' i'aid down for tih quantity of the doses,
and time of  -ino' hem, land llithen this is left very much
to the opinion1s andi epe'rience of those who prescribe,
aided b 3y general diect ion.
Ifhe thi etiturated powdersll-i re u sed, half (T) to a grain
imay be given, and the dose repeated in an hour, or in
3, 6 or 8 hours, or at longer peliods, according to the
tnature of thle cas.  Severe eoses r equire doses oftener
than milder ones-or 2 or 3 grains of the powder may
be put into a half gill of water,  and a tea spoonful of
this given, in the salmle way as above mentioned.
If the liquids (dilutions) are used, put 8 to 10 drops
into a half gill of wacelr, and give a tea spoonful of this,
in an hour or two, or at longer or shorter periods, according to the nlature of the case.
In  cases of severe, Croupr, Epidemic Cholera, or
Spasms, at first, the doses ought to be repeated every
teni mlnutes, and. then afterliward at longer intervals.
if the pellets are chosen, 2 or 3 m1lay be given at a
time; or 8 or 10 may be put into a half gill of water,
antd a tea spoonful given at a time, repeating as pointed.
out in thle previous directions.
The strength or attenuation of the medicine to be
used, varies according to the opinion or filncy of the
precriber, in this they use from  the first attenuation to
the thirtieth ald highler, the higher the grade or number
the less medicine is contained in it; all those who use
different attenuations, claim  to be successful.  The nature of the case temperament, and peculiariti s of the
patient ought to have anl influence in selecting the
grades and attenuations of the medicines.




INDEX.
Page                           Page
Abdomen, numerous affections, Appetite andc Tasto            39
some of which are: —      Variety of those affections
"  Burning in             23                      39, 40, 41
Colic                  23 Ap-lc:ta               374, 41
L"   "  LLead             23 Asphyxia.apparent doeath    41
"  Crampsin               23  "  Drowning  firom          43
"4 Distension of          24       Freezing               43
I"  Flatulence            24       H Tanging'         42
"  Ganlgrene              25' FIluncoer               41
"  Inflammation           25   "  Lightning  43' Live Animal, Sensation       "  MeIanical        o j suies    42
of, in                  26 Asthma                       44
"  Liver                  26   "  Millar of              377'  Rumbling               26 Atrophy                     354
"  Trembling              26
Abortion                    362 Back                         48
Abscess                      27     S Va::iou's'ctR.t tion-, cf it,
of Breasets           368'ard the remedies, see' Chronic                 28            48 49 50 51. 52 5 3
of Lungs               28 Baldness                    201;  Lymphatics             28 BIadder                      53
Psoas                  28   "  its aff'ctilonL.nmd rome"' ofthe Stomach          2831     dies             53 to 56
Administration of doseos425 10 19iBoil                       56
AgUe                         28 Bones                        57
Amagdalitis                  29{ "  Caries                   67
Aneurism                     291Brain                        57
Angina Quinsey'30!      Concussion of the      58
Cold, common           30!'  Congestion of the       57
Croup membrana          11"  Dropsy of           390 113
Gangrena               3l  "  Inflamation of    57 142
Larynx of              31 Breath Foetid                58
" Pectoris               33 Bronchitis                   58
"  Syphilitica            34'Bronchocele                  60
"  Tonsilitis of the      31 Burns and Scalds             60
Anthrax                      621
Aphonia                 21.9, 341Cachexia                    61
Apoplexy, the various k]irnd; 3.4'Canine Madness            220




426                       INDEX.
Page                          Page
Carbuncle                   62 Colic Spasmodic             94Cancer                      62 Clap                       190
of the Breast         64 Cold, common            38, 94
"  Chimney Sweeps         64 Coma                        95
I'  of tle Lips          64!Congestion                  88
" of the Stomach         64 Consciousness, loss of      88
" of the Uterus or Ulcera-  Constipation                 88
tion of           359 64 Costiveness, various kinds, and
Cardialgia             228 66    remedies for them  96 to 99
Catarrih —Coyza        31 2'0 Consumption                 100
Caries and.Necrosis        67 Convulsions       305 362 380
Chaps and Cracks            68 Corde                  102 184
Chest and Respiratory Organs 68 Corns                     102
"Bloody Expectoration 69 Coup de Soleil             273' Breathing irregular    69 Cornea see Eye              142
"  Congestion of          69 Cutaneous diseases, see
Inflammation of       69      Hlerpes and Skin  217 293
"  Lungs Gangrened        70 Cough                      102
"  Oppression of          70     A great variety and con"  Pleurodynia            70     ditions of and remedies 103' Rattling in            70                    104 and 105
Respiration hurried    11   "  Hooping              105
i SpasImsin              71 Coxalgia, pain in hip  107 104' Striture of            11 Croup, see Angina            31
"  Tremor of             71
Ulcers in             71 Debility                   108
"  Weakness and several   Delerium                     108
other varieties       I1   "  in Fever          155 174
Clhicken Pox               340   "  Tremens               109
Chilblains                 72 Division and arrangement of
Cholera Simple              72     the matter              50
"  Morbus                72 Diabetes, see bladder        53
"  Epidemic          73 429 Diarrhcea, symptoms. and reTreatment of      433 75     medis for        111 & 112
"  Cases Cured       87 436 Diseases, Chronic          112
"  Prevention of         81   "  different modes of treat-' Statistics, 87, 403, and 405    ment                 392
to 408 434 Dreams and Wakefulness  392
Colic                       93 Dropsy                     113
Flatulent            93'  of the Abdomen        115
i  aemorrhoidal       93   "  of the Brain          114:' Hepatic               94: of the Chest           114
"' Menstrual         352 94  "  of the Scrotum         11.6
"  Nephritic             94 "   of the Womb             117
i  Saturnia (Lead)    23 94-Drunkenness                11i




INDE,.                           427
Pace                            Page
Dysentery                   119'Fits, Convulsions  305 310 380
Dyspnea                     121iFlatulence             26  178
Dyspepsia                   121[Frozen Feet        1.9  72  43'Fungus               336  119
Ear, various diseases of the 123i  "  Hamatoides      179  333
and the remedies 123 to 126 Ganglion                      179
Emotions, mental            127 Gan grene & Mortication 336180
Various affections of Exmcite-  iGastralgia               181
ment and nervous irrita-  G-astritis               237 181
tions           127 to 131 Gastros es                  181
Epilepsy                    310 Genitals                    181;
Epidemics, mode of treatment  i   Various affections of
390 4291       them, and remedies
Eructations                 131i                    181 to 188
Erysipelas                  132 G-innds                     188
Extremities, various affecltions  "  Enlarged               188
of them        1334 to 1421  "  Enlarged Prostrate   189
Eyes, various affections of and     "  Inflamed             189
their remedies 142 to 1481' "  Scirrhous              189
"  Tonsils enlarged      189
Face, various affections        Goitroe                     189
of and the remedies 149 to 152 Genorrhcea                 190
iFelon or Whitlow           152'Glect                       191
Fever                       153,Gum Boil                    192
Catarrhal             154!Gout, Arthritis             192
Coma in            95 1551
Delerium             155 IHaemorrh age bleeding      194
Gastric               156' from the Anus 1_98 191
Hectic                159   "  from the Lungs         194
Intermittent          160' fromn the jNose   270 195
"  Nervous               160   "  from  the Stomach    196' Plague                 1 66   "from the Uterus w omb) 354
Puerperal        O37I2 163 H'l-inorrhoids Piles       1971
Pulse in              15    "  Bleeding               197
"  Raphana Typhoides  164   "  Cancer Warts              1.91
"  Remittent             156   "  contracted Anus        1.97
"  Scarlet               165' Fissure Anus            197'  Ship                  168   "  Prolapsus Anus         199
" Typhus         409 168   "  Tumors and Varices   200'  Abdominalis    17.        Ulcers in              200
"  Cerebralis     17 5 Hair Falling out           201
"  Yellow                115 Headache, a great variety of 201
Fistula                     1715   " and remedies [for 201 to- 206
"  in Ano                176 Ileart                      207
operation for   177   "  Cramps of              209




428:INDEX.
Page                         Page
Heart Dropsy of            209 1:asciviousness            249
"  iypertrophy of    209 Iangour or Tired          249'  Inflammation of      208 Leprosy                    249
5' Nervous Irritation of 2091 Lethargy              95 250
"  Palpitation of       209 Liver diseases             240
B" Burn Cardialgia  66 281   "  Jaundice                252
Hernia Rupture             210 Lice, [Body                252
"  Strangulated         211
"  Operation for        213 Madness                    247
Herpes Affections of the       Mania & Alienation of the
skin         217 218 21.9      mind'                 253
Hiccough                  219 Marasmius, Atrophia   354 254
YHoarseness            34 219 Measles                     255
Hydrophobia                220 Melancholia               256
Hypocondria                222 Mental Emotions            127
Hysteria              223 312 lMind and Memory            258
Impotence             181 224 MO.ercury, diseases from    259
Inflammation               224 M'ortifieation  336        180
" Brain of the      242 224 Mlfouth, diseases of       262
"  Bladder ofthe     54 228   Various affections of 262 263'  Bowels of the        229                            264
K' _Kidneys of the   2a1 Morbus, Niger              265
L' Liver of the         232
"  Lungs of the         2331Nausea and Voniting        266
Peritoneum of lhe    234 Neuralgia              305 267
"  Pleura of the        235 Neck, Stiff                 268
Psoas Muscles of the 236  "  Wry                    269
Spieen of the        237 Nigh t Mare                269;' Testicles of the     239' Sweating                270'; Tongue ofthe         241 Nose, aZious affections of 270
U" Uterus of the    163 372      and remedies   270 to 273
"  Puerperal Fever      163
Injuries. mechanical       241 Oedema                     273
"  of the brain         242 Onanism                     182
"  operation of Trepaning 243 Ostoitis              51 273
"  Sprains              242 Over heating, Coup de Soleil 273
Influenza Grippe           245 hOzena                     271
Itching                    246
Jaws and Gurns             246 Pain of various parts 274 275
276
Jaundice                   252 Painters' Colic             23
Jealousey and Madness    2417 Paate
Joints diseases of         247 PI                         27G
Joints, diseases of  247 Palsey of various parts 277 to 279
Kidneys                    247 iPamphigus                 280
"  Bright's disease     248'Paraphymosis                185




ImDEX.                         429
Page                            Page
Phimosis                    I85 Stings of bees and insects   315
Priapism                    186 Stomach                     315
Plica Polonica              280      various affections of 316
Piles, -lamrnorrhoids       197                         317 318
Potence or dose      425 10 19 Stupor                       318
Prescribino,         10 19 4125 Sweating                    319
Puerpera Rubra              280 Syphilis                    321
Py rosis                6c6 281   "  Bubo                   323
"  Lues Venerea           325
Ql-insey                     30   "  Sycosis                327
Rheumatism, inflammatory  281
(T Chronic            283 I'abes Mesenterica     254 321
L;umbago                2841 roeet                       32
"  Sciatica              288 IThoatt and Fauces   328 to 331
Rickets                     28-; Thrush    41.              374
Ring Worm                   286 l'ic Doloreaux              267
R.isus Sardonicus           286 Tinea Capitis               287
Rupture, Hernia             2i( Tremor or Trembling         331'ti rnors                   332
Salt Rheum                  287   "  of the bonys           332
Scald H-cad                 287   "  Enceysted              3:32
Scirrllus          187 333 287   "  fungus Haematoides 333
Sciatica                    288   "  Inflammatory           333
Scalp                       289   "  of the joints          333
Scrofula                    290   i  knee                   332
Scurvy                      292;' of the lymphatics    333
Sea sickness                292 "t Scirrhlus                333
Skin, diseases of the       293 Toe nail incurvated         334
221 228 229 294 2951
Sleep and Wakefulness       296 Ulcers
Various afections of 297          variety of them and the
298 to 300     remedies        335 to 338
S!nmall Pox                 298 Vaccination                 338;' Variolin Antidote  298 Varicella, chicken pox       340
Sore Throat          39    328 Varioloid                    340
Spasms                      305 Vertigo                204- 342
"  Cata!epey             307 Viper bites                 344
"Coresa Sancta Vita    3091Voice, loss of                 34::Eclamsia             31 0 Warts                      344
"  Epilepsia             310 White swelling          332 344'  Hysteria        223  312KWorms, Ascarides             344
"  Speech and Jaws    313'"  Lumbrici                  345' Stomach" 313[ "' Tape                                  345
~' Tetanus               313 Wounds                      346
Stammering                  314 Wry Neck               269.34




430                       INDEX.
Page                          Page
FEi'ALE  BI$ESEES,, S  EAES  iO FFArTS.
Mfenstruation              341,cid stomach               37t,Clorosis                  348 Apthea thrush.             374:
Amenorrhoea, suppression of  Asphyxia                     375
the MIenses        349 Asthma                     376
Uttrus, diseases of        351      of Milier             377
Dysmenorrhoea or               IChafing.                378
Menstrual Colic    Clhol           erai niantul     o      78
1 taemorrhage or              iColie               23O 93 379
letrorrhagia               354 Corvza cata.rrh       271 380
Leucorrhoea                356 Convulsions      305 352 380
Nymphomania                3570'ostiveness            95 381
Ovaria Inflamed            3574 Croup                 31 381
Prolapsus Uteri            357 Crying                     382
Pudendum or Labia          3581Fever Remittent            382
Sexual embrace             359 Itchlinc     218           383
&Scirrhous or cancer       350 Lungs Infamed             384
PREGNA.C c CY          Xiiary Eruptions           384
disease of    361 36i2 363 Neva Materni             384:
Abortion                   36g,0pthalmia.                -385
Convulsions in             362iRattling, Ioarseness  21.9 385
-Costiveness                363 Red Gum                   385
Diarrhoea                  363 iegurgitation of milkl     385
Dyspepsia                  363fRickets                    385
Spasms                    3631Sleeplessness              385
Accouchmulent              363rTeeth and Gumis       327 385
Treatment after delivery    366 Tabes                254 386
Flooding                   366 Urine, suppression     54 387
Lochia                     3671 "  excessive          55 386
iMilk                      367 Wetting   the bed          387
to increase           368 Worms                  34i  387
Inflamed Breasts           368 Colds and Snuffling    272 387
Indurated  "               369 Regurgitation              388
Nipples sore               370 Milk Crust                 388
Phiegmasia Dolens          370,Jaundice              352 388
Pains afier                371!Erysipelas             132 388
Puerperal Fever      163  3721.Lock Jaw              313 389
iRed Spots            294 390
Teething                   390
i ydrophalus,             390




ESSAY ON' CHOLERA.
TEIE Homceopathic Society of Medicine which
holds its sittings in the city of New York, established a rule some time since, requiring its members, at the regular meetings to furnish one or
more cases of disease, with the method of treatment, whether successful or otherwise, or a short
essay on a medical subject. The author furnished
some remarks and'a case which has since formed the
basis of this essay, but which have been materially
enlarged and improved as they appear here. At a
period of the profession in which each Physician
is expected to do his part, the writer is unwilling
to apologise or to give any reason why this essay
is published as an appendix, but will venture to
say, that as the highest duty of the Physician
should be to cure the sick-in the discharge of
his duty, he has added the following humble effort, hoping that his professional brethren may be
edified and that the lay reader will find that diseases which are sometimes supposed to be incurable, may be successfully treated.
I deem it proper to precede the cases which I
am about to present with some preliminary observationsIt is now a long series of years that I have been
engaged inL investigating the nature of the diseases
which affect the human body and in endeavoring




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to ascertain and devise means by which they best
night be cured. During this period of time, at
eight different seasons, I have met with violent,
malignant, epidemic diseases, which spread extensively over the country, affecting great numbers of persons; which diseases I have been
pretty extensively engaged in treating.
In making a detail of the names of some of them,
the following diseases may be enumerated:- In the years 1812 and 1813 and some of the
succeeding seasons, an  epidemic spread very
extensively  over the  eastern states, and the
state of Neew York. It extended to, the west
and south; it was termed Spotted Fever, Bilious
Pleurisy,, Winter Fever, rTyphoid Pneumonia,
Acute Inflammatory Disease, Congestive Fever,
Congestion of the Lungs, &c. See page 397.
In 1825 the Puerperal or Child Bed Fever in
an epidemic form spread extensively in many of
the counties along the banks of the:Hudson
I[iver. It was more general in attacking almost
every female who passed through the process of
child bearing, than it had been at any other period in Lhe present century: the disease was fiequently very violent, and in some districts extremely fatal; in, others, the fatal cases were very
rare; this result depended much on the method
of treatment.
In 1826 the Dysentery appeared and spread in
the same counties and in various districts along
the Hudson River, more generally and severely
than it had at any other season within the knowledge of the writer.  In some sections a: large
number of cases were fatal, the cases frequently
l'esenting highly  inflammatory or congestive
symptoms.  Some accountJ of those diseases and




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the plan of treatment which proved most successfuel, are detailed in my work on the epidemics
of those seasons.
To that account of the Dysentery belong the
following remarks': ": I. violent cases the symptoms assumed an aspect of severity. The pulse
was sometimes firm and tense, but generally small,
soft and compressible; this kind of pulse attends
congestion of the abdomen, (and other parts).
Blood-letting was attended by the most happy
results. The quantity drawn was governed by the
effects produced."  During the prevalence of the
disease, which was about three months, under the
treatment detailed in those sketches there were
three deaths, about equal to four per cent. of the
number attended.
The epidemic Cholera appeared and spread
over the country inll 1832, 1834, 1849 and 1854.
The history and pathology of the Cholera of 1832,
which I composed and published has been alluded
to in the remarks on that disease in the body
of this work and some of the results mentioned.
In each of those epidemics I took notes and
memoranda, which were published and extensively circulated. In each instance the results of my
investigations and observations led me to pursue
a method of treatment different from that generally adopted by my cotemporaries.
There was a great diversity of opinion as to
the mode of treatment and in many instances
there seemed to be no particular plan or system
of management pursued, but rather a haphazard
experimental use of remedies, as the histories of
them and some statistics in the sketches show.
In all the, instances mentioned, by the use of
the treatment recommended in those notes and




memoranda, the cases almost uniformly yielded
and the patients recovered.
In all these epidemical diseases, there was a
similarity in some respects; in the early stage of
the case an important feature of a pathological
nature presented itself, each case exhibited symptoms more or less of a compound inflammatory,
or a congestive condition of the system, and in
many instances, of an aggravated state of inflammation. The cases were freqluently attended with
violent pain, great depression and obstruction to
the circulation of the blood, difficulty of breathing, a dingy, lurid countenance, and small flaccid
pulse, and it was discovered that those symptoms
indicated an inherent inflammatory or congestive
state of the system. Such a condition frequently
induced practitioners in adopting a method of
treatment of the epidemic of 1812 in the first
stage of the case to resort to the use of exciting
agents, or to opiates freely used, mercurials and
heating sudorifics to quiet pain and to resist
or counteract a tendency to debility or to a
typhoid, gangrenous state, without reflecting or
appearing to know, that in such a condition of
disease those medical agents have a strong tendency particularly when used in the early stage
of the case, to aggravate or produce that state of
disease, and in such states, may, and often have,
hastened the fatal termination of the case. In
many respects, in some localities a similar course
of treatment was pursued in the Child Bed Fever,
and in Dysentery.
Unfortunately for the community, similar opinions have been embraced in relation to Epidemic
Cholera, and a mode of treatment, corresponding
with such opinions, has been pursued. In a great




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portion of the treatment, as it has been reported,
there appears to have been a want of system, and
no general governing indications of cure, and in
many respects, a retrograde action in improvement has taken place. For in 1854, according to
reports made, there were introduced into practice
increased quantities of cayenne pepper, mercury
in ponderous doses, spices, hot drops, powerful
astringents and alcoholic libations, to which was
added a new method of curing by steanm-a new
application of steam to remove disease and force
on the powers of life.
Pause, gentle reader, and reflect on the dangerous effects of pouring such drugs in large
quantities into a stomach, the inner surface of
which is in a state of inflammation or a high
degree of irritability.
According to statements and reports made,
where this kind of treatment has been used, one
half and more of the patients were dead! dead!
[See Appendix A.]
The histories of these diseases, and the result
of treatment, show that the use of remedies best
adapted to cure compound inflammation or congestion and to quiet irritation, in the early stage
of the case, has in practice proved the most successful in the treatment of EPIDEMI CHOLER.A.
In reference to this matter there is presented
a forcible argument in favour of iomceopathic
practice.  For in this mode of treatment, if
the remedies used do not happen to be most
suitable to arrest the disease and effect a cure,
they are not likely materially to aggravate the
disease and hasten a fatal termination of the case,
as large quantities of improper drugs erroneously
given may do and have often done!




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The peculiar symptoms presented to an intelligent Homoceopathic practitioner will indicate the
rellmedy and practice most proper and advisable
to pursue. There is however a remedial agent
which sometimes has been used with decided
benefit in Allopathic treatment and  which may
be used with marked advantage in some conditions
of disease combined with tlomceopathic medicine,
I allude to BLOOD-LETTING. In some states of disease
this agent is claimed to be Homnceopathic, the state
of disease and the manner of using it is pointed
out in another place in this book, in the article on
congestion and in the chapter on Epidemic Cholera, and permit me here to state that I have not
in any instance of a diseased condition of the
human body observed that blood letting has had
the effect to control disease and to check its progress so soon, so sure and so immediately as it
does in Epidemic Cholera, as the cases here detailedj selected from a great number, show.
It is, however, to be understood, that there are
but a small proportion of cases according to my
experience of Cholera for which bleeding will be
required, provided Aconite and Camphor be used
with the other remedies as recommended in the
article on Cholera in the work heretofore alluded
to, at page 74, et sequor; also in the cases connected with this essay. In instances of great depression, when there is a lack of circulation of the
blood in the early stage of the case, and the symptoms are of a doubtful nature, or there may be
doubts about the abstraction of blood, a small
quantity, say three or four ounces, may be taken.
at first, and the operation repeated in a few hours
as I have often done, and which seems to be a
safe and judicious course, the pulse rises, becomes




fuller and firmer as I have frequently witnessed,
"the blood changes its shade from a dark carbonated hue to a more florid vital colour" (Vide: my
history of the Cholera of 1832.)  Some cases
whicht were successfully treated in this way may
be seen at page 85.  
There are many symptoms attending epidemic
Cholera similar to those presented in other epidenaics; for instance, in that of 1812, in the early
stage of the case frequently there was a stricture
of the chest without much pain, difficulty of respiration, lurid, dingy countenance, a dull, sunken
eye, small compressible pulse, sometimes spasms
and a torpid, doughy feeling of the skin. These
symptoms are noticed by sunrgeon general Mlann
and by Professor Gallup in their treatises on that
epidemic, also similar remarks are made in: my
account of that disease. It is also stated in those
works that in such states of disease, by small
abstractions of blood the pulse became more full
and firm, and this practice contributed much to
the cure in that epidemic.
In the epidemic Dysentery which  has been
mentioned, similar symptoms were exhibited, and
they were controlled by the same course of treatment.
In the. history of the epidemic of 1793, by:Dr. Rush, similar symptoms are noticed for which
small and repeated bleedings are recommended.
With this information, and, these facts presented
to the mind, the practitioner or others may not
be surprised that I used blood-letting in the first
cases of epidemic Cholera,: which came under
my care in 1832, and with success.
During the four seasons in which; the Cholera'has prevailed in this country, I have been exten



sively engaged in the treatment of that disease,
the successful results have added to the number
of cases which have been placed under my care.
According to notes and memoranda made and
preserved, it appears that, including cases of
Cholerine and such as were fully formed, many
of them of a very aggravated character, I have
examined, advised for, and attended about twothousand cases. Of those which were treated
throughout by the method recommended, in my
accounts  alluded  to, there  were not over
twenty cases which terminated fatally; in 1849
the fatal cases did not exceed two per cent. and
in 1854, under the method of treatment. pointed
out in this work, there was not a fatal case.
I have detailed a few of the cases for illustration.
CASE I.
June 2, 1854, Mrs. J. of 20th street, was
violently attacked with vomiting and diarrhoea,
the discharges were watery and white, she had
severe pain and burning at the stomach and a
sinking sensation, with cramps and:great prostration; the skin was cold, the eyes sunken. I took
Aconite, 2d dilution, put 20 drops in a half tumbler of: water, gave a teaspoonful every ten
minutes. Also, mixed Spirits of Camphor in
sugar and water, proportioned so as to give one
tenth of a drop at a cdose, a spoonful of this was
given the intermediate five minutes between the
doses of Aconite. Cold water was administered
as a drink. After a short time the symptoms
moderated, then the periods of giving the doses
were lengthened to a half hour, and finally upwards. La the progress, to allay the cramps and




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pains, a few doses of Nux Yomica, 2d trituration,
were given in alternation with the other medicine.
In about. four hours, the vomiting was ch'ecked,
and the diarrhoea diminished, when the Acon.
and Camph. were omitted, and Cuprum 2d trituration given, gr. 1 about every two hours.June 3d. The disease was checked, the patient sat
up, an occasional dose of Cuprum was given.June 4th. Cured.
Note-In violent cases of Cholera, where there
is severe inflammation or great irritability of the
internal surface of the stomach, Camphor in doses
of a drop or more, seems evidently too much, as
is recommended and used by some personstherefore I have found it advisable to reduce the
dose to the fourth of a drop or less, generally to
the tenth of a drop, and sometimes there has been
given the first dilution of one hundredth of a
drop, and this may be preferable in some cases.
As Camphor precipitates in water, it is better
to add sugar to the water, so as to form a sort of
syrup, to) which the Camphor may be added in
such cquantity as may be desired to use.
CASE II.
June 26, C. J., Amos Street, of intemperate
habits, was attacked severely with watery Diarrhcea and vomiting, followed with violent spasms
of all the limbs, the skin was very cold, thirst
very great, burning heat at the stomach, sinking
depression, difficult, laborious respiration, sunken
eyes, lurid countenance.
Aeon. and Camph. were prepared and given
as mentioned in the preceding case. Ice water
was allowed as a drink.  After contiuing these




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remedies six or eight horns, Yeratrum 2d trituration was given in alternation with Camphor, hot
bricks wet with vinegar were applied to the feet.
27. The vomiting and Diarrhcea were very much
checked, the pulse was small and flaccid, there
was great oppression at the chest and difficulty of
breathing, the eyes were sunken, the skin, particularly of the; feet and legs, was very cold,
there were violent spasms, so that it took two or
three men to hold him, and added to which he
had a dulll, lurid countenance. Hlie was bled 12
ounces-the blood ran very slowly, but by applying hot water to the arm, that quantity was obtained. The blood was black, it soon became
coagulated, Verat. and Cupr. 2d of each, were
given in alternation every hour, and vapour of
hot vinegar to inhale. There was an urgent call
for ice water, which was freely allowed. The
vomiting and spasms soon after ceased, and the
diarrhoea lessened, warmth of the skin came on,
and sweating ensued.
28. The patient was very easy, and nearly free
of the cholera symptoms. The Cuprum was continued.
29. Cured.
CASE Ill.
Juilly 8th, E. Kenny, 39th St. At about 8 o'clock,
P. M., was attacked with watery Diarrhcea, great
burning and distress at the stomach, with severe
vomiting, the stools were of a rice water appearance. She had severe spasms, the feet and legs
were very cold; at 11 o'c., P. M. when I first saw
her, two drops of Spts. of Camphor were put into
a half gill of sweetened water, and two drops of
Tinet. of Aconite were added to a like quantity of




water, a teaspoonful of each was to be given in
alternation every ten minutes, but it was ihmmediately thrown up, the doses were diminished to
one-fourth of a teaspoonful which was retainedicewater was freely given and eagerly taken-the
doses were increased, so that in about an hour
she could bear a teaspoonful of the mixtures-the
vomiting was checked considerably, but the burning heat and pain continued in the stomach, and
the thirst and spasms were severe, the oppression
of the chest and difficulty of breathing increased,
the pulse became small, tremulous and flaccid,
the tongue was very red, the eyes sunken, the
face livid and skin coldl; the period had now arrived which required bleeding. At 2 o'clock A.M.
on the 9th. I took 12 oz. of blood from the armthe arm having beenl previously immersed, in a
vessel of hot water; the blood ran slowly at first,
but perseverance obtained that:quantity, the
blood was blackish and. soon coagulated firm: as
liver, the vomiting and spasms soon ceased and
the Diarrhcea lessened; in three hours she lay
quiet and easy: at 12 o'clock, noon, she was up
and went down stairs-at 6 P. 6 MI. was about" the
house  cured.
I have added the testimonial of Dr. Sullivan,
who kindly assisted in the case. It is gratifying to
have so respectable a voucher and associate.
"The above mentioned patient being in the same
house with me, I attended the case with Dr.
Sherrill, and witnessed the above described successful treatment.' JNo. L. SULLIVAN, M. D."




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CASE IV.
July 14ti.  M., Borland, a rugged  young
woman: in: Wooster St., was severely attach ed
with cholera. The vomiting and diarrhoea were
severe and copious, violent spasms, came on, she
had burning pain of the stomach, cold skin and
urgent thirst.  I- gave her Acon. 3d, three drops
every ten minutes, and spt. of camphor one-tenth
of a drop every: intermediate five minutes, this
course was commenced at about 2 o'clock P. M.;
also, she took cold water.  At 9 o'clock, the
symptoms had very much moderated, but she
got no:regular nursing nor medicine during the
night, as the faimilv were leaving the place, in the
latter part of the night, the disease increased.'At-9 o'clock, A. M., on the 15th, she was retching
and had-a: copious watery I)iarrhcea, great pressutre at the chest; difficult: breathing, severe
spasms, cold skin, sunken eyes, lurid countenance,
small compressible pulse..; The patient was bled
14:oz., the blood; was dark and deoxydated:; it soon
coagulated in the vessel to the firmness of liver,
directly after this the spasms and vomiting left her
and: the diarrhcea lessened, the pulse became more
full and firm: veratrum and cuprum, 2d triturations were given, also iced water to drink, which
she took with great eagerness. As it became necessary to remove her'from this place, she passed
from under my care, but the disease was arrested;so that she recovered.
The foregoing case occurred at a boarding
house; there were in the house, six cases of cholera; some sickened there, others after they had
left the house, the other patients were all treated by
different aliopathic Physicians, and all died! except the patient whose case I have detailed.




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CASE V.
JULY 14tlh.  J. Clough, a cabin boy on  a
HTudson R!iver sloop, about noon was attacked
with vomiting and  Diarrhcea, which were succeeded by burning pain in the stomach and
spasms. The vessel was rtun into the slip at the
foot of Christopher St., to obtain medical aid. It
was 10 o'clock, P. AI., when I first saw the patient, he had a rapid rice watery Diarrheea and
vomitflag, with pain and heat in the stomach, and
severe splasms, the feet and legs were very cold
and eyes sunken. I administered Acon. and
Camph. in the same manner as is mentioned in
the first case-with a free use of ice water as a
drink, bottles of hot water were put to the feet.
15th.  6 o'clock, A. ]d., the vomiting and
Diarrhcea were much lessened, the patient had
severe spasms, the eyes were sunken, face purple,
great diiniculty of breathing, tongue cold, feet and
hands cold, pulse very small and flaccid, skin torpid,
great thirst and heat at the stomach.'ihe arm
was immersed in hot water, and 10 oz. of blood
were taken, the blood was very dark and thick,
apparently deprived of vitality.* It soon coagulated very firm, the use of Acon. and Camph. was
continued every fifteen minutes inl alternation,
with a dose of veratrum 2nd, every three hours,
and a copious use of ice-water as a drink, and
vapour  fi'om  hot vinegar to breathe. At 10
o'clock, A. IM.~ the breathing was more free, the
eyes becoming natuaral, the pulse was fuller and
more firm, the spasms, vomiting and Diar rhna.
had nearly  disappeared, the skin was getting
warmer, and perspiration followed.  At 3 o'clockP. 1 d, the patient was very th1 irsty, ate ice greedily, had some stools of a bilious appeamance, the




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reaction of the system was exhibited beautifully.
I gave Aeon. 2nd, every half hour and Cuprum  2d, every three hours.  8 o'clock, P. M. the
patient sweat freely, the thirst was lessened,
he was doing well.
i7th.  7  o'clock, A. M., the  patient  had
slept  a   good   deal,  there  were  diffused
warmth and moisture over the body, the cramps
and pain had ceased —continued the aconite and
cuprum in alternation every three hours. 7 P. M.
the patient was so far convalescent, that as the
Captain was anxious to leave, and I considered
the disease arrested, it was concluded that the
master of the sloop might set sail and continue the
voyage-Cured.
* Note-In 1832, as is mentioned in my history of that
Epidemic, there were several cases in which the blood was
so deprived of vitality, while remaining in the blood vessel
that it did not absorb oxygen from the air when drawn and
while standing in the cup, as blood generally does, nor
change its color, nor coagulate. When some of it being
drawn off by small and repeated bleedings, the lungs were
relieved and enabled to act more freely, the circulation was
increased, so that the vital air, which God himself had furnished in the circumambient atmosphere, rushed into the
lunas, and uniting with the blood, it increased the florid
color and the vitality, generated heat which was distributed
throughout the system. In such conditions the blood becomes more florid after a small portion of it is abstracted.
(See pages 77 and 85.)
This illustrates an important physiological principle
which is stated in the history of the primeval state of human
existence, that the vital air or oxygen by the pressure of the
atmosphere was forced into the lungs, there united with the
blood, and brought life into existence, whieh is beautifully
expressed thus: " that when God created man, he breathed
into the lungs the breath of life."




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CASE VI.
JrLY 18. R. Smith, 134 Amos St. was attacked
with severe vomiting and diarrhea, burning pain
in the stomach, the pulse small and flaccid —I gave
her acon. and camph. in alternation, in about the
same manner as is mentioned in the preceding
cases, with cold water to drink.
19th, 8 o'clock, A. BM. the vomiting had
ceased, the diarrhoea lessened, but the patient
had heavy obstructed breathing, severe burning
pain in the stomach, violent spasms, with the
skin cold and torpid, the face was blue and dingy,
the eyes sunken, tongue cold, pulse small and
compressible, general collapse had commencedI gave Veratrum 2d trituration every 15 minutes,
continued the cold drink and applied hot bricks,
&c. to the feet and legs, and the fumes of vinegar
to inhale.
12 o'clock, noon. The patient was not materially
relieved, had great difficulty of breathing. Inow
immersed the arm in very warm water, rubbed
it awhile, then was able to raise a vein so as to
take 12 oz. of blood; it ran very slow, and was
extremely dark. Veratrum and cuprum, 2d trituration, were given in alternation with hot applications to the feet and legs, and cold water as a drink.
7 o'clock, P. 3I. All the symptoms were relieved, the pain and heat of the stomach were removed, the patient had neither vomiting, diarrhcea nor spasms, the pulse was fuller and firmer, a
general warmth pervaded the skin, and she perspired freely-continued veratrum and cuprum
each second, alternately, with light nourishment.
20th. The patient was free of disease, except a
slight diarrhcea and debility.
21st. Dismissed-cured.




':The case of Rose Smith, occurred in my
family, having much interest in it, I watched the
treatment closely, and from  my knowledge and
belief, this is a true and correct statement.
"P. A. BATILFY, 134 Amos St."
CASE VII.
Aug. 26th, I3M. S. Tucker, at 49th street, a male,
after having Diarrhcea about 48 hours it became
copious and watery, he had burning pain in the
stomach and severe cramps came on with extreme thirst, he soon sunk into a prostrated collapsed state, the feet and legs were very cold;
3 P. IMI. I first saw him, and began by giving
Aconite 2 drops of 2nd dilution every 15 minutes,
and spirits of camph. one fourth of a drop half
way between the other doses, and made a free use
of ice water as a drink.
9 o'clock, P. Mf. the vomiting had ceased, the
diarrhoea was nearly checked, the pain of the
stomach was lessened, the pulse was better, he
sweat freely,'generally warm.
2 7th. The pain had about left the stomach and
he was easy, skin natural, a slight diarrhoea only
-gave Acon. and Cuprum in alternation every
hour.
28. Dismissed, cured.
The discoverer of the law of cure and foundel
of the iHomeopathic practice, Ilahnemann, before
he saw a case, as is stated, from a knowledge he
had obtained from trials of medicine on the
healthy subject, decided that in most cases of
epidemic Cholera in the first stage, camphor was




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the remedy which ought to be given in very
minute doses.
In the treatment of Cholera, in 1832, I early
came to the conclusion that ai primeval pathological condition of the patient, was an inflammation
of the villous coat of the stomach, and alimentary
canal, and that the system was inclined to' congestion. Several writers have sustained similar
opinions; among them may be named, Dr. Brnssais, of Paris, Dr. Corbin, British Surgeon in
Asia, the British Medical [Board of Bombay,
Dr. Bey, Physician to the Court of Egypt, Dr.
Donaldson, treatise on Epidemics, Drs. Chapman
and Bell, of Philadelphia, &c. This theory is
attempted to be proved in my Hiistory of the
Cholera of 1832.
When I adopted the Homceopathic method of
treating this disease in 1849, I soon discovered
that in addition to Camphor, a medicine was
needed to check, quiet and cure this inflamed and
highly irritable state of the villous surface of the
stomach.
Aconite being the most specific medicine known
for inflammation and for such a purpose I selected
this article and used it in combination with camphor, the success attending their use is an evidence of the correctness of the choice.
The foregoing cases are selected fiom a great
number, for the purpose of showing more fully
the correctness of the plan of treatment laid
down in this work, and in support of the opinions
there advanced, and here repeated. It will be
perceived that the symptoms in the cases were
very similar, and the treatment was attended
with a successful issue,




Eg' Directions for preventing  attacks of
Cholera and for curing the first stage of the disease, or Cholerene, will be found at page 81 in
the book mentioned.