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LIBRARY

HALSEY'S

HOMEEOPATHIC

FOR

FAMILIES,
FARMERS,

TRAVELERS,

MISSIONARIES,

PIONEERS,

STOCK RAISERS, HORSE OWNERS,
FANCIERS,

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POULTRY KEEPERS.

CHICAGO, U. S. A., 1885.

C. S. & GEO. E. HALSEY :
WHHEOPATHIC CHEMISTS AND PHARMACISTS?
88 STATE STREET.

MINERS,

Copyrighted, 1885, by
C. S. & GEO. E. HALSEY.

PRESS OF
J

L. REGAN & CO.,
CHICAGO.

PREFACE.

THE object of this book is twofold-First,

to give

in a condensed and convenient form answers to
the "thousand and one" questions which are daily
propounded to the physician by his patients, and to
the pharmaceutist by those purchasing medicines
and medical books; questions about nursing, about
diet, ventilation, homceopathy; when to give the
medicines, how to give them, "what to do if the
children get the measles," or the whooping-cough,
or the scarlet fever; what to do in case of any of the
petty ailments which hardly seem worth sending to
the doctor about, and yet need to be cared for
intelligently, in order to save discomfort or suffering; perhaps serious loss of time and money; possibly loss of health or of life itself.
Second, To furnish travelers or pioneers, or others
who cannot conveniently consult a physician they
have confidence in, with a simple yet thoroughly

reliableguide in caring for the sick and in treating
the more common diseases.
The authors and compilers of this book are not
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physicians, but both of them having had valuable
experience in medicine as prescription druggists, and afterward as homoeopathic chemists and
pharmacists, they have not only, for many years,
enjoyed the acquaintance of many of the best physicians of both schools of medicine, and, to a certain
extent, become familiar with their practice and
writings, but they have also had constant opportunity to judge of the practical value of different
prescriptions and different methods of treatof
this kind, extended
Experience
ment.
years,
forty
of nearly
a period
through
enables them to decide, with a good degree of success, what information the people want on these
subjects, and to determine what is reliable and valuable in the instructions of different writers. They
have been able, therefore, to select from a great
mash of information on diseases and remedies that
which is given here in a condensed form; thus
saving the time and study of people busy in their
various avocations, and laying before those who
have not yet accumulated a library on these subjects, the pith and substance of the best that is
written.
Besides our indebtedness to many professional
friends for items embodied in this work, we must
acknowledge our reference to different medical
journals from time to time, to many professional
text-books, and especially to a few of owr best domes-

p11JACE.

tic manuals, among which are: Dr. Shipman's
Homceopothic Guide; Dr. Ruddock's Stepping Stone
(American edition); Dr. Ruddock's Vade lMecum;
Dr. Small's Honmoepathic Manual; Dr. Johnson's
Family Guide; Dr. Pulte's Domestic Physician; Dr.
Douglas' Practical Homoeopathy; and, The Lady's
Manual, by Drs. Ruddock and Ludlam.
P. S. It will be noticed by the readers of the
following pages that, in our recommendation of
remedies for the cure of disease, we do not hesitate
to mention especially those of our own manufacture,
or those we are personally interested in.
If any apology is needed for this, it may be found
in the fact that our business is the manufacture and
sale of such goods, and that we depend upon it for
a livelihood.
We are careful not to recommend any remedies,
or any treatment, without knowing that we are right
in so doing, and careful not to offer for sale any
article, of our own or other manufacture which cannot be relied upon.
While we are grateful to our patrons of the present day, and of the past thirty years, for the kind
appreciation they have shown of our goods and publications, we cannot but feel a sort of pride-which
indeed is the right of every honest tradesman-that
in offering and exchanging our commodities for their
money, the advantage of the exchange is not all
on one side.

EOrATIC GUID
HALSEY' S HOM(

Our reputation as homceopathic pharmaceutists and
publishers is well known throughout the United
States, and, to sore extent, in other countries; so
that, as a rule, one need not go far to ascertain
that our publications and preparations can be.
depended upon.
C. S. & GEG. E. HALSEY,
88 State St., Chicago, U. S. A.
October 1, 1885.

HEALTH.
Health is the normal condition of the human
organism, a condition in which all the vital forces
work harmoniously to the perfection of all the processes of nature and the resistance of disease, with
the result to the individual tenant of the human
frame of perfect enjoyment of life.
Such perfection of functional action is exceedingly
rare. The tendency to decay, and degeneracy, which
seems inherent to all that is mortal, at length gains
some advantage, over even the strongest, and finally
becomes completely victorious; while the many are
either weak and invalided from birth, or so poorly
provided by constitution against disease that they
fall an easy prey to its power.
Although the word health has rightly the signification of entire absence of disease, the variety of
illustrations for this signification, of necessity leads
us into the use of terms which indicate comparatively
healthful conditions. We say, "in good health,"
"in poor health," "in tolerable health," etc. Now
arid then, perhaps, we have a quiet laugh over the
statement of some person that lihe (or she) "enjoys
poor health," coupled with the apparent fact that the
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individual really does seem to "enjoy" the sympathy
and condolements of friends on account of this peculiar source of happiness.
Loss of health--sickness-disease, may come by
inheritance, by our own carelessness, or wilfulness,
or, through the ignorance or the selfishness or wicked-

ness of others; but in either or any case, ignorance of
the laws of our being and concerning the necessary
and legitimate consequences of our errors of living,
have very much to do with these things.
It may be that in the pages of this book, hints
and helps will be found which-if regarded will
bring greater enjoyment of health and a longer
lease of life to many people.
And we trust also that the sick and suffering will
also, in our pages, find helps to greater freedom
from the power of disease.
(A few paragraphs from Sermons on Health, by John Brown,
M. D., Edinburgh, are well worthy the attention of our readers.

His thoughts are practical and homely, and likely to be generally useful):

"You see, my dear working friends, I am great
upon sparing your strength and taking things cannily. "All very well," say you. "It is easy
speaking and saying 'take it easy'; but if the pot's
on the fire it maun bile." It must, but you needn't
poke up the fire forever; and you may now and then
set the kettle on the hob and let it sing, instead of
leaving it to burn its bottom out.

11EALTH..

A man can walk farther and longer than he can
run; and it is poor saving to get of breath. A man
who lives to be seventy, and has ten children and
(say) five and twenty grandchildren, is of more
worth to the state than three men who die at thirty
-it is to be hoped, unmarried.
For the brain-one thing of great consequence is
regular sleep and plenty of it. Sleep is the food of
the brain.
For the lungs-the great thing is plenty of fresh
air, and plenty of room for them to play in.
For the stomach-plain food well cooked. Laboring men should have meat every day. Good broth
is a capital dish. But, above all, keep whisky out
of your stomach. It really plays the very devil
when it gets in. It makes the brain mad; it burns
the coats of the stomach; it turns the liver into a
lump of rottenness; it softens and kills the heart; it
makes a man an idiot and a brute.
Finally, see that you make yourself do what is
immediately just to your body. Feed it when it is
really hungry; let it sleep when it, not its master,
desires sleep; make it happy, poor hard-working
fellow! and give it a gambol when it wants it and
deserves it; and let us keep our hearts young, and
they will keep our legs and arms the same.
THE DOCTOR'S DUTIES TO YOU.

First,It is the duty of the doctor to cure you if he

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can. Test a doctor by this: Is he in earnest? Does
he speak little and know much ? Does he make your
case his first care ? The doctor should, like the rest
of us, stick to his trade and mind his business.
Secondly, It is the doctor's duty to b'e kind to you.
I mean by this not only to speak kindly, but to be
kind, which includes this and a great deal more,
though a kind word, as well as "a merry heart,
Cheerfulness, or rather
does good like a medicine."
cheeriness, is a great thing in a doctor.
Thirdly, It is his duty to be true to you-true in
word and in deed.
Fourthly, It is his duty to keep your secrets.
There are things a doctor comes to know and is told,
which no one but he and the Judge of all should
know.

Fifthly, It is his duty to warn you against what .is
injuring your health. The Chinese pay their doctor for keeping them well, and they stop his pay as
soon as they are ill.
YOUR DUTIES TO THE DOCTOR.

First, It is your duty to trust the doctor.
Secondly, It is your duty to obey the doctor.
Thirdly, It is your duty to speak the truth to the
doctor, the whole truth and nothing but the truth;
and

Fourthly, It is your duty to reward the doctor.
There are four ways of rewarding your doctor

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first, by giving him your money; the second is by
giving him your gratitude; the third is by doing
his bidding; and the fourth is by speaking well of
him, giving him a good name, recommending him
to others. Let the doctor and you be grateful and
honest, kind and cordial-in one word, dutiful to
each other, and you will each be the better for the
other.
One person I would earnestly warn you against,
and that isthe quack doctor. If the real doctor is a
sort of god of healing, or rather God's cobbler for the
body, the quack is the devil for the body, or rather
the devil's servant against the body, and, like his
father he is a great liar and cheat. He offers you
what he can not give. Whenever he offers you a
medicine that cures everything, be sure it cures
nothing; and remember, it rmay ill.
One word more: You should call your doctor early.
It saves time; it saves suffering; it saves trouble;
it saves life! If you saw a fire beginning in your
house, you would put it out as fast as you could.
You might, perhaps, be able to blow out with your
breath what in an hour the fire engine could make
nothing of. So it is with disease: a dose of medicine-some simple thing-may put it out, when, if
left alone, before night it may be raging hopelessly.
And let me end by asking you to call inthe Great
Physician-to call him instantly--to call him in
time. There is not a moment to lose; he is waiting

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to be called; he is standing at the door, but he must
be called. He may be called too late."

NOTES ON NURSING.
BY FLORENCE

NIGHTINGALE.

NURSING ought to signify the proper use of fresh
air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper
selection and administration of diet, all at the least
expense of vital power to the patient.
PURE AIR.-The very first canon of nursing-the
first and last thing upon which a nurse's attention
must be fixed-the first essential to a patient, without which I had almost said you may leave all the
rest alone-is this: to keep the air he breathes as
pure as the external air, without chilling him. Never
be afraid of open windows. People don't catch cold
in bed. This is a popular fallacy. With proper
bedclothes and hot bottles, if necessary, you can
always keep a patient warm in bed, and well ventilate him at the same time. To have the air within
as pure as the air without, it is not necessary, as
often as appears to be thought, to make it as cold.
Generally speaking, you may expect that weak
patients will suffer cold much more in the morning
than in the evening. The vital powers are much
lower. If they are feverish at night, with burning

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hands and feet, they are almost sure to be chilly and
shivering in the morning.
Always- air your room from the outside air if pos-

sible. Let no one ever depend upon fumigations,
" disinfectants," and the like, for purifying the air.
The offensive thing, not its smell, must be removed.
Without cleanliness within and without your house.
ventilation is comparatively useless.
LIGHT.-It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need
of fresh air, is their need of light-that after a close
room, what hurts them most is a dark room; and
that it is not only light they need, but direct sunlight they want. A dark house is always an unhealthy house-always an ill-aired house-always a
dirty house. Want of light stops growth, and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children.
QUIET.-Whispered conversation in the same room
is absolutely cruel, for it is impossible that the
patient's attention should not be involuntarily
strained to hear. Walking on tiptoe, doing anything
in the room very slowly, are injurious for exactly the
same reasons. A firm, light, quick step-a steady,
quick hand, are the desiderata, not the slow, lingering,
shuffling foot-the timid, uncertain touch. Slowness
is not gentleness, though it is often mistaken for
such. Quickness, lightness and gentleness are quite
Unnecessary (although slight) noise
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injures a sick person much more than necessary
noise (of a much greater amount).
EFFECT OF EXCITEMENT.-It is of the highest folly
to judge of the sick, as is so often done, when you
see them merely during a period of excitement.
People have very often died of that, which it has
been proclaimed at the time, "has done them no
harm."

FooD.-To the large majority of very weak patients
it is quite impossible to take any solid food before
11 A. M., nor then if their strength is still further
exhausted by fasting till that hour. For weak patients have generally feverish nights, and, in the
morning, dry mouths; and if they could eat with
those dry mouths it would be worse for them. A
spoonful of beef tea every hour will give them
the requisite nourishment, and prevent them from
being too much exhausted to take at a later hour the
solid food which is necessary for their recovery.
Let the food come at the right time, and be taken
but never
away, eaten or uneaten, at the right
let a patient have " something standing" by him, if
you don't wish to disgust him of everything.
The nutritious power of milk, and of the preparations from milk, is very much undervalued. There
is nearly as much nourishment in half a pint of milk
as in a quarter of a pound of meat. But this is not
the whole question, nor nearly the whole, as to the
kind of food. The main question is, What can the

time;

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patient's stomach assimilate or derive nourishment
from ? and of this the patient's stomach is the sole
judge. Chemistry cannot tell this. The patient's
stomach must be its own judge. The diet which will
keep the healthy man healthy will kill the sick one.
DRINK.-A great deal too much against tea is said
by some wise people; and a great dealtoo much tea
is given to the sick by foolish people. A little tea
or coffee restores them quite as much as a great deal,
and a great deal of tea, and especially of coffee, impairs the little power of digestion they have.
QUANTITY.-An almost universal error among
nurses is in the bulk of food, and especially of drink,
they offer to their patients.

CLEANLINESS.

Care should be taken in all the

operations of sponging, washing and cleansing the
skin, not to expose too great a surface at once, so as
to check perspiration.
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands
very frequently. If her face too, so much the better.

THE NURSE.
BY GEORGE MACDONALD,

LL.D.

One of the most important qualifications of a sicknurse is a ready smile. A long-faced nurse in a
sick-room is a visible embodiment and presence of
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is fighting in agony. Such ought to be banished
with their black dresses and their mourning-shop
looks from every sick-chamber, and permitted to
minister only to the dead, who do not mind looks.
With what a power of life does a woman-young or
old, I do not care-with a face of the morning, a
dress like the spring, a bunch of wild flowers in her
hand, with the dew upon them (and perhaps in her
eyes, too-I don't object to that-that is sympathy,
not the worship of darkness)-with what a message
from nature and life does she, looking death in the
face with a smile, dawn upon the vision of the invalid!
She brings a little health, a little strength to fight,
a little hope to endure, actually lapped in the folds
of her gracious garments. For the soul itself can
do more than any medicine, if it be fed with the
truth of life.
One secret of good nursing is not to be too officious. "Doctor," said a kind-hearted old nurse,
"is it possible for me to do anything more to make
this poor patient comfortable ?" " Certainly it is,"
he replied; " sit down and keep quiet."

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DIET.
GENERAL RULES.

The best general rule in regard to the diet of the
sick is to avoid all kinds of food not easily digested,
and whatever, from its nature or from high seasoning, is particularly stimulating, heating or exciting,
or is strongly flavored with substances having a medicinal action. All stimulants, such as coffee, tea, tobacco; and spirits, wine or beer.
Eat at regular intervals, and rather often than much
at a time. Let the stomach rest after digesting, but
do not let it crave food, if suitable food can be got.
In case of patients in the habit of using stimulants, it may not be always wise to immediately
cease the use of them altogether, as in some instances
a moderate use of them may be necessary to prevent
the complete collapse or "sinking" which is apt to
result from removing all stimulants from a nervous
system almost entirely dependent upon them. In
these cases the less objectionable stimulants may be
substituted for those more dangerous and deleterious;
as, for instance, tea and coffee instead of wine and
brandy; chocolate or cocoa instead of coffee; black
tea instead of green or Japan or mixed tea; beef
tea and suitable "tonic" medicines instead of any
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aids and props, which generally prove themselves to
be unsafe and ruinous allies.
Tobacco must be used in very small quantities if
atall; and not just before or just after taking the
medicines. It is generally a waste of time to try to
convince those long addicted to the habit, of the
injurious effects of this noxious weed. The peculiar
effects of such stimulants and narcotics as alcohol,
opium and tobacco, upon the brain and nerve-upon
the moral and physical nature of man-are such as
to weaken and pervert the judgment, so that the
victim cannot see and understand what is so obvious
to others ; and to undermine the power of the will,
so that when at last some idea of the fearful truth
dawns upon his mind he finds himself almost powerless against the appetite he has nourished. In some
cases, however, where the malady is clearly the direct
result of the use of one of these drugs, there is no
alternative. The poison must be banished utterly
or the case given up as hopeless so far as a cure is
concerned, although palliative medicines can usually
be found.
BATHING.
(From Johnson's Homoeopathic duide).
DIRECTIONS

FOR TAKING

A BATH.

Every bath should be taken while the body is warm
and the circulation somewhat accelerated. .For this

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reason, it is better to take a short walk, or some
other exercise, before each bath, for the purpose of
warming the body, except in the morning, when it
is already warm from the heat of the bed.
No bath should be taken when the bather is greatly
fatigued by exercise or other causes.
No bath should be taken on a full stomach, nor
soon after a meal. A couple of hours should be
allowed to intervene.
Being in a perspiration is no objection to taking
any bath except the sitz and foot-bath. When taking these, the bather should be warm, but not in a
perspiration.
MANNER OF TAKING A BATH.

Every bathing operation should be performed
rapidly, and the bather should rub himself-not
lazily-but vigorously, and with a hurried, bustling
motion, so that the exertion Qf rubbing shall be sufficient to quicken the heart's action and increase the
respiration for the purpose of insuring a strong and
glowing reaction.
After every bath, no matter what kind, the bather
should be rubbed thoroughly dry. For this purpose
take a dry sheet and throw round the body like a
cloak, and in this, and with this, wipe dry and rub
briskly. The sheet placed around the person in this
way excludes the air, prevents evaporation of the
surface, and guards against the chill which exposure
is apt to produce.

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Soon as the bath is over, the bather should dress
as quickly as possible, and take some kind of exercise in the open air. When this can be done, the
rule has no exceptions.
The simplest form of taking a bath is to apply
the water to the surface by means of a sponge or
crash towel, then rub briskly and thoroughly dry.
The water employed may be either warm or cold,
and a little fine soap used whenever the skin requires
it. Any invalid may take this kind of a bath with
benefit, provided it is succeeded by a glow of warmth
over the surface; and this should be the test in all
forms of bathing. No one should feel cold after
taking a bath; if they do, it is an evidence that the
water was too cold, or the bather remained too long
at the bath.
The warm or tepid bath is adapted to every age of
life. The first is particularly congenial to the
young, the delicate, and those declining in years.
After using the warm bath, care should be exercised to avoid taking cold by putting on suitable
clothing and taking proper exercise.
THE COLD BATH is only suited to persons in a
vigorous state of health, and where the vital forces
are most energetic and the system free from exhaustion. It should be taken quickly, and followed by
brisk rubbing, until a refreshing glow is produced
over the whole body.
THE SHOWER BATH is a convenient and invigorating

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substitute for other forms of bathing, and may be
used with benefit where the circulation is languid or
the skin dry and inactive. The fall of water can be
regulated or modified by the size of the openings
through which it passes, and the height of the
reservoir, so as to adapt it to the most delicate as
well as robust.
THE SITZ BATH may be taken in an ordinary wash

tub. Prop it on its edge, and place in it as much
water as will rise nearly to the navel when the
patient sits down in it. In this he can remain from
ten minutes to half an hour. This kind of a bath is
very useful in suppression of the menses, menstrual
colic, some urinary difficulties, constipation, piles,
etc. The temperature of the bath may be regulated
to suit the case. In the above named diseases,
warm or even hot water will be found advisable.
SEA BATHING, from its stimulating and invigorating action on the skin and the whole nervous
system, is not only agreeable, but highly salutary
when ' indulged in at the proper season. It has also
the important advantage over bathing in fresh water,
that persons seldom take cold from it.
NOTE:-Sea bathing can be enjoyed at home with all the
advantages which arise from the action of the salt water upon
the skin and tissues, by simply adding to the water in which
you bathe a suitable quantity of "Sea Salt," which can be procured cheaply at almost any drug store. H.

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A -TURKISH OR THERMAL BATH AT HOME.
(Mrs. A. B. Stockham, IVI.D., in "Tokology.")

Take a chair with a wooden seat, an office chair
with arms is preferable, place in it a piece of flannel
blanket so folded that it will fall down in front.
Under the chair put a coffee cup one-third filled
with alcohol. If any other vessel is used be sure
the opening is no larger than that of the cup, as
this gives sufficient surface for the combustion of
the necessary amount of alcohol; have a foot tub in
front of the chair with warm water for the feet.
The patient is seated in nature's raiment only, or
as Mark Twain says, "in his complexion," enveloped
closely in woolen blankets. One of these is put
over him in front and the other at his back outside
of the chair. After he is seated and covered, light
the alcohol with a taper; don't risk burning yourself
by using a match. The subject will begin to perspire in from three to five minutes.
If the blood rushes to his head giving a red face
and a feeling of fullness in the brain, put a napkin
around the neck, wrung out of tepid water. This
is better than wetting the head, and if the patient is
a lady it has the advantage of not taking the "crimp"
out of her hair.
If the patient is faint or sick at the stomach, as
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let him drink copiously of hot water, or very weak
If the perspiration is slow in
ginger tea, hot.
starting or if the heat is excessive, let him bathe the
surface with a sponge dipped in cold water. Let
him remain fifteen or twenty minutes, or longer, to
He can then be
induce copious perspiration.
bathed and rubbed sitting in the chair. If he is
weak, or longer perspiration is desired, let him lie
upon the bed or couch, enveloped in the blankets,
where he can be bathed under cover if necessary.
Squeeze,
Let the manipulation be thorough.
press and pinch every muscle in the body, and spat
the surface with the ends of the fingers, having the
wrist free. Using the entire arm and palm of the
hand makes hard work, and does not give good
results. If the attendant is magnetic the fingers
cause tingling, like hundreds of needles. Let the
patient lie for an hour to rest, cool and sleep.
This bath should not be taken in less than two
hours after eating. If taken sooner it is nearly
impossible to induce perspiration, and besides this,
it interferes with digestion. For invalids the best
time is about ten or eleven o'clock in the morning.
The business man or woman can take it upon rising
in the morning, or just before retiring at night.
If necessary, one can go out immediately after the
bath. There is no danger of taking cold if one is
bathed in cold or tepid water, and has thorough
massage. (Manipulation with the hand).

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As a sanative measure, the Thermal bath can be
taken at least once a week; for diseases, the frequency depends partly upon the case and the individual. It will not weaken a person. I have seen
invalids unable to sit up gain strength with the
daily use of this bath. In the first renovating process that is induced, one may have a sense of weakness or faintness, similar to that caused by some
medicine that rouses up the vital functions, but the
cases are rare in which this does not pass off in a
few hours, leaving a corresponding gain.
The Thermal bath is valuable, because
First, It cleanses the skin and promotes its
action as no other bath can do, thus relieving the
other excretory organs.
Second, It equalizes the circulation of the blood
and removes all local congestions of any and every
part, which is one of the most important things to be
accomplished in the treatment of disease.
Third, It is the quickest, easiest and most effectual means of purifying the blood known to man; it
literally washes the blood of its impurities. The
patient drinks pure water, it is absorbed, passes
into and mingles with the blood, by which it is
carried to the capillary network of the skin, and
poured upon the surface in the form of perspiration;
not pure as when it was taken into the stomach, but
mingled with the humors and impurities of the blood.

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If this were its only use, the Thermal bath would
be invaluable.
Fourth, It soothes and tranquilizes the nervous
system, sweeps the cobwebs of care from the brain,
leaving it clear and refreshed, and equalizes the
flow of the nervous fluids throughout the body.
For the above reasons the Thermal bath is specially useful in the treatment of all diseases arising
from impurity of the blood, inactivity of the skin,
local congestions, or inflammations, or unbalanced
nervous action.
INJECTIONS.
A good syringe is almost as necessary an adjunct
to the toilet apparatus of a family as a sponge, or
brush and comb. In the matter of constipation,
the majority of people are nowadays afraid of the
time-honoured custom of taking cathartics to regulate the bowels; and in all but the most healthy
and strong of adults, constipation will, at times,
clog the system with effete matter, which should be
got rid of. Regular habits, easily digested food, and
especially well-cooked fruits, and coarse bread, will
prove great helps in this condition of things, and a
few doses of the appropriate remedy will set the
whole system into better working order. But an
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a most easy and satisfactory method of clearing
out the bowels, giving them a rest and preparing
them to resume their duties. A syringe is also indispensable in all gatherings of the ear, which is by no
meaiis an uncommon trouble in childhood. Babies
who are brought up by hand are commonly troubled
by constipation, and sometimes those favored with
the mother's milk. If a child has gone twenty-four
hours without a passage, it will be apt to be colicky,
and very uneasy and fretful, and may be relieved
immediately by a small injection of warm water, to
which a very little pure toilet soap may be added.
For chronic invalids who, in consequence of inactivity, are usually troubled with constipation, a good
"Fountain" syringe is a great boon, and by using
it at a regular time, taking small quantities of
water at a time, and retaining the injection as long
as possible, the natural process can be quite satisfactorily simulated.
There are other uses of this
syringe, which, if you are an invalid, your physician
will suggest to you, but for infants the bulb syringe
is more easily used, and it answers a very good purpose.

VACCINATION.
The most suitable time to vaccinate a child is
when it is about three or four months old. If, however, small-pox is prevalent as an epidemic, or the

VACCINATION.

child has been exposed to its contagion, recourse
should be had to vaccination at once, no matter how
young the child is. If the operation be successfully
performed within four days after exposure to the
small-pox infection, the disease will be uniformly
prevented.
There is a prevalent belief that vaccination "runs
out" every seven years. This may be true in some
cases, but in others it is not. The majority of people
who have been successfully vaccinated, will be protected from small-pox through life. Others, however, from some peculiarity of constitution, will need
to be vaccinated several times during life in order
to enjoy immunity from the disease. Under these
circumstances, it is advisable to get re-vaccinated
every seven or eight years if specially exposed to
the infection of small-pox.
It is of the utmost importance that the vaccine
virus should be pure.
It sometimes happens that, with all necessary precautions, cutaneous eruptions will appear after vaccination. This is not always owing to the introduction of impure matter into the system, but frequently arises from some latent dyscrasia being
aroused by the influence of the vaccine disease. It
is well for parents to bear this in mind, that no unjust
censure may be laid upon the physician.
When the vaccination takes properly, it will have
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after the operation, a slight elevation is perceptible;
on the fifth day there is a pearl-colored vesicle; on
the eighth day the vesicle is perfect, concave at top
with margin tense and elevated; on the ninth day
there is a red circle around the vesicle, the skin
being tense and painful. At this time there is
usually fever and enlargement of the glands under
the arms. On the eleventh day the red areola
begins to fade. A circular scab forms and generally
drops off at the end of three weeks.
This is the course of the vaccine disease, and, unless
the progress of the local disorder is the same in all
its stages as described, the system is not protected
The disease is so mild that
against small-pox.
treatment by medicine is rarely necessary; but it
has been advised by some of our ablest practitioners
to give the child a few globules of sulphur on the
evening of the eighth day, in order to cut off the
tendency to eruptive disease, which sometimes follows vaccination. Johnson's Homoeopathic Guide.

BEEF

TEA.

This very important article for the sick room can
be quickly prepared from some one of the variety
of "meat extracts," now for sale by druggists and
grocers. Liebig's Extract of Meat, is one of the
most reliable and economical, but it must be remem-

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of the meat. If used by the spoonful to "tone up"
the digestive organs, something as brandy and wine
were formerly used, it is excellent, but like wine
it furnishes almost no nourishment. Adding a little
sweet cream or fresh butter to this beef tea when
not very hot, or a raw egg, well beaten, it becomes
at once almost a perfect diet for the stomach of an
invalid. Johnson's Fluid Beef contains some of
the nourishing properties of the meat, and nakes a
palatable and wholesome cup of meat broth simply
by adding hot water and salt. There are quite a
number of these preparations sold, some of which
prove injurious to invalids, and others, not yet well
tested.
If meat extracts can not be obtained conveniently
an excellent article of beef or mutton tea can soon
be prepared by the following process:
Take a piece of fresh meat without fat, and
cut it into small pieces, which must be put into a
bottle with a wide mouth. Have the bottle corked
loosely, and set into a small kettle or sauce-pan of
cold water. Let the water heat gradually until
boiling, and keep it boiling hot, until the juice has
cooked out of the meat and the meat is well
shrunken. This juice, properly salted, can be given
by the spoonful, warm or cold; or can be diluted
with water, and flavored to suit the patient.
Bear in mind that beef tea furnishes little or
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must be supplied with it or soon after it, whenever
the digestive organs will properly dispose of it.

TEN

FOLLIES.

1i. To think that, the more a man eats, the fatter
and stronger he willbecome.
2. To believe that, the more hours children are

confined in study at school, the faster they learn.
3. To conclude that, if exercise is good for the
health, the more violent and exhausting it is the
better it is.
4. To imagine that every hour taken from sleep
is an hour gained.
5. To argue that whatever remedy causes one to
feel immediately better is good for the system, without regard to ulterior effects.
6. To eat without an appetite, or to continue to
eat after it has been satisfied, merely to gratify the
taste.
7. To eat a hearty supper for the pleasure experienced while it is passing down the throat, at the
expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep, and a
weary waking in the morning.
8. To remove a portion of the clothing immediately after exercise, when the most stupid drayman
knows that if he does not put a cover on his horse
the moment he ceases work in winter, he will lose
him in a few days at most by pneumonia.

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9. To believe that warm air is necessarily impure,
or that pure cold air is necessarily more healthy
than the confined air of a close and crowded vehicle
(the latter at most, can only produce fainting and
nausea); and when entering a conveyance, after
walking briskly, opening a window, exposing yourself to a draft, and getting a severe cold at least, or
an attack of pleurisy or pneumonia, that will cause
weeks and months of suffering, if not actual death
within four days.
10. To " remember the Sabbath day" by working
harder and later on Saturday than on any other day
of the week, with a view of sleeping late next morn,
ing and staying at home all day to rest, conscience
being quieted by the plea of "not feeling very
well."-Journal of Health.

HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS.
Be careful after exercise not to sit down in a car,
or omnibus, or lecture room, or church with a cool
draft upon the exposed neck or back. If you can
not avoid the draft, have a handkerchief or other
covering ready to protect yourself from a chill.
The Spanish curse-" May a cold wind blow down
the back of your neck," is very significant.
The secret of the success of Iron, Phosphorusand
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always to be explained by the homoepathic action of
these remedies.
The more nearly the prescribers conform to the
homoeopathic law in the dose, the assimilable condition of the drug, and the principle on which it is
prescribed, the greater the success.
Drinking hot waler at certain times, as for
instance, the first thing in the morning, and
again an hour after each meal, has proved
very beneficial to many invalids.
The arguments in favor of hot water would be
arguments against the careless drinking of ice water
so common in cities and large towns.
Warm drinks, taken with and after meals aid digestion. Warm food digests more readily than cold
food. If one drinks half a pint or more of ice-water
with his dinner, the effect is to chill the stomach and
hinder digestion.
It is argued that hot water has a tendency to
allay and relieve the congestion and tendency to
inflammation of the- stomach and bowels from which
dyspeptics suffer. If so ice-water must have the
effect of producing or increasing such congestion.
Invalids should not take much exercise before
breakfast, nor for some little time after eating.
Walking, or any gymnastic exercise which obliges
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and not too cold air, is beneficial, especially to asthmatics and persons disposed to weakness of the
lungs.
Even a few moments spent several times a day in
the operation of filling the lungs to the full, and
emptying them slowly until the patient is a little
tired, will prove of great benefit.
More and more decided every year is the opinion
of the more intelligent portion of the medical profession that alcohol is not necessary or safe as a
medicine.
Camphor is far superior to arouse the system in
case of a chill, or a faint; a cup of beef tea or hot
milk or grape juice is better in a case of exhaustion;
napiform is better as a continued tonic; bovinine
gives the strength to the vital powers which brandy
only pretends to; and none of these has an
unhealthy reaction, or carries with it the danger of
fixing upon the patient a vicious habit of terrible
power like that of alcoholic stimulants.
The London."JMedical Press and Circular"asserts
that insanity is nearly twice as prevalent in the United
Kingdom as it was forty years ago, and that the
number of tuberculous and scrofulous patients in
the hospitals has largely increased. It ascribes this
to the great and increasing prevalence of alcoholism
in all classes and both sexes.
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INDICATIONS OF DISEASE.
(From Johnson's Homoeopathic Guide.)
THE COUNTENANCE.

The expression of countenance is often an excellent index of what is occurring in distant parts of
the body, and affords valuable assistance to the
physician in many obscure and complicated cases.
Features contracted, anxious expression, difficulty of breathing, and rapid dilatation of the
nostrils, indicate acute inflammation of the lungs.
Features pointed, with expression of anxiety,
brows knit, countenance pale, lips dry and bluish,
indicate pain and inflammation of the abdominal
viscera.
Face flushed, wild expression of countenance,
eyes red and sparkling, pupils contracted or dilated,
great sensibility to light, squinting, twitching of the
eyelids and muscles of the face, indicate inflammation of the brain.
Face flushed and swollen, lips blue, eyes prominent, anxious expression, sudden startings in sleep,
indicate organic disease of the heart.
Cheeks pale and blanched, lips white and puffy,
dark circle around the eyelids, languid expression,
indicate chlorosis or "green sickness."
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lip, with margins of a carnation tint, indicates
scrofula.
Deep yellow complexion indicates jaundice, or
derangement of the liver.
Squinting, or distorted eyes, are ominous of
dropsy of the brain.
THE PULSE.

The pulse of a healthy adult person beats from
seventy to seventy-five times per minute; but this is
by no means an invariable rule, for some persons
enjoy good health with a pulse at fifty, and even
lower. On the contrary, others are apparently as
well whose pulse is at ninety. Again, the pulse
varies at different periods of life: in infancy and
childhood it ranges from one hundred to one hundred
and twenty beats per minute, while in old age it is
diminished, and rates at sixty or seventy per minute.
A quick, full, bounding pulse indicates inflammation, or fever of an acute, inflammatory character.
A sluggish, full pulse evinces a want of nervous
energy.
A slow pulse, if not habitual, may indicate
debility, or tendency of blood to the head.
A changeable pulse indicates nervous derangement, and sometimes organic disease of the heart.
A fine, scarcely perceptible pulse denotes great
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THE TONGUE.

A thick, dirty, white coating on the tongue indicates gastric derangement.

A thick yellow coating on the tongue, with bitter
taste, indicates biliary derangement.
A thick white coating on he tongue, with red
papille appearing through the fur, indicates scarlet
fever.
A clean, smooth, bright red tongue, indicates
inflammation of the gastric or intestinal mucous
membrane.
A blackish, dry, furred, and tremulous tongue,
indicates abdominal or putrid typhus.
A sharp, pointed, tremulous tongue, indicates
irritation and inflammation of the brain, and is
often met with in habitual drunkards.
A swollen tongue, coated white, indented or
notched on the edges, indicates derangement of the
nerves and lining membrane of the stomach; met
with in gastric fevers.
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.

Pain is an important symptom, in whatever part
or organ it may have its seat.
Sharp, darting pains, ceasing and returning at
intervals, indicate neuralgia.
Tearing, throbbing, and aching pains, aggravated
by contact, pressure, or movement, indicate inflammatory action.

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Stitching or pricking pains, indicate determination
of blood to a part.
Sudden suspension of pain, where there is acute
inflammation, is ominous of mortification.
Sudden, rapid jerking movements of the head and
limbs, indicate irritation of the brain, delirium
tremens, and some forms of insanity.
Pain in healthy structures often indicate disease
in a remote part; for example, pain in the knee
indicates disease of the hip-joint, and pain in the
right shoulder and arm is often the result of a
diseased liver, or uterine disorder.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.

Short, hurried breathing, using principally the
abdominal muscles, indicates inflammation of the
lungs.
Using the muscles of the chest alone in breathing,
indicates abdominal inflammation.
Irregular breathing, with snoring respiration,
indicates compression of the brain, or the effects of
poisoning by opium.
Wheezing, short, panting, anxious respiration,
with constriction of the top of the windpipe, indicates asthma.
Cough, with expectoration of thick, dirty yellow,
or greenish sputa, which sinks in water, indicates
disorganization of the lungs.
Cough, with expectoration of tough, white mucus,
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Painful cough, with rust-colored or bloody
expectoration, indicates inflammation of the lungs.
ALVINE DISCHARGES.

Very light or clay-colored stools evince a lack of
bile.
Very dark evacuations denote an exuberance of bile.
Green discharges (of infants) denote acidity of
the stomach.
Glairy, dark green evacuations, like chopped
spinach, are characteristic of dropsy of the brain.
Bloody, mucous stools, accompanied by straining,
indicate intestinal inflammnation.
Hard, dry stools, indicate a relaxed and torpid
state of the mucous membrane of the bowels.
THE URINE.

Red, scanty urine denotes inflammation.
Urine clear, limpid, and abundant, nervous excitement.
Urine depositing a sediment, indicates biliary
derangement.
Urine turning milky soon after being emitted
(especially in children); denotes the presence of
worms in the intestines.

METHODS OF CURE.
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tion the chief ones only, and call them by their
common names without discussing the scientific
propriety of those names. And first comes
ALLOPATHY.

Of this method we must speak tenderly, because
our first training, and medical experiences, and
early prejudices were in this "school" of medicine.
The name indicates a system in which drugs are
used to produce an effect different from that of the
disease. Opium or morphine is given to make an
excited or nervous person sleep; opium is used to
produce torpor of the bowels in case
diarrhea;
mercury or aloes, or some other purgative drug, to
relieve constipation, and so on. A good knowledge
of the action of a few drugs, carefulness in using
them, combined with experience of disease and its
symptoms, some knowledge of anatomy and physiology, surgery and obstetrics, and a fair share of
common sense, makes satisfactory physicians of this
school: and until something better was known, this
system seemed the ne plus ultra so far as the principle and science of medicine were concerned.
The evils of the system lie at its very basis. Each
"drug" has an effect on the human organism, which
causes a tendency to reaction in the opposite direction so long as there is vitality sufficient. A dose of
morphine may, in most cases, produce sleep (torpor)
in an excited brain; but as the narcotic power of the
drug decreases the vital force rises against it and

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the nervous excitement is greater than before,
except as modified by circumstances, and now a larger
dose of morphine is required to overcome the
increased excitement. Opium temporarily relieves
the diarrhea, but as soon as its effects lessen, there
is danger from the reaction as well as from the poisonous effects of the drug upon the nerve centres.
Mercury and aloes, etc., purge the bowels, but
increased constipation follows and requires increased
doses or the trial of other purgatives.
Besides all this is,
First, The evil of the effects on other parts of
the body, besides where the disease is, and the often
permanent poisoning from the drug. It is not necessary for us to say to most intelligent readers
nowadays that opium, mercury, aloes, etc., leave
their impress and injurious effects upon the human
system, brain-nerves, stomach, bowels, bones and
tissues for years. If it were not so, the doctors
would have fewer calls, and lose many good fees for
treating obscure diseases of the nervous system,
diseases of the bones, intractable cases of piles, etc.,
etc., and,
Secon-dly, If the patient has vitality enough to get
rid of the disease, he has also to overcome the effects
of the medicine.
Its primary effects were to his
disadvantage by setting up a new disease, against
which he had to contend, and now its secondary
effects are in the wrong direction if the drug were
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Very much, however, can be said in favor of "old
school"-"regular "-"
allopathic "-practice as it
now exists. Blood-letting, purging, vomiting, and
shutting up fever patients to confined air with no
water to drink, and much other foolishness, is now
nearly done away with; and, to a large extent, they do
not give much medicine. The most intelligent, and
certainly the safer practitioners of the school, use
very little medicine, cutting their doses down to the
smallest amount from which they can expect drug
action, and advising often "that no medicine be
taken if it is possible to get along without it." This
is well; but there is something better in Hahnemann's discoveries and teachings.
Many patients under the care of allopathic physicians get well to be sure, and this fact to the
unthinking and conservative or "old fogy" mind,
serves as evidence that the practice, and consequently the system on which it is based, must be
correct. We object to this kind of evidence in favor
of a false principle for the following reasons:
Medical men know that some of their patients
will get well when every circumstance and influence
seems to be against them, just as some seem determined (and predetermined) to die in spite of every
effort to save them. Again many cases of acute
illness, such as disorders of the stomach and bowels
need only a rest of the digestive organs to bring
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gative administered, not only relieves the overloaded
viscera, but the stomach and bowels being weakened
and the appetite destroyed for the time by the
poisonous action of the drug taken, the digestive
apparatus necessarily has rest; and after relief from
the over-strain and drugging, recovers its usual tone
soon if naturally vigorous, or after a period of "dieting," if naturally weak. The load which was irritating the exhausted system was removed by the
drug; the drug was not in sufficient quantity to
kill and so the patient got well.
Another fact needs to be considered, to wit: that by
far the most successful part of modern "old school"
practice (they call it "regular" practice) is simply
EMPIRICISM--the dictionary definition of which is
"A practice of medicine founded on experience
and neglecting the aid of science: ignorant and
unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery."
The majority of their prescriptions are made
simply because some one else has prescribed the
same thing in the same disease, and recorded it in
some book or journal, or mentioned it at the meeting of some society, or in some advertisement. If
somebody else who stands high in the profession
endorses it, by saying he has "used it in a number
of cases," that settles it as the remedy for all cases
of a certain disease, no matter what the symptoms,
or who the patient, until a few failures of the remedy
lead to more experiments on the sick with some
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Now, of late years, it has happened very fortunately for the "regular" practice, that many of "the
lights" of the profession have "discovered" (by
clandestine reference to homoeopathic literature,
perhaps) that aconite, nux vomica, pulsatilla, phosphorus, etc., given in very minute doses, are
wonderfully curative in certain cases, also that
mercury, rhubarb, etc., "if given in very small
doses seem to be curative in cases of just the opposite nature from those to which we formerly
prescribed them." These discoveries have come
late, but early enough to save the credit (and many
of the patients) of the regular school, and as fast as
the discoverers can humiliate themselves enough to
admit the "discoveries," and be "cheeky" (best
word to express it) enough to publish them, the profession is ready to adopt them.
We contend-and can prove it--that aside from
cases which require only mechanical or surgical
treatment, or to be let alone, all the cures made by
drugs are, and must be, on the homceopathic or
Hahnemannic principle of cure. The proportion of
cures from these remedies used without regard to
the laws and principles of homoeopathy is of course
very small; and the damage done because they are
used unskillfully is often considerable.
It cannot very well be helped, however, for allopaths have educated themselves and their patients
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produce a sensible drug effect upon the animal
organism, such as vomiting, purging, depressing or
exciting the pulse, etc., etc., it has not power enough
to cure. In other words, unless it is strong enough
to do harm, it cannot do any good.
ECLECTICISM

Is the practice of those who say they are not
bound by the teachings of any "pathy," but choose
from all systems of medicine that which is best.
This sounds well, but an examination of their books,
the teachings of their colleges, and their practice, shows that it is simply a sort of progressive
allopathy.
There is no principle or science in their practice.*
They use the "active principles," and concentrated
essences and tinctures and extracts of drugs whenever possible, thus giving an apparently smaller
dose, but they give the drug because some one else
gave it, more than for any other reason. Of late
years, however, they have begun to triturate and
dilute their drugs, so as to avoid unnecessary drug
action, and, without intending it, are gradually
leaning more and more towards true homoeopathy.
In fact, the more intelligent and conscientious of
them are very apt to become staunch homoeopaths
after a few years' practice.
*According to Webster's dictionary eclecticism is "selecting and combining, without unity, principle, or a constant system."

METHODS OF CURE.
HYDROPATHY

Is the treatment of disease with baths,-sweats,
wet packs, etc., usually with much regard to diet
and other hygienic measures, and is well suited
to many cases. It has the great advantage over
some other " pathies" that no drugs are used. Its
disadvantages lie partly in the fact that most patients
require each of them much of the time of the physician, or of a skilled attendant, which makes considerable expense at home, or obliges one to spend
weeks or months at a "water-cure" establishment
where all the conveniences can be had.
Success in the cure depends very much upon the
experience and good sense of the physician, and the
time and money at the disposal of the patient.
ELECTROPATHY

Is theuse of electricity in some form for the
cure of disease, on the principle that a large class
of diseases arises from a too positive condition
of the human system, and that another large
class is caused by a negative condition, and
that a certain current, or combination of currents,
from a galvanic battery will change the positive
state to a negative one, or a certain other current or
combination, will make the negative state a positive
one. Sometimes, perhaps we should say often, all
that is attempted is to arouse the vital electricity of
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Baths and other appliances of convenience are
required, and the physician and patient find the
same difficulty in regard to expense of time and
money that hydropaths do. Each "treatment"
requires the personal care of the doctor, and time
sufficient to prescribe for several patients and give
them suitable homoeopathic remedies-to use at home.
The scientific electropath is often quite successful,
and not likely to do much harm, but electricity is a
dangerous element to play with, or to bungle with
in the attempt to cure disease. If you trust yourself
to an electropath, be sure he understands what he is
about.
The advantage to be gained from the use of a galvanic battery, or an electric machine, or an electromagnetic apparatus in the hands of a person not
skilled in the use of such apparatus by study or experience, is of a very doubtful character. If your physician advises the use of such apparatus and gives
directions accordingly-very well. We sell batteries
of all kinds, but we don't advise people to buy them
unless they know how to use them.
Twenty-five or thirty years ago people began to
find out that the simplest and ,safest way of using
electricity, or galvanism, or voltaism (they are all
the same) for the cure of disease, was by applying
to different parts of the body bands or belts made of
alternate pieces or scales of zinc and copper attached
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voltaic action in the metals and a gentle electric
influence is kept up as long as the metals remain
bright and clean. The large sales and profits of
the first manufacturers in England and America, and
the cures advertised, attracted attention, and soon
the papers were full of advertisements of galvanic
and voltaic bands, belts, in-soles, bracelets, anklets,
plasters, disks, etc. Next came magnetic appliances
on a similar plan, consisting of bands, belts, in-soles,
and even vests, corsets, and what not made up by
stitching small steel magnets between two thicknesses
of cloth or other material. These have been and are
being very extensively advertised and have sold
largely. If properly made and properly used there
is good in all these appliances, galvanic, voltaic or
magnetic. Thousands of dollars worth have passed
through our hands, and we have seen a multitude of
cases in which they have proved very successful.
The secret of their success and of their failure, can
be told in a very few words. All the good any of
them can do is to excite the natural electricity of the
body to increased activity, restoring more nearly the
normal or healthful condition of the system. There
the benefit ceases. If the patient is wise enough, or
wisely instructed, to lay aside the appliance as soon
as the increase in vital action begins to be like health,
and resume it again when necessary, from time to
time, it will in many cases be a help to renewed
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tion is kept up beyond that point, the effect is the
same as that of any other stimulant; the nervous
syste m wearies under the strain put upon it, and the
condition of the patient is worse than at first. As
we have said elsewhere the use of any stimulant can
be only as a temporary aid to the system in enabling
it to resist disease, to digest and assimilate food,
and so regain the normal strength, and if any strain
is put upon the nervous force in reliance upon the
false strength induced by the stimulant, the stimulant is doing harm instead of good.
ANIMAL

MAGNETISM.

One explanation of the curative effects of voltaic
or magnetic electricity finds its proof in the power
over disease which "magnetic healers" possess.
Of course they add to the mere animal magnetism
Some of
a biological or "mesmeric " influence.
them who have made careful study of the human
system and of disease in its various forms, and who
are especially gifted with the magnetic power, really
perform wonders. Some of them are mere adventurers and unfit to be called into a decent family.
It is worthy of remark that many individuals possess this power without being aware of it, and could
if they chose use it to the advantage of their invalid
friends.
HOMO(EOPATHY.

HOM (EOPATHY is the science of healing by the use

of medicines.

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Its adherents can make use of hot or cold water,
wet packs, electricity, diet, good nursing; can use
stimulants or narcotics in an acute case, as a temporary expedient, where nothing else can be done;
can administer castor oil or an injection to empty
bowels overloaded with green fruit or packed with
berry seeds, or employ an emetic or a stomach punip
to remove poison or indigestible substances from a
distressed stomach; can lance an abscess, amputate a
limb, or remove a tumor; but when medicinal treatment is required the true homoeopath depends upon
a scientific, simple, and unfailing law of cure-to
wit: that drugs which will produce certain symptoms in a healthy person, will, if given in a sufficiently
minute dose properly prepared, cure such symptoms
when produced by disease.
Instead of trying experiments upon sick people
"for the advancement of science," a number of persons in health are selected, and a certain drug is
given to every one for a certain time. A record of
the morbid symptoms caused by the drug is made
by each person and the reports compared. Such
symptoms as are verified repeatedly, are set down
The persons do not
to the credit of the drug.
usually know what drug they are taking. Cases of
drug poisoning are carefully studied, and in these
and other ways we are able to make up what is
called the " symptomatology" of our remedies.
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each of a large number of drugs in individuals of
different temperaments, constitutions, ages, and conNow
ditions of life, all of which are specified.
comes in a patient complaining of certain symptoms. Referring to our chart or book, we find the
counterpart of those symptoms under the name of a
certain drug. If we can make the dose so minute
that it will not have any poisonous or drug action
on the system, according to our law as first discovered by Hahnemann it ought to cure this patient:
but Hahnemann soon found that this was only true
of the few active drugs with which he first experimented.
He found also that experiment was
necessary to ascertain the right amount of division
of the drug to make the dose the proper quantity.
By triturating with milk sugar, and dissolving and
succussing in pure alcohol, he was able to extend
the division to what was practically infinity, and to
give as little as he pleased. Then he found that the
medicinal power, the true curative power of the
drug, was greatly developed by this peculiar process of attenuation, and taking substances like
lycopodium, sulphur, charcoal, etc., which were
supposed to have very little medicinal virtue, he
was able to prepare from them most valuable
remedies.
Many of the most valuable drugs are quoted in
the old school pharmacopoeias as having "little or no
medicinal virtue," and some of our homoeopathic

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physicians make failures with them because they
are not willing to use a sufficiently high attenuation.
A DISADVANTAGE.

Homoeopathy has one serious disadvantage to the
physician who practices it, in the fact that in most
of the families regularly under his care there is
seldom any very, serious illness. So that they do
not realize how much they are saved from by the
absence of crude drugs. They are not made sick by
the treatment, and are almost inclined to believe
they would have got well without the doctor or the
medicine.
IOMESTIC

HOM~EOPATHY.

Although Homoeopathy is a of a strictly scientific
character, and its most diligent student can find in
it opportunity and reward for his best and most
persistent endeavor; yet it is withal so simple that
any intelligent person, with a small well-written
book of instructions, a few remedies properly prepared, and a very little experience, can treat the
common ailments to which mankind is subject, more
safely and with better hope of success than the average Allopathic ("old school") doctor.
We make this bold statement in the perfect confidence which comes of many years' experience: and
if we had space for the numerous letters we receive
from customers all over the country-in fact, all over
the civilized world-corroborating our statement,
no one could doubt. We have long been accustomed

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to grateful remarks in letters, and from the lips of
those visiting our pharmacy o obtain supplies, like
the following, which are all exact copies from letters
in our possession, or so nearly as possible verbatim
reports of statements made to us by word of mouth:
"The dollar case I obtained of you has saved us
much expense in doctor's bills, which would have
come very hard on us this year."
"Our little stock
service to us. We
physician that we
them. Besides, we
our neighbors with

of medicines has been of great
are so far from a homoeopathic
should have suffered without
have been able to help some of
them."

"Our children were all down at once with the
measles, and pretty sick, too, but we had no doctor
and no serious trouble with them. The little pamphlet you gave me awhile ago, and the little pills,
helped us through all right."
"I can not tell you what a blessing our precious
store of medicine has been to us.
"The books are simply invaluable, as we are situated. * I have to resort to them almost daily.
"You would be amazed if you could see the variety of complaints we are called upon to treat: A
man with chronic asthma, a woman far gone with
5

A missionary in India.

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consumption, a child with congestion of the liver,
babies with teething troubles, cases of fever, and
many other disorders."
We could add daily to this list of testimony in
favor of "Home treatment" with homoeopathic
medicines until the book would be more than full.
THE

SECRET.

It looks very unreasonable to those who have
had no practical experience in Homoeopathy that
a person who knows little or nothing about
anatomy, physiology, chemistry; and who has had
almost no acquaintance with different forms of disease, should be so successful in treating almost all
the more common diseases with only a small assortment of homoeopathic remedies and a simple manual
purchased for one or two dollars.
Most of the secret lies in these two facts: First.
The law of cure is, as we have already said, scientific, certain, and very easy of comprehension and
application. Second. We do not treat the name of
the disease, or the disease as it is laid down in the
books. We treat the symptoms. Certain fever symptoms require a certain remedy; certain pains another
remedy, and so on. You do not have to wait until
the disease has fully developed itself, and you have
called in a physician to name it, and to battle with it
after it has a strong hold upon the system. You
take it at the beginning, and overcome it at once or
arrest its progress until you can have the help of a

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physician, just as you would extinguish or hold in
check a fire breaking out in your dwelling by fighting it at the start.
CAN WE

DO WITHOUT

THE

DOCTOR?

Of course, it may seem to some laymen, that, by
having a case of medicines and a book, they need
never employ a physician: and to some physicians
it will seem as if having every family supplied with
a domestic case would interfere largely with their
practice; but experience proves that either idea would
be a mistake. The intelligent layman will realize
that he is, more or less, dependent upon the experienced physician; although his case and book may
save him entirely from calling upon an old-school
doctor, or buying "patent medicines," or from making his bill with the homoeopathic doctor larger than
he is able to pay; while the intelligent, liberalminded homoeopathic physician understands that it
is to the advantage of men of his stamp to have the
people educated, and educating each other in the
knowledge of Homoeopathy.
SEE WHAT THE DOCTORS

THEMSELVES

SAY.

"The profession of medicine cannot, in this age of
progress, be treated as a mystery. The aim of the
enlightened physician is to make its principles as extensively known as possible, conscious that thereby
the greatest amount of good will accrue both to the
profession and the public. Still, the objection is
often urged that domestic medical books trench on

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OFF WITHOUT

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the legitimate sphere of the profession, and are
dangerous in their tendency. Neither objection is
valid. Drugs are employed in nearly every household-anti-bilious pills, epsom salts, rhubarb, sulphur, magnesia, quinine, etc. We are not, therefore, responsible as originators of domestic treatment; we rather seek to reform it by substituting
remedies and measures, the virtue of which is that
they are not only harmless, but very much more
efficacious than those ordinarily adopted."-Dr. E. H.
Ruddock.
" NOLENS VOLENS, we physicians have to give in, for
laymen will, without our permission, try their hand
at doctoring, and the best we can do is to instruct
them to do it in the right manner; and, after all, it
pays, even to the doctors; for there is no better proselyte-maker than a lay woman who has performed
some 'miraculous cure' with aconite or chainomilla."-North American Journal of Homeopathy.

"BETTER OFF WITHOUT MEDICINE."
It is quite a common thing nowadays to hear some
of the wiseacres say, "Let medicine alone; better off
without any," etc. This is the natural reaction from
the old-time habit of bleeding, puking and purging
for every ailment, which prevailed with past generations, and from the results of which many of the
present generation are now suffering more than they

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know. Disposition to congestions, weakness of
nerves, dyspepsia, chronic diarrhea, constipation,
piles, are some of the chief ills affecting the people

of to-day as a necessary consequence of the free administration of powerful drugs to their immediate
ancestors by physicians of the "old school," or their
free use as domestic remedies, or in the form of
"patent medicines."
This objection cannot be urged against the harmles homoeopathic medicines; and besides this, it is
well known that as people become familar with the
use of homoeopathic medicines they soon learn to act
upon the principle that "prevention is better than
cure," and by having always at hand a few of the
chief remedies, they endeavor to ward off and prevent
serious illness, by treating a slight cold or cough or
congestion of any kind prompily, having at the same
time no fear of injury from the medicines.
Not long ago we heard a gentleman who has six
children telling his experience on this point, and as
nearly as we can remember it was in brief as follows:
"Neither I nor my wife ever had much strength
of constitution.
We have now been married more
than twenty years. We were both favorable to the
homoeopathic practice when we were married, and
soon afterward were so situated that we could not
easily call a homoeopathic physician ; so we were
obliged to inform ourselves sufficiently in regard to
the use of the remedies, to take care of ourselves

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and our little ones in ordinary cases. During our
married life neither we nor our children have ever
taken a dose of "allopathic" medicine. Our children had not as good a start in life-so far as
parental constitution and ante-natal influence are
concerned-as children ought o have, and as I hope
and trust their children will have. With some of
them, the first two years of their life was a very trying period causing us much anxiety. Now they bid
fair to be on the average, stronger, healthier,
heavier, and more useful in he world than their
parents. Some of our neighbors have been disposed
to laugh at my wife because she was "always giving
medicine." At the same time they could not help
remarking our freedom from serious illness, while
they had often much suffering and sorrow from this
cause, besides frequent and sometimes heavy
doctors' bills to pay. The secret, so far as human
agency is concerned, was all in our having the
remedies always ready, and our being careful to prevent disease getting a foothold; and we never felt
afraid of the medicines doing any harm."
It is a noticeable fact that those who say so much
about never taking any medicine are almost invariably in the habit of taking a "gin sling" or a "whisky
toddy" every time they catch cold; quantities of
"boneset tea" whenever they feel "aguish ;" "a little
baking soda to correct the stomach ;" sulphur and
molasses "to cleanse the blood;" or fixing up some

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disgusting mess from the barnyard or sheep pasture
for the children's ailments; but-they "don't take
Oh, no!
medicine."
We must take ourselves as we are. These poor
bodies of ours are frail and decaying at best. By
inheritance, by unavoidable tasking of the energies
of mind or body, or by our own ignorance, imprudence or folly, health and strength are so impaired
that it is rare to find among men or women "a sound
mind in a sound body." The best that can be done
to-day, in most cases, is to so mend and repair and
keep in order "the house we lie in" that it will last
as long as possible, and in the best possible condition for its uses. This much is required of us by
Him who gave us the lease of the tenement. In doing this we shall also be doing the best that is possible for those who come after us.

ABOUT BOOKS
Medical Books, we mean. There are several which
we feel that we should call especial attention to as
books that should be in every family. Our own
Homoeopathic Guide, of course, stands first; but,
"in the multitude of counselors there is wisdom,"
and we would advise our friends to have also in tihe
library a copy of the "Stepping Stone," by Dr.
RIuddock (American edition), or Dr. Shipman's
Homoeopathic Guide, both of them dollar books, but

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59

full of valuable information. Next, in price, comes
Johnson's Family Guide ($2); "The Family Doctor," by Doctor Ruddock ($3). Every woman
should have "The Lady's Manual," by Dr. Ruddock,
with notes by Dr. Ludlam. Every mother should
own a copy of "Tokology," by Mrs. Stockham, and
Mrs. E. G. Cook's work, "For Mothers and Daughters." Then comes Mrs. Shepherd's most excellent
and valuable and timely book, "For Girls." We
do not advise that this latter work should be put into
the hands of every girl of a dozen years of age; but
every girl's mother should read it, and at the
proper time or times suitable portions of the book
can be read to the daughter, or the information she
needs be imparted to her.
If a girl has no mother, or loving guardian who
can take the place of a mother to her, it is better that
such a book as Mrs. Shepherd's should be put into
her hands at the age of fourteen or fifteen, or sooner,
than that she should go blindfold into the dangers
and mysteries and probably the miseries of life.
Besides these books you should have "The People's
Health Journal," edited by Dr. Rogers.
ABOUT THIS BOOK.
Read it carefully! Try to become familiar with
the instructions in the first part before prescribing.
The book is intended to be a help to you in
emergencies. It is full of practical hints and sug-

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gestions, and contains much reliable information
and valuable instruction from the best sources, but
it is not a whole medical library, and will not make
competent physicians of all who read it.
If the symptoms you have to treatseem to be
serious, or do not readily yield to the remedy you
have selected, it is better to call in a good physician
than to lose precious time and perhaps risk precious
life.
If you can not readily consult a trustworthy homcxopathic physician, then rest assured that by carefully following the directions here given, your
chances of cure are better than in the use of "patent
medicines," quack nostrums,drug-storeprescriptions,
or the ' cut-and-try" practice of the average oldschool doctor.
We should all remember, both physicians and laymen, that without the blessing of the Great Physician above, all our efforts to heal the sick are in
vain; also, that with His blessing, and under His
direction, what may have seemed to be hopeless
cases may find relief.
ABOUT THE MEDICINES.
THE DosE.-If the medicines are in pellets, the
dose for an adult is six of the ordinary size (No. 30) ;
if in cones, *one; if in powder, a quantity equal to a
small pea; if in liquid, a drop in a teaspoonful of
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require three-fourths of a dose for an adult; under
three years, half ,a dose; under six months, onefourth of a dose. When convenient, an excellent
plain is to dissolved three or four times the
ordinary dose in half a glass of water, and,
after stirring it well, to give teaspoonful doses of
the solution. The glass and spoon should be perfectly clean. The glass should be kept covered, and
the solution renewed every day. It is best to let
the medicines remain in the mouth for a short time
before swallowing; and the mouth should be free
from everything likely to interfere with the action
of the medicines, and well rinsed with water if
necessary before taking the medicines into it.
HOW OFTEN TO GIVE THE MEDICINES.-This question will be answered as each medicine is prescribed
in the following pages. Do not take the medicine
oftener than directed. Take less frequently after
improvement begins; stop taking when the improvement is quite evident; begin again if the improvement ceases.
CAUSES OF FAILURE.

If, now and then, it should happen that you are not
successful in a given case, do not always consider it a
failure of homoeopathy. It may be that you have
not rightly noted the symptoms. It may be that
your medicines are not good. Perhaps they have
spoiled for want of proper care. They should be
kept tightly corked, away from the light, in a mod-

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erately cool place, and entirely free from the odors
of matches, tobacco, camphor, turpentine, musk or
any other strong-smelling substances. The corks
should not be changed from one bottle to another, and
the medicines should not be poured out into the
hand and then back into the phial. They are very
delicate, and need to be nicely cared for if you want
to depend upon them.
FRAUD.--Perhaps your medicines never were good.
There is no better opportunity for fraud of a very
mean character than is afforded to unscrutpulous
persons in the sale of homoeopathic remedies. The
medicines are all so much alike in appearance, and
most of them so attenuated, that it is almost or quite
impossible to tell whether they are good or not till
they come to be tried by the sick. It is desirable to
knto beforehand; and the only way is o be sure that
they are obtained from a physician or a pharmaceutist who is competent to prepare them; too careful
to make mistakes; too honest to deceive.
DRUG STORE SUPPLIES.

Homoeopathy has now become so popular that
almost every drug store has a small stock of the remedies, and sometimes they are from a reliable source,
and are fresh, and safe to trust to in sickness. But
we happen to know that some druggists who suppose
they are selling reliable homoeopathic medicines
have been supplied by pharmacies who care more
for the dollars they can make than for the welfare of

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their fellow men or the credit of homoeopathy; and
every one knows it would not be difficult to find
druggists who will sell what they can make the most
money on "if it looks all right.
Remember also that as a rule the interests and
prejudices of the druggist are opposed to homoeopathy. Often he thinks it all a humbug, and cannot see but that one of the medicines is as good as
another, and one man's preparations just as good as
another's. Or, if he is too conscientious to give you
anything but what you ask for, there are two difficulties in the way of his doing it: First, being a
druggist, he can have no correct idea of the accuracy
and neatness required in the preparation of homceopathic remedies, or of the danger of injury to the
delicate attenuations from the odors and presence of
other drugs. His medicines are used in crude
form, and large doses, and are not much affected by
such influences. Secondly, he cannot help himself
if he would, because he has no other place or means
for making or keeping these preparations but those
exposed to these contaminations; and all his pellets,
sugar of milk, vials, corks, etc., must be saturated
with the odor of strong drugs like camphor, opium,
creosote, asafoetida, etc., and all his mortars, glasses
and other apparatus more or less affected by use for
various drugs. The conscientious druggist who has
a knowledge of homoeopathy will tell you "the drug
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Homoeopathic pharmaceutists and homoeopathic
physicians who have urged druggists to keep a supply
of homoeopathic remedies for domestic use are now
beginning to find out that they have made a great
mistake, and those caring for the interests of the
science more than for their own present gains are
setting their faces against this evil.
POTENCIES-ATTENUATIONs.--There

is

another

fact of much importance in prescribing for the sick,
and that is in regard to the "potency" or "attenuation" of the medicine given. With many patients
it makes a great difference in the quickness of the
cure: and the ignorance of this fact, or the unwillingness to recognize it, has disappointed many a
young and inexperienced physician who had made a
right selection of remedies. Not getting the effect
he expected in a given case, or not so quickly as he
expected, he has tried some other remedy not so well
suited to the case; and laymen are certainly liable to
the same blunder.
We have filled many a case of medicine for physicians just beginning practice, and for laymen of
no experience, with the "mother tinctures" and
"low triturations," which afterward were a disappointment to them, or of very little use. But they
wanted the medicines "as strong as they can be
made," not realizing that the drug strength and the
curative power are two different things.
Almost every one of the remedies requires potent-

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izing or attenuating to develop the curative forcesome to one degree, some to another. Those prepared for general family use range usually from the
third decimal to the sixth centesimal. Occasionally
a higher or a lower attenuation is required. Infants,
and women of delicate nervous organization, do
better in the use of the higher attenuations, even the
thirtieth, and in some instances the two hundredth:
of most medicines they should not take lower than
the sixth centesimal. In chronic diseases the higher
attenuations do best. Some intelligent physicians
will tell you that the high attenuations "are all
moonshine," just as other physicians will tell you
that "Homoeopathy is all moonshine;" but "facts
are stubborn things," and a fair trial will convince
any honest doubter. Persons not very susceptible to
the action of drugs, or who are accustomed to much

tea or coffee or tobacco, or other stimulants, as a rule
require the 2x or 3x preparations, which in delicate
organizations would either have no effect or would
produce an aggravation of the symptoms.
AGGRAVATION OF SYMPToMS.-If, after administering a remedy for a short time, there is a marked
aggravation of the symptoms, without apparent
cause, it is evidence that the medicine is well chosen,
but that the attenuation is too low-that is, there is
too much of the drug yet in the dose. In such a
case, if you are using the third or sixth, you can
sometimes remedy the difficulty by dissolving enough

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for about three doses in half a glass of water, stirring well, then, pouring out all but a teaspoonful,
fill up with water as before. Repeat the process
twice, and you will probably have the proper effect
from the medicine. If still there is decided aggravation, on resuming the treatment obtain the thirtieth
or two hundredth potency of the remedy. It is
sometimes better to give no medicine at all for
awhile after a decided aggravation of symptoms.
The drug action is likely to subside soon, and the
curative or secondary action to take its place, and no
more medicine may be needed at the time.
EXCEPTIONAL CAsEs.-The above instructions are

given to suit exceptional cases, and we have been
the more particular in giving them, because but
little is said on these points in the books for family
use, for the reason that usually the third and sixth
preparations act promptly and efficiently. It is desirable, however, that these matters should be explained somewhat to those who cannot readily look
to a physician for .an explanation. The prescriptions given in this book, and the chapter on Materia
Medica or the uses of the principal remedies, will
mention the potency likely to be most useful.
Another fact not generally known, except by physicians, is, that under different conditions of the
system, different preparations of the same medicine
are desirable, and that some medicines do better in
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medicine with the same patient acts better in one
potency for one set of symptoms, and in another pot
tency for another set of symptoms; and again, as

one grows old, and the constitution and habits
change, different potencies and different remedies
are required from those used successfully at an earlier period of life.
ALTERNATION OF REMEDIES.

If, after a careful study of the Materia Medica,
two remedies seem about equally indicated in a given
case, or no one remedy seems to cover the more important symptoms and two are found which seem
necessary to the case, let them be used alternately,
having regard to the directions found in other parts
of this book.
Medicines which naturally interfere with each
other will not usually be required in the same case
at the same time. If they seem indicated they should
be used several hours apart; or, one may be given
during the morning and the other in the evening, or on
alternate days; or the medicine covering the most
important symptoms may be given alone until those
symptoms yield, and then be followed by the other
remedy alone. If it is a chronic case, the two remedies chosen may be given during alternate weeks.
Medicines which do not interfere with each other
can be given as often as either one separately would
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come between the doses of the two remedies as would
have been between the doses of either one alone.
INTERFERENCE

OF REMEDIES.

It occasionally proves to be of importance to know
the relations of remedies to each other, as some
medicines considerably modify the action of others,
or entirely counteract or antidote others. This is a
fact not usually mentioned in a domestic manual,
and is even quite ignored by many practicing physicians; but we think it best to mention briefly some
of these peculiarities of the more common remedies.
Acon. and Bellad. antidote each other, but, fortunately, the action of both is prompt, and, in proper
doses, short lived, so that they can be given within
an hour of each other if it seem necessary, or two
or three doses of Acon. a half hour apart may be
given, followed after an hour by Bellad., the action
of which continues longer; then Acon. again in an
hour.
Acon. and Bryon., however, do not interfere, and
may be given in close alternation, or even at the
same time.
Acon. antidotes Chamom.
and Nux vom.
antidote each other, and it is almost useless to give
them at the same time.
Arsen. antidotes China, and if the two are given
in close alternation, the China should be a low potency, say 2x or 3x, and the Arsen. as high as the
sixth or even thirtieth.

Acon.

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Belladonna is antidoted by Acon., Coffea, Pulsal.,
according to what set of symptoms is most prominent.
Bellad. and Bryon. work well in close alternation
in some troubles of the throat.
Bryon. and Rhus tox. antidote each other, but can
be given in alternation with an interval of three or
four hours, which allows each to have its action upon
the system. A close prescriber will usually determine which of the two is the remedy, but there seem
to be cases in which both can be used to advantage.
Bryon. and Nux vomn. are often indicated in the
same case, and may be given at the same time, if
desired.
And so it is with Bryon. and China.
Camphor antidotes many remedies, and is especially the antidote to Cantharis and Nux vom.
China antidotes Gelsemium.
Chamom. and Pulsat. antidote each other, and as
many troubles of women and children have their
prominent symptoms under both these remedies, it is
necessary to study the case carefully and determine
between them.
Also, it is well to know that if too low a potency
of Pulsat. has been given (as is frequently the case
by persons not careful about their prescriptions),
and the peculiar hysterical condition or other symptoms peculiar to Pulsatilla manifest themselves, 2 or
3 doses of Chamom. 3x may save the patient some
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COMBINATIONS

OF REMEDIES.

As a rule, intelligent homoeopaths are opposed to
alternating or combining remedies, and with good
reason. The physician who has all the points in his
case before him, ought to be able, if well informed
in materia medica, to determine the one remedy suited
to the case at the time in almost every instance. But,
unfortunately, the physician can not always find out
all the symptoms, or is so pressed for time that he
cannot immediately give the case the study it may
require; and the non-professional prescriber is not
supposed to have much knowledge of the materia
medica or much experience. Here we are helped
by the plan of alternating remedies, as mentioned
above.
We have 'also a great advantage at times in the
fact that by following certain rules, which we have
not room to give the outlines of here, certain remedies can be so combined that when one has to prescribe for a disease common to a number of persons,
the prescription will be suitable in almost every
case, and at the same time sure not to be harmful to
any one of them all.
To illustrate: In the treatment of the majority of
cases of "piles," a very good prescription is IEsculus and Hamamelis alternately. (See that chapter.)
Now, these two medicines work well together, or at
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bottle, and let a double dose be taken, it is perhaps
as well as if in separate bottles; and if for all the
cases of piles for which he has to prescribe without
knowing the special symptoms, he gives this combination, the Esculus will cure those in which Esculus symptoms predominate, and the Hamamelis
will cure those to which it is suited, the partner in
the combination remaining inert-that is, if the attenuation chosen of each remedy was one which
would not produce "drug action" upon the system.
Then again, some medicines do not entirely interfere with certain others, but only modify their action:
and, still further, it is found a matter of much importance in these combinations that the right potency of each of these factors should be chosen.
A careful study of these points, with much experiment, has resulted in the successful combinations
which we are now receiving such gratifying reports
from, coming from all parts of the civilized worldCatarrh ,Disks, Teething Disks, Arnica Oil Compound, the Homoeopathic Remedy for Coughs and
Croup, Goitre Powder, Suppositories A, B, C and D,
etc. Of the common remedies which can be used
at the same time, or in combination by putting into
the same glass, or mixing in the same vial, we may
mention, for the convenience of our readers: Acon.
and Bryon., Arnica and Bryon, Arnica and Nux. v.
Bellad. and Bryon., Bellad. and Merc., Colocy. and
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and Nux vom., Acon., Spongia and Hepar sulph.,
China and phos. Any of these can be combined in
the potencies prescribed in the following chapters.
PREPARATION

OF POTENCIES

OR ATTENUATIONS.

Many people are puzzled by the different marks
used to distinguish the homoeopathic preparations
from each other. The following will explain: A
cipher or 0 with a mark across it indicates the
"prime " or " mother " tincture from which the other
tinctures of most remedies are prepared. One
drop of this, shaken for a certain time with ninetynine drops of homoeopathic alcohol (or, in some
cases, pure water and alcohol mixed) gives us the
first centesimal dilution or attenuation, marked "1."
One drop of this shaken with ninety-nine of alcohol
gives us the second attenuation, marked "2 ;" and so
on, as far as we please to carry it. Mineral and
chemical substances that are insoluble in the crude
form, also some vegetable and animal substances,
have to be triturated or rubbed in a mortar for a
certain length of time with sugar of milk, using one
grain of the crude substance to ninety-nine grains
of sugar of milk, which makes the first trituration,
Of this, one grain is taken and tritumarked "1."
rated with ninety-nine grains of sugar of milk, making the second trituration or attenuation, marked
"2," and so on. If we take one grain of the crude
substance to nine of sugar of milk, or one drop of
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imal attenuation, marked lx. Then of this we take
in the proportion of one to nine for the second attenuation, which we mark 2x, and so on. In order
rightly to develop the curative power of the remedy
and to protect it from the influence of other substances which would change or modify or destroy its
properties, many precautions have to be observed in
preparing and preserving the medicines, which it is
unnecessary to mention here. The utmost care and
nicety are also required in the procuring and selection and preparation of the original tinctures and
crude chemicals and other substances. Tinctures
from the vegetable kingdom are, so far as is practicable prepared from the juice of the fresh plant
when it is in its most perfect condition.
THE FORM IN WHICH THE MEDICINES ARE USED.-

This is often more a matter of convenience, or of
economy, or of taste, than anything else.
The pellets or globules are only pure sugar saturated, with an alcoholic solution of the medicines.
The cones are either pure sugar saturated like the
pellets, or are triturations of the less soluble medicines, made up into the cone shape after the triturating.
The powders are sugar of milk triturated with
the medicines as described on a previous page. The
dilutions are also there described. The mother
tinctures are alcoholic extracts from the medicinal
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Almost any of these preparations, if properly
made, will keep good for many years. Do not think
that the globules or cones have lost their virtue because the alcoholic smell and moist appearance is
gone. If they have been properly prepared and
properly taken care of, the virtue remains.
UNRELIABLE MEDICINES-IGNORANT AND DISHONEST DOCTORS, ETC.-In speaking of the success
of homoeopathy, we mean the result of the intelligent
use of reliable homoeopathic remedies by well-educated, well-qualified and skillful physicians; and in
the domestic employment of hese means of cure,
families should be so far as possible guided by the
advice of such physicians.
Sound sense and good judgment are important
requisites for either physician or layman in caring
for the sick.
Although in almost any case the sick man's
chances, present and future, are better in the hands
of an inferior physician who intelligently employs
good homoeopathic medicines, than under the treatment of the very best "old-school" doctor, who is
ignorant of the homoeopathic law, and of homoeopathic remedies, it is notwithstanding desirable to
have all the chances in one's favor that can be
secured. Don't be satisfied with an uneducated,
incompetent, unreliable physician; or if you can't
help yourself without being at the mercy of the
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fit of the doubt;" and do not let the lack in the man
and the physician be laid to the charge of homoeopathy.
Some doctors have made a pretense of conversion
to homoeopathy and are sailing under her colors,
because i
iis
more popular, while they know little
and care less about the principles and remedies of
homoeopathy. Look out for them! Beware of the
doctor who says, "I practice both systems."
Homoeopathy and allopathy are exactly opposites.
If one is true the other is a fraud and an abomination. How, then, can an honest man practice both?

MATERIA MEDICA.
Giving the Chief Uses of the Principal Remedies.
ACONITUM

(Aconite.

Monkshood.

NAPELLUS.

A plant growing in Germany).

The 3x potency-In fevers, with dry, hot skin
and intense thirst for cold water.
Hard, full and frequent pulse, restlessness, anxiety,
flushing of face, quick or labored breathing, chills
and shiverings followed by burning heat.
Spasmodic, dry, hard cough.

Croupy cough, if with fever symptoms.
Spasmodic croup.
Inflammation of eyes from cold winds.
Inflammations and congestions of all kinds from
taking cold.
The 6th or 12th potency for sleeplessness with
restlessness and nervous excitement or nervous
trembling.
Neuralgia with congestion of head or face from
anxiety or over excitement.
The action of Aconite is not of long duration and
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hour until 3 or 4 doses have been taken, then once
an hour. If the desired effect is not soon produced
it is probable that Bryonia, Belladonna, Gelsemium,
or some other remedy is necessary.
Acids of all kinds interfere with its action.
ANTIMONIUM

TARTARICUM.

(Tartrate of Antimony-Tartar Emetic.)

The 3 x trituration. For greatly oppressed breathing from accumulation of mucus in the breathing
tubes and lungs.
Inflammation of lungs with difficulty of raising
mucus.

Croup, with choking up from phlegm.
Rattling or hollow cough, worse at night, with
suffocation, throat full of mucus, sweat on forehead
and vomiting of food.
Eruption on the skin like varioloid.
In croup, give two or three doses a half hour apart.
For other symptoms not so urgent, a dose every
two hours may be sufficient. It should not be given
long in so low a potency. If nausea is produced or
increased, stop giving it.
APIS

MELLIFICA.

(The poison of the honey bee).

The 3 x trituration-For rapid, puffy swelling of
various parts.
Sack-like bags under the eyes appearing suddenly.
Erysipelas with much swelling, and without much
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Nettle-rash, and similar itching, stinging eruption.
Scarlatina or diphtheria, where there is stinging
pain in throat, with suppression of urine.
Dropsy, following scarlet fever.
Dropsy without thirst; scanty and high colored
urine, burning.
Frequent urging and inability to pass water.
Incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the
parts; worse at night and when coughing.
A dose every three hours.
The 200th potency is very useful in inflammatory
rheumatism with disposition to puffy swelling of the
parts.
A dose three times daily.
ARNICA MONTANA.

(Mountain Arnica-Leopard's-bane, from Germany).

The 1x potency gives prompt relief from the
weariness and soreness of muscles resulting from
extraordinary physical exertion, as in horseback
riding, rowing, heavy house-work, farm-work, etc.
Also immediately after a fall, a severe blow or
bruise, or severe concussion, especially if there is
danger of a shock to the spine or brain.
Also after any surgical operation, and after childbirth.
Also soreness of the chest muscles after long
coughing.
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like rheumatic pains in elderly people who have done
much hard work, but which are really only congestion of the tissue of over-strained muscles after a
little extra exertion or taking cold.
Two or three doses an hour apart are usually sufficient.
A tendency to a continuous crop of small boils in
a person whose system is reduced by hard work and
perhaps poor diet will be cured by taking Arnica
3x three times daily and resting.
Externally.-One part of the tincture to ten of
water is the best application known for removing
the soreness and swelling, and preventing discoloration of parts, in bruises, fractures, dislocations, etc.,
the injured parts being kept wet with the lotion, and
properly bandaged.
If the patient is subject to
erysipelas, or if the surface is torn and lacerated,
Calendula or Hamamehlis should be used instead.
ARSENICUM

(Arsenious acid.

ALBUM.

White arsenic.)

The thirtieth potency. For influenza. A dose
every three hours.
Stoppage of nose with watery discharge which
irritates the nostrils and upper lip. A dose every
three hours.
Asthma; great difficulty of getting breath, cannot
lie down for fear of suffocation. A dose every hour
till relieved.
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chill, fever and sweat being out of proportion to
each other, coming at irregular intervals, or one of
them entirely wanting. A dose every three hours.
Dumb ague or ague symptoms produced by taking too much quinine. A dose three times a day.
Typhoid fever with rapid pirostration, dry burning
skin, or cold clammy perspiration, intense thirst,
trembling fronm extreme weakness. A dose every
two hours.
Burning pain in stomach and bowels, with or
without diarrhea, after eating ice-cream, or taking
too much ice-water.
Cholera or cholera morbus, with violent vomiting
and purging, burning pains in stomach and bowels,
great restlessness and prostration. A dose every
twenty minutes till better.
General dropsy, or dropsy of the chest or abdomen
The 3 x potency. For cancers and ulcers, when the
raw surface burns like fire. A dose three times daily.
Poisoning from decayed or morbid animal matter.
A dose every two hours till four are taken, then
three times a day.
The characteristic symptoms of Arsenicum are
rapid and great prostration, with sinking of vital
forces. Pains,-if any, of a burning character. All
symptoms worse after midnight. Great thirst for
cold water, drinking but little at a time. Cold water
lies like a stone in the stomach or is immediately
ejected.

MATERIA MEDICA.
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TINCTORIA.

(Wild Indigo.)

The 2 x potency. For typhoid fever, first stages.
Scarlet fever or diphtheria when typhoid symptoms
threaten.
Ulcerated throat and tonsils.
Putrid sore throat.
In these and other inflammatory conditions resulting from blood-poisoning, Baptisia holds the same
place as Aconite in simple fever. A dose every two
hours.
BELLADONNA.

(Deadly Night-shade, from Europe.)

The 3rd potency usually, but many patients are
very sensitive to the action of Belladonna and cannot
use any potency lower than the 30th or 200th without aggravation of the symptoms, especially if the
difficulty is of the brain or nerves. Belladonna is
chiefly useful in inflammatory conditions, with bright
red color of the parts, pain, great sensitiveness to
light and sound. Pain comes suddenly and goes
suddenly.
Inflammation of the eyes with dilated pupils,
dread of light, etc.
feeling as if
Sore throat, with bright red
raw; pain when swallowing, especially liquids.
Tonsils swollen, with bright red color.
Asthma in hot damp weather, worse after sleep.

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Asthmatic paroxysm in, afternoon and evening
with sensation of dust in lungs.
Dry cough from dryness of throat, from tickling
itching in back part of throat at the top, in the evening after lying down.
Cough from tickling at base of tongue as if one
had inhaled dust, the uvula having relaxed tittilates
the back part of the tongue.
Hysterics; head feels as if boiled;finds fault with
everything.
Toothache with throbbing and congested face.
Delirium, sees frightful visions.
Headache; pain in forehead with throbbing, redness of face and eyes, worse by movement.
Erysipelas, with bright scarlet surface without
formation of vesicles.
Scarlet fever, with red, smooth, shining appearance of the surface.
Convulsions or delirium of infants from congestion of brain.
Pain in back, as if it would break, hindering
motion.
Dull heavy pain in back near hips, with confusion
of ideas from congestion of head.
Sleeplessness; very sleepy but cannot sleep.
A dose every two hours is frequent enough for most
symptoms.
Belladonna is a preventive of scarlet fever if
taken once a day during an epidemic.

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ALBA.

(White bryony, from Germany.)

The 3rd potency usually, for pleurisy, pneumonia,
acute bronchitis.
Watery catarrh, frequent sneezing, pain in eyes
and forehead.
Cough, dry, severe, with tickling under the breastbone, or with labored, short, rapid breathing.
Cold in the chest; stitches and shooting pains,
worse by coughing and deep breathing.
Hoarseness from a fresh cold.
Rheumatism of joints and muscles, worse by
movement.
Constipation from torpidity of bowels or liver,
the feces large and passed with difficulty.
Diarrhea in the early morning, caused by getting
chilled.
Irritable temper; depression of spirits; from derangement of liver.
Bilious remittent fever with chilliness.
Typhoid fever with chilliness, lips dry and cracked,
motion of jaws as if chewing.
(The
or 30th potency is best suited to these
low conditions of the system.)
Weariness, lameness, stiffness of joints, with low
spirits, from taking cold.
Headache, congestive or rheumatic, increased by
movement.
Headache, with feeling as if brain would press
through forehead on stooping.

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Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should
appear.
Wry-neck; stiff neck; from a chill. Cannot move
the head.
Bloating, or puffiness of eyelids, from taking cold.
Sleep always troubled; dreams and talks of the
day's business.
A dose every two hours.
Bryonia is particularly adapted to bilious and irritable temperaments, also to affections caused by
exposure to cold, dry weather and piercing winds.
The pains for which Bryonia is curative are of
the kind which are made worse by motion; better by
resting.
CALCAREA

CARBONICA.

(Carbonate of lime, prepared from oyster shells.)

This remedy is used chiefly in chronic difficulties,
and many cases do well for a time with the 3d or
6th potency, as, for instance, the diarrhea of infants, or other cases where a few doses only are required. In chronic cases the 200th is often needed,
and it is considered good practice to give the 6th
and 200th alternately.
Calc. carb. is of great value in scrofulous and tuberculous affections, and other conditions resulting
from defective assimilation and nutrition, with de-

bility and emaciation:
and flabby.
Difficult teething.

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RRickets.
Diarrhea of teething children, the stool being
usually light colored and very offensive.
Skin of babe dry and flabby.
Openings between the bones of the head unusually large.
Much sweating of the head-wetting the pillow
all about.
Self-willed children inclined to grow fat, but lacking strength of bone and muscle.
Scrofulous consumption, with tight cough, oppression in breathing, expectoration of yellow or
green fetid pus, bleeding, hectic fever, night sweats,
etc.
Menses too often, too profuse, and lasting too long.
The least excitement causes them to return.
The action of Calcarea continues for a long time
after the impression is made upon the system. The
first three or four doses may be given three hours
apart after that a dose night and morning is suffiAt the end of a week discontinue for a week,
and then resume again, giving every other week,
night and morning, as long as required for the cure.

cient.

CALCAREA

PHOSPHORICA.

(Phosphate of lime.)

The 3x and the 200th potency alternately. A
dose of each daily, for
Babies which lose flesh; are not nourished by their

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food; are slow in getting their teeth; will not stand
or learn to walk; slow formation of bone.

Rickets; spinal curvature in young children.
Nursing mothers having infants with above symptoms; or mothers likely to have them.
Failing mental faculties of people past middle
life.
CALENDULA

OFFICINALIS.

(The French marigold, from France and Germany.)

The chief uses of Calendula are as an external
application. for cuts and wounds, either slight or
severe, where the skin or tissues are torn and lacerated, or joints pierced, as in accidents on railroads
or in machine shops, gun-shot wounds, surgical
operations, etc.
The action of the true Calendula in these cases is
wonderfully curative, controlling the bleeding, relieving the pain quickly, preventing the formation of
matter, promoting union of the parts, and a tendency
to heal without scars.
Use a teaspoonful of the concentrated tincture to
a teacup of water, and after bathing the injured
parts with this lotion, cover them with a bandage,
kept wet with it.
Galendula Cerate, has been used extensively for
dressing ulcers, sores resulting from severe burns
and scalds, old sores, etc., but is now to a considerable extent superseded by Calenduline, which is
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Cosmoline. The perfumed variety is an agreeable
and convenient emollient for chapped hands and lips,
excoriation and abrasions of the skin, itching and
chafing of the skin of infants.
CAMPHORA.

(Camphor, the oil or gum of the Camphor tree in Asia.)

The genuine Rubini homoeopathic tincture is the
most useful preparation, because of uniform strength
and most to be relied upon. The large sugar Pills,
saturated with it, or tire Camphor Cones prepared
from it and pure sugar, are the most convenient
form for instant use.
Camphor is an antidote to almost all the drastic
(irritating, purging) vegetable poisons. Induces
reaction from congested conditions caused by cold.
First, or chilly stage of catarrh or influenza: if
given promptly, the disease is arrested.
In sudden sore throat or feeling of a lump in the
throat from taking cold, Camphor relieves at once;
also loss of voice, coming suddenly from a chill;
also sudden strangury.
Dose for an adult, one or two drops or pills or
cones every fifteen minutes. If the tincture is used,
drop it on lump sugar. Hold the medicine in the
mouth or throat as long as possible. Do not take
more than three or four doses (except in cholera).
Inhaling Camphor gives relief in fainting fits and
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In cholera and cholera morbus its curative effects
are very prompt.
In the Asiatic cholera of 1866 Rubini's Camphor
was used in Europe with excellent success. Given
every five minutes it produced reaction in a short
time in multitudes of cases.
Camphor should be kept separate from other
homoeopathic medicines, as its odor injures some of
them. It should not even be inhaled while taking
other medicines, as it counteracts the effect of several
of them.
CANTHARIS.

(Cantharides.

Spanish Fly.)

The 3rd potency forAcute inflammation of bladder or kidneys; scanty,
scalding or bloody urine; strangury; dysentery.
Stools like scrapings of the intestines, shreddy, red,
or white mixed with blood, with burning and biting
pain when urinating. A dose every two hours.
Incontinence of urine from nervous excitement
and hysterical condition. A dose of 30th potency
every four hours.
CHAMOMILLA

MATRICARIA.

(Chamomile, from Germany.)

The 6th potency for
Fretfulness of teething children; must be carried
up and down the room.
Difficult dentition; gums swollen and sensitive;
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Infant's colic, with continual fretting.
Diarrhea of infants, from cold or teething, with
green, watery, corroding stools, smelling like rotten
eggs, and containing white particles; preceded by
cutting pain.
Catarrhal cough of young children, with hoarseness and rattling of mucus in the throat.
Dry, hacking cough, one cheek red, the other pale.
A dose every two hours.
Earache from cold..
Toothache nervous.
Neuralgia of face, with irritable temper.
Colic of adults, with soreness of the bowels, or,
with pain low down in the bowels.
Nervous and bilious affections from anger and
vexation.
A dose of 3x potency every hour.
The-adult patient requiring Chamomilla is usually
found peevish and irritable; cannot bear pain; can
hardly answer a question civilly.
CHINA-CINCHONA

OFFICINALIS.

(Peruvian bark, from South America.)

The 6th potency for
Debility, with disposition to sweat, resulting from
exhausting discharges, loss of blood, diarrhea, prolonged nursing, or other excessive waste of the
system.
Night sweats.

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Ringing in ears, and fainting spells.
Loss of appetite; slow digestion; food fermenting
in the stomach with accumulation of gas, whicf does
not seem lessened by belching.
Torpidity of liver; jaundice.
Chronic diarrhea.
Summer diarrhea, painless stools mixed with undigested food; much distension of abdomen.
Diarrhea, with stools yellow, watery, involuntary.
A dose every three or four hours.
Intermittent fever; chill every other day, each
chill coming about three hours earlier.
A 2-grain dose of Chin. sulph., lx trituration, every
two hours for twelve hours before the time for the chill,
and afterwards the same dose once an hour for three
This for
hours before the time for the next chill.
a week. Then the same dose in the evening before
every seventh day from the last chill, for at least four
weeks. Some say for thirteenweeks, to make sure of
no return.
CINA ANTHELMINTICA.

(Wormseed, from Asia.)'

The 3x potency forSymptoms of Thread worms-picking and digging at the nose; grinding the teeth at night; paleness about the mouth; blue semi-circles about the
eyes; convulsions or spasms; voracious appetite alternating with poor appetite; desire for sweets; itching at the anus; diarrhea; wetting the bed; cutting
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A dose three or four limes daily.
The 200th potency, every hour a dose, is curative
forFever of young children, commencing every evening with chill; then burning heat of whole face;
redness of cheeks; thirst; fever lasts all evening
and night, and Aconite does not relieve.
COFFEA CRUDA.

(Raw Coffee, from Arabia.)

The 6th potency forUnnatural sensitiveness of the nervous system.
Increased and morbid irritability of the organs
of sense.

Wakefulness of infants and old people; mental
faculties and senses unusually active; seems impossible to keep the eyes closed.
Sleepless because of crowding of ideas into the
brain.
Headache from unusual activity of mental faculties.
Toothache-nervous-with above indications.
A dose every half hour.
The 200th potency every half hour promptly relieves nervous sufferings of highly excitable children and hysterical women. AlsoThe ahlmost insupportable pains which some women
feel during or after labor, accompanied by great
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COLOCYNTHIS.
(Colocynth. Bitter Cucumber, from Asia Minor.)

The 3x trituration for
Colic-sharp, griping, with much flatulence, and
with diarrhea.
Cutting colic of infants, causing sudden, sharp
cries.

Violent colic, causing the patient to bend double;
or so severe that the patient wants to press the corner of the table into the abdomen; with restlessness,

moaning and lamenting.
A dose every fifteen minutes.
Sciatica-drawing, tearing pain in leg from hip

to knee; the nerves of region of hip joint suffer
most.
A dose once in two hours.
GELSEMIUM

(Gelsemium.

SEMPERVIRENS.

Gelseminum. Yellow Jessamine.)

The 3x potency, except in cases where the remedy
has to be continued for some days, then the 6th

potency is best.
Gelsemium affects both the nervous and the muscular systems, and its symptoms have a similarity
to those of Aconite and Belladonna. It is chiefly of
use for--Sudden headache with dizziness, heaviness,
dullness, and a state of half stupor.
Sunstroke, with similar symptoms.
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ing forward till causing a bursting pain in forehead and eyeballs.
Headache with pain over right eye, flushed face,
blood-shot eyes.
Brain fever, when a few doses of Aconite have
failed to give relief.
Scarlet fever, simple, with great restlessness,
when Aconite and Belladonna fail to bring out the
eruption full and bright.
Simple fevers of women and children when Aconite
is not sufficient, or when there is congestion of the
brain which Aconite does not relieve, and no delirium
calling for Belladonna.
Fever without thirst; patient wants to lie still, has
inflamed tonsil on right side.
Nervous conditions for which morphine and
chloral are often prescribed on the supposition that
"nothing else can be done."
Nervous rigors with chattering of the teeth and
shivering without chilliness; from fright, mental
emotion, or hysterical disposition.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis, head drawn back to
one side.
Neuralgia, with nervous twitching, especially of
left side of the face.
Hysterical spasms, occurring suddenly.
Causeless nervous excitement of hysterical patients.
Sleeplessness and mental apathy of drunkards.
A dose every hour: after three or four doses not
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Incontinence of urine in old persons from partial
local paralysis.
Put six drops of the pure tincture
into half a glass of water, stir well and give a tea-

spoonful every half hour till improvement begins.
HAMAMELIS

VIRGINICA.

(Witch-hazel.)

The lx forCongestion of the veins or weakness of their coats,
resulting in bleeding from nose, mouth, stomach,
lungs, bowels, uterus, or anus; the blood being of
a dark venous character, and flowing steadily. A
dose every fifteen minutes for an hour.
Varicose veins, not ulcerated. A dose three times
a day. Also apply a compress wet with Distilled
Extract of Hamamelis, and well covered with oiled
silk.
Painful and bleeding piles, with sensation as if
the back would break. A dose every two hours,
and frequent applications of Hamamelis cerate or
Halsey's Pile Cerate.
Pain low down in back after heavy work, so
severe one does not want to move; excessive weariness and tired feeling. A dose every hour till
relieved.
Discoloration from a bruise: bathe with the extract.
Hamamelis may be substituted for Arnica in case
of patients liable to erysipelas.
The Distilled Extract of Hamamelis has long been
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cure-all. It is manufactured by several different establishments and sold under different names, such as
Pond's Extract, Marvel of Healing, Extract of
Witch-Hazel, etc. Halsey's Extract will be found
equal to any.
HEPAR SULPHUBIS CALCAREUM.

(Hepar Sulphur.

Liver of Sulphur.

Sulphuret of Lime.)

The 6th potency, forSore throat with sense as if a lump or plug on
swallowing.
Scraping in throat, impeding speech but not swallowing.
Stitches in the throat extending to the ear, worse
when swallowing food.
Sensation as if a fish-bone or splinter were sticking in the throat.
Slow heading and pointing of boils, carbuncles or
other abscesses.
A dose every three hours.
Skin unhealthy; disposition to boils; every scratch
becomes a sore.
Eruptions at side of the mouth and on the chin.
A dose three or four times a day.
The 200th potency for-

Inflammatory affections of the windpipe.
Chronic bronchitis.
Wheezing breathing.
Hoarseness in the evening.

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Tendency to croup.
Extreme sensitiveness of skin to cold air, the least
exposure bringing on cough.
A dose three times a day.
Croupy, choking, strangling cough, brought on
by exposure to dry, west winds.
Croup, with choking, strangling cough.
A dose every hour.
Hepar Sulph., in this potency (200th), if properly
prepared, is certain, in almost every case, to break
up or prevent a cold, if given as soon as the first
symptoms are observed; or, what is better, inmediately after exposure. Its action will be found perfectly marvelous. One dose, or two an hour apart,
is sufficient. Children subject to croup are usually
safe from its attacks if this remedy is given whenever they have been exposed to the damp, raw winds
which induce this ailment.
IPECACUANHA.

(Ipecac, from South America.)

The 3d potency for-

Asthma spasmodic.
Whooping-cough, with spasms and rattling
breathing.
Whooping-cough with nose-bleed; vomiting;
child loses the breath; turns pale or blue, and limbs
become rigid.
Cough-constant; no phlegm raised, although
wind-pipe seems full; strangling on account of
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Cough-croupy-at night; fat children, especially.
Nausea or vomiting from simple derangement of
stomach.
Headache, with nausea; sick headache.
Diarrhea; stools grassy green with nausea and
griping, pinching pain about the navel.
A dose every hour ill better.
KALI

BICHROMICUM.

(Bichromate of Potash.)

The 3x trituration forCroup, in the early or formative stage; very tough
mucus, almost strangling the patient.
Membranous croup; or,
Diphtheritic croup, with
Voice hoarse, uncertain; cough hoarse, metallic;
swallowing painful; tonsils red, swollen, covered
with false membrane difficult to detach, with
• Expectoration of tough, stringy mucus, and coughing up of casts of elastic fibrous nature.
Diphtheria, with tough, stringy, ropy mucus;
patches dotted here and there on tonsils; pain shooting up into the ear; bladder-like appearance of the
uvula (hanging palate), with much swelling, but
little redness.
Whooping-cough with tough expectoration.
Sore throat; uvula relaxed, with sensation of a
plug in the throat.
Ulcers in the throat, discharging cheesy lumps, of
offensive smell.

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Back part of throat dark red, glossy, puffed, showing branches of pale-red blood vessels.
Loss of smell from acute catarrh.
Bad odor from the nose, on account of catarrh.
Nasal catarrh, with tough, ropy discharge, or of
tough, green masses or hard plugs.
A dose every hour until two or three are taken,
then, if the remedy is needed, give less and less
frequently.
MERCURIUS

SOLUBILIS.

(Hahnemann's Soluble Mercury.)

The 6th potency forMumps. It suits almost every case. Give three
times a day.
Inflammation of ear with stinging, tearing pains,
discharge of pus, green, offensive, glands swollen.
Thrush, canker of the mouth.
Drooling of infants at time of teething.
Toothache, with ulceration of gums, gum boils.
Sore eyes, the lids sticking together in the morning.
Soreness of jaw after taking cold in decayed teeth,
all the teeth on that side feel too long.
Catarrh with profuse secretion of mucus.
Sneezing cold, "snuffles," of infants.
Jaundice, yellowness of skin and white of eyes.
Diphtheritis, tonsilitis, etc., with great salivation.
Sore throat with swelling, pain, difficult swallowing and ulceration.

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throat;

dirty,
Ulcers on tonsils and back part of
flat, unhealthy looking.
Tongue red, with dark spots, or dirty white color.
Liver torpid.
Diarrhea with griping pains before stool, frequent
bilious discharge, straining and urging at stool, the
griping pains being relieved by the movement of the
bowels.
Dysentery, the stools bloody, or of mucus mixed
with bloodd; with straining and urging worse at night.
A dose every three orfour hours.
All complaints for which Mercurius is required
have the peculiarity of being worse at night, with a
tendency to sweat, which does not relieve.
MERCURIUS

BIJODATUS.

(Biniodide of Mercury.)

The 3x trituration is superior to the other preparations of mercury forSore throat; diphtheria.
Toothache, from ulceration of the teeth.
Catarrh, with sudden and profuse secretion of
mucus, irritating the throat.
After two doses one hour apart, give every two
hours for once or twice, after that twice a day.
Also for whitish yellow or bloody discharge from
the nose, raw feeling of back part of the nose, swelling and disease of the nasal bones. A dose three
times a day.

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MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS.

(Corrosive Mercury.)

The 3rd trituration is superior to other preparations of mercury in the treatment of dysentery.
NUX VOMICA.

(Vomit-nut.)
The third potency forHeadache, with giddiness, congestion of face, and
constipation.
Sick headache occurring periodically.
Headache from mental weariness, or from want of
physical exercise, or want of sleep; or from overeating, or after intoxication.
A dose every hour.
Cold in the head, with stoppage of the nasal
secretions, causing headache.
Catarrh; nose running during the day, at night
stopped up.
A dose every three hours.
Loss of sleep; waking at 3 A.

M. ;

lies awake for

hours with congestion to brain; falls a sleep late in
morning with troublesome dreams, and rises unrefreshed.
A dose three times a day and at night.
Heartburn; water-brash; flatulence of a spasmodic
character like hiccough; much sour belching; food
lies like a stone in the stomach.
A dose every hour.

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Hypochondriasis of studious men sitting too much,
with dyspepsia and abdominal complaints.
Constipation with ineffectual desire for stool, or
passing frequently small quantities, with a "cannotget-done" feeling.
Drowsiness-excessive; cannot keep from falling
asleep long before bed time.
A dose three times a day.
Piles ;from constipation, the excessive use of coffee,
or purgatives.
A dose every night, followed by a dose of Sulphur,
6th, every morning.
Nux vomica is especially suited to the complaints
of very particular careful persons inclined to get
excited and angry, or to be contrary. The potency
required varies much with individuals, and according to the part of the system affected. The third
suits most cases. Persons whose nerves are less
sensitive from using strong coffee, much tobacco, or
other drugs, usually require 3x or even 2x to affect
them favorably. Delicate women and children do
better with the 6th. Complaints arising from organic
affections of the brain or spinal marrow often require
the 30th and 200th potencies.
PHOSPHORUS.

Usually the 6th potency (but in sensitive conditions of the lung the 30th potency is required) forInflammation of the lungs, especially in children,
with burning or very sore feeling.

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A dose every two hours, alternating with Aconite
every hour if there is fever also.
Bronchitis-chronic, with much constitutional irritation.
A dose twice a day.
Hoarseness, with loss of voice.
Cough, dry, or with expectoration of rust-colored
mucus, or mucus streaked with blood, the cough
accompanied with sharp, "sticking" pains in chest.
Cough-chronic.
Cough-dry-tickling, in evening, with tightness
across chest; expectoration in morning.
Cough worse coming from a warm room into the
cold air.
A dose every three hours.
Consumption. It moderates the cough and diarrhea
and relieves the congestion of the lungs.
Diarrhea chronic, wasting.
A dose three times a day.
Frequent diarrhea in cholera seasons; discharges
gushing forth as from a hydrant; no control over it.
A dose every two hours.
Constipation; feces slender, long, narrow, dry
and tough, like a dog's, and voided with difficulty.
Debility; physical and nervous, from loss of animal fluids or excesses of any kind.
Brain-fag.
A dose three times a day and at night.
Phosphorus is well suited to the complaints of
tall, slender, slim patients.

MATERIA
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(May Apple.

MEDICA.

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PELTATUM.

Mandrake.)

The second trituration is most useful for
Diarrhea of teething infants; frequent chalk-like
stools, often very offensive, with gagging and excessive thirst.
Diarrhea--of infants--dirty water soaking through
everything.
Diarrhea with hot, watery stools.
Diarrhea with frequent, painless, watery, gushing,
fetid stool, with mealy sediment mixed with mucus.
Diarrhea, stools offensive, preceded by griping,
colic, with heat and pain in anus.
Diarrhea, bilious, with griping; very copious
evacuations.
Diarrhea immediately after eating or drinking.
Irregular action of the bowels, stools too frequent,
natural, but exhausting.
Constipation and bilious diarrhea alternating.
Constipation with stools, pale, hard, dry or clayey
voided with difficulty; flatulence, headache.
Small quantity of food satiates, and sudden nausea
comes on resulting in vomiting.
Faintness with sensation of emptiness in abdomen
after stool.
Falling of the bowel (prolapsus ani) in infants or
young children after straining at stool or from
motion.
Rolling of the head during difficult dentition.

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Perspiration abundant on the head, with coldness
of the flesh while teething.
A dose every three hours.
PODOPHYLLIN.
(The Resinoid of Podophyllum.)

The 3x trituration for

Torpidity of the liver, causing dull feeling of the
head, depression of spirits, flatulence, constipation,
loss of appetite, vertigo, giddy feeling, tendency to
fall forward.
A dose every three hours.
PULSATILLA

NIGRICANS.

(Wind Flower, from Germany.)

The 3rd potency, forIndigestion from eating rich or fatty food.
A dose every hour.
Fat food disagrees with the stomach even in
quantity necessary for health; the mention of it disgusts.
A dose three times a day.
Simple diarrhea from indigestion.
A dose every two hours.
Measles.
Stye on eyelid.
Earache of children, with gathering in the ear.
Catarrhal symptoms; inflammation of nasal membranes with or without discharge; loss of smell and
taste.

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Stoppage of nostrils so that breathing must be
through the mouth, with dry or feverish feeling, and
depressed, weak condition.
Catarrh with bland, colorless mucus and later a
yellowish green discharge.
Hysterical condition, disposition to cry at everything-in women and girls of mild, gentle, yielding
nature.
Menses suppressed, or too long and scanty, particularly if caused by getting feet wet.
Menstrual colic with great restlessness, tossing in
every possible direction.
All evil results from irregular menses caused by
getting feet wet or otherwise taking cold.
Piles, protruding, painful and bleeding easily.
Wetting the bed, particularly in little girls.
A dose every three hours and at night.
Thirstlessness is a peculiarity of Pulsatilla patients.
They rarely have violent thirst with any complaints.
Also, they usually feel better in the open air, and
worse on entering a warm room.
Women subject to frequent or profuse menses
should not take the third potency of Pulsatilla. The
30th is low enough, and many sensitive patients
require the 200th.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON.

(Poison Oak.

Poison Ivy.)

The 3rd potency, forPain, stiffness, lame feeling, on first moving after

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a rest, or on getting up in the morning, relieved by
continued motion.
Rheumatism with similar symptoms.
Complaints caused by getting wet in a rain while
over-heated.
Restlessness at night in patients subject to rheumatism; have to change position frequently.
Muscular rheumatism of left side: sciatica of left
side.
Erysipelas with little vesicles (or like blisters).
Severe sprains of tendons or ligaments. (The
30th potency is best for this symptom.)
A dose every two or three hours.
SILICEA.

(Pure Silica.)

The 200th potency, forScrofulous ulcers, felons, abscesses. It promotes
healthy suppuration and proper healing of all such
inflamed conditions of the tissues.
Sores and eruptions following vaccination.
Consumption; cough with pus in the expectoration.
A dose night and morning.
SPONGIA TOSTA.

(Roasted Sponge.)

The 3x potency, forCroup, in early stage.
A dose every other half hour alternating with
Aconite.

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Cough; dry, barking, hollow, croupy, or wheezing
and asthmatic.
Cough; dry, day and night, with burning in chest.
Hoarseness with dry cough and difficult breathing.
Sensation as if a plug in the windpipe, with difficult breathing.
Incessant cough from low down in the chest, where
there is a sore pain.
Burning sore pain in chest and bronchial tubes
with rawness of throat when coughing.
A dose every two hours.
Goitre.
A dose twice a day.
SULPHUR.

(Sublimed Sulphur, Purified.)

The 6th potency, for-Skin eruption with itching which is relieved
sometimes by scratching, and made worse by the
warmth of the bed.
Piles, with external itching.
(See Nux
Piles, with chronic constipation.
vomica.)
Sick headache every week or every two weeks, with
much heat at top of head.
Diarrhea, some hours after midnight or driving
out of bed suddenly every morning.
Dislike of infants to be washed.
Scrofula and rickets.
Scrofulous sore eyes.

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Tendency to frequent boils.
Black pores in the skin of the face.
Rheumatism and rheumatic aching. Some physicians call it " the king of remedies" in this disease.
A dose three times a day.
VERATRUM

ALBUM.

(White Hellebore, from Switzerland.)

The 6th potency, forDiarrhea or cholera with violent vomiting, cramps,
and great prostration.
Cold sweat on forehead in almost hopeless cases of
croup, cholera, or cholera-morbus.
A dose every half hour.
Great prostration in cases of children's ailments;
neck too weak to hold head up, particularly in whooping cough.
A dose every three hours.
SPECIAL

NOTE.-Parents

or

PREPARATIONS.

nurses

in

care of the sick

have not always the time or the inclination to study
out the case in all its details, and determine from
suitable books what remedies are required.
If the advice of a good physician can readily be
had, they wisely apply to him; but a physician in
whom they can place confidence, and whose treatment they consider safe, is not always at hand when
wanted; or, if easily to be found, it may be they do
not care to call him in a case of a simple character.
At the same time they do not feel quite satisfied
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It is to suit just such cases that our "special preparations" are offered.
Each one is a general remedy suiting almost every
case of a certain limited class of ailments; far more
likely to relieve or cure than "patent medicines" and
"cure-alls;;" or the treatment of the average "oldschool" doctor; and far safer, for, if they do no gool,
they will at least do no harm.
These preparations are, some of them, combina-

tions of two or more valuable remedies, and are all
based upon the prescriptions of experienced and successful physicians. They have also been well tested,
and have received high commendation from physicians and the public.
If we should print all the testimonials which we
have received, or could readily obtain for these articles, there would be room in our book for nothing
else. We shall therefore content ourselves with
inserting here and there one or two specimens.
After a long experience in the sale of them, we
are confident that we are doing a good thing for the
rest of the world, by calling attention to them in this
publication, and giving them a place in our Mllateria
Medica.
We are so thoroughly satisfied of their merits that
we will cheerfully refund the money to any one who
uses them according to instructions, and receives no
benefit from them.
FPll directions accompany each package.
ANTIDOTE

TO

MALARIA-Ordinary

intermittent

fever; fever and ague; chills and fever; brow ague;
bilious remittent fever; neuralgia with attacks occurring periodically or other indications of malarial
origin or complication.

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The Antidote is also a sure preventive of the evil
effects of malarialpoison, and as such it is invaluable
to travelers in malarial districts, and to others exposed temporarily to malarial influences. (See also
Napiform Tonic.) It is not recommended for the
cure of agues resulting from over-dosing with quinine.
The Antidote is widely known and extensively
used among physicians. Its reputation is not confined to this country.
A letter from Bangkok, Siam, dated March 25,
1885, reads: "The malarial pills have been of great
value. We have had plenty of use for them and I
have longed for another supply."
ARNICA OIL COMPOUND.-An external application
for rheumatism and neuralgia and for all rheumatic
and neuralgic pains and lameness, including sciatica
and lumbago.
See the following:
GENTLEMEN :-I

was first afflicted with rheumatism

in my back and hips from which I was a constant
sufferer from January, 1882, till the close of 1883,
when sciatica set in, from my hips to my knee joints.
My sufferings were such at times that death would
have been a relief. I was treated by three different
physicians; but with no permanent benefit. But on
the 26th of April, 1884, I received a can of your
Arnica Oil Compound and a box of Napiform Tonic
and commenced using them according to your directions. I experienced relief from the first, and in
about two weeks was able to walk a mile or so with.'

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out much difficulty. I continued using the Compound till about the middle of June, walking more
or- less every day. On the 7th of July I walked
over twenty miles without any bad results. Have
had no symptom of sciatica since I got up. I occasionally have slight rheumatic pains; but an application of the Compound speedily removes it. I
take pleasure in recommending it to any that I see
afflicted, for I know what it has done for me.
Very respectfully yours,
D. M. HILL.

Stark Co., Ill., Dec., 30, 1884.
In severe sprains this preparation frequently
rubbed in, rapidly restores the use of the joint or
limb; and for burns, scalds, chilblains, boils and carbuncles, bites and stings of insects, it is the best
household remedy we know of.
LAFAYETTE,

CALENDULINE.-Chafing, chapping or excoriation
of the skin. Also as a dressing for all cuts, wounds,
old sores; ulcers, bad burns, scalds and blisters, gunshot wounds, wounds from machinery, or any wound
in which the skin or tissues are lacerated.
In the nursery it is especially useful for the chafing of the delicate skin of infants.
It is also very successful in curing obstinate
diseases of the skin-ring-worm, tetter, shingles,
salt rheum; and diseases of the scalp, such as scalled
head, milk crust, dandruff, etc.
It is a most excellent, healthful and economical
hair-dressing; and is especially recommended if the
scalp is unhealthy, or the hair is dry and falling out:

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I have used your Calenduline extensively in my
practice for several years, and can recommend it as,
in my opinion, the best compound in use for getting
the wonderful curative effects of, Calendula. It is
excellent for burns, chafing of nursing infants, or of
adults, in hot weather. It keeps the hands soft and
pliable in cold weather; cures chapped hands; is
an excellent dressing for all kinds of abrasions of
the skin, and especially for those caused by excoriating discharges.
M. S. CARn, M. D., Galesburg, Ill.
Have used your Calenduline for two or three years,
and find it to give good satisfaction, especially in
chapped hands, cuts, suppurating sores, etc. Used
it considerably last winter for cases of vaccination,
where the arm was a long time healing, with good
J. D. DICKINSON, M. D., Galva, 111.
results,
A physician of Indiana writes, September 18,
1884:
Please send me a can of Calenduline, same as in
the metal tubes. * * * This Calenduline is one
of the handiest and nicest preparations I have ever
used.
A physician of Northern Iowa writes, September
16, 1884:
Your preparations are very satisfactory, especially
Calenduline; there are so many conditions in which
it is the best application which can be used.
PLAIN CALENDULINE has the same uses, but is not

perfumed.

Farmers find it very useful to keep their

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hands soft and free from cracks and chafing when
husking corn, plowing, etc. Machinists use it for
cuts, scratches, and small wounds, and farmers and
farriers find nothing else which equals it for galling,
chafing, sore shoulder, wounds of all kinds, ulcers,
swollen teats and udders, grease, mange, scratches,
cracked hoof.
CONSERVE OF CALENDULA WITH

ROSEs.-A

very

delicate preparation in the form of jelly, much in
favor with the ladies, for chapped hands and lips,
and to keep the skin soft and healthy.
CAMPHOR CONES (specially mentioned under Camphor, page 87).-The most convenient form for the
administration of camphor in cholera, cholera morbus, cramps, sudden chills, etc.
Directions on the bottles.
CATARRH DISKS.-A very successful family remedy for either acute or chronic catarrh, cold in the
head, common cold and cough, acute bronchitis,
catarrhal hoarseness or sore throat from recent cold,
catarrhal deafness, influenza, hay-fever, croup in its
first stages.
They are also exceedingly valuable as a preventice of any evil effects from taking cold.
A lady at Dehra Dun,, N. W. Provinces, India,
writes, June 11, 1884:

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I cannot tell you what a blessing our precious store
of medicine has been to us. * * * The Teething Disks and Cough (Catarrh) Disks act like
magic.

A physician of New Jersey, writes, September 27,
1884:
Please send me three boxes of your excellent Catarrh Disks." I have a chronic case I wish to try
them for. They seemed so helpful in obstinate
cases, while I was practicing in
, that I am
desirous to have them on hand again.
A lady in Japan writes, September 16, 1884:
I found the Catarrh Disks, sent me last fall, were
very beneficial to myself and family, and I would
'like to have four boxes more sent me, by mail.
Not long ago a physician in New York State
ordered, with other goods, one dozen boxes Catarrh
Disks, for trial as a general remedy in common colds.
His next order read:
Please duplicate my order of
date, except of
Catarrh Disks; of those you may send me three
dozen boxes. I like them much.
CINCHO-CARBON

TABLETS.

The new remedy for

slow digestion, fermentation of food in stomach and

bowels and accumulation of gas, flatulence, nausea,
fetid breath, constipation, and other symptoms of
dyspepsia.
Sick headache is soon relieved by these Tablets,
taken once an hour, and in "morning sickness" it
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Repeated orders from our best physicians testify
constantly to the value of this preparation.
EYE BALM. Suited to almost every case of inflammation of the eyes, sore eyes, weak eyes, stye on eyelid, and disposition to styes.
It is used internally as well as externally.
LACTEAL

SYRUP.-For

increasing

the

lacteal

secretion in nursing mothers.
It also aids in making the milk more healthful to
the infant, and builds up the constitution of both
mother and child.
It is a preparation we have made for many years,
and of late have improved upon. It is in great favor
with experienced physicians and nurses.
A lady in Nebraska writes August, 4, 1884:
I received the Lacteal Syrup in due time, and am
much pleased with it. My babe showed signs of
improvement at once. My milk increased, and I
felt better than I have since my babe was born.
NAPIFORM TONIC-A true tonic, not a stimulant.
Napiform seems to have no effect upon the system
when there is a perfectly healthy condition. An
amount. sufficient for fifty full doses can be taken at

one time without harm.
Its effect seems to result from its power to change
the electrical condition of the system from a negative
or passive and receptive state, to a positive and

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active one. Thus a "tone" is imparted to the nerve
forces; the processes of digestion, assimilation, secretion and elimination are properly carried on, and
the system resists or overcomes disease germs and
endemic influences.
The action of Napiform is ready and prompt.
Often only one or two doses are required, if due
regard is had for the rules of hygiene.
Napiform is particularly recommended in intermittent, remittent, bilious and malarial fevers, spring
fever, debility, sudden weakness or faintness without
apparent cause; loss of appetite, failing of mental or
physical strength in rapidly growing children, or in
elderly people; also for neuralgia, brow-ague, lumbago, sciatica.
Napiform will be found a valuable aid to those
who are trying to give up the use of intoxicating
liquors, tobacco or other stimulants. A dose of
Napiform, and a cracker or biscuit or a drink of
milk, will relieve the craving or the depression of
the system.
An extended experience with it proves that
patients who have been liable to frequent attacks of
acute catarrh, influenza, ulcerated sore throat, diphtheria, bilious or nervous fever, neuralgia, etc., according to their peculiar inherited or acquired weaknesses, are comparatively or entirely free from such
attacks, if by the use of the Napiform Tonic they
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A missionary friend in the north of India writes
us under date April 13, 1885.
"We have found all your medicines most useful,
especially the Napiforn Tonic. I have used it very
successfully for Europeans and heathens and native
Christians, and it has been in such demand that we
have scarcely half a dozen cones left. They have
acted like a charm in cases of fever, neuralgia, or
nervous debility."
(See also Rev. Hill's letter on page 110.)
Mrs. M. U. Smith, of Elyria, O., writes September 19, 1885:
"You will find enclosed one dollar for more of
your Napiform Tonic as recommended by my son,
Dr. J. W. Underhill, of Van Wert, O. It is doing
me a great deal of good. I believe it has saved my
life."
NIPPLE

SALVE.-For sore nipples, excoriation and

chafing of infants and fat persons. Safe and effective.
PILE CERATE.-For blind, bleeding, internal or
external piles.
The medication of this Cerate is almost identical
with that of our Suppository A, which has been so
successful. Irn many cases of hemorrhoids the parts
are so extremely sensitive to the touch that the use
of a suppository is attended with more or less pain.
Our Cerate proves to be very quickly soothing and
curative, and even large and very painful tumors are
soon reduced by its action.

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Its occasional use in patients liable to a return of
the difficulty, will prevent trouble and ultimately
entirely cure the disposition to hemorrhoids, if
proper care is taken of the general health.
Rev. R. B. Guild, Sterling, Kansas, writes:
"I received the Pile Cerate all right and it did its
work effectually. Many thanks."
PRESCRIPTION No. 610.-A specific for disorders

of the kidneys and bladder. Inflammation; incontinence of urine; wetting the bed; frequent, painful,
or scalding urination; urine bloody, muddy, or
depositing mucus or pus or red sand; difficult
urination, passing only in drops.
SPECIFIC, FOR COUGH AND CROUP.-This preparation has been exceedingly successful in our local
domestic trade as a general household remedy in
coughs and colds, and for the cure or the prevention
of croup.
It is in the form of syrup, is agreeable to take or
to administer, and is very economical.

REMEDY

FOR

SALT

RHEUM.We

have

never

known it to fail; it is also very successful in treating
scalled head and eczema.
It consists of a jar of ointment, and two vials of
remedies to be taken alternate weeks; all in neat box
with full directions.

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SPECIFIC, FOR POISONING BY RHUS.- (" Poison
Oak," or " Poison Ivy.")
This Specific seems to give prompt relief from the
distress caused by Rhus poisoning, whether it be a
recent case or one that has become chronic.
A jar of Cerate and a vial of cones to be used in
connection with the application of the Cerate.
SUPPOSITORY

A.-For piles; blind or bleeding,

internal or external, with full directions for treatment of piles and constipation of the bowels.
SUPPOSITORY

B.-For home treatment of falling

of the womb; chronic congestion, inflammation or
ulceration of the womb; and uterine leucorrhea.
SUPPOSITORY

C.-For

SUPPOSITORY

D.-For painful menstruation.

leucorrhea.

All of the above Suppositories have proved
very useful, and abundant testimonials from physi-

cians and laymen have been received by us as to their
efficacy, but we do not publish any such letters.

We

guarantee the safety of their use, and we refund the
money if they are not beneficial.
Full directions accompany them.
SULPHO-CARBOLATE

preparation.

OF SoDIu .-

Our own special

Valuable for the prevention or treat-

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ment of scarlet fever, diphtheria, puerperal fever,
malignant erysipelas, and other diseases caused by
blood poisoning.
It is given three or four times a day, either dry
on the tongue or dissolved in a little water: one or two
grains for a child, three or four grains to an adult.
It is said not to interfere with other remedies, and
to act entirely by destroying the poison absorbed by
the blood. Used as a preventive of diphtheria or
scarlatina in case a child has been exposed to the
epidemic, it either prevents entirely the attack, or
makes it very mild and easily managed.
TEETHING DISKs.-This simple combination of
homoeopathic remedies in a form easily administered
reaches the chief troubles of the teething period, and
is a great comfort to mothers and nurses who can
not readily consult a homceopathic physician, and
have had no experience with domestic manuals or the
selection of remedies on their own account. They
are a help in every case of rickets, bad assimilation
of food, indigestion and emaciation; also for painful
teething, soft, flabby flesh, etc., also in fever, restlessness, fretfulness, sleeplessness, colic, griping, sour
vomiting, etc.
If used early, in cases where there is danger of
"rickets" on account of scrofulous tendency-an
improved constitution and a healthy growth may be
expected.

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In many cases where there is difficulty in finding
a suitable food, the use of the Disks may be all that
is required to regulate the whole matter. A good,
well-selected food will digest and be assimilated.
"I find the Teething Disks about the best medicine
ever invented for poor, suffering babies, and my own
babe is a most excellent specimen of what they are
good for. When I began using them, in August,
she was a mere skeleton, what I call "a starved-todeath" patient, although having the best of food and
nursed at the breast, but never gaining any flesh or
showing any change from the time she was a month
old until two months since. After a thorough treatment with the Disks, she began to improve, and is
now as hearty and healthy a babe as can be found
anywhere; weighs twenty pounds, and is firm and
solid and rosy-looking as can be."
Mrs. J. G. PROSSER, M. D.
Edgar, Neb., Dec. 12, 1884.

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ABSCESSES.

See Silicea, page 106; also see "Boils"
, Whitlow."

and

AFTER-PAINS.

Aconite, 3x or 6, every half hour until three or
four doses have been taken, relieves in ordinary
cases. If the patient is of exceedingly sensitive
organization, Coffea 200th, a dose every hour is the
proper remedy. Dr. J. S. Douglas always prescribed
Caullophyllin 3x. An injection into the vaginal
canal, of Calendula and water, one part of Calendula tincture to fifteen or twenty parts of tepid
water aids greatly in preventing these pains, and in
giving rest to the over-strained tissues and ligaments. This injection will aid the healing of any
laceration of the parts which may have taken place.
AGUE.

See " Fever and Ague."
AGUE CAKE.

See " Inflammation of the Spleen."
APPETITE UNHEALTHY-LOSS

OF APPETITE.

See China, page 89; Cina, page 90; Merc., page
98; Podophyll., page 104; Napiform, page 116.
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ASTHMA.

See Arsenicum, page 79; Belladonna, page 81;
Ipecac, page 96; Napiform, page 115; Oxygen treatment, page 137.
Change of residence is often advantageous in
obstinate cases.
BACK--CRICK

IN.

Aconite, 3x, every half hour, for recent cases. If
this does not relieve after four doses, take Cimicifuga
3 every two hours. In tedious cases, or in patients
subject to rheumatism, the Arnica Oil Compound
should be used. Two or three thorough applications
will cure almost any case.
BACK-WEAKNESS

OF; LAME BACK; WEAK BACK; PAIN
IN BACK.

See Arnica, page 78; Arnica Oil Compound, page

110; Hamamelis, page 94. See also the chapter on
Lumbago.
The lame back and weakness of back with which
many women suffer is indication of uterine congestion or displacement. In such cases, see chapters on
those subjects.
BALDNESS.

See " Falling out of Hair."
BARBER'S ITCH.

Take Phytolacca 3x three times a day, and apply
Phytolacca Cerate as often as convenient.

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BLUES.

No one can afford to be "blue," or low-spirited:
partly because he cannot keep well unless he keeps
cheerful, and partly because he cannot help to make
the rest of the world happy unless he is somewhat
so himself. People subject to "the hypo" are very
apt to be misunderstood by others, and are very
likely not to understand themselves very well; and
often a good deal of mental and spiritual distress is
the result of our not being aware of the fact, or not
considering the fact, that a sudden attack of "the
blues" or "the sulks" when all the surroundings are
just as prosperous and cheering as previously; or a
readiness to be thrown off the balance, and made to
feel "out of sorts" by some trifling "unpleasantness,"
indicates having taken cold, or weak digestion, or
inactive liver, or over-weariness, or reaction from
over-excitement and dissipation, or from the stimulating effects of tea, coffee or alcoholic drinks.
In such cases, rest, sleep or the proper medicines
will make one cheerful and happy again; that is, if
he had good reason to be cheerful and happy before.
As to medicines, a few doses of Bryonia 3
will remove the lame, tired, cross feeling arising
from taking cold by sitting in a draft, or exposure
after active exercise without increased covering, or

getting chilled by sleeping without additional
clothing.
Nux-vomica 3, or China 6, or Podophyllin 3x, and

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proper care of the diet will probably cure the indigestion and faulty action of the liver. Nux-vomica 3,
the depression and weariness following over-excitement or over-stimulation, or prolonged watching or
severe mental application. Arnica lx, the effects of
excessive physical exertion, over-lifting, etc.
See also Napiform, page 115.
BILIOUSNESS.

Whed the skin and eye-balls look yellow, the
tongue is coated white or yellowish white, there is
bad taste in the mouth, the back and limbs ache,
there is dull pain over the eyes, the bowels are
irregular or constipated, take Nux-vomica 3rd and
Mercurius 6th alternately every three hours. If the
coating of the tongue is brownish, and there is a
peevish or irritable temper, with a depressed or discouraged condition of the mind, take Bryonia 3rd
every two hours.
See also Podophyllin, page 104; and Napiform,
page 115.
The frequent use of lemon juice is beneficial to
many people subject to inaction of the liver. It is
not well suited to active, nervous people of spare
habit, and those who use it to correct or stimulate
the action of the liver and bowels should not use
much sugar with it, as an excess of sweets increases
the difficulty.
Persons disposed to disorder of the liver should
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a good proportion of vegetable food. Such persons,
also, should cultivate a cheerful and peaceful frame
of mind.
It is well known to medical men that a disturbance of the functions of the liver and digestive
organs caused by errors in diet or by the injurious
action of drugs, causes a despondent and irritable
mental condition; and also, on the other hand, it is
often observed that the indulgence of an angry or
fretful, or impatient, or jealous temper may result in
indigestion, colic, and even serious inflammation of
the stomach and bowels.
BLEEDING.

Hemorrhage from nose, lungs, stomach, bowels,
or womb. See Hamamelis, page 94. Also the following:
BLEEDING AT NOSE.

This sometimes occurs as a means of relief to the
overcharged blood vessels of the head after lack of
exercise in invalids or persons leading a studious or
sedentary life. If the flow stops quickly and does
not occur frequently it need not have much consideration except as indication of an unhealthy habit of
life. If children have nose bleed frequently it is
evidence of too much brain work, too little sleep, too
violent effort when exercising, too much stimulus
in food or drink, or some other unhealthful condition which should be hunted out and abolished.

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Bleeding of the nose sometimes occurs when the
menses are delayed, or suppressed, or scanty.
See Bryonia, page 83; Pulsatilla, page 104.
If caused by mechanical injury, the bleeding will
probably stop soon after bathing the nose with cool
water. If continued, give a dose or two of Arnica lx.
If caused by undue physical exertion in hot weather,
Aconite and Arnica may be given alternately every
half hour.
If nose bleed occurs frequently in a weakly person without apparent cause, it is evidence of a
weakened or degenerate condition of the blood vessels, and that the whole system needs more "tone."
China 6th three or four times a day will be useful,
or the Napiform Tonic.
The common expedients to stop the bleeding are
to put ice, or snow, or a napkin wet in cold water,
or a piece of cold metal upon the back of the neck,
or to hold both arms as high as possible over the
head while standing.
If the bleeding still persists to the extent of
weakening the patient, the nostril may be plugged
for a few hours with cotton wet with Extract of Hamamelis.
BLEEDING FROM

THE LUNGS.

The blood from the lungs is bright red, is coughed
up, and often frothy.
See Hamamehlis, page 94.

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BLEEDING FROM

THE STOMACH.

The blood vomited up is of a dark color, usually
mixed with the contents of the stomach.
See Hamamelis, page 94.
BLEEDING

FROM THE WOMB-(FLOODING).

Arnica lx, two or three doses if the hemorrhage
is brought on by a fall, or strain, or heavy lifting, or
any mechanical injury.
Aconite 3x every half hour for first two hours if
at the beginning of the attack there is much heat
and fever, or excitement and palpitation of the heart.
Ipecac 3rd every two hours, if the discharge is
bright red and very copious.
Secale 6th every two hours if the discharge is
dark and offensive with great pain, increased by
movement or coughing; pale face, coldness of
extremities and extreme weakness.
China 3x trituration will usually arrest the excessive monthly flow in weakly patients and at the
critical period.
Patients suffering from hemorrhage must be kept
quiet; have cool, fresh air; light, unstimulating diet,
no hot drinks or alcoholic drinks; cold water is best.
China will always relieve the weakness resulting
from loss of blood.
BONES-ACHING

OR

PAIN IN.

If connected with bilious or malarial troubles.

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See Arsenicum, page 79; Bryonia, page 83; Rhus,
page 105; Napiform, page 115; Antidote, page 109.
If boring pain, deep in the bones of the legs, take
Mercurius iod. 2x twice daily.
BOILS.

The pain and soreness are quickly relieved by applying Arnica Oil Compound. If the swelling is
very large and painful, Bellad. and Mere., alternately,
once an hour for half a day; will be useful. Hepar
Sulph., 6th, will encourage a~".slow" boil in coming
to a head.
Dr. Shipman has, for many years, been in the habit
of prescribing, for painful boils, the half of a ripe
tomato bound on; removing when dry and applying
a fresh piece. This relieves the pain and brings to a
head quickly. Persons subject to boils should be
careful in diet and habits, and avoid biliary derangements. Boils generally indicate a disordered condition of the system and an impoverished state of
the blood; resulting from poor, insufficient or indigestible food, or from anxiety or over-work.
See also Arnica, page 78.
BOWELS

INFLAMMATION

OF.

Inflammation of the bowels usually begins with a
chill. Then comes sharp, severe, often burning,
pain over some portion of the abdomen; the surface
is more or less sensitive to the touch, painful and
swollen; taking a full breath causes distress. Some-

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times there is vomiting; face is pale with an anxious,
distressed look; pulse quick and small.
Give Aconite and Belladonna every hour alternately for four to six hours, then every two hours
until the chill, fever, and pain are considerably
relieved. Then follow with Bellad. and Mercur.,
alternately, a dose of one or other every three hours.
Cloths wrung out of hot water should be laid on
the bowels and covered with flannel or woolen goods,
renewing the hot cloths often. In extreme cases, hot
water injections are recommended.
BRAIN-INFLAMMATION

OF.

The indications are pain in the head and eyes;
dilated or much contracted pupils of the eyes;
throbbing of the large blood essels of the temples
and neck; rolling of the head back and forth; delirium, or drowsiness; and stupor, fever, quick pulse.
Give Aconite 3x and Belladonna 6th, alternately,
every hour, a dose of one or other, until the feverish
symptoms are reduced; then Bellad. and Bryon.,
alternately, every two hours for a time, until there
is evident improvement; after which not so often.
Avoid unnecessary light; noise, especially talking,
or even whispering; or anything else which might
disturb the patient, remembering that such patients
are excessively sensitive. Applications of hot water
to the head give relief if not continued too long. It
is a mistake to use cold water in such cases. Let no
blisters or mustard be applied, or anything irritating.

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If the patient is very restless, and skin hot and
dry, an occasional sponging with quite warm water
gives relief.
See also Gels., page 92.
BRAIN-CONGESTION

OF.

Simple congestion of the brain requires resting;
quiet; cool, fresh air; and for remedies, Acon.. Bell.,
Bry., Gelsem., or Nux, according to other symptoms.
See those remedies and compare.
BRAIN-WEARINESS

OF.

Brain-fag, or exhaustion of the brain, resulting
from too persistent mental effort, calls for rest, not
stimulants; then Nux, or Phosphorus, or Napiform
Tonic will help to restore a healthful condition. But
the first thing, the important thing is rest; with fresh
air; exercise sufficient to induce sleep; and a good
appetite for wholesome, easily digested, unstimulating food. Sleep as often, and as much, and as long
as you can.
BREASTS-INFLAMMATION

OF.

If Acon., and Bell., are used at the first symptoms
of chill and fever until perspiration is established,

there may be no further trouble, if care is taken
about taking cold.
If, however, the inflammation of the breast is
already established, give Phytolacca 3x every three
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if the case has been neglected or badly treated, and
it is already "broken breast," the Phytolacca treatment will give relief, and a few doses of Silicea
(see page 106) will hasten a cure.
BRONCHITIS-ACUTE OR CHRONIC.

Compare Acon., page 76; Antim. tart., page 77;
Bryon., page 83; Hepar s., page 95; Ipecac, page
96; Kali bich., page 97; Phosph., page 101. Our
Catarrh Disks (see page 113)'are well suited to most
cases of bronchitis, and physicians who have
employed the Oxygen Treatment recommend it very
highly in this ailment.
BROW-AGUE.

Nothing we can more highly recommend for this
trouble than Napiform Tonic. (See page 115.)
BRUISES.

One part of our Concentrated Tincture of Arnica
to ten parts of water; rub it in well, and if it is a bad
case, keep the injured part covered with a bandage
wet with the mixture.
If the skin is broken, and the tissues are lacerated,
use a lotion of Calendula, prepared in the same way.
(See Arnica, page 78; Calendula, page 86.)
BURNS

AND SCALDS.

If slight, hold the part burned as near the fire as
possible; or in water, as hot as can be borne, for a
few moments. The pain will go soon.

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If burned deeply, or over a considerable surface.
apply Arnica Oil Compound (see page 110), according to the directions. This is the best household
remedy for burns and scalds.
The best dressing for healing up the sore surface
after a 'bad burn or scald, is Calenduline. (See
page 111.)
BREATH-FOUL.

Bad breath may be caused by decayed teeth; but
is more commonly an evidence either of disordered
stomach and liver, or of a catarrhal affection of the
nose. Treat accordingly.
CANCER.

It is doubtful if there is any sure cure for true
cancer when established in the system except by
using the knife, and even that is not certain. Mr.
Needham's Red Clover Tea and Red Clover Extract
have a great reputation in the treatment of cancer
and diseases of a similar nature. Red Clover Oil
is excellent as a daily dressing for open cancer.
Arsenicum is an exceedingly valuable remedy in
case of cancer; relieving the burning pain, removing
the prostration of the system, and sometimes even
dissipating the poison of the disease.
Recently, cures of cancer by the use of Compound
Oxygen treatment have been reported, but, although
we can see no reason why it should not cure cancer
as well as other forms of blood poisoning we don't
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CANKER- (THRUSH)

Canker, or sore mouth of infants will be mentioned
as "nursing sore mouth."
Adults and growing children with poor digestion,
are liable to a similar affection: small white spots or
blisters in the mouth and throat, sometimes spreading to become large patches, burning and stinging.
Put enough Tincture of Hydrastis into a glass
of water to color it straw yellow, and gargle the
mouth and throat five or six times a day with the
solution.
This acts directly upon the surface exposed, and
sufficient is absorbed to affect the digestive organs
favorably. Correct the diet and habits so as to
avoid this trouble.
See Mercurius, page 98.
CARBUNCLE.

A carbuncle is a large and painful abscess like a
boil. It often extends over a considerable surface,
and is usually flattened instead of pointing, with
several openings when it begins to discharge.
There is much burning pain and prostration of
strength which is more or less relieved by Arsenicum
3rd trituration, taken three or four times daily.
The Arnica Oil Compound will be found to relieve
the inflammation.
The treatment recommended by the late Dr. J. S.
Douglas, of Milwaukee, was as follows:

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Ammon. carb., three grains in a gill of water, teaspoonful doses every two hours, and apply to the
part a cloth wet in the same (but twice as strong
and hot): continue as long as it does good. If the
swelling goes on and openings appear in it, and the
pain is not abated, stop this and give Arsen. every
two or three hours. At the same time apply once
daily caustic potash powdered, in and around the
openings, so that as it dissolves it will run into the
openings and penetrate as deep as possible into the
heart of the tumor. Place over this a warm soft
poultice of slippery elm, flax seed or bread.
CATARRH.

Catarrh is an inflamed or irritated condition of the
mucous membrane or lining which protects the
inner surface of the body as the skin protects the
outer surface.
"Taking cold" is the usual cause of this irritation
or inflammation, and the portion of the body which is
weakest is most liable to suffer from catarrh. There
may be catarrh of the forehead and nasal passages
(coryza, sometimes progressing to ozoena); catarrh
of the throat and bronchial tubes (bronchitis);
catarrh of the lungs (congestion of the lungs, inflammation of the lungs, pneumonia, consumption);
catarrh of the stomach (gastritis); catarrh of the
bowels (dysentery) ; catarrh of the bladder (cystitis);
catarrh of the womb or the passage leading to it
(leucorrhea). Pretty nearly the same causes pro-

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duce all these different affections of the system, and
pretty nearly the same homoeopathic remedies, properly used, will cure them, if not too far progressed.
In health, the mucous 'membrane is constantly
covered with a slight amount of secretion which it
produces for its own protection. If the air passages
of the nose, or forehead, or throat, or lungs, are
suddenly invaded by cold, raw air, the membrane
lining them endeavors to protect itself the better by
depositing a larger amount of mucus on its surface.
If the stomach and bowels have forced upon them
iced drinks or iced food, or are exposed with insufficient clothing to sudden changes of temperature, the
mucous membrane of those parts acts in the same
way.
In the first case, the excessive secretion of mucus
causes a running at the nose, or a hawking up of
phlegm from the throat. That is common "catarrh"
or, "cold in the head," which may disappear entirely
in a few hours, or may be the beginning of a permanent and serious trouble.
In the second case, there may be only slow digestion, with some discomfort, on account of a slightlyinflamed condition of the coats of the stomach,
which has been so carelessly treated; or there may be
complete indigestion, and diarrhea, and soon dysentery, the irritation and inflammation having affected
the intestines generally, and caused mucus and blood
to be forced out, with much suffering and danger to
the patient.

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Nasal catarrh is a very common ailment in this
country, Our newspapers are crowded with advertisements of all kinds of doctors and all kinds of
medicines and applications for it. Hundreds of
thousands suffer from it, and pay their money to tens
of thousands who promise to cure them and don't.
Thousands distress themselves with the fear that
they have catarrh, or are "going to have it."
We trust that a better understanding of what
catarrh really is, its causes and its cure, may bring
relief to those who worry about themselves and their
children or friends, and perhaps be a means of
money saving to some who otherwise may be humbugged by some of the catarrh doctors.
Why is nasal catarrh so common in this country ?
The raw winds of our sea coast and lake shores are
supposed to have something to do with it. The very
common habit of tobacco smoking no doubt predisposes to it. But sea air and lake winds are considered very healthful to those who have no weakness
of the breathing apparatus, and raw winds and
tobacco smoking prevail in countries where catarrh
does not prevail extensively.
Is not catarrh more common in our larger towns
than in the country villages and rural districts ? Do
not our students and professional men suffer from it
more commonly than those who are occupied with
manual labor ? Are not those men and women and children, whose brains are most active and most crowded

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with work, most liable to have trouble from catarrh
whenever they take cold? Is not the wide-awake
Yankee, even with the same surroundings, more subject to catarrh than the phlegmatic Dutchman, the
slow-going German, or the be-good-to-himself Englishman ?
The explanation is a very simple one. If the head
is kept in a congested state by constant and excessive
mental application, the tissues and mucous membrane
protecting them are weakened, and in an irritable or
semi-inflamed condition continually, so that every
cold draught of air, or cold, raw wind, is pretty certain to add irritation sufficient to produce inflammation, profuse secretion of mucus, and, by and by, a
settled or "chronic" catarrh, which if neglected or
badly treated with irritating drugs or injections, may
at length result in disease of the bony cell structures
occupying the space at the upper part of the nose
and above the eyes; or abscesses in the face back of
the nostrils; or may extend into the throat and at
length to the lungs-bronchitis-consumption.
1
Change of habit and the use of proper remedies
may prevent it. Chronic catarrh may or may not be
cired, according to the condition of the patient and
the progress of the disease. It can always be more
or less relieved by homoeopathic remedies; but the
patient may be subject to a return

of the symp-

toms on exposure to the causes.
Obviously, the chief thing to prevent catarrh (or

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any other disease) is to keep well! The brain,
nerves, muscles, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and
other parts of the human organism, must each have
their share, and only their share of work to do, and
must all work in harmony. If any one is not rightly
used, or is over-crowded or over-stimulated, it must
suffer in consequence, and eventually the whole syster suffers with it.
If some people must do at times an unfair share
of brain work, let them remember the danger and
try to keep the head from excessive congestion, by
exercise, avoidance of stimulating food or drink,
cold sponge baths and friction over the spine, and
then all the brain rest and sleep possible when the
required work is done.
If a person inherits a tendency to diseased
mucous membrane of any portion of the body, he
will wisely be more careful to strengthen that part,
and avoid the catarrh or the bronchitis, or the consumption, which otherwise may fall to him and his
children also.
Further hints on this subject will be found in
the paper of instructions accompanying the Catarrh
Disks; also in a similar paper accompanying the
Oxygen Treatment, a copy of which any one can
have. Remedies for catarrh are abundant, and sufficient if rightly chosen.
(In this chapter we treat only nasal catarrh, other catarrhs
will be found under the headings Bronchitis, Pneumonia,
Dysentery, etc.)

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For acute catarrh see Aeon., page 76; Arsen.,
page 79; Bryon., page, 83; Camphor, page, 87;
Chamo., page 88; Mere., page 98; Nux, page 100;
Pulsat., page 104; Catarrh Disks, page 113.
For chronic catarrh see Kali, page 97; Mere.
bijod, page 99; Nux vom., page 100; Pulsat., page
104; Catarrh Disks, page 113; Napiform, page 115.
We ought also to mention in this connection the
advantages of the
"OXYGEN

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TREATMENT,

(variously called "Compound Oxygen," "Medicated
Oxygen;" etc.)
This has proved very useful in many cases of
chronic catarrh, asthma, bronchitis and other affections of the respiratory organs; partly by the direct
curative action of the inhalations and Oxygen solution, partly by the general tonic effect upon the whole
system, and we feel confident that a two months' treatment with "the Oxygen" will benefit any sufferer
from the above difficulties.
" The effect in every case seems to be to make the
action of the heart and lungs more perfect, the circulation more active and natural, the blood more
wholesome, more pure and of better color, the digestion better, the countenance brighter, while, at the
same time, diseased tissues become more healthy,
and established disease seems to lose its hold."

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Patients must be careful to obtain the Oxygen
Treatment from a reliable sourcee
As a direct preventive of acute or chronic catvrli
in those who find themselves taking cold readily,
see Catarrh Disks, page 113, and Napiform, page
115.
CHAFING

OF THE SKIN.

See Calenduline, page 111.
CHANGE OF LIFE.

Aconite, 6th, for nervous irritability and excitement in robust or plethoric patients. A dose every
hotir till relieved. Bryonia, 3d, for congestion of
lungs or chest; indigestion; suppression, with nose
bleed. A dose every two hours. Cimicifuga, 3d, for
pain in the breasts, or in the crown of the head, with
irritability, restlessness, hysterical feeling, and melArsen., 3,
A dose every two hours.
ancholy.
threatened dropsy, general debility, difficult breathing and nervous prostration. A dose every four
hours. Lachesis, 30th, for flushes of heat, burning
pains at top of head, pain in back, and general disturbance of the system at this period.

Three

times

a day. Sulphur, 6th, for local itching or burning ;
piles; leucorrhea accompanying the change. A dose
When we began to investigate the merits of the "Oxygen Home Treat'lent," wo found that quite a number of different proinrations were being
palmed off upon the punblic under that name, some of them, to say the least,
being utterly valueless, and others actoily unsafe and injurious. The
price also ($15) was uunecessarily great.,. We at length made. such arrangements as enable us to furnish The Geneine "Oxygen Home Treatment" a
two months supply with apparatus and foil instructions f; r $10, we paying charges to any express office in the United States on receipt of that
amount.

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night and morning. Pulsatilla, 200th, for nausea,
chilliness, cold feet, weight in the abdomen, pressure
in bladder and rectum, and dyspepsia. Three times
daily. If the patient has suffered from prolapsus,
or congestion of womb, these troubles may be aggravated, and require other remedies. (See the chapter on those subjects.)
The Oxygen Treatment will
prove very beneficial at this time if there is debility
or nervous prostration. (See page 140.)
Walking or riding often (walking to be preferred),
cheerful society, as much variety of occupation as
possible, and change of scenery and surroundilgs,
are all helpful at this period. Diet should be light,
nourishing, and not stimulating.
CHAPPED

HANDS AND

LIPS.

See Calenduline, page 111, and Calendula Conserve, page 113.
CHICKEN POX.

Rhus fox., 30th, every three hours. If there is
much fever, give Acon., 3x, every half hour until it
abates.
CHILBLAINS.

Arnica Oil Compound applied according to directions relieves and cures very soon. In old, chronic
cases with much inflammation, itching, and redness,
give Rhus lox., 30th, three times a day, and apply
the A. O. Compound every night and morning.
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there are sores formed, apply Calenduline freely.
This will heal soon.
CHILLS.

See Camphor, page 87; Aconite, page 76.
CHILLS AND FEVER.

See Intermittent Fever.
CHOLERA

MORBUS.

See Camphor, page 87; Arsenicum, page 79; Veratrum, page 108.
CHOLERA.

In the first place don't be afraid of it. It is not
contagious. It usually attacks only those whose
blood and tissues are depraved by beer drinking, or
whose constitutions are weakened by habitual use of
wine, whisky, or other such stimulants. Fear, and
the depression of the nervous system which accompanies it, render one much more liable to an attack
of this epidemic.
If you live in a pure atmosphere, dress so as to
protect the stomach and bowels from a chill, eat
plenty of wholesome food, be careful not to abuse
your stomach with things which disagree with it,
and about chilling it with iced food and drinks
when you are tired or overheated, you are not likely
to have the cholera. Then, if you have at hand, a
small case of the proper homoeopathic remedies, and
so are able to take the right remedy promptly you
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If, from any unavoidable cause, your nervous system is in a depressed condition, Napiform Tonic will
soon restore the lost "ttone."

If you suspect that the atmosphere of your sitting
room or sleeping room is not pure, a good Ozone
Generator will make it free from all disease germs.
It is asserted by our best scientists that cholera cannot exist where the atmosphere contains Ozone.
If attacked by cholera do not trust to any of the
advertised " cholera medicines" most of which are
compounds of Opium and irritating stimulants, like
Cayenne and brandy. If the attack is cholera they
do more harm than good. If it is only colic or
cholera morbus,or diarrhea, or dysentery, these drugs
may aggravate the symptoms until the case is as
bad as cholera.
The remedies almost invariably successful in true
cholera are few and simple and can be always at
hand.
Premonitory symptoms of cholera. These give
warning in almost every case and if attended to
promptly there is no further trouble. They are
general uneasiness and restlessness, bitter taste in
the mouth, white coated tongue, fullness and pressure at the pit of the stomach, rumbling in the
bowels.
Two or three doses of Mere. dulc. 2nd, two hours
apart will usually remove them after a few hours.
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time, or if cramps or diarrhea set in, it is time to
take Camphor. Camphor stands first among cholera
remedies. The symptoms calling for it are-sudden
prostration, coldness; pain in stomach and bowels,
irregular pulse, cold sweat on forehead, singing,
ringing or buzzing in the ears, dizzy or giddy feeling, distension of the abdomen, and severe purging.
Give two to five drops of strong tincture on sugar
(or one of the Camphor cones, or of the large Camphor pills) every five or ten minutes until the
patient becomes warm, then less frequently, and as
soon as full perspiration takes place discontinue the
Camphor.
Put the patient into a warm bed with a jug of hot
water to his feet and keep him there till thoroughly
free from all bad symptoms. Then let him avoid
getting chilled or overtaxing his digestion.
If the case has already passed on beyond the
reach of Camphor, the next medicine is Arsenicurm 30th. It is the remedy for severe burning pains
in the stomach, great thirst, clammy sweat, weak
tremulous pulse, suppression of urine, entire prostration of strength and cramps.
A dose every half hour at first, after two doses
once an hour, and then as improvement continues,
once in two or three hours.
Veratrum alb. 6th is the remedy for violent and
continuous vomiting and purging, a shriveled
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the face, cold tongue, cramps, great weakness and
prostration.
Give same as Arsenicum.
Cuprum 6th, a dose every hour for spasms, cramps
or convulsions with blueness of skin.
The typhoid condition which often follows an
attack of cholera can be treated like other typhoid
symptoms. Phosphorus or Carbo. veg. will suit most
cases.

The best preventive remedy for cholera, for the
use of those who regard the rules of health mentioned in the first part of this chapter is Camphor.
Take a dose if exposed to a chill. Take a dose if
temporarily in a cholera atmosphere.
See page 87.
COLD SORES.

The annoying burning and itching will be soon
stopped by the application of Aconite lx with the
tip of the finger every hour or two. Calenduline
will heal the sores.
COUGHS.

See Acon., page 76; Ant., Tart., page 77; Bellad.,
page 81; Bryon., page 83; Chamom., page 88;
Hepar s., page 95; Ipecac, page 96; Kali bich.,
page 97; Phosph., page 101; Spongia, page 106;
Specific for Cough and Croup, page 118.
COSTIVENESS.

See Constipation.

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CORNS.

There is quite a variety of "corn cures" in the
market, some of them quite effective and safe. All
the good ones have about the same composition The
pain and soreness of a soft corn, or bunion, is soon
relieved by applying Arnica Oil Compound. Verat.
Viride Tincture is said also to be an excellent application for bunions much inflamed. If a hard corn
is softened by soaking in warm water, then pared
down as much as possible without pain, and a cornplaster applied around it so as to protect it from
pressure, it will usually give no more trouble. An
application of Tinct. of Thuja., twice a day to the
softened surface of a corn, will, in most cases, remove
it after a fortnight, if it is freed from pressure of the
boot. Calc. carb., 200, and Sulphur, 200, taken
twice a day, during alternate weeks, will remove the
disposition to warts and corns, which seriously afflict
some people.
COLIC.

Colic and cramps from a chill, or from chilling
the stomach with cold food or drink, require Camphor, page 87; wind colic, with sudden, sharp pain,
Colocynth, page 92; colic, with constipation of
bowels, Nux vom., page 100; bilious colic, with pain
low down in the abdomen, Chamom., page 88; colic,
with diarrhea, see Merc., page 98; Podoph., page
103; colic of infants, see Chain., Colocyn. and Nux.

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COLDS.

See Catarrh, Cough, etc.
COLD IN THE HEAD.

See Catarrh.
CONGESTION OF THE WOMB.

See Inflammation of the Womb.
CONSUMPTION.

Not very much can be said in a book like this on
so important a subject. Consumption can almost
always be prevented by suitable care of the general
health; special care of the respiratory organs; and
occasional use of homoeopathic remedies as required.
Many persons are frightened into consumption by
ignorant friends, or culpable quacks, who hope to
make something by prescribing for symptoms which
might lead to something serious. And, again, even
physicians, through inexperience or carelessness in
studying a case, sometimes determine a case to be
"consumption," which is really only a difficulty of
the stomach or of the liver., Unless there is an
inherited tendency to tuberculous disease of the
lungs, or great carelessness of the health, there is
no need to fear consumption. The remedies for conditions leading to this disease, and for the disease
already established, are the same as those given
under the headings-catarrh, coughs, etc. (See
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CHLOROSIS.

(Green Sickness.)

See Acon., page 76; Arsen., page 79; Bellad.,
page 81; Coffea, page 91; Phosph., page 101; Puls.,
page 104.
An extensive and valuable chapter on this subject
will be found in The Lady's Manual, by Drs. Ruddock and Ludlam.
Good, nourishing food; plenty of exercise in the
open air, especially on horseback and walking; and
out-door sports, sunlight, salt sponge baths, Oxygen
Treatment. See page 140.
CONSTIPATION.

Nux vom., (see page 100,) suits most cases of ordinary costiveness. Nux and Sulphur. alternately, if
there is a tendency to piles. Arnica, if caused by
over-lifting, which has weakened the back. Bryonia,
if the stools are large and hard. China, Merc., or
Podophyllin, if the trouble results from torpidity of
the liver.
Chronic constipation of old people is relieved by
taking, every morning before breakfast, in a glass of
cool water, a single drop of the strong homoeopathic
tincture of Hydrastis.
The Cincho-carbon Tablets are a favorite medicine
with many for constipation and indigestion. (See
page 114.)
Avoid purgatives.
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relief, and leave the bowels more disposed to the same
condition. Strong coffee causes constipation and
aggravates it with many people. If of a costive
habit, walk, or ride horseback when you can; but not
to the extent of over-tiring; eat ripe fruit and easily
digested vegetables freely; not much meat; and
avoid sedentary habits and occupations as far as
possible.
CONVULSIONS.

For remedies to prevent or to cure the condition
of brain which causes convulsions, see Acon., page
76; Bellad., page 81; Chamo., page 88; Gelsem.,
page 92; Teething Disks, page 120.
In convulsions, all the clothing should be so loosened as to allow free breathing, a good supply of
fresh air admitted, the head raised a little, and, as
quickly as possible, the child put into a warm bath.
Dr. Ruddock gives the following instructions for
this bath:
Immerse the child in warm water up to its neck,
and directly afterwards apply a cold wet towel to
the head, or a large sponge after dipping it in cold
water; the cold towel or sponge for about three
minutes, the child to be kept in the warm bath for ten
or fifteen minutes. The temperature of the bath
should be about 98 degrees or what is agreeable to
the back of the hand, and this temperature should
be fully maintained until the child is taken out, by
additions of hot water carefully poured in at the
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fire and a warmed blanket be in readiness to wrap
the child in directly on leaving the bath.
CRAMPS.

See Camphor, page 87, and Veratrum, page 108.
CROUP.

True croup is too dangerous a disease.to be left to
domestic treatment, unless one has had some experience with it, or a good homoeopathic physician is
not to be had promptly. In such a case give one or
two doses of Aconite, and meantime compare the
croup symptoms under Antim. tart., page 77; Hepar
s., page 95; Ipecac, page 96; Spongia, page 106,
and give the most suitable remedy. A towel wrung
out of hot water and placed over the throat and
chest, and carefully covered with flannel, gives much
relief. Croup is likely to recur two or three nights
in succession.
Hepar sulph., 200th, taken in
afternoon and at bedtime, will prevent
the
attack, or make it much less severe and dangerous.
The Catarrh Disks (see page 113) given whenever a croupy child is supposed to have taken cold,
or whenever exposed to the raw chilling atmosphere
which generally brings on an attack of croup, will
prevent croup, and lessen the liability to it.
CRYING

OF CHILDREN.

The fretfulness of teething children will often be
relieved by a dose or two of Chamom. If there is
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swelling is of a bluish tint, give Kreosote 6th. If
a general feverish condition exists, Aconite is best.
If there seem to be sharp and sudden colic pains,
Colocynth will relieve at once; or Nux vomica if the
bowels are constipated.
See also Teething Disks, page 120.
Cordials and soothing syrups of all kinds are best
let alone. The mother can better afford to be
annoyed by the child's fretfulness than to see it
injured in mind and body by the use of opiates or
alcoholic poisons in any shape.
Further hints on this subject will be found in
another chapter.
CUTS.

See Wounds.
DANDRUFF.

The use of Calenduline for a hair dressing with
occasional doses of Phosph. 6th will remove the
annoyance and make the hair and scalp healthy.
DEBILITY.

See Arsen., page 79; Bryon., page 83; Calc.
carb., page 84; Calc. phosph., page 85; China, page
89; Phosph., page 101; Oxygen Treatment, page
140.
DEAFNESS.

Hardened ear-wax can be removed a little time
after putting a drop of pure Glycerine into the ear,
or syringeing the ear gently with warm water. If
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as sometimes occurs in thoughtlessness of children,
it must be carefully removed, the ear being a very
delicate organ. Deafness from nervousness is sometimes relieved by Phosph. 6th three times a day.
Deafness from catarrh and after small-pox, by Mercurius three times a day. Chronic deafness in
patients subject to catarrh is relieved and sometimes
cured by Catarrh Disks. (See page 113.)
DIARRHEA.

Mercurius is the principal remedy, especially for
the bilious diarrhea common in the prairies of .the
West and in the low lands of our Western rivers,
also for diarrhea caused by change of climate or
change of drinking water. Arsenicum when there
is burning pain in the stomach and great weakness.
Bryonia for bilious diarrhea coming early in the
morning. China for "summer complaints," also for
"chronic" diarrhea. Veratrum for diarrhea coming
suddenly at night, with vomiting and the coldness
and cramps of cholera. See also Phosph. Pulsat.
and Sulphur. For diarrhea of teething children see
Chamo. Calc. c. Podophyl., and Teething Disks.
Simple diarrhea from indigestion or from cold, is
quickly relieved by a dose or two of Catarrh Disks.
DIPHTHERIA.

The general symptoms are lassitude, sore throat
covered with a false membrane looking like wash
leather, acrid discharge from one nostril, enlarge-

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ment of the glands of the neck, offensive breath,
sometimes delirium, sometimes stupor.
These
symptoms are preceded by chilliness, quick pulse,
and some fever with difficulty of swallowing; but all
these premonitions of the disease, with the accompanying lassitude, are sometimes entirely disregarded
until the disease has made dangerous progress.
Although the false niembrane and the offensive
breath are considered characteristic of the disease
there are cases in which the breath is not remarkably offensive, and the membrane does not form where
it can be seen. At the beginning, and all through the
progress of the disease, keep in mind the fact that
nature is struggling against the action of a blood
poison which has, somehow, been absorbed into the
circulation, and the strength of the patient must be sustainedby suitable nourishment. Beef broth or mutton
broth, without much spicing, may be given freely,
fresh rich milk is also an excellent thing the best
thing- if the patient will take it. If it is difficult to
persuade the patient to take food, make strong beef
tea and give by the teaspoonful regularly, as medicine. (See page 28.) Do not give wine or brandy,
or any other alcoholic stimulants, or irritants. What
the patient needs is nourishment, not stimulating
and excitement.
As a direct antidote to the blood-poisoning, give
Sulpho-carbolate of sodium. (See page 119.) For
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they show themselves, see Acon., at the commencement in the fever or chilly stage; Bellad., for the
throat symptoms before there is any appearance of a
false membrane; Apis mel., if there is great weakness from the beginning, and the membrane assumes
at once a dirty, grayish color; there is puffiness
around the eyes and pain in the ears when swallowing. Bryonia, Baptisia and Arsenicum are suitable
when the disease shows typhoid symptoms. Kali
bich. and Merc. bij'od. are two very important remedies. By looking at the Materia Medica, one can
soon determine which of all these remedies the case
requires at the time. Of course, the mother or
nurse is not, at first, sure that the case is diphtheria.
It may be only a severe cold, or common sore throat.
But, if there is diphtheria in the neighborhood, it is
well to be prepared for its treatment. The remedies
given should be repeated oftener than in other
diseases, and the progress of the disease carefully
watched. It sometimes occurs that no throat trouble
is complained of, while a careful examination shows
a rapid formation of the diphtheritic membrane,
which may soon suffocate the patient.
Alcohol, somewhat diluted with water, but yet
strong enough to sting the tongue a little, may be
applied to the white patches formed in the throat,
or on the tonsils, with a camel's hair pencil. It
serves to loosen the membrane.
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although, in some cases, death or recovery takes
place in one to three days. Cases that at first seem
mild, sometimes suddenly become very serious and
fatal. Sometimes, those who are considered wellrecovered are found to have lost sight, hearing, taste,
or smell, or to be paralyzed partially, as the effect of
the disease or some drug used in its treatment.
Diphtheria is not contagious,but often prevails as an
epidemic, and those exposed to the same atmosphere
with the patient are liable to it, or a modification of
it-perhaps only a sore throat. Scrofulous persons
and those liable to sore throat and swelling of the
glands will be protected more or less completely by
using the Sulpho-carb. sodium (page 119). An excellent preventive for others will be found in Napiform Tonic (page 115).
DROPSY.

For dropsy after scarlet fever, Apis mel., page 77.
General dropsy, Arsenicum, page 79. For old, obstinate cases, the most successful remedy, for the past
twenty-five years has been, Halsey's Distilled Extract
of Apocynum cannabinum.
DYSENTERY.

Aconite, 3x, every half hour for two or three
If
hours, if fever is a prominent symptom.
given promptly at the beginning of the attack, it is
often all that is required. When the evacuations
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straining (tenesmus), give Merc. cor. 3d every hour
at first, then less frequently. Colocynth, 3x, may
be given alternately with Mere. cor., in case of very
sharp colic pains, and especially if greenish feces are
mixed with the bloody-slime discharge. (See also
Arsenicum, page 79.) Dysentery is a catarrh of the
bowels. (See page 135.) Its peculiar symptom, besides the thirst and other signs of fever, is the frequent
and painful urging to stool, with only slight evacuations, but great straining. The evacuations are
more or less bloody, with mucus, and sometimes
lumps of hardened fecal matter, or shreds of fibrin,
which seem as if parts of the intestines themselves.
In hot climates these attacks are very severe, with
great pain about the navel, and at the lower part of
the spine. The bladder often sympathizes with the
rectum, and the patient is obliged frequently to pass
water.
The patient must be kept quiet, lying down, and
in bed, if possible, so as to be warm. If the pains
are very severe, and not readily relieved by the medicines, apply flannel cloths, wrung out of hot water, to
the abdomen, having a fresh cloth ready when the
first is removed. Allow no stimulants until the
pains and other acute symptoms subside. Then
beef tea may be used, and a light diet as fast as it
can be digested; but remember that the digestive
organs are in a very sensitive and much weakened
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To avoid dysentery, avoid sudden changes of temperature; keep the stomach and bowels protected
with woolen clothing; have the food and drink such
as are easily digested; don't abuse your stomach.
In an epidemic of dysentery, as, for instance, in a
boarding-school, or a camp, remember that the effluvia
arising from the evacuations are infectious, and will
spread the contagion unless destroyed by disinfectants.
DRUNKENNESS.

"A positive cure for drunkenness, republished
from the original letter published in the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, February 17, 1884, by
one who is thankful for its effects in his own case:
Steep half an ounce of ground Quassia in a pint of
vinegar. Take a teaspoonful in a little water whenever the appetite for licquor comes on."
We have no doubt the above prescription will
prove valuable help to any one who is sincerely
desirous to break away from the terrible drink
demon.
If his purpose is not fully formed and his determination sincere, there will come times when the
temporary insanity which affects all who have
become slaves to this appetite, will get the better of
his will and his judgment, and make all help but
the direct interposition and sustaining and preserving grace of the Almighty one, of no effect. Begin
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they belong. He is able to keep what is fully
entrusted to Him. Then, have the Quassia cure
always ready. Beware of the nervous exhaustion of
mind or body which gives the tempter a special
power over you. Relieve the craving for stimulus
which comes from weariness or neuralgic condition
of the nerves by taking a little beef tea with a few
crackers, if meal time has irot come. Treat your
bad feelings as you would if they came from any
other disease, and remember that alcohol in any
form is poison, and especially dangerous to you.
Read the chapter on neuralgia, and on dyspepsia.
Study the symptoms which can be cured by Nux
vom., China, Napiform, in the Materia Medica.
Aurum is specially useful also in some cases. Having sought help of Him who never forsakes those who
trust Him, help yourself by keeping out of the way
of temptation, avoid the associations, the places, the
people through which temptation may come to you.
If you join a church, know before hand that it is a
church in which at the sacrament "the cup" which
is offered you will contain no poison.
If you are a housekeeper banish forever from
your household everything which has the taste or
smell of the poison which works ruin to body and
soul. Allow no wine sauces, or rum jellies, or
brandy peaches, or mince pies with cider in them to
appear on your table. Permit no well-meaning but
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you need a little alcoholic stimulus when some extra
"strain," or a fit of sickness has reduced your
strength. Better die a saved man, than live bearing
in yourself, and bringing upon those you love, the
drunkard's curse with the certainty of the drunkard's awful doom.
DYSPEPSIA.

Dyspepsia means simply bad digestion. Bad
digestion means that the nerves connected with the
stomach and the other organs which have to digest
the food and turn it into blood and brain and muscle
and fat, have lost their "tone," and the organs of
digestion have consequently become too weak to do
their work well. This may be because they never
were strong, and so they tired out quickly; for many
people suffer from lack of "tone" or vigor of the
nervous system, because their parents ate too much,
or drank too much, or did not sleep enough, or, in
some other way, transgressed the laws of health;
and it may be that the children have ignorantly, or
foolishly, supposed that they could live in the same
way that their parents did, with the same seeming
impunity. But Nature, sooner or later, exacts the
penalty for transgression of her laws: and so, even
those who may have started in life with strong vital
powers, by presuming on their good health, and the
fact that they never are sick; never have to be careful what or when they eat and drink,-at length go
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have presumed upon and trifled with one of the
greatest blessings of life-good digestion.
The opposite condition-dyspepsia-is certainly
one of the great ills of life. It lessens or entirely
destroys the pleasure we were intended to have in
eating and drinking what nature has provided for
the sustenance of our bodies. It fills us with bodily
discomfort all day, and prevents our sleep from
refreshing us at night. It makes a man impatient
and irritable at home, disagreeable in his business
associations, dissatisfied with the world and discouraged concerning the future; when all is wisely
planned and gloriously moving forward, and needing
only that he, and a few others like him, should fall
into line, and do their part in the working and hoping and waiting.
If the reader has a good appetite, enjoys wholesome food, is not troubled with headache, or pain or
heaviness of the stomach, or belching of wind, or
drowsiness after eating; if his sleep is sound and
refreshing, and he is not cross, or irritable, or "blue"
and depressed in spirits without any apparent cause,
let him first thank the good Father above, and then
the father and mother who cared for him here on
earth; and all the time let him guard jealously the
priceless boon that has been granted him; and even
if he have already at times some symptoms which
show that his digestive functions are weakening, he
may, by regarding the warning, yet escape serious
evil for himself and his descendants.
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How TO ESCAPE DYSPEPSIA.-Eat slowly;and the
more cheerfully, thankfully and tranquilly the better.
Lay aside all thought and care of business, and do
not let the mind become absorbed, or the brain excited about any subject while eating; for if the
blood is thus sent to the brain, the stomach suffers
for lack of it.
It is better not to drink while eating. If you
have to drink to get your food down, you are eating
too fast.
If drink is taken with the food it should not be
ice-cold, or scalding hot. Yery cold drink chills
the stomach, and hinders digestion; hot drinks
injure the mucous lining of the throat and passages
to the stomach and of the stomach itself.
The best drink is cool spring water, and the best
time for it, about an hour after each meal, although
for those of weak digestion a cup of quite warm
water at that time is often beneficial.
Don't allow yourself to be hurried in eating. If
there is not time enough to eat slowly what seems
necessary, eat only what you have time to eat properly. It will do-you more good than the full meal

eaten hastily.
All food should be thoroughly masticated before
being swallowed. Meat hash, soft bread, or pudding, or sauce should not be swallowed much more
quickly than food which of necessity must be
chewed, because a certain amount of action of the

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muscles of the mouth and throat is required to keep
up the secretion of saliva and to properly mix it
with the food in order to insure good digestion.
If over-wearied at meal time, or if the digestion
is not active, eat lightly, or take, before eating, a cup
of beef tea.
Food that is found to disagree with you must not
be eaten under any pretense.
After eating, give mind and body a rest of at least
half an hour, and those who are drowsy will do well
to sleep fifteen or twenty minutes putting on some
extra covering to prevent a chill. Meals should be
at regular times, letting the digestive organs have
regular intervals of rest.
Eating between meals is usually hurtful; but people not very strong, or subjected to exhausting labor
of body or mind will sometimes find it an advantage
to take a cup of beef tea and a few crackers, or even
a glass of cool water and the crackers, an hour or
more before dinner, especially, if they have taken an
early breakfast; also half an hour before bed-time
if they have to be up late.
Continually exciting and at length weakening and
exhausting the salivary glands by constant chewing,
as children do with' "gum" and older people with
tobacco, results very injuriously to the digestion.
As a rule the habitual use of tea and coffee are
injurious. If milk is readily digested, it is the best
and most nourishing drink.

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who cannot drink milk at the same time with or
within several hours before or after eating acid food,
without suffering from colic.
If the occupation is sedentary, sufficient exercise
should be taken daily to send the blood to all parts
of the system.
Walking is the best exercise for
most people, but to walk even briskly, is not always
sufficient; there must, if possible, be some interest in
the exercise aside from the purpose of improving the
health.
Make play of your work as much as you can, and
especially make play of the exercise you have to take.
If it is only work---a task-it will not do you much
good.
How TO CURE DYSPEPSIA.-As dyspepsia results
from a lack of nervous or vital force in the system,
the only cure consists in reducing the demand upon
that vital force for other uses, until the nervous
power is sufficient to perfectly digest the food. If
the brain and muscles have less to do, more can be
If
done by the stomach and liver and kidneys.
care is taken to select the most digestible food, and
that which gives most strength and "tone" to the
system in proportion to the expense of digestion,
there will be a gain which can stand to the credit
of the muscles and brain. Besides this, there can
be counted the gain which comes from the natural
recuperative power when rest is permitted.
After a time, if the rules of the preceding chapter

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have been regarded, a perfect cure may result; but
it will not be a permanent cure, unless the patient
remembers particularly that he must keep in reserve
enough nervous force to digest his food, and that he
cannot work his muscles and his stomach, much less
his brain and his stomach, at the same ime.
MEDICINES
FOR DYSPEPSIA.
They are plenty,
especially "bitters," "tonics" and alcoholic stimulants of all kinds. But these can only give temporary relief at best and leave the patient the worse
off the more they are depended upon.
If you cannot take the prescribed rest, or if your
trouble is only temporary, arising from some special
cause or indiscretion, the following remedies can be
relied upon to do you good and not harm.
By
reference to the respective pages, you can judge
readily which is best suited to your case.
China, page 89; Nux, page 100; Phosph., page
101; Podoph., page 103; Pulsat., page 104; Cinchocarbon., page 114; Pepsin powder, see Appendix.
EARACHE.

(Inflammation of the ear.

Abscess in the ear.)

See Chamom., page 88; Mere., page 98; Pulsat.,

page 104.
ERYSIPELAS.

See

Apis mel.,

page

77;

Rhus tox., page 105.
EPIZOOTIC.

See Influenza.

Bellad.,

page

81;

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HALSEY'S HOM EOPATHIC GUIDE.

EYES-INFLAMMATION

OF.

If from irritation caused by dust or other foreign
substances, first carefully remove the cause, then
bathe the eye gently with ten drops of Arnica tincture to a tea cup of soft water and, if the inflammation is severe, give a dose of Acon., every half hour.
Aconite is the best remedy for most kinds of inflammation or weakness of the eyes caused by, or aggravated by, exposure to cold winds. Inflammation of
the eyes with dilated pupils and dread of light
requires Bellad., every three hours. Epidemic sore
eyes may be cured by the use of Euphrasia 3rd, every
three hours and frequent gentle bathing in clean,
warm, soft water. Applications of hot water give
great relief to badly inflamed eyes. Halsey's Eye
Balm is the best general remedy for all troubles of
the eyes.
FALLING OF BOWEL.
(Prolapsus ani.)

This complaint is most common to children
though, if not corrected in childhood, it sometimes
troubles the adult.
Lay the child across the lap in such a way that the
belly falls lower than the knees or shoulders, then
having well covered the fingers with sweet oil or
lard, press gently but firmly upon the protruded part,
separating the buttocks with the other hand if
necessary.
The cause of this complaint is usually straining

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at stool caused by an urging diarrhea or a constipated habit. It is sometimes induced in children of
weakly constitution by the habit of sitting long in
the privy or water closet talking or reading. Children should be encouraged for a variety of good
reasons, quite obvious to parents of good sense, to
remain in the water closet no longer than is absolutely
necessary to evacuate the bowels or bladder.
If
that seems to occupy an unnecessary length of time
the parent should know why. If there is costiveness
or diarrhea, it should be corrected at once, if there
is any other reason, it should be known to the
parent.
REMEDIEs.-Podophyllum, page 103; Ignatia,
Mercurius and Nux are also at times useful.
FALLING OF

SOFT

PALATE.

The relaxation and congestion of the uvula or
extremity of the soft palate, so that it falls down and
tickles the base of the tongue and excites coughing,
is quite a common complaint. It is sometimes
the result of "a cold," but more frequently is an
indication of a general weakness of the throat from
too much talking or singing, or it.may be indication
of general debility of the whole system. Temporary relief is given by two or three doses of Belladonna 3x. If that is not at hand, gargle the throat
with a very weak tea made from red pepper, well
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Afterward China or Napiform Tonic may be used
to tone up the system, and, if the tickling recurs
quite frequently, a compress wet with tepid water
and covered with flannel may be put about the throat
for a night or two, care being taken that when it is
removed in the morning the throat be well bathed
with cold water and rubbed till the skin glows.
FALLING OUT

OF HAIR.

This sometimes follows a case of fever, in which
case, it is pretty sure to come in again after a time.
Sometimes it occurs whenever the individual falls
into a debilitated condition.
Whenever the hair
begins to "comb out" too freely and is evidently
growing thih, the best thing to do is to take a dose of
China 6th every morning and Phosph. 6th every
night, and rub the scalp freely every time the hair
is dressed, with Calenduline. (See page 111.) Of
course the scalp should be kept clean and no common
pomades or other unhealthy greasy substances used
to fill up the pores of the skin with dirt.
The use of the above remedies in connection with
Calenduline will prevent baldness in any case in
which baldness is not hereditary.
Baldness in a person past middle life, say forty to
forty-five years old, is rarely cured; but previous to
that age it can, in most cases, be entirely remedied
by the patient use of the "Scalp Renovator;" so
also can premature gray hair. (See Appendix).

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FALLING OF WOMB.
(Prolapsus Uteri.)

A full chapter on the causes and cure of this ail-

ment accompanies the instructions for the use of
Suppository "B," see page 119. A copy will be
sent free to any patient wishing it.
FATIGUE.

See Arnica, page 78; Hamamelis, page 94.
FELON.

See "Whitlow."
FEVERS.
SIMPLE FEVER.

Aconite, 3x, is the chief remedy, and if given
promptly and frequently at the commencement of the
attack, will usually prevent further trouble. A dose
may be given every half hour until four or five doses
have been taken; afterwards the interval may be
lengthened as the fever abates.
If, with the fever symptoms there is much pain
and redness of the eyeballs, or swelling of the glands
of the throat, give Belladonna, 6, alternately with
the Aconite, but not oftener than every two hours.
If there is a feeling of lameness, stiffness, or soreness of the limbs and joints, or burning pain in the
eyes, without much redness, give Bryonia 3, alternately with the Aconite, every hour or two.

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If the fever is high, cover the patient well in bed,
after a good, hot foot-bath, and put a jug of hot
water to the feet. Cool water and weak acid drinks
are beneficial, but acids should not be taken at or
near the time of the taking of the medicines. Indeed,
no acid should be used while Aconite is being given
often, because acids hinder its action. In case of
children troubled with worms, see Cina, page 90.
BILIOUS FEVER.

(Remittent Fever, Malarial Fever, etc.)

(We believe we cannot do better than to give a
chapter on this subject, written in 1868, by Dr. J.
S. Douglas, author of" Practical Homoeopathy.")
The great majority of fevers in this country are
what are called bilious, orbilious remittent, because
they give evidence of bilious disorder, or disordered
action of the liver, and have a remission every
twenty-four hours--that is, a period during which
the fever is less. This usually occurs in the morning.
This form of fever, after some days, or hours only,

of languor, loss of appetite, and, perhaps, nausea,
headache, and feeling of fatigue, makes its attack by
a chill more or less severe; pain in the head, back,
and limbs; restlessness; a feeling of weakness; bad
taste of the mouth, and coated tongue. Its course
will depend on the treatment. Under the physicing and drugging treatment its course is generally

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prolonged for several weeks; often assumes at a late
stage, a low, typhoid form, and is not unfrequently
fatal.
After the chilly stage is over, which may be from
one or two to six or eight hours, it is followed by dry
heat, continued headache, restlessness, loss of appe.
tite, more or less thirst, and a general feeling of
severe sickness. The tongue becomes more coated
with a dirty white or yellowish color, the pulse is
frequent, often from one hundred to one hundred
and twenty in the minute. Toward morning some
remission comes on, and perhaps there is a slight
moisture of the skin, the pains are less, and the
patient sleeps more quietly. This is repeated from
day to day. Sometimes the tongue is dry, and of a
browner color in the middle. The edges and tip are
sometimes red, and sometimes the whole surface of
the tongue.
This form of fever, if well drugged, according to
the usual Allopathic practice, as I said, is usually prolonged to several weeks. If no medicine is given-if
the patient entirely abstains from food, and gratifies his
thirst with water only, and if the surface is washed
frequently, whenever the skin is dry and hot, and the
room kept well aired, the fever will generally be
ended in from seven to nine days. But, under a
good Homoeopathic treatment, it is usually cured in
twenty-four hours, and where this fails, in less than
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TREATMENT.--In the early or chilly stage, put a
few drops of Tincture of Gels., in a tumbler, and add
an equal number of spoonfuls of water, and give a
spoonful every half hour till the chill ceases and
perspiration is procured, or the pain and fever subside. Then stop it as long as the improvement continues. As soon as the symptoms begin to return,
renew it. In a majority of cases the first dose stops
the chill within fifteen or twenty minutes. If the
first dose produces no effect, increase it to two, three,
or five drops; for there is a great difference in the
quantity required by different persons. In many
cases one-half or one-quarter drop is sufficient. After
a free perspiration is thus produced, the pains subside, and the patient goes to sleep, and when he
wakes, is conscious that his fever "is broken up." It
is important that this treatment should be adopted
in the early stage of the attack. I have cured innumerable cases by this remedy alone. This is applicable to all fevers that come on with chills and pains,
as above described, whether catarrhal (from a cold),
bilious, typhoid, or rheumatic. When these symptoms are present, Gels., is the remedy. If the treatment is not commenced till a later period, it will often
succeed, and should be tried as the first remedy, but
there is much less certainty of success. But it need
not be continued over one day, if it is not obviously
doing good. If this fails, and the fever puts on the
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Another form of fever comes on slowly and almost
imperceptibly, without pain, and with only a feeling
of languor, of fatigue, and aversion to any effort.
The mind is dull, and the tongue is either merely
coated or it is more or less red at the tip and edges,
or it is dry and brownish through the middle. In
such cases, if not soon relieved by Gels., give Antim.
tart., (four grains in a gill of water) in teaspoonfui
doses every three hours, and continue it for some
days. Under this there will generally be, after the
first twenty-four hours, a daily abatement, and the
fever will subside in a few days. If there is sleeplessness, delirium or headache give besides a dose
of Bell., three times a day.
In fevers in which the bilious symptoms are most
prominent, such as yellowish coat of the tongue,
bitter taste, feeling of fullness or tenderness in the
region of the liver, along the edges of the lower ribs
of the right side and the pit of the stomach, costiveness, or bilious diarrhea, high colored urine, and
feeling of nausea at the stomach, Pod., or Bry., and
Nux are the remedies. One may be given alone, or
both alternately, three hours apart. If, however,
the fever is high and there is a good deal- of pain in
internal organs, Aconite must be given, either alone
or alternated with Bry. until these symptoms are
subdued: and here is a good place to remark, that
while Gels. is the best remedy known for simple
fever, Acon. is the indispensable remedy for local

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inflammation, which often exists in fever. This distinction is of great importance and should not be
forgotten.
If the fever has assumed a low typhoid character,
with delirium, great weakness, dry lips, which, with
the teeth, are covered with a dark crust; twitching
of the tendons, and picking at the bed clothes, give
Arsen., and Bell., three hours apart. If there is
diarrheawith this state, Ihus., is a good remedy.
In children, Mere. sol.
Under this treatment very few fevers will continue
a week. In the severe fevers, it is of great importance to have fresh air passing frequently over a
patient's bed to carry off the effluvia constantly arising from the body. It has long been observed in
hospitals that patients with fevers did not do as well
when placed in a corner where a current of air could
not pass over them. The whole surface should be
sponged over several times a day with water of a
temperature to be agreeable to the feeling. Once a
day there may be a little saleratus, or soda, or lye
from wood ashes added to the water. During the
continuance of the fever there should be a total
abstinence from food, except water, gruel, rice water,
barley water, or similar things made very thin, for a
drink; and even these had better be omitted for
several days, and only water be given. The linen
The
and bed clothes should be changed daily.
patient should be kept entirely quiet, undisturbed

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by noise, and especially by conversation; and the
room should be cool and not disagreeably light.
After recovery commences, if the bowels are costive,
give a dose of Nux vom., every night.
TYPHOID FEVER.
(Enteric Fever, Gastric Fever.)

Its causes are often bad drainage of the soil by
which means the drinking water and the air breathed
are made impure and poisonous; but there is almost
always a susceptibility in the patient which makes
him more liable to be affected by the poisonous
influences on account of overtaxing of the nervous
system in some way.
For protection from it, breathe fresh, pure'air,
drink pure water, avoid being. exhausted by either
mental or physical labor, and especially avoid anxiety
and worrying. Take Napiform Tonic if the system
is depressed and you feel "blue," or if you are
exposed to the same atmosphere with a typhoid
patient.
For remedies consult Acon., Arsen., Bellad.,
Bryon., Baptisia, China, Mercur., Nux, Rhus. See
the chapter on fevers page 169. For symptoms see
next chapter.
TYPHUS FEVER.

This fever comes on quickly after an incubation of
only nine days, while typhoid comes slowly and
insidiously and is sometimes a fortnight in the stage
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The eruption is of a mulberry color, coming out
in a single crop on the fourth or fifth day, first upon
the extremities; and lasts until the termination of
the disease.
The eruption in typhoid is a few
rose colored spots, generally about the abdomen, in
successive crops, which fade and disappear in turn.
In typhus; the brain is chiefly affected, and the
bowels but slightly; the abdomen is natural, and the
evacuations dark; while in typhoid the bowels are
most affected, the evacuations being ochre-colored
and watery, with congestion of the intestinal mucous
membrane, and sometimes hemorrhage or ulceration.
In typhus, there is a dusky blush on the face, neck,
and shoulders, injected eyes and contracted pupils.
In typhoid, the expression is bright, the hectic blush
is limited to the cheeks, and the pupils are dilated.
Typhus fever arises from destitution, over-crowding in tenement houses and on ship board, with defective ventilation; and is spread by contagion. For
treatment see chapter on Fevers, page 169; also
remember that it is blood poisoning, and try what
Sulpho-carbolate of Sodium will do. (See page

119.)
FEVER-INTERMITTENT.

(Fever and Ague, Chills and Fever.)

A long experience with the different remedies for
fever and ague, leads us to recommend, without hesitation, a remedy which we, several years ago, adopted
under the name of Halsey's Antidote to Malaria. It

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had been employed for more than thirty years by
one of the best experienced and most successful
physicians of the Northwest, and in calling attention
to its use, he said it was "safe and effective." It is a
purely vegetable extract, and entirely free from
Quinine, Arsenic and Mercury. Full directions for
(See page 109.)
its use accompany each package.
to suit all varieties of intermittent fever
It seems
except those which are really cases of Quinine poisoning. Persons who have ague of long standing,
and have taken much Quinine, and in large doses,
will often find Arsenicum, 3x trit., a good remedy.
A 3-grain powder should be taken every two hours
for twelve hours before the expected chill, and afterwards a dose every hour for three hours before the
next chill. Try this for a week, and then give the
same dose in the evening before every seventh day
from the last chill, for four weeks.
See also Chin. sulph., page 90.
In all cases, the patient should avoid indigestible
food, over-exertion, or excess of any kind, exposure
to excessive heat, and to the early morning air, or
the evening air of malarial districts. Sitting-rooms
and sleeping-rooms should be kept dry, well aired,
and sunshiny.
Those who regard these rules, and' keep the stomach and bowels in good condition, will not be troubled
with fever and ague, marsh fever, and typhoid
fever, if they are careful to take a dose of Napiform

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Tonic now and then when they feel the depressing
influence of a malarious atmosphere.
FITS.

(See Convulsions.)
FLOODING.

(Hemorrhage of the Womb.)

(See "Bleeding," page 128.)
FOOT-SWEAT.

Fuss-schweiss-mittel sprinkled on the feet before
drawing on the stockings, will prevent foot-sweat
with the fetid odor which usually accompanies it.
Sulphur, 6th, night and morning, for a few days,
will cure the disposition to it.
FRECKLES.

See "Moth."
FREEZING.

Rub the frozen part immediately and briskly with
snow or ice-water, and keep away from the fire till it
is thoroughly thawed.
If the part has already thawed out, and becomes a
chilblain, see the chapter on that subject, page 142.
FRETTING

OF CHILDREN.

(See Crying of Children.)
GALL-STONES.

The distress caused by the passage of gall-stones
may be greatly lessened by taking pure Olive Oil
freely at the time. It not only partially dissolves

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these concretions, but it also lubricates them and the
lining of the intestines through which they must
pass.

Patients troubled by them should take China, 3x,
two or three times daily, or Podophyllin, 3x, in the
same way. (See the Materia Medica.) The liver
is at fault.
GOITRE.

This enlargement of a gland of the neck, called
the thyroid gland, is usually cured by the use of
Full directions accompany it.
"Goitre Powder.
(See Appendix.)
GOUT.

It is said that rheumatic gout can be cured by
taking lemon juice freely in hot water three times a
day.
GUM BOILS.

(See Mercur., page 98.)
HAY FEVER.

No one physician and no one medicine is successful in curing every case of hay fever. The symptoms vary almost as much as the individuals. Sometimes, when a case seems thoroughly cured by some
medicine, or by removal to some locality where the
atmosphere is free from the pollen of those plants
which are supposed to cause the irritation producing
the disease, a fresh attack will suddenly be experienced without any apparent cause.
The best treatment we have known for the majority

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of cases is, First: To see that the general health is
as good as possible. Second: To take Napiform Tonic
two or three times a day for a week before the usual
time for an attack, and then once or twice a day for
several weeks, thus keeping the system braced up
against the poison. Third: If an attack comes on,
take Catarrh Disks till the acute symptoms are
relieved, and then resume the Tonic again. Next
season the liability to the disorder will be lessened,
if the disposition to catarrhal troubles has been
properly treated meantime, and in one or two years
there may be entire freedom from it. The use of
the "Compound Oxygen" treatment is said by many
to give great relief. (See page 140.)
HEADACHE.

Different kinds of headache are mentioned under
Acon., page 76; Bell., page 81; Bryon., page 83;
Coffea, page 91; Ipecac, page 96; Cincho-carbon,
page 114; Gelsem., page 92; Nux, page 100;
Podoph., page 104.
Sleep if you can, unless it is a case of indigestion
from overloading the stomach,or want of exercise.
Sick-Headache-At the first symptoms put five or
six drops of Tinct. Ipecac into half a glass of water,
and drink at once. If not relieved in half an hour,
repeat the dose. If the attack has already made
much progress, Nux Vom., 3rd, taken every hour
will soon greatly relieve.
Sick-headache, with vomiting, and pain on the

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right side of the head, requires Iris vers., 3x, a dose
every, half hour.
Persons regularly subject to sick-headache will
find this disposition almost or quite removed by
taking a dose of Calc. carb., 200th, every night for
a week, and then a dose of Nux Vom., 200th, every
night during the next week, and so alternating during several weeks.
Avoid drinking much coffee and eating more than
sufficient to satisfy hunger.
HERNIA.

See Rupture.
HIVES.

See Nettle-rash.
HOARSENESS.

See Bryon., page 83; Chamom., page 88; Hepar
sul., page 95; Kali bich., page 97; Phosph., page
101; Spongia, page 106; Catarrh Disks, page 113;
Compound Oxygen, page 140.
HOOPING

COUGH.

See Whooping Cough.
HYPOCHONDRIA.

See " The Blues," page 124.
HYSTERICS.

Persons subject to hysterics should avoid excitement, and lead as active a life as possible in the outdoor air. Tea, coffee and other stimulants which
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spondingly depressing influence by reaction must be
given up.
When an attack is felt to be coming on, a glass of
cold water, taken at once, will give relief, and if two
or three drops of Aconite Tincture are added, most
cases will be under control immediately. If the
patient is a woman, subject to uterine congestion, or
prolapsus, Belladonna 3x is the remedy. Two or
three doses, an hour apart, will quickly relieve. If
she suffers from unnatural excitement with a morbid
disposition to find fault with those she knows are
her best friends, Sabina 3rd, every three hours
a dose, will give relief.
In treating a hysterical patient, be firm and
decided, though gentle; so as to influence as far as
possible by magnetic power.
See also "Nervousness."
INDIGESTION.

See Dyspepsia.
INFLUENZA.

Influenza is epidemic catarrh. It arises from a
miasm or disease influence in the air at certain times
which is poisonous to certain individuals. Besides
the symptoms of a sudden cold in the head, there is
a rapid prostration of strength which usually lasts
two or three days. If Camphor is taken promptly,
as for a chill, at the very outset of the disease, it will
very soon antidote the poison, or rather, it will aid
the system to resist its effects. The patient should

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go to bed, with a bottle of hot water applied to the
feet, and should stay there until the feverish symptoms and the feeling of prostration have passed off.
If Camphor cannot be taken in good time, Arsenicum is the remedy prescribed in the books. See
page 79; but in our experience Catarrh Disks taken
every three hours while the feverish symptoms continue, and Napiform Tonic when there is no fever,
constitute the best treatment.
INTERMITTENT FEVER.

See "Fever and Ague."
INVOLUNTARY

EMISSIONS-SPERMATORRHEA.

China, page 89, and Phosph., page 101, are
valuable remedies in the nervous debility accompanying this disorder of the system. Other medicines are required according to circumstances, but
the cure depends more upon the removal of the
cause, and upon proper hygienic measures than upon
'medicines. Above all things keep out of the hands
of advertising "quacks." The highway robber, as
compared with them, is a gentleman. He demands
"your money or your life:" they take your money
and your life.
This disorder is no more contagious or dangerous
or incurable than chronic diarrhea or chronic
catarrh, although it may take longer to cure it.
It may be in part an inherited weakness. It may
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or some intestinal ailment, which predisposed to it.
It may be that your parents did not properly look
after you before you had much sense, and failed to
tell you about yourself and warn you of the dangers
before you when you had sense enough to take
warning. In any case you have no more to be
ashamed of, or afraid of, than the young lady who is
suffering from some weakness peculiar to her sex, because she inherited it from her mother, or because, in
her ignorance, or carelessness, or willfulness, she
has, in some way or ways, transgressed the laws of
health.
Therefore-get rid of your shame-faced discouraged look. Get rid of the idea that you have
a woeful secret to keep. If you are yet a boy at
home, go straight to your father, if you have a good
one, and tell him your trouble. If you have grown
beyond a father's care, and have come into your
trouble by wrong doing, repent, and give up the evil
ways. Then you can respect yourself and will have
a right to the respect of others. Find an intelligent
homoeopathic physician who is also a good man, and
put your case into his hands just as you would with
aniy other condition of disease.
If you do not know any such physician, the next
best thing is to write to us, and we will give you the
address of such an one in this city, or, if you prefer,
we can send you for $1, Prescription No. 848,
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be all that is required to put you on the high road
to health and manly vigor.
ITCH.

Give Sulphur, 6th, twice a day, and rub the eruption well with an ointment made of a teaspoonful
of "flowers of sulphur" well mixed with a teacupful
of fresh lard. It may need to be applied two or
three times. Obstinate cases may oblige you to
send for the Hepar sulph.- Kali Lotion.
(See
Appendix.)
For "Prairie Itch" ("Seven Years Itch ") give
Hepar sul., 6th and 30th, alternately every night
and morning, and apply Calenduline freely to the
eruption.
KIDNEY COMPLAINT.

The increased prevalence of disorder of the kidneys does not make it a necessity that any one should
imagine he has some serious disease of the kidneys,
because there is pain in the back, or some difficulty
in passing or retaining urine, or some peculiar
appearance to, or sediment in, the urine.
Beer drinkers, and especially drinkers of the welldrugged beer of the present day, have good reason
to be on the watch for symptoms of disease of the
kidneys; but, with good habits of life, most troubles
supposed to be of the kidneys are really only the
result of a strain from over-lifting, or a rheumatic
attack of the nature of lumbago, which a few doses
of Arnica (see page 78), or a Lumbago plaster (see

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Appendix) will quickly cure; or they may be referred
back to torpidity or congestion of the liver, which
must be treated accordingly.
A real inflammation of the kidneys must be treated
with Acon., Canthar., Mere., Nux, or Puls., according to symptoms.
(See Materia Medica.)
LEUCORRHEA.

See Suppositories B, and C, page 119. A full
chapter on the subject of Leucorrhea accompanies
the instructions for the use of these Suppositories,
and will be sent free to any lady wishing it.
LICE.

Children must go to school, and for adults the old
adage is as true now as ever: "Misfortune makes
strange bed-fellows." After the use of the comb,
and proper cleansing, one or two applications of
"Cocculus Lotion" will clean out the vermin and
destroy the "nits." The mercurial ointments often
used for this purpose are very dangerous, the mercury being readily absorbed by the skin.
LIVER

COMPLAINT.

See "Blues," Biliousness, Dyspepsia; also,
Bryon., page 83; China, page 84; Mercur., page
98; Nux, page 100; Podophyl., page 104.
LOSS OF VOICE.

A few doses of Acon., 3x, then Phosph., 6th, every
four hours, then-patience.
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them instead of Acon., and Phosph., you will have
less need of patience. See also Camphor, page 87.
Two or three sittings with the Compound Oxygen
Inhaler may serve you without any medicine. (See
page 140.)
LABOR PAINS.

Irregular and ineffectual labor pains require one
or two doses of Caullophyllin. In tedious labors
from a rigid and unyielding state of the parts, Gelsemium, three drop doses, acts like a charm, according to Dr. J. S. Douglas. See also Coffea, page 91.
LAMENESS.

See Arnica, page 78; Bryon., page 83; Hamam.,
page 94; Rhus., page 105; Arnica Oil Compound,
page 110.
LOW SPIRITS.

See "The Blues," page 124.
LUNGS-INFLAMMATION

OF.

See Pneumonia.
LUMBAGO.

Cimicifuga, 3x, every three hours, is the best
internal remedy in nearly all cases, but the surest
and quickest cure for this peculiar, weakening, backbreaking pain is Halsey's Lumbago Plaster.
MEASLES.

Acon., 3d, and Pulsat., th, alternately every two
hours, are the remedies in simple cases. If there is
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half hour. Keep the patient well protected from
the air, so as to avoid a chill.
A dose of Pulsar., 6th, every night and morning
during the epidemic, will almost invariably protect
from an attack, or, at the least, will make the attack
much less severe. Some parents, finding the attack
like that of an ordinary catarrh, commenced treating
it with Catarrh Disks, and, as the patients did well,
they carried them through the entire course of the
disease, giving no other medicine.
If measles are properly treated homoeopathically,
and the patient is not allowed to take cold, there is
no danger of after evils. If any bad symptoms
show themselves, the remedies will be found in the
Materia Medica.
Parents who cannot easily obtain medical advice
are often alarmed by an attack of measles in the
fear that it may be scarlet fever.
The following items will perhaps help them to
determine.
In measles catarrhal symptoms are prominentwatery discharge from the eyes and nose, sneezing,
harsh cough, etc. In scarlet fever catarrhal symptoms are usually absent, but there is great heat of the
skin, sore throat, and some times delirium.
In measles the rash is of a pinkish red or raspberry color. The white streak produced by the
back of the nail is not uniform, and lasts but a
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bright scarlet color, and by drawing the back of the
nail over the skin a white streak is produced which
lasts two or three minutes.
In measles the eruption is somewhat rough, so
as to be felt by passing the hand over the skin, and
is in groups of crescent form. In scarlet fever the
rash usually presents no inequalities to sight or
touch, and is so minute and closely crowded as to
give the skin a uniformly red appearance.
In measles, ihe eye is liquid, tender, watery. In
scarlet fever there is a peculiar brilliant stare, "as
if the eyes were glistened by an ethereal lustre."
In measles, the cuticle is thrown off in minute
portions like scales of fine bran. In scarlet fever
the cuticle is thrown off in large patches, especially
from the hands and feet.
Both are very contagious, and the danger of contagion does not cease until the scurf of the eruption
is entirely thrown off.
MALARIA.

What it is no one seems to know. What we do
know is, that in certain localities, and at certain
times, there lurks in the atmosphere a poisonous
influence which affects certain individuals, taking
away strength, appetite, ambition, courage; and
throwing the whole system into disorder. Also we
know that those are most easily affected who are
least able to resist, because they are over-wearied, or
weakened by other disease, or not naturally strong.

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If you are so exposed, and feel the depressing,
disheartening, discouraging influence, for which you
can not account in any other way, it is time to take
Napiform Tonic, or change your residence.
If you have allowed the poisonous influence to
continue unchecked until chills and fever are settled
upon you, the Antidote to Malaria will help you out
of the trouble; and the sooner the better. (See
pages 109 and 115.)
MENSTRUATION

FAULTY.

Too early in the month, Calc. carb. (see page 84),
or Cale. phosph., if there are also Phosph. symptoms (see Phosph., page 101). Too profuse, Calc.
carb.; too late, or delayed on account of taking cold,
Pulsat., 3d, three times daily. Painful, Belladon.,
Gelsemium, Viburn op., Suppository D (see page 119).
MILK-CRUST.

If the child is scrofulous, Calc. carb., three times
a day. If there" is an acrid discharge from the
eruption, the itching is violent, worse at night and
in cold air, and better from warm air, Arsenicum
three times a day. If the eruption discharges a sticky
fluid, and appears chiefly on the chin and behind
the ears, and every little scratch of the skin becomes
a running sore, Graphites, 6th, three times a day.
(See also Sulphur, RIhus tox., and Sepia.)
MORNING

SICKNESS.

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Veratrum, in Materia Medica. Perhaps none of
these will quite suit the case, as the cases vary with
the peculiarities of patients. Cincho-carbon suits
some cases nicely. Dr. Ruddock says, Kreosotum,
3x, rarely fails in persistent morning sickness from
sympathetic disturbance.
Two drops every four
hours.
MOTH.

Discolorations of the skin called "moth;" also
those called "freckles," are usually soon removed by
the use of a compound prepared by us for this purpose, and called "Dermal Cologne."
MUMPS.

Take Mercurius, 6th, three or four times a day,

and don't take cold, or, if you do, then take Catarrh
Disks to prevent evil results following. Taking cold
during or after mumps often causes, in one sex,
inflammation of the breasts, and in the other, inflammation and swelling of the testicles.
NAUSEA.

See Ipecac, Nux, Podoph., Pulsat., in the Materia
Medica.
NEURALGIA.

Neuralgia indicates a debilitated condition of the
nervous system and may have either hereditary or
constitutional causes, or both combined. Or, it may

have only a local cause, as, for instance, an ulcerated
tooth, a thorn, or splinter, or an abscess pressing

upon or irritating a nerve or nerve trunk,

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Of constitutional causes, we may mention any
depressing influences, whether mental or physical,
as anxiety, grief, night-watching, over-taxing of the
mind by excessive application to business, or study,
or social duties, or in religious or other emotional
excitement;. lack of sleep from any cause; insufficient nourishment; debility from loss of blood or
other vital fluids.
When the system is thus weakened, a slight chill,
or an exposure to wet and cold, or to sharp, cold
winds; a decaying tooth, or an inherited gouty or
rheumatic taint is sufficient cause for an attack of
neuralgia, which may be soon relieved, or may bring
distress to the unfortunate sufferer, either periodically or at regular intervals for weeks and months;
and, in some cases, a long life-time is made miserable by its frequently-recurring attacks. Happily,
it is within the scope of the rules of hygiene to prevent much of this suffering, or to render it much
less severe; and also within the power of Homoeopathy to greatly relieve, and, in most cases, to cure
the malady.
The great majority of neuralgic patients is found
among the hard-working and badly-nourished classes
of our poorer people. Many also of the better classes
suffer from it, partly perhaps on account of enfeebled
nervous condition coming to them by inheritance,
the result of too much tea-drinking or coffee-drinking,
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by their parents; partly because of their own faults
and follies, in dissipation, or in "making haste to be
rich," or in striving to keep up with those who have
more means or time or strength at their disposal; in
one way or another forcing the poor body to "make
bricks without straw," and goading on the vital
powers to the verge of a distraction which may result
in insanity, or to an exhaustion which may result in
paralysis.
A consideration of the cause or causes of the ailment is the first step towards a cure.
If the nervous system has been exhausted by overtaxing, a certain amount of rest is an imperative
necessity. If excesses of any kind have reduced the
vital power, they must be avoided. The use of stimulants-such as wine, ale, brandy, bitters, coffee, tea,
tobacco, and opium-may "tone up" the system for
a while, forcing the organism to carry its burden a
little further, to stick to its task a little longer; but
it is working with a false strength, doing business on
borrowed capital, and expending all the receipts, so
there must come a break-down sooner or later, and
the greater the amount done on the false capital, the
less the chance of recovery from the failure.
If stimulants of this character are ever safe, it is
only in their use to enable the system to recuperate,
by the aid they may give in the digestion of suitable
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produced by the stimulant must not lead the patient
to increased undertaking-just because he "feels so
much stronger," or has "not felt so well in a long
time," etc., etc.; but, if there is any gain, it should
be allowed to go to the recuperation of the exhausted
energies, or, to return to the simile used above, it
should be placed to his credit in the bank to meet
future liabilities. (Of course, in a time of rest, as
well as at other times, due regard must be had for
healthful exercise.)
Whatever stimulants are used should be of the
least injurious kind. Alcoholic stimulants, opium
and tobacco in whatever form, should never be tolerated, even temporarily, if anything else can be
found to answer the desired purpose; for, in the first
place, they are poisonous, and, in the second place,
there is almost always the danger that even a temporary use of them will beget an appetite for them
which it will be difficult or impossible to control.
Even strong coffee and tea are open to the objection that those who use them are over stimulated by
them and induced to effort which lies beyond their
natural ability; and whoever is stimulated in any
way to go beyond his naturalpower of mind or body,
must pay the penalty in the reaction and exhaustion
which are sure to follow.
The natural and proper stimulants are wholesome
food and pure water, pure air, bathing with proper
friction of the skin, moderate exercise, and social
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Enfeebled constitutions require such additional
stimulants as will aid in the digestion of suitable
food-nothing more. Weak black tea or cocoa suit
some well; a cup of beef tea, or of unfermented
grape juice an hour before eating is a good thing for
others. Many cases are greatly benefited by wearing the magnetic belts or bands as a gentle stimulus
to digestion and the nutritive processes of nature;
but even they should be laid aside as soon as that
advantage is gained, and only resumed as required;
and not be presumed upon to carry one through an
extra task in eating and drinking or other excess,
unless a proportionate amount of rest is allowed the
vital powers after work.
Special cases require
special consideration.
The Napiform Tonic is a valuable help in all such
cases; but remember-it is not strength, only a help.
Dr. E. H. Ruddock says:
"It is especially
necessary that animal fats should enter largely into
the diet of neuralgia patients, and any aversion to
them or inability to digest them should be overcome.
Well directed efforts of this nature are nearly always
successful. (Pancreated Pepsin Powder will help any
one to digest fat. An occasional dose of Pulsatilla
3d or 6th, aids in the digestion of fatty food and in
removing distaste for it.) The particular form of
fat is not important, and the variety may be adopted
which best suits the taste and stomach. Cod-liver
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olive oil, should be used in as large quantities as the
digestive organs can bear."
Change of air and scenery, and of occupation are
now and then benefical to all invalids and especially
to neuralgic and dyspeptic patients.
Of the different varieties of neuralgia, we shall
only have space to mention three: neuralgia of the
face, often called tic-douloureux; megrim, or browague (neuralgic pain on one side of the head over
the eye-brows;) and sciatica-an affection of the
sciatic nerve from the hip to the knee, or even to the
foot.
MEDICAL TREATMENT.

1. Facial neuralgia from cold, anxiety, or nightwatching; pains severe in paroxysms; congestion of
head or lungs-Aconite 3d every half hour, and
frequent applications of Aconite Lotion.
2. Burning or tearing pains, periodical, worse
during rest, anguish, excessive restlessness, irritability, general exhaustion and debility, cold extremities, pure sciatica. Pain on one side of head or
face, in paroxysms, scalp cold, sore:-Arsenicum
30th, every three hours.
3. Periodicneuralgia, same hour of day or night.
Tearing or shooting pain in temple down to ear,
especially left side; pains very weakening and much
dreaded:-Bebeerine sulph., lx, a grain dose every
two hours till relieved, then- every three or four
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4. Burning, cutting, tearing, stinging, or throbbing
pains, one or both cheeks flushed and sometimes
swollen, eyes red and watering, and painful, sometimes inflamed, and sensitive to light, congestive
headache.
The general condition and habit the
opposite of No. 2 above. Tic IDouloureux.-Belladonna, 6th, every two hours.
5. Nervous Headache, facial neuralgia, or tic
Intermittent pain, especially on the
douloureux.
right side; pain in the maxillary region, with chilliness in the evening, followed by heat and perspiration in the night. Weariness and inclination to lie
down; pain aggravated at night on lying down,
gradually increasing and subsiding. Zincum valer.
3x. trit., three grain doses every 20 minutes.
6. Neuralgia from malaria, or loss of blood or
other animal fluids :-China, 6th, every three hours.
7. Brow-ague, especially from malaria or with
symptoms of "ague ":-Napiform Tonic according
to directions.
8. Neuralgia from carious teeth :-Mercurius.
9. Sciatica (neuralgia of the nerves of the thigh,
and extending to the knee). See Arnica Oil Compound, page 110.
Chain,. Gelsemium, Phosph., Spigelia and Pulsatilla are sometimes required.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.

See China, page 89; Phosph., page 101; Nux
Vom., page 100; Napiform Tonic, page 115.

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NERVOUS HEADACHE.

Much of the "nervous headache" so common to
women is Iore properly called neuralgia, and may

be cured by Bellad. or Zinc. val.
in the chapter on " Neuralgia."

See Nos. 4 and 5

NERVOUSNESS.

Acon., page 76; Bellad., page 81; Chamom.,
page 88; Coffea, page 91; Gelsem., page 92;Nux,
page 100; Pulsat., page 104.
NETTLE-RASH.

(Hives.)
Aconite, every hour or two, if there are feverish
symptoms ; Bryonia, every two hours, if there is an
irritable temper and no fever; Dulcamara, 3rd, every
three hours, if neither Acon., or Bryon., is well
suited, and the weather is especially damp and chilly.
If caused by indigestion, Pulsat., every two hours.
See also Apis., page 77.
Slices of lemon rubbed over the itching spots give
temporary relief.
OLD SORES.

See Calenduline, page 86.
PAIN OR ACHING

IN BONES.

See Bones-Pains in.
PALPITATION OF

TEART.

This may be caused by nervous excitement from
any cause, and be only a sign of some degree of
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times causes palpitation of the heart in weakly
persons. It is frequently an accompaniment of
dyspepsia, and often follows pneumonia. It is
therefore not always a cause for alarm, or an evidence of heart disease. Remedies which are suited
to nervous excitement, nervous debility, etc.,. will
generally relieve and cure. In almost any case the
Oxygen Treatment will be a benefit. See page 140.
PILES.

For "bleeding piles," with pain in the back, "as if
it would break," take Ilamamelis, 3x, and use Hamamelis Cerate or Hamamelis Suppositories. For
piles bleeding little or none, yet very painful, and
especially if there be much itching and a sensation
as if the rectum were full of small sticks, take
2Esculus, 3x, and use IEsculus Cerate or Esculus
Suppositories. For obstinate cases for which the
above treatment is unsuccessful, Suppository A
(page 119) is well suited. If there is much ulceration and great soreness, Halsey's Pile Cerate will
give relief, and, sometimes, will cure even the worst
case. See Nux vom., page 100; Pulsat., page 104,
and Sulphur, page 107.
PLEURISY.

If it is real pleurisy-that is, inflammation of
the membrane surrounding the lungs---the pain is
felt most on filling the lungs by a long breath.
Give Aconite, 3rd, and Bryonia, 3rd, alternately,

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every half hour at first, then every hour. The
patient should be kept warm in bed with a jug of
hot water to the feet, and perspiration encouraged.
"False pleurisy"-inflammation of the muscles of
the chest, " stitch in side "-is known by the pain
being more severe on emptying the lungs. This
affection is of a rheumatic character, and frequently
results from over-lifting, or straining of the muscles
in some other way, and then taking cold. Arnica
(see page 78) will generally relieve. If there is
much fever give Aconite at first. If not from a
strain, or if the patient is better on motion, but
worse toward evening and night, Pulsatilla is the
remedy.
PNEUMONIA.

Inflammation of the lungs is a frequent disease in
northern latitudes.
The most frequent cause is
exposure to cold winds. It generally begins with a
chill; then there is pain in the chest, difficulty of
breathing, fever, cough, at first dry, afterwards
moist, with expectoration which, as the disease
advances, assumes a hue like rust or prune juice;
this expectoration is distinctive of this disease; the
patient generally lies upon his back; the skin is hot
and dry, and the pulse quick. Acon., and Bryon.,
or Bryon., and Phosph. will suffice for most cases;
when there is much oppression of the breathing,
Ant. tart. may be considered; Lycopod. is a capital
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wrung out of cold water, affords much relief; they
must be well covered up with flannel. Some apply
warm poultices of bran over the whole chest. The
diet should be light at first, but care must be taken
to keep up the strength.
Typhoid symptoms may sometimes supervene;
but Bryon., Phosph., or Rhus will usually suffice.
(Dr. Shipman's Homoeopathic Guide.)

Some physicians use the Thermal Bath (page 22)
in every case of pneumonia or pleurisy where it is
possible to give the time required, and say they
expect to see the patient cured at once if it is a
recent case. The judicious use of the bath in connection with the remedies suited to the case would
certainly be good practice.
POISONING WITH IVY.

See page 119.
POISONING.

The following directions can be observed while a
physician is sent for, or in case no physician is to
be had. In poisoning by Arsenic, cause vomiting as
soon as possible by tickling the throat with the
finger or a feather, or by giving two or three spoonfuls of mustard mixed with half a tumbler of water.
After the vomiting give several spoonfuls of finely
powdered charcoal, or, if that is not at hand, give a
plentiful dose of olive oil. Beef tea or any good
meat broth, or easily digested and strengthening
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are over. Corrosive sublimate is sometimes taken,
by accident or design, in the form of "bed-bug
poison."

Give at once the whites of several eggs.

If eggs can not be had at once-stir up wheat flour
with water or sweet milk, and give to drink freely,
until the eggs are obtained; or-give plenty of sweet
milk in place of the floor and water, any of these
serving in part to antidote the poison.

After giving

them, empty the stomach by vomiting, with lukewarm water or tickling the throat, or by a solution
of twenty to thirty grains of sulphate of zinc.
Opium, Laudanum, Paregoric,Morphine or other
preparations of Opium. Give Sulphate of Zinc emetic
as above. If vomiting is not produced in ten
minutes, give a cup of coffee as strong as can be
made, and without milk. If the patient has already
passed into a state of stupor, use every possible
means to arouse, as, for instance-dashing cold
water, or cold and warm water alternately on face and
chest. Don't allow sleep so long as the drowsy condition continues. Keep the patient in motion.
After vomiting freely, give lemonade, or vinegar and
water.
In poisoning by acids, vitriol, etc., give baking
soda or washing soda, or milk, or flour and water.
Empty the stomach if possible, and afterwards use
flax-seed or slippery-elm tea.
PRAIRIE

See Itch.

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PROPHYLACTICS.

Prophylactics, or preventives of disease, should
always be kept in mind.
Belladonna -Scarlet fever (see page 81).
Calenduline-Chapped hands and lips, baldness,
dandruff (see page 111).
Camphor--Cholera (see page 87).
Catarrh Disks-Croup, catarrh, pneumonia, bronchitis (see page 113).
Hepar sulph.-Croup (see page 95).
Napiform Tonic-Malarial, bilious, and intermittent fever, neuralgia, hay fever (see page 115).
Pulsatilla-Measles, whooping-cough (see page
104).
Sulpho-carbolate of Sodium-Scarlet fever, diphtheria, erysipelas, puerperal fever (see page 119).
Teething Disks-Rickets and emaciation of children from lack of nourishment (see page 120).
PROLAPSUS UTERI.

See Falling of the Womb.
RHEUMATISM.

To treat this topic properly would require a longer
chapter than we have room for in so small a book.
But, perhaps, if you look at Bryonia, page 83,
Rhus, page 105; Sulphur, page 107, and Arnica
Oil Compound, page 110, you will get rid of your
rheumatism so soon you will not care to hear any
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RICKETS.

See Calc. phosph., page 85; Teething Disks,
page 120.
RINGWORM.

Apply Phytolacca Cerate.
RUPTURE.

(Hernia.)

The term hernia is used to denote the protrusion
of any organ from its containing cavity, as, for
instance, hernia of the lung, of the brain, of the
iris, of the intestines.
The term rupture is applied only to abdominal
hernia.
These viscera are more subject to hernial protrusion, on account of the complex and thin-walled
cavity in which they are contained, and on account
of the pressure to which they are subject, and their
great mobility.
The common varieties of rupture are: inguinal
or scrotal hernia, the bowel passing down into the
scrotum; femoral hernia, the bowel passing out into
the groin between the thigh and abdomen; umbilical
hernia, the protrusion being at the navel.
Insufficiency of the abdominal walls, or unusual
pressure from within are the elementary causes to
which ruptures must be referred. The producing
cause usually is some act of "straining," such as
takes place in lifting, coughing, vomiting, or while
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Peculiar causes predispose the male infant to the
occurrence of inguinal hernia, and also give rise to
certain peculiarities of the affection known as congenital and infantile hernia.
It is a great happiness to know that almost or quite
every case of rupture, if taken in time, can be cured
by the excellent appliances now made for this purpose. Before the age of puberty, ruptures have a
spontaneous tendency toward spontaneous recovery.
It remains then only a necessity to see that a properly constructed truss is properly applied and kept
in place.
No case of rupture in a child should be allowed
to go unsupported for an hour. The bowel should
be returned to its place, and kept there by a suitable
bandage until the proper truss is obtained. Sometimes the small size of the tumor, together with the
absence of pain and other troublesome symptoms,
lead to the assumption that delay is unimportant so
long as the child is young and not active. This is
a dangerous error; for while the rupture is down,
even if not increasing in size, it is still molding the
parts into their new relations, and diminishing each
day the chances of permanent restoration.
It is important to have a good, well-fitting truss,
Get your physician to attend to it promptly, or send
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SALT RHEUM.

Cases not very troublesome will be relieved by the
use of Calenduline. For obstinate cases, see page
118.
SCALDS.

See Burns.
SCALLED HEAD.

See Calenduline, page 111.
SCARLET

FEVER.

(The following, from Dr. Shipman'sHomeopathic
Guide, is the most concise and practical article we
can find on this subject.)
Scarlet fever is a very common disease, and, while
in its milder forms, readily yielding to treatment, or
scarcely needing any; in its most violent forms
nothing is more justly alarming. Cases occur, happily not often, which from the very first symptom
bear the impress of death. If a physician is remote,
the severer forms would terminate fatally before any
advice could be had; and if one is to be had after
a few hours, it is highly important that these few
hours should be well employed. I shall therefore
attempt to lay down explicit directions for the treatment, hoping that if they fail to give satisfaction in
some cases, they may prove useful in others.
As regards the causes of scarlet fever, little is
known about the matter, and that little sheds no light
upon the question how these causes are to be avoided.
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preventive is to keep the health of children in as
robust a state as possible, by proper exercise in the
open air and due attention to the rights of the
stomach. Bell. is said, by many, to be a preventive,
and there certainly can be no harm in giving from
two to six pellets every morning (according to the
age of the child) for a few mornings-then intermitting for a few days.
Scarlet fever is divided, for convenience, into three
forms: the simple, the anginose (when the throat is
much involved), and the malignant; though it would
be difficult for one to say where one class ended and
the other began, nor is it essential in practice to discriminate. The symptoms attending each particular
case must determine what remedies shall be given.
The precursory symptoms of scarlet fever are
chilliness, nausea, often vomiting, fever, headache,
not differing materially from those of other fevers.
It is only when the eruption breaks out that we
can say, this is scarlet fever. This often occurs
after two or three days of precursory symptoms. It
appears first on the face, upper part of the chest and
arms, which present the appearance of a boiled lobster-shell; on pressure being made with the finger,
the skin becomes white. With the appearance of the
eruption, or soon after, the throat becomes inflamed,
and the papillae of the tongue become prominent,
projecting through a whitish or yellowish coating;
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eruption is fully established, the other symptoms, in
mild cases, generally subside; the eruption gradually
spreads over the whole surface, and about the fifth
day, sometimes a little later, the skin begins to peel
off. This process continues for two or three days-sometimes occurs more than once, and may last three
or four weeks. In most cases, even slight ones,
children complain much of the itching of the skin.
The treatment of these simple cases is itself
simple. The child should be kept comfortable, neither too warm nor too cool; the diet should be light;
the whole body, at least where it itches, should be
smeared with lard, bacon rind, or glycerine, and if
there is much soreness, a slice of pork may be tied
about the throat. Bell. is the remedy. It may be
given at intervals of from one to four hours, according to the severity of the attack. Aeon. will probably have to be given from the first appearance of
fever, before its character was fully developed, after
which Bell. is more appropriate. Many physicians
give the two alternately. In mild cases this is all
that is needed. Great care should be taken, during
convalescence, to prevent taking cold, as this may be
followed by the most serious consequences, even when
the fever has been of the mildest form.
But now, suppose the eruption comes out here and
there, in patches not so promptly and distinctly as
in the simple form, sometimes not at all-but there
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glands under the jaw are swollen; on examining the
throat, the tonsils are found to be much swollen,
sometimes blocking up the passage, and intensely
red. This is the second form-the anginose; the
inflammation of the throat progresses; the tonsils
are covered with mucus, sometimes are ulcerated; in
addition to this there is sometimes a yellowish discharge from the nose, making the upper lip sore. In
this form the fever is high; the pulse quick; the
brain is sometimes affected, and there is great restlessness and distress; the swelling of the tonsils
makes the breathing difficult, and taking of food
sometimes impossible.
In treating these cases, the same aids should be
used as mentioned in speaking of the milder form.
Gargle the throat with Camphor, if the child is old
enough; if not, permit it to inhale the Camphor
vapor. Give Mere. dulc., 2, every two hours alternately with Bell., if there is much disturbance about
the head. If the tongue has a dark and dry appearance, Bell. and Rhus should be given every half hour
or hour. If there is a tendency to stupor, and the
medicines do not seem to have the desired effect, give
a few pellets of Op., every hour, for three or four
times, then recur to the remedies previously given.
If the eruption fades out, Bry., Camph., Ipec., Ant.
tart. may be considered.
If these symptoms are considerably intensified,
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this form can not be described in terms quite so
simple. Sometimes the disease comes on with convulsions, in which the patient dies in twenty-four
hours, or less; though it may be mentioned that all
cases which commence with convulsions are not thus
dangerous; sometimes the patient falls at once into
a profound sleep; at others into a collapse; diarrhea
carries off some in a short time, while, in other cases,
the scarlet fever runs into a typhoid. To give directions for the treatment of all these different conditions (and there are yet others) would be, of course,
impossible.
An intimate acquaintance with the
Materia Medica will throw all the light upon the subject which can be given. Where there are convulsions, however, it may be proper to state that Ammon.
carb., 1, should be used; have it freshly prepared, if
possible; also in cases with typhoid complications.
In the low form of this, as well as other diseases,
the strength must be kept up. Recourse must be
had occasionally to Camph., or Op., when prostration
seems to be threatened, and wine whey, beef tea, and
other nourishing articles of diet, must be employed.
Great care should be taken against taking cold
during convalescence, as patients are liable to many
painful and even fatal disorders, the worst of which
is dropsy. Ars., Bry., Merc., Sulph. may be consulted
in such cases, but the advice of a physician should
be had, if possible. (See also Apis, page 78, and
Sulpho-carbolate of Sodium, page 119.)

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It is said that exposure to scarlatina sometimes
results in diphtheria, and vice versa. Certain it is
that in an epidemic of either disease, throat troubles,
common sore throat and "quinsy" are very common.

To distinguish between measles and scarlet fever,
see page 187.
SCARLET

RASH

Has an eruption of darker color than scarlet fever,
and the skin does not turn white when drawing the
back of the nail across it. The eruption feels
rougher under the finger, something more like that
of measles. Give Aconite every two or three hours,
and Bell., or Coff., if there is much brain excitement.
SCIATICA.

See Neuralgia, page 190; Colocynth, page 92;
Arnica Oil Compound, page 110.
SCROFULOUS

AFFECTIONS.

See Calc. carb., page 84.
SEA-SICKNESS.

Arsenicum, Ipecac, and Nux vom. are suitable in
different cases. (See Materia Medica for symptoms.)
Cocculus, 3x, is recommended where there is giddiness like that caused by drinking beer, or spirits,
with nausea increased by rising in bed, or by the
motion of the vessel.
Dr. Ruddock recommends Petroleum, a drop or two
on a piece of sugar, as soon as going on board the

vessel, and repeated every two or three hours.

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Indigestible food and all irregularities of diet
should be avoided for some days before the voyage,
and the condition of the bowels looked to, that a
costive habit may be prevented or corrected.
Keep the horizontal position as much as possible,
and for diet prefer broths and other liquid food,
until well established.
Anything that directs the mind or the brain from
the idea of the waving motion, the changing of
centers, is a help.
SHINGLES.

See Calenduline, page 111.
SKIN UNHEALTHY.

See Hepar. sulph., page 95; Sulphur, page 107;
Calenduline, page 111.
SLEEPLESSNESS.

If from exhausted condition of the brain, and
without congestion or headache, Phosph., 6th, three
times a day, is the remedy. Let the brain rest, or
aid it by eating oat meal, cracked wheat, fish, raw
eggs and other brain food; avoid all excesses; go to
bed early; take plenty of out-door exercise; avoid all
stimulants; do only what your natural strength permits, and when your head begins to tire, stop! You
gain nothing but loss by crowding your brain.
For wakefulness without fever or excitement and
without special symptoms of nervous exhaustion,
China, 6th, three times a day, is the cure,

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For sleeplessness with fever, congestion, restlessness, and other symptoms, see Acon., page 76; Bell.,
page 81; Gels., page 92; Coffea, page 91; Nux
vom., page 100.
For sleeplessness of infants, see Chai., page 88;
Coffea, page 91.
Closing the eyes, taking long deep inspirations
and inhaling slowly, and trying to keep the count of
the number of breathings, will often put one to sleep.
The " Compound Oxygen" treatment suits some
See
cases of sleeplessness wonderfully well.
page 140.
SMALL

POX.

This usually comes on with a chill, followed by
high fever and severe pain in the head and back.
In about three days the eruption appears in small
red points, changing to large pustules filled with
matter or pus which at length dry up and form scabs.
When the fever ishigh give Acon., every two
hours for several doses, then Bryon., to bring out
give
the eruption. When the pustules begin to fill,
Ant. tart., till they are pretty well dried up. This
remedy moderates both the fever and the eruption,
and prevents pitting. Fresh air, frequent change
of clothing, and sponging well with warm water, are
very important.-Dr. Douglas, in Practical Homceopathy.
SNAKE BITES.

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quickly, give ten to twenty drops, in a little water,
every five minutes at first, and then at longer intervals, until five or six doses have been taken. The
strong Ammonia should be applied several times
directly to the wound.
For the bite of the rattlesnake, the common treatment is to drink whiskey until intoxication is produced, and it is said to be effective against the snake
poison; but, as some whiskey is almost as poisonous
as the average rattlesnake, and as it is as easy to
have the Ammonia at hand as the whiskey, we prefer
the Ammonia treatment.
If no other means of help is at hand, suck the
wound several times, being careful to swallow nothing
and to cleanse the mouth with water as soon as pos-

sible. The poison will not injure unless absorbed
by the blood.
SORE EYES.

See Eyes, Inflammation of.
SORE NIPPLES.

Apply Calenduline after the child nurses, wiping
the surface quite clean with soft linen before the
next nursing. If the case is very obstinate send for
the Nipple Salve, (see page 117). The use of a soft
rubber shield will be a comfort.
SORE

THROAT.

If only a raw, rough feeling, Acon., and Bryo.n.,
alternately every hour, or a dose of Catarrh Disks

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every hour or two. If throat is swollen or ulcerated,
see Bellad., page 81; Hepar sulph., page 95; Kali
bich., page 97; Mere., page 98. See also Camphor,
page 87.
SPASMS.

See Convulsions.
SPLEEN-INFLAMMATION

OF.

Take Mere. iod., 2x, three times a day.
SPOTTED

FEVER.

(Cerebro-spinal Meningitis).

The remedies and the treatment are much the same
as in other fevers, and must be determined according to the symptoms, which vary in the different
cases.
See the Materia Medica, and determine
between Acon., Arnica, Bellad., Bryon., Gelsem.
(very valuable in this difficulty), Lycopod., and
Opium.
SPRAINS.

Arnica Oil Compound well and frequently rubbed
into the lame part, and a dose of Rhus tox., 30th,
three times a day, will soon cure the severest sprain,
especially if the injured muscles have rest.
If there is very much swelling when the case is
first taken in hand, a bandage, wet with tepid water
and well wrapped with woolen cloth, should be applied
for a few hours to reduce the inflammation.
STIFF NECK.

There is nothing else that will relieve so quickly

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as a good rubbing with the Arnica Oil Compound.
See page 110. If you have none of that in the
house take Acon., and Bryon., alternately, every
hour-and rub the surface well with the hand.
STINGS OF INSECTS.

For bee stings-Spirits of Ammonia promptly
applied. For mosquito bites-Tincture of Arnica or
Arnica Oil Compound.
STITCH

IN

THE SIDE.

If rheumatic-rub well with the Arnica Oil Compound. If of the nature of pleurisy-see page 199.
STOMACH-ACHE.

See Colic.
STOPPAGE OF NOSE.

See Arsenic, page 79; Nux, page 100; Pulsatil.,
page 104.
STRAINS.

See Arnica, page 78; Rhus, page 105; Arnica
Oil Comp., page 110.
STYE.

See Apis., page 77; Bryon., page 83; Pulsat.,
page 104; Silicea, page 106; Sulphur, page 107;
Eye Balm, page 115.
"S ULKS."

See" Blues," page 124.
SUNBURN.

Apply Calenduline freely.

The unpleasant feeling

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will quickly pass away and the skin be prevented
from scaling off.
SUN STROKE.

See Gelsemium, pag4 92.
SUPPRESSION

OF MENSES.

See page 190.
SURGICAL CASES.

A great many cases which formerly would have
had no chance of help but in the use of the surgeon's
khife, are now readily cured by homoeopathic treatment. For instance: bad fistula, by frequent syringing with Calendula Lotion, and occasional doses
of Silicea, 200th; tumors and excrescences by
Calc. carb., Thuja, or other well-chosen remedies:
some forms of spinal disease, and most varieties of
piles are cured without surgical treatment.
Nearly all such cases must, however, go into the
hands of well-informed homoeopathic physicians,
and, by the way, if a surgeon is at any time needed,
it will be found that (other things being equal) the
one who is most familiar with the use of homoeopathic remedies is the best surgeon.
SURGICAL EMERGENCIES.

Sometimes surgical aid can not be had promptly,
possibly not at all; therefore we add the following
instructions:
DISLOCATIONS.-Getting a limb "out of joint"
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more tedious case than if the bone were broken,
because there is always more or less injury to the
tendons and tissues surrounding. The deformity of
the joint and the shortening of the limb indicate the
character of the trouble. If a surgeon can not be
had, it is best to try to put the joint in place by
steady, careful, firm pulling. Study first the shape
of similar joints, so that you will know when you
have it right, and not give the patient unnecessary
pain, or injure the joint. Then wet a towel in tepid
water, colored slightly with Arnica, and wrap around
the joint, covering it with woolen cloth. Give a dose of
Arnica, lx, the first thing after the injury, and repeat
the dose every two hours for a day. After twentyfour hours the pain and swelling will be much lessened, if the compress has been kept wet. Then the
joint can be treated with Arnica Oil Compound, and
by taking Rhus tox., 30th, three times a day, a rapid
cure may be effected. But the weakened joint must
not be used till free from pain.
FRACTUREs.-A fractured or broken bone may gen-

erally be detected by having felt it snap; there is
also some deformity, such as bending or shortening,
and if the upper end of the bone is held firmly by
the hand, the lovwer part may be moved independently; also, if the broken ends are rubbed against
each other, a grating noise may be heard (or felt).
Besides, there will be pain, loss of power of the
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The patient must be moved gently, and care taken
to prevent the broken bones being forced through
the flesh and skin. Placed in a litter, and carried
by two men, he can be moved to his home, or the
hospital, without much distress. Make him as comfortable as you can, and do not be in a hurry in
handling him. If it is a broken leg, lay the sound
one against it, and tie them together with handkerchiefs or strips of cloth. A broken arm can be supported by a sling from the shoulder. Broken ribs
require a broad bandage fitting tightly around the
chest. The surgeon, who should be promptly sent
for, will bring the broken parts together as nearly as
possible, and then laying against them stiff pieces of
thin material called "splints," will wrap the whole
firmly with cotton cloth, but not so tightly as to stop
the circulation. If a surgeon can not be found, you
must do it yourself as well as you can, remembering
there is likely to be some tenderness about the fractured parts, and that in the whole operation gentleness and firmness are required. Nature must do the
rest, though a dose or two of Arnica every day will
relieve the shock to the nervous system, and aid nature
in the healing process.
DANGEROUS BLEEDING.--Profuse bleeding from a

cut, or other wound, indicates the injury of some
important blood-vessel.
If the blood flows in a steady stream, and is darkcolored, it is from a vein, and can generally be checked

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by applying cold water, and exposing the cut surface
to the cold air. But if large veins be wounded, they
should be compressed with the fingers, or by a bandage. A few thicknesses of soft cloth with firm bandaging is better than a large compress.
If the blood is bright red, and flows in jets, it is
from an artery. The case may be treated as above,
unless the bleeding is excessive. Thena handkerchief should be tied around the limb near the wound
and between it and the heart, a stick inserted under
the handkerchief, and a roll of cloth, or a stone, or
bit of wood covered with cloth, placed over the
course of the blood-vessel, under the handkerchief;
then, by turning the stick, the handkerchief may be
twisted until the flow is stopped. Then, if no surgeon can be found to tie the artery, take a pair of
light forceps, or a pin with the point bent into a hook,
and, after drawing out the end of the artery, tie it
with a piece of stout silk thread, leaving the end
of the thread hanging out of the wound.
In case of any severe cut the injured parts should
be as soon as possible carefully cleansed and freed
from all foreign substances with a soft wet sponge,
or a soft cloth; then the cut edges should be brought
together and fastened with adhesive plaster, or if it
is too long or deep a cut to be held together in this
way, stitches must be taken in it with soft sewing
silk.
A bandage, kept wet with Calendula Lotion or

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well smeared with Calenduline, should then be used.
Calendula has the property of causing a wound to
heal rapidly and without suppuration.
SWEATING.

A tendency to profuse sweating at night, or to
free perspiration at any time after slight exertion of
mind or body is evidence of debility and should be
at once corrected. See China, page 89; Phosph.,
page 101; Mere., page 98; Napiform Tonic,
page 115.
TAN.

Calenduline freely applied will quickly make the
skin fair and white again.
TEETHING

TROUBLES.

See Calc. carb., page 84; Chamom., page 88;
Podophyllum, page 103; Teething Disks, page 120.
TETTER.

See Calenduline, page 111.
THROAT

SORE.

See Sore Throat.
TONSILS,

CHRONIC ENLARGEMENT

OF.

Baryta carb., 3x, is the remedy for a chronic
tendency to enlargement and suppuration of the
tonsils, worse after every slight cold, or suppression
of foot sweat.
TONSILS,

See "Sore Throat."

INFLAMMIATION

OF.

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TOOTHACHE.

Acon., if there is feverish condition of the head
and face. Bellad., if there is much congestion and
throbbing pain. Coffea, if it is nervous toothache
with Coffea symptoms, (see page 91). Mercurius,
if there is ulceration of the gums, and tendency to
"gum boils." Kreosotum, 6th, for pains in decayed
teeth.
URINARY

DIFFICULTIES.

In most cases of irritation or inflammation of the
kidneys or bladder, with retention of urine, or with
frequent, or painful, or bloody discharges of urineCantharis, 3rd, and Nux vom., 3rd, alternately every
hour, will give relief.
See also Apis, page 77;
Pulsat., page 104. In case of strangury, give
Camphor (see page 87).
For incontinence of
urine in old persons, see Gelsem., page 92. For
this trouble in children, see " Wetting the bed."
If the symptoms are obscure or the case is obstinate see Prescription No. 610, page 118.
VACCINATION.

If not convenient to have a physician perform the
operation procure a package of pure cow pox virus
from some homoeopathic pharmacy and, with a sharp
knife point, scratch a space about half an inch
square, just sufficient to remove the outside skin and
not cause profuse bleeding, then moisten one of the
vaccine points a little and rub the virus into the
abrasion. Let it dry five minutes.

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A good chapter concerning vaccination will be
found in the first part of this book.
If any unhealthy condition of the skin follows the
vaccination apply Calenduline freely and give Sulphur, 6th, night and morning.
VOMITING.

Simple nausea and vomiting, from a disordered
stomach, is relieved, as soon as it ought to be, by a
few doses of Ipecac, 3x. In case of great prostration and long continued vomiting, Arsenicum, 6th
or 30th, is the remedy. The medicine should be
given in a fresh dose every time it is thrown up. See
also Ant. tart., page 77; Verat., page 108; Nausea,
page 191. A few spoonfuls of strong black tea,
without milk or sugar, will sometimes suffice to rest
and quiet the rebellious stomach after it has once
emptied itself; and before its effect is entirely gone,
a little weak broth free from fat, or some corn meal
gruel well salted may be given. Sleep is nature's
best restorer.
VARICOSE

VEINS.

See Hamamelis, page 94: also a laced bandage or
an elastic stocking, properly fitted, should be worn
if the patient must move about. Your physician
will order it, or you can send to us for instructions
for measurement.
WAKEFULNESS.

See Sleeplessness,

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WARTS,

Unless they are exceedingly stubborn, will be easily
removed by the application of Rhus lox. 0 to the surface three or four times a day, occasionally peeling
off the dead portion. Care must be had to avoid
getting the tincture on the surrounding flesh, as it is
poisonous to some persons. What are called "seedwarts" are soon cured by frequent application of
Tinct. of Thuja. It is said that warts, and the disposition to them, can be entirely eradicated by taking
Calc. carb., 200, one dose daily for a fortnight. When
warts occur in connection with a debilitated condition
of the system, with pale, bloodless appearance of the
face, Ferrum, 12th, three times daily, will probably
cure both.
WEAK BACK.

See Arnica, page 78; Bryon., page 83; Hamam.,
A good Lumbago
page 94; also see "Rheumatism."
Plaster is often the only thing necessary to bring
relief. The "weak back" and "lame back" of women
usually indicates uterine displacement or uterine
congestion. (See page 169.)
WETTING

THE BED.

If caused by irritation from "worms," give Cina,
3x, three times a day. If in very delicate and nervous children, without other special cause, give Bell.,
6th, half an hour before supper, and again at bedtime; allow no tea or coffee; spices; or sauces, or jellies containing wine, rum, or brandy. If neither of

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these is required or gives relief, give Sulphur, 12, a
dose daily for a week. (See also Urinary Difficulties.)
WHITES.

See Leucorrhea.
WHITLOW.

Gathered finger, or whitlow, is a swelling, more or
less painful, usually at the end of the finger about
the root of the nail, and affecting only the skin and
the surface of the tissues beneath. In such case it
is called a "run-around."
If it affects the tendinous sheath of the finger,
it is called "thecal abscess"; and if it occurs between
the joints and burrowing down to the membrane
covering the bone, the more common name is "felon."
It is sometimes caused by a splinter or thorn concealed in the flesh till inflammation is produced;
sometimes by cutting the nail too closely, or tearing
it near the root; sometimes by a scratch, or bruise,
or other slight injury. There is usually, however,
some depraved condition of the system, which has
Hepar
developed a tendency to such abscesses.
sulph., 6th, night and morning for a fortnight, will,
in most cases, remove this tendency.
On the first appearance of inflammatory symptoms,
take a teacup half full of boiling water, and stir
into it half as much wood ashes, or a little "concentrated lye," enough to make weak lye of the water.
If neither of these is to be had, put in salt enough
to make a strong brine.

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As soon as the water has cooled so that the finger
can endure the heat, hold it in the solution until it
is quite cool. If this does not break up the inflammation, try it once more in two or three hours.
If, too far gone for this treatment, apply a warm
bread and milk poultice, and take Hepar Sul., 6th,
three or four times a day. Acon., Bella., and Bryon.,
or Mercury may also be required for fever or excessive pain. The purpose of the Hepar., 6th, is to
hasten suppuration.
When pus (matter) collects
under the skin, open the abscess and let it discharge.
In case of felon or thecal abscess, it may be necessary to use the lancet to permit pus to escape. The
cut should be made lengthwise of the finger and
exactly in the middle; not to either side or over the
finger joints. After it hasdischarged freely, Calduline, or Calendula Tincture and water will quickly
heal the sore.
WHOOPING

COUGH.

In the early stages, where there is dry, hard
cough, with choking and panting for breath, and
excessive vomiting of mucus, give Ipecac, 3x, every
two hours. In the whooping stage-if the cough is
loud and hoarse, with frequent and very violent
paroxysms, causing perspiration and vomiting-give
Drosera, 3rd, every hour or two. (Those who have
our Cough and Croup Syrup in the house may find
that they need no other remedy for relieving the
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the symptoms will be made lighter and the attack
sooner got rid of, by taking Nux vom., and Merc.,
alternately, twice daily- (a dose of Nux at night
and one of Merc. in morning.)
The patient should
be kept in the open air as much as possible except
when it is damp or chilly, and should avoid indigestible food, and over-eating.
To prevent an attack, give Pulsat., 6th, every
night and morning during the epidemic.
WORMS.

See Cina, page 90. Keep the general health
good, and the worms will soon disappear.
For
this, Nux vom., and Mercurius, as indicated, and
plenty of fresh air, exercise, wholesome food, without crowding of the brain, will be sufficient in most
cases. For obstinate cases, Santonine, lx, three
times a day, a small powder, is considered a sure and
safe remedy.
Some of our best physicians recommend Santonine Suppositories for thread worms.
For tape worms, the most successful treatment
seems to be the combination of Kameela and Fern Oil.
It should be freshly prepared. Directions accompany it.
WORM FEVER.

See Cina page 90.
WOUNDS.

For slight cuts apply Calenduline, using a bandage if necessary to keep dust out. Severe cuts and

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lacerated wounds should be done up in their own

blood, and covered with a bandage wet with one
part of tincture of Calendula mixed with ten parts
of water.; See also Surgical Emergencies.

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THE BABIES.

(This Chapter is a contribution to our pages, by a mother of
large experience.)

When the baby has safely arrived in this world,
we have first to keep it very warm; for it has been
in a warm place, and any sudden change of temperature will be almost certainto give it the snuffles,
and, quite likely, the colic, and, if it be at all of a
delicate constitution, it may lay the foundation for
catarrh or other troubles. Some physicians recommend that the child be not washed for twelve or even
twenty-four hours after birth, on this account; but
the most common practice is to wash it with warm
water, in a very warm room, after first using a little
pure oil, or ,other grease, upon places needing it.
Then it should be warmly and comfortably dressed
with easy, loose-fitting garments suspended from the
shoulders (flannel next the skin), being careful to
allow of no constriction of any part of the body.
The belly-band should only be put on just snugly
enough to keep the navel cord from falling about,
but not to impede in the least the free expansion of
the bowels; and after the navel is entirely well, the
belly-band may be altogether dispensed with.
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This loose dressing of babies, which is coming so
much into fashion now, is regarded by the most
experienced nurses and mothers as a wonderful
improvement upon the old style. They think that
the colic, want of assimilation of food, and fretfulness of many infants, may be laid entirely to the
practice of pinning the clothes tightly enough to
hold them on. As one celebrated and humorous
physician has remarked, "the baby will not fall in
pieces." The underclothing should have the waists,
at least, cut sack fashion, and I have seen the whole
flannel undergarment cut very much after the style
of the old-fashioned sack chemise, only, of course,
longer in proportion, and with long sleeves.
As these hints are intended for the benefit of those
without experience, it may be well to remark that the
inner flannel skirt should be made long enough to
pin up over the feet, which are apt to get cold; and
one physician recommends that the back breadth be
longer by half a yard than the front; but the more
common method is to leave the garment open in front
to the waist. It is also convenient to have this underskirt or pinning-blanket buttoned to the waist, so it
may be easily removed in case of accidents.
After the little stranger is comfortably dressed, it
will, probably, if kept warm enough, be sleepy, and
the best thing to be done is to put it in some warm
corner to sleep. If it be cold weather, and the
mother be already made comfortable, as good a place

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as any is by her side, that it may feel the warmth of
her bed. When it has rested, and begins to seem
hungry, it may be put to her breast; there is its
natural food and medicine already prepared, and, if
the mother is healthy, it will need absolutely nothing
else.
If the mother is a sickly woman, sometimes it may
be necessary, after twenty-four hours, to feed the
child. This should, however, never be done until
the nurse has tried every other method of making
the child comfortable, remembering especially to
toast its feet and to keep its eyes from the light.
If it must be fed, a little fresh cream, diluted
according to thickness, with two or three parts of
warm water, and very slightly sweetened with pure
sugar, may be fed with a spoon. Infants who have
delicate digestive organs positively demand human
milk for their well-being, and generally for their
lives.
When babies cry it is always for some good
reason. Endeavor carefully to ascertain the cause.
It may be an uncomfortable state of the dress. It
may be chafed and the sore parts are made painful
by being suffered to remain wet. It may have earache, or more probably colic. In very hot weather
it may be thirsty and require a teaspoonful of water,
not too cold. If it is chafed, keep the parts dry,
give Chamomilla three times a day, and anoint the
parts with Calenduline.
This preparation is so

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very healing to all abrasions of the skin that it is a
very important article of a mother's outfit. If
the child has earache, it will manifest it by uneasy
movements of the head, and often by screams.
Suitable remedies for this trouble will be found in
another part of this book, but if there are any
Catarrh Disks in the house it is sufficient to dissolve one in two teaspoonfuls of water and give half
a teaspoonful every half hour. If the crying arises
from colic, give Chamomilla or Colocynth, or Belladonna or Nux vomica, (see the Materia Medica and
compare these.)
Babies, and, in fact, all growing children, should
be allowed all the sleep they can get.
Of course, no one but a careless nurse, will leave
a baby many hours alone without ascertaining that
no harm has befallen it. I have heard of one such
case where the baby pulled a pillow over its face and
smothered itself, and other accidents might occur:
but the feeling that some old ladies have, that too
much sleep might hurt the baby, is a very mistaken
one, and it never should be disturbed, no matter how
many hours it may slumber. In fact, sleeping and
eating should be the occupation of every infant till
two months old. The less a baby younger than that
is talked to or jumped, or played with, and the more
it quietly sleeps, the greater chance it has for
becoming a strong, healthful, bright youngster
afterwards. I always look with apprehension upon

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those young babies whose mothers assure me that
they are " so bright," they "know so much already,"
etc. The body should develop first, and then the
mind, and I am sure a strong mind in a strong body
is what we all desire for our children. My children
would have been much stronger had I known all
these things to begin with. Anything which excites
the brain causes that organ to grow, and may bring
on those terrible diseases of the brain and spinal
cord which, those who have seen them, dread so
much.
Babies habits,of all kinds, can be largely formed by
the mother while they are still very small. Of course
this requires patience, perseverance and habit in
the mother: but she will find herself well repaid by
the comfort which a child of regular habits becomes
to all the household. I refer especially to times of
sleeping, and also of regular evacuation of the
bowels. It is full time to begin when a child is a
month old, at which time most mothers begin to
feel like themselves and to have energy enough to
undertake the beginning of the darling's education;
for these things are education in the broadest sense
of the word-moral education. Although this book
is written for the physical needs of the babies, I
cannot refrain from adding a word about their moral
education. Right and good habits strengthen selfcontrol, and indirectly teach obedience to law; and
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stone of character, what is termed good moral
character: while obedience to the laws of health is
the foundation stone of a strong and vigorous constitution, which will enable the possessor to accomplish his work with benefit to the world and enjoyment to himself.
The will of the child needs to be trained from the
earliest months to bend to the wiser will of the
parent. The will should be trained, not " broken,"
and the earlier this is begun the easier it will be
accomplished. Babies are such delightful little pets
that mothers are in danger of forgetting that they
are also something much brighter and nobler, and
many have a mistaken notion that when the child is
older reason will make it do right. The habit of
obedience to parents is the one thing which will
help the child to do right in its relations to others.
I have known several mothers who never rocked
their children to sleep, but laid them down awake,
and let them drop off to sleep. Of course, the little
one must be made comfortable before laying it down,
and must be undisturbed by sudden noises, such as
are apt to be made in the play of older children.
This can not be done with sickly, or very nervous
children. (Nervousness is a diseased or unhealthy
condition of the nerves.) All these things demand
"patient continuance in well-doing" on the part of
the mother; but children so trained will need but

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little punishment, after they are old enough to
remember.
It is a good place right here for us to recommend
to young parents-and even to older ones, who have
not found their ideas and ways in the matter of
training children to work well Mr. Abbott's book on
"Gentle Measures with children." If you get this
book, and are guided by it in the bringing up of
your family, you and yours will always be thankful
to the author of the book, and to The Author of his
being.

Speaking of "gentle measures" reminds us that
Dr. Ruddock is very decided in his caution to parents
not to allow themselves, in a moment of vexation, or
at any other time, to give their children a blow on the
ears or side of the head; also that the habit of flogging them on the buttocks is often the cause of
serious injury. All this is a physiological consideration entirely aside from the moral effect of rude
treatment.
(From Dr. Shipman's Homceopathic Guide.)

There is nothing more helpless-one might almost
say more hopeless-than a mother with her first
child, especially if she has no counselor but the
average nurse. The vast majority of mothers know
no more of their own necessities and those of their
infants at such a time than the babes themselves;

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and, unhappily, many of the nurses into whose
hands they fall are quite as ignorant. Hence the
importance of the mother's knowing what her little
one needs, that she may instruct her nurse, or discharge her if she will not learn.
The education of the child should begin as soon
as it is dressed, which usually takes place before the
first hour is passed. It invariably takes a lesson
then, and it is generally a bad one. The most of
nurses will tell you that the baby is hungry and must
be fed, or needs medicine to move its bowels; and
most babies get one or the other or both. Then
they cry, of course, sooner or later, for which they
must be fed again-for, to nurses' apprehension,
babies never cry unless they are hungry; or else
they get some soothing syrup or cordial. This, of
course constipates them, then they "must have oil
or something to move the bowels ;" this gripes them
and makes them cry; then more soothing syrup, in
one unending round, till death carries off those
unable to endure such treatment, or the more robust
grow out of its reach. But the effect of this first
lesson the child never grows out of, supposing that
the same course is pursued during the first few
months, or even weeks, of its life. The lessons of
indulgence are easily learned, and not soon forgotten,
while, added to this, we too often have, as their consequence, diseased digestive organs and an enfeebled
constitution. * * * Most nurses are very clear

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on one point, viz., that the Lord did not understand
the wants of babies half so well as they do, or that
He did not provide for them half so well as they
can. Of course, there are two sides to almost every
question; so some may side with the nurses, while
others side with Him whomade the babies, and
planned the first hours of their lives as carefully as
any other.
ABOUT SOOTHING

SYRUPS.

(By. Dr. R. Ludlam, Chicago, Ill.)

As soon as the little infant has breathed, kicked
and screamed at the first air bath, it must be dosed;
and from that time forward until "dust to dust"
concludes the noblest song of earth, the throat
is the avenue of the most various and virulent
poisons. Anodynes, teas and soothing syrups are
the curse of the nursery: They beget disease. The
stomach suffers first. Digestion, the absorption
and proper appropriation of food, are disordered.
The appetite becomes capricious. Dyspepsia is the
first consequence of the abominable propensity to
thrust drugs into the tender and delicate stomach of
the young child. After this comes a train of consequences, which are, if possible, of a more fearful
character. The nervous system is implicai ed. Give
a child Godfrey's Cordial, or one of its more recent
counterfeits -a soothing syrup-once or twice, and
it will cry for the comforting "drop" to put it to
sleep at another time. With each repetition of the

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dose the necessity for the artificial stimulus is more
and more fastened upon the little one. The nerves
demand it, precisely as those of the loper clamor
for his accustomed dram.
Perhaps you have never thought of it, but there
is not a shadow of doubt that the seeds of drunkenness as well as of disease, are frequently sown in the
nursery. Morbid appetites are engendered, and the
whole train of consequences which crop out in the
after-life of the intemperate, may tell, as plainly as
words can express it, the origin of what has grown
to be a calamity. The opium in the paregoric, the
morphine in the quieting syrup, act upon the brain
precisely as alcohol does. The gin in the cordial is
closely akin to that which is handed over the "bar"
of the dramshop, while its consequences are identical. The infant is real flesh and blood, like the adult.
If these stimuli do harm to the parent, and are put
under the ban of society in his case, so they may,
and certainly will, injure the child, and should be
proscribed in case of the young as well as of the old.
If it is suicidal, as it certainly is, for a father to
drink the abominably "medicated bitters" which have
been so popular, so it is a species of murder to give
analogous compounds habitually to children, to drug
them into incipient stupidity, idiocy, insanity and
intemperance. If those who are to come to maturity
of body, if not of mind, are disposed to victimize
their highest and noblest nature to a debasing appe-

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'tite, and, consequently, to carry the evidence of their
folly in their bloated features, as well as their bad
feelings, pray let them not implicate the next generation by sowing the seeds of this abominable vice in
the soil of the nursery. If they will persevere to the
bitter end, pray let them not perpetuate the curse
under the guise and pretense of bestowing a blessing.
TAKE CARE

OF YOUR

CHILDREN.

(By John Brown, M. D.)

If you do not do all you can to make your children's bodies healthy and happy, their souls will get
miserable and cankered and useless, their tempers
peevish; and if you don't feed and clothe them
rightly, then their poor little souls will leave their
ill-used bodies will be starved out of them; and
many a man and woman have had their tempers and
their minds and hearts made miseries to themselves
and all about them, just from a want of care of their
bodies when children. Children should always be
laughing and playing or eating and sleeping. Play
is their business. You cannot think how much useful knowledge, and how much valuable bodily exercise, a child teaches itself in its play. One thing I
like to see is a child clean in the morning.. Blt there
is another thing I like to see, and that is a child
dirty at night.
First of all, keep the head cool. Nature has given
it a night-cap of her own in the hair, and it is the
best: and keep the head clean.

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A child should have a good walk every day in the
open air, and should have a well-aired place to sleep
in; and children should always be more warmly clad
than grown-up people. Cold kills them more easily.
THE MOTHER'S MILK.
(From "The Lady's Manual.")

As a ready method of judging of the quantity and
quality of the milk, an inspection of the breasts of
the mother or nurse should be made. The breast
should be firm and pear-shaped, and covered with
blue veins. Pressure on the gland should excite the
flow of milk, which should be opaque, of a dull
white color, and, under the microscope, present fat
globules of a fair size. On a piece of glass a drop
of good milk maintains its globular form, and does
not readily run off the glass. Obviously, however,
the most satisfactory test is furnished by observation
of the child. If he sucks vigorously, finishing with
milk running over his lips, and requires a meal but
three or four times in the day, we may conclude that
the milk is sufficient in quantity. But if he frequently desires the breast, sucks with effort, or spasmodically, now and then desisting and crying, the
milk may be considered insufficient. As a farther
test of the quantity of the milk, the infant nay be
weighed immediately before and after a meal. The
difference in weight should be three or four ounces.
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suck, generally indicates bad milk. When the milk
is deprived of its due proportion of solids, and
becomnes watery, it fails to afford the requisite nourishment; on the other hand, if solids are in excess,
it gives rise to indigestion.
Acute and chronic disease, in a nursing mother,
tends in various ways, to impair the quality of her
milk. Nursing during either of the extremes of age,
yields generally only innutritious milk: menstruation and also pregnancy, deteriorate the milk supply; and, although occasionally children nursed
under these conditions may not appear to suffer, it is
obvious that the active functions of the breasts and
of the womb, cannot go on healthily at the same
time. Emotional disturbances and violent exercise
exert great influences on the milk secretion, and if
children are nursed immediately, extreme convulsions and even fatal results may follow.
Experience has also taught mothers that if they
eat anything acid, and partake freely of fruits and
the coarser vegetables, the milk brings on colic in
the infant and causes diarrhea. Nursing mothers
must therefore often practice self-denial in eating
and drinking.
LACK OF MILK.

If there is an insufficient supply of the mother's
milk on account of a somewhat exhausted condition
of the system, the use of the Lacteal Syrup, as prepared by the publishers of this volume for many

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years, will in almost every instance, so recuperate the
system generally and the lacteal glands, and their
nerves particularly, that the supply will not only be
sufficient but of a more nourishing quality, and both
mother and child will be the stronger for its use.
SUBSTITUTES

"If

FOR

THE

OTHER'S MILK.

children are to be brought up by hand, ani,

mal milk and especially cow's milk, is the best sub-

stitute for human milk.
"A great advantage is gained for children that
are to be brought up by hand, if they can have the
breast during the first week of their lives, at least
part of the time.

"Whether the milk should be from one and the
same cow is of much less importance than is generally considered. Indeed the mingling of the milk
of several cows may compensate for the defect of the
milk from any one cow.
"The morning's milk is better for little children
than the night's milk.
"Milk should be scalded unless used immediately
after being taken from the cow.
"Human milk is sweeter than cow's milk, hence
an addition of sugar is all the more needed the more
the milk is diluted. Sugar of Milk is the best for
this purpose, though in truth, it does not sweeten
much. However, by the addition of the merest
trifle of common salt the sweetening.power of Sugar
of Milk is much increased.

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"When a child is brought up on cow's milk it

does not need any other food any more than when
nursed. When the child has advanced somewhat
and has several teeth, bread in some form may be
KUETTNER.
added to the milk."
NoTE:--Never feed skimmed milk to babies.

The upper one-third of a

-an of milk which has been standing some hours is the best.

Many think

that scalding the milk makes it more liable to cause constipation.

There is quite a large variety of foods for infants,
advertised and in use. Among them we might mention Horlick's, Ridge's, Imperial Granum, and perhaps one or two others; each of which stands at the
head of the list, if judged only by the success with
which it has been used in the different families
who recommend it.
The fact is that any one of these "best" foods is well
suited to a great many children, and no one is well
suited to all on account of the difference in children's
digestive apparatus. And it is frequently found that
though a child may have been thriving on some one
kind of diet, it suddenly seems to lose relish for it,
and power to digest and assimilate it. This is very
apt to occur at the time the teeth begin to disturb
the nervous system, which sometimes is as early as
the fourth month. To change the food and experiment with other kinds, would be very unwise and
hazardous. In such cases, the use of Calc. carb., or
Podoph., or Chamom., or the Teething Disks may
quickly correct the tone of the digestive organs.

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In order to be able confidently to recommend some
one variety of "Infant's Food" as preferable in the
majority of cases, we decided to visit "The Foundling's Home," of this city, and interview the superintendent, matron, and attending physician of that
institution, knowing that their experience must be of
great value on this point. Their united statements
are, in brief, as follows:-They have used several of
the best varieties of the advertised Infant's Foods,
and find them all good in some cases. None of them,
however, has proved so satisfactory as a preparation
of their own, which they have used by the side of
other Foods for the past fourteen years, and which
they now recommend to every person adopting
of the babies from their institution. Pure milk is,
however, the basis of and the bulk of this preparation, as it must be of all the best foods for infants.
They find that for the first two or three months of
the child's life, its best food, if not fed from the
breast entirely, is cow's milk, with at first an equal
quantity of water added, lessening the proportion of
water by degrees until only milk is given. To each
half pint of milk, or of milk and water, they add
one small teaspoonful of sugar and a very little salt.
When the child is full three months old, "The
Foundlings'Home Infant's Food" is used.
Sometimes they have a very delicate child to care
for, which even this food does not agree with. Then
they make use of the following preparation, and,

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generally, with success: To one pint of pure milk
add one pint of water; bring to scalding heat; have
ready two teaspoonfuls of Taylor Bros'., or some
other pure Arrow Root, dissolved in cold water,
which add to the milk and water, and boil a moment,
then add a piece of Cooper's Isinglass as large as a
quarter dollar, dissolved in hot water, and two teaspoonfuls of pure cream.
('The Foundlings' Home Infant's Food" will, in
future, be kept for sale by us, and we shall take pleasure in supplying those needing it with an article
proved to be of such value.)
They say also at The Home that it is of exceeding
importance to every one bringing up a child by hand
to have a nursing bottle which is easily cleansed
every time it is used: and, having seen the pattern
of bottle which they use, we shall, in future, be prepared to supply our customers with The "Foundlings'
Home" Nursing Bottle, which, besides its other
excellencies, costs but a trifle, and is very durable.
One more item of our interview we have to report,
and that is -in case, at any time, pure cow's milk
can not be obtained, condensed milk, "Eagle brand,"
is the next best thing, and is quite satisfactory.
NURSING SORE MOUTH.

This very common affection of infants (called also
thrush and aphtha3) may make its appearance about
the second or third week after birth.
A few days preceding the local affection, the child

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seems cross, fretful and restless. If the mouth be
examined at this time, the inner surface will be
found reddened, and small, red elevations grouped
in clusters on the lips, cheeks, gums, and other
parts of the mouth.
These patches soon become covered with a white,
cheesey-like substance, resembling curdled milk. If
this coating be removed,, it leaves the surface
beneath unbroken, smooth and red. Sometimes
these patches run together and cover the whole
mucous membrane of the mouth, and in severe cases
extend to the throat, and even to the intestinal canal.
The affection is not dangerous, but is often painful
and prevents the child from nursing. It may be
communicated to the mother, and cause excoriation
and soreness of the nipples.
Most medical writers attribute the disease to some
constitutional taint. Many times we find all the
children in some families suffer from it, whereas,
the children in other families seem to be entirely
exempt. The use of improper food is a frequent
cause of it; hence children raised by hand are more
liable to it than those nourished by the mother's
milk. (Johnson's Guide.)
Treatment.-If
the disease is limited to the
mouth, dissolve a small pinch of powdered Borax in
a tablespoonful of warm water and apply it to the
inside of the mouth with a soft brush or the end of
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It is best first to cleanse the mouth thoroughly
and carefully with soft linen dipped in warm water
before applying the Borax solution.
If the throat and stomach seem also affected, use
Hydrastis tincture, one drop to a tablespoonful of
water, applying it in the same way as directed for
the Borax solution.
Arsenicum, Mercur., or Sulphur may be required
as constitutional remedies in some cases. (See
Materia Medica.)
TOOTH-RASH.

Tooth-rash, or red-gum, as it is often called, is
caused by unsuitable diet, want of fresh air, too
great heat of the room or of the clothing.
There are two varieties, the red; which begins in
small blotches with the center slightly raised, the
redness soon fading and the central elevation enlarging and forming flattened pimples on the face, neck,
arms, and perhaps the whole surface of the body;
and the white variety consisting of pearly white opaque
pimples, about the size of a pin's head, and usually
confined to the face and arms.
For a cure, it is necessary that the baby has
plenty of pure air to breathe, that the clothing,
while sufficiently warm, admits air to the skin, and
that it is properly bathed every day: then it will be
found that a few doses of Chamom., or Pulsat., or
Calc. carb., according to the stomach and bowel
symptoms will speedily cure.

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COMPLAINTS.

There are two distinct diseases that go by this
name, viz.: Cholera infantum and diarrhea. The
most obvious distinction between them is that the
first is attended with vomiting, and the latter is not.
CHOLERA INFANTUM.
This is a very prevalent
and very fatal disease in this country, especially in
cities. It chiefly affects children between the ages
of three months and three years. It sometimes
comes on with vomiting and diarrhea at the same
time; but quite as often the vomiting does not
come on until the diarrhea has continued for a few
hours, or a- day or two. It is often rapid in its progress, and fatal in two or three days. At other
times it is of long continuance, and reduces the little
sufferer to a skeleton.
It is attended with considerable fever, coated or
red tongue, quick pulse, a good deal of pain and
suffering, great restlessness, and rapid failure of
strength. The child sleeps with the eyes partly open.
The evacuations are frequent, and exceedingly various
in appearance, being yellow, brown or green-often
grass green, or mixed, and sometimes the color often
changing, scarcely any two successive eyacuations
being alike. In this disease, there is always inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach or
bowels, or both, and inflammation or congestion of
the liver. Vomiting or diarrhea will predominate
accordingly, as the stomach or bowels are most

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affected. If the disease goes on for some time, the
brain is apt to become sympathetically affected, and
under the allopathic treatment of opiates, hopelessly
diseased.
In the early state of the vomiting and diarrhea.
give Ipecac, 3d, after every act of vomiting or purging. This alone is often sufficient to arrest the
disease. If it fails, and especially if there is thirst,
give Arsen,, 6th, in, the same manner. If there is
great restlessness, Cham., 6th, alternated with
either of the above remedies.
If the evacuations are yellow, brown or dark,
Podophyllum is an effectual remedy. When the
evacuations are green, give Chai., Merc. sol., or
Podo.
If the patient is much reduced and the vomiting
and diarrhea continues, Arsen., and Verat.
In many obstinate and protracted cases, when there
is reason to believe that the bowels are ulcerated,
Hydrastis will save the patient. Podo., in alternation with either of the above two remedies, is
also applicable in the same case.
Diarrhea.-Occurring hot weather, or from
in
indigestion, is usually quickly arrested by Ipecac or
Nux, or both alternated.
If the evacuations are
thin and watery, Arsen., alone, or with Verat.
If they are green, Chain., or Mere. If they are
yellow, brown or dark, Podo.
If the disease has been of long standing, Podo.,

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and Leptand., or Hydras., will often effect cures in
cases that seem discouraging. The remedy should
be repeated after each evacuation. There are no
diseases which require greater caution in diet than
cholera infantum and diarrhea. When cases are
almost cured, the least imprudence in diet will
cause a relapse which may be fatal. Dulc. is sufficient in a great many cases of diarrhea, especially
in damp weather.
DR. J. S. DOUGLAS.
FROM CREEPING

TO WALKING.

At this period the baby may be a great deal of
trouble to the mother, who has many cares, and perhaps no nurse to look after the little one.
It is not well for her or the child that it should
be carried all the time; and, if she puts it on the
floor, it is soon in mischief, or in danger of tumbling down stairs, or out of the doorway; or sure to
take cold because the floor is cold, and there is
always a draught across the floor. Any one will
notice also that the temperature of the room at the
floor level is several degrees cooler than at the height
at which the baby is generally carried or held; so
that the clothing which is sufficient for it while being
"tended" is not sufficient if it is placed on the floor
in cool weather.
Now, take a common packing-box, about two feet
wide, three feet long, and so high that if the baby
stands in it, his shoulders will come just to the level
of the side of the box. Pad the sides of the box

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AND MANAGEMENT

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251

(but not the bottom) with some soft material that
will not readily get musty if it gets wet; and upholster the whole to suit your fancy. The inside upper
edge of the box should be rounded and well padded.
Put the box on castors or on rounded blocks of wood,
partly for convenience in moving it about, and partly
to raise it from the floor. The bottom of the box
should be fitted with a soft, thin mattress, or a piece
of an old "cotton comfortable," so that it can be
readily removed and aired, when necessary.
In this "trundle-bed" the child can play with its
toys, or its toes; lie on its back; creep a little; learn
to climb up and stand against the sides; or go to
sleep; and at the same time it is safely kept within
limits while the mother has her hands and eyes
free for other cares.
CONCERNING

THE OLDER

CHILDREN.

Young parents should acquire the habit of observing the first symptoms of a cold, or feverishness, or
unusual lassitude, or loss of energy, or weak digestion in their children. If, then, they have at hand
a case of the common Homoeopathic remedies, and
a good domestic guide-book, they will usually find it
possible to keep even delicate children in a good
state of health by considerate arid prompt attention.
They will also soon become better acquainted with
the constitution and peculiarities of each child than
any physician could; and this will be a great help

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~

GUIDE.

to the physician when he is called on to prescribe,
especially in any chronic or constitutional difficulty.
The observant parent ought usually to be better able
to determine the probable causes of the symptoms
complained of, than the physician who is not
acquainted with the idiosyncracies of the different
members of the family, and with the circumstances
of the case.
HEREDITY.

Habits, peculiarities, excellencies, vices, are
inherited; sometimes from the parents, sometimes
from more remote ancestors. Study your children
as mind and heart develop. Be patient with, and
helpful to the child which has to struggle with
some inherent peculiarity of manner; some abnormal
tendency to passion or appetite; some unusual
degree of selfishness or prodigality.
Perhaps, if you study yourself carefully, you will
find that the child comes honestly by his failing,
and is more to be pitied and sympathized with than
to be found fault with and discouraged.
If there has been a tendency to insanity in the
family on either side, you will be especially watchful that the brain of your child is kept as healthy
as possible, you will not allow him to be overcrowded, at school, and will encourage physical
exercise and out-of-door occup'ations in preference to
ceading and close mental employment: you will see
that he goes to bed as early as he can possibly go

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OF CHILDREN.

253

to sleep; and you will not only forbid his drinking
tea and coffee, and using tobacco in any form, and
any alcoholic liquor or food; but you will see that in
all ways there is no excitement or stimulus to the
nervous system except that which comes from pure
air and exercise, and wholesome food and sleep.
If in father or grandfather there has been a
marked fondness for alcoholic drinks, tobacco, opium
or other narcotic poison, you can be almost certain
that the child will inherit an appetite for something
of the same nature. This appetite may slumber for
years, but it will require only the kindling which
may come from a little cider drinking, the tasting
now and then of rum jelly, or of wine sauce with
the pudding, to arouse the alcohol demon to terrible
activity.
If the boy is not pledged against tobacco he may
become a slave to its power before you suspect he
is old enough to think of smoking, and if the opium
habit has already had its foundation laid by the free
use of "Soothing Syrup," the boy or girl needs
only to have Morphine or Laudanum prescribed by
a physician a few times for toothache or neuralgia,
to be brought within the toils of that fearful
appetite.
There is great comfort to a lover of his race, in the
confidence that, by the teaching now proposed and
even undertaken in many of our public schools concerning the physiologicaleffects of narcoticstimulants,

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the coming generations will be saved from much sin
and suffering.
If there is a tendency to scrofula or consumption
in the family, you will take care that food of the
most wholesome kinds are provided and that proper
medical treatment is employed while the child is
young to eradicate the scrofulous habit. This, of
itself, may

save from

one form of consumption.

Then, if you are thoughtful to see that there is
always fresh, pure air to sleep in, to play in, to
study in: and that the position in sleeping, sitting,
standing, walking, is such, and the dress, exercise and occupation such, as to give the lungs full
play and the blood good circulation, you will have
little need to fear consumption.
There is one thing more to be said on this subject
of heredity, and that is that most people who drink
tea and coffee can confidently expect that their
children will be nervous, wakeful and troublesome:
and that fathers who use much tobacco, especially
great smokers, are likely to have children with
weak wills, poor judgment, and a tendency to perverted ideas in matters of conscientiousness, and
civil, moral and religious responsibility.
PUBERTY.

At about thirteen or fourteen years of age, when
the boy begins to become a man, and the girl commences her development into the woman, is a period
in which parents need to consider with much

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255

thoughtfulness, the changes that are taking place,
and be ready to guard their loved ones from evil.
There is always some danger of unhealthy development, of morbid feelings, of the establishment of
wrong physiological conditions, mysterious fits of
depression, hysterical excitement.
Outbursts of
passion may also be expected at this time. The wellinformed parent, who has also common sense and
sound judgment, will know just what items of
information a child requires at this time, and when
and how to impart them.
At this period too, much care needs to be exercised with some children that they are not pushed
forward too rapidly mentally, so that the physical
changes taking place are hindered or perverted. A
healthful bodily development at this period is of
the utmost importance.
Don't forget! that there was a time when almost
every one of you wished that your parents had given
you information and instruction upon certain subjects in which every young man and young woman
should be properly informed at a_ suitable time.
Don't forget! that your children have a right to
look to you for everything that will help to make
their journey through this world (and into the next
world) prosperous and happy.
Nothing but evil is-gained by making a mystery
or a deceit of facts and truths of vital importance to
their well-being-after they are old enough to be

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instructed; and, meantime, possibly you yourselves
need information which will help you to care for their
health and proper development, and to keep them
from mischievous and vicious habits, which, in thousands of cases, are formed before the parent suspects
anything wrong.
Valuable, reliable, and unexceptionable books on
these delicate subjects are now published, and can
be easily obtained. Some of these are mentioned
on page 59, and we can refer our readers to others,
if desired.
Boys should never be encouraged or allowed to
carry or lift all they can.
Girls should be encouraged to active exercise, as
much as possible in the open air; but not to heavy
lifting, long-continued jumping of the rope, or anything exhausting, or likely to cause a strain of the
muscles.
Permitting or requiring young girls to carry their
younger brothers or sisters about constantly, is a
practice which, in very many instances, lays the
foundation for a life-long weakness.
Don't be forever dosing your children for worms,
Correct their general health, and you remove the
very conditions of existence in case of the parasite.
Worms could no more live upon a healthy mucous

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257

membrane than your pet canary could in an atmosphere of pea soup or of olive oil.
A hammock serves nicely for a baby's cradle. The
motion is gentle and easily kept up, and the hammock can be quickly slung, and as quickly put away.
The farther from the floor it is, the purer the air the
baby will have to breathe.

ADDENDA.
Persons accustomed to warm sleeping apartments,
and having to occupy cold rooms when traveling or
visiting, will be glad to know that a light towel or
common handkerchief thrown over the head as it
rests on the pillow, and drawn down a little below
the nostrils, will make them as comfortable and as free
from taking cold in the head or in the shoulders as
if in a warm room. It is far better than drawing up
the bed-clothes over the face.
Sulphur, 6th, is often useful to arouse the action
of the system when the propeily-chosen remedy does
not seem to take effect. Opium, 6th, has a similar
power. Opium seems best in connection with remedies affecting especially the nervous system, such
as Nux vom.; Sulphur, in connection with remedies
affecting the skin and tissues, such as Calcarea.
9

ZL
PAGE

PAGE

Abscesses---------122, 134
After-pains-----------122
Ague----------------122
Ague-cake------------122
Alcohol---- _.----------18
"
as a Medicine_-_33

Bleeding------------_125

Alcoholism__-----------158

Appetite, Unhealtby"

122

Loss of-------122

Appendix-------last pages
Asthma -------------123
Babies, New-born-------229
Baby's Cradle---------257

in-----123
in- ---------

Back, Crick

123

"'

Pain

"

Lame-----------__123

"
Weakness of---123
Bad Breath-----------___133

123,

Baldness---------Barbers' Itch_----------BATHEING---- ----

----

----

168

123
1

Shower Bath-----20
Sitz Bath

------------

21

Sponge Bath---------- 20
Thermal Bath----22, 201
Turkish Bath

---------

22

- 126

at Nose

from Lungs - - "Stomach-

"

-

127

128
" Womb..
128
Blues-------------- - 124
Boils ---- ---- ---- --- - 2
Books, What to Buy
Bowels, Falling

of

-

- -_ -

- 129

Inflammation of

Bones, Pain in

_128

Brain, Congestion

64Fag

Rest

of---

131
_102

"Inflammation
66

66

58

---- 166

of

-_ 130

for--------9

Weariness

-------

131

131

Breasts, Inflammation of- 131
Breath, Foul---- ---- --- 133
Brow-ague ---------132, 196
Bronchitis

------------- 132

Bruises ---- ---------- 132
Bunions ---- --------- 147
Burns ---- -------- ---- 132

--------------- 133

Cancer
Canker--------------Carbuncle------------134

134

Catarrh--------------135

Warm Bath for Infants, 150
Sea Bathing at llomne-21
Beef-tea---------- ---- -28
"Better off without Medicine" ---- ----------- 55

Chapped Hands--------- 142

Biliousness-------------

Children, Care of-------- 229

125

Chafing of Skin--------141

Change of Life--------- 141
66

Lips ---------- 142

Chicken Pox---_-------__142

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259

INDEX.
PAGE

PAGE

251

Children, Older, Care of

Diet-------------------17

Chilblains------------142

Chills---------------- 143

-

and Fever-

"

143

Cholera--------------143
Infantum-------248
Morbus
143

Diphtheria-------------153

DISEASE, INDICATIONS OFThe Bowels------38
"Countenance
System
"Nervous

34
36
34
"Pulse------------Respiratory Organs 37
Tongue-----------36

Chlorosis-------------149

Cleanliness------------15
Clinical Index-122

Colds---------148.
Gold in the Head-------148
Floors

"

250

-

Sleeping Rooms-257
Cold-sores------------146
Colic
147
140
CompoundOxygen 131
Congestion of Brain
"

"

of

Womb-

-

Cramps--------------151

Croup ---- --- ---Crying of Children

-- -- 151.

- ---151

CIJRE, METHODS OF

38

---

Allopathy-------------

39

Animal Magnetism _-__48
Eclecticism
44
Electropathy----------- 45

----------- 42
---------- 48
----------- 45

Empiricism
Homoeopathy
Hydropathy

Cures without Surgery
Cuts

Doing without them

152

------------ 152
Dangerous Bleeding --- 219
Dandruff_-

152

Debility-------------_____152
Diarrhea--____--------153

--

54

Helping the Doctor257
What some Doctors say, 54

74

Ignorant Doctors ____-

Dishonest Doctors-_____74
"Quacks----------11,

183

Drink for the Sick------- 15
Dropsy ----- ---- ---- --- 156

1563

Drunkenness--------------

Dysentery--------------156

160

--------------

Dyspepsia

Earache---------------165
Ear, Inflammation of ____165
Epizootic
Erysipelas-165

--------------

165

-

Excitement, Effects of

-

Exercise-------------

32, 256

Eyes, Inflammation of
Falling of

--217

-------------------

Deafness ---------------

DOCTORSTheirdutytons--------9
Our duty to them--10

148

Constipation----------149
Consumption-_33, 148, 254
Convulsions-----------150
Corns---------------147
Costiveness-----------146
Coughs--------------146
Cradle for Babies-------257

------------- 38

"Urine

Dislocations-217

Bowel --------

14

156
166

168
" out of Hair~
Palate--------_167
"of
" Womb-------169

"
False Pleurisy

----------

200

Fatigue- ---- ---- ------- 169
Feeding the Sick--------Felon------_-----------

13

225

-------- 169

FEVERS__--------------

Bilious Fever

170

260

INDEX.
PAGE

PAGE

Enteric Fever---------175
176
Fever and Ague
Gastric Fever---------175
Intermittent Fever_-_176
Malarial
-- _-170
Remittent

"

Scarlet

"

-

-_170

206

Simple_-_169

215
Spotted_
175
Typhoid
175
Typhus_
Fits-------------------178
Flooding---------------128
Folles-------------30
Foot Sweat-------------178
Fractures--------------218
Freckles---------------178
Freezing---------___-----178

Children-__178

Fretting of

From, Creeping to Walking------------------- 250

---

Gall Stones------------_ _178
Gelsemium, its Sphere

Gentle

Measures

Children

173

w it h

-------------

235

Goitre------------------

179

Gout-------------------

179

168

Gray Hair--------------

Green Sickness---------- 149
Gum-boils

S

Hlair,

1.79

-------------

----168

Loss ofPremature Gray

-

168
179
Fever ------Hay
--- 180
Headache----7
H ealth - - - - - - - - 8
"
Lossof
198
Heart, Palpitation ofHemorrhage-----126, 219
199
Hemorrhoids
-__
Hernia__ __ _
_ __ _ 181
__
Heredity
252
31
IHints and Suggestions
Hives-- - - - - - - - - 181
Hoarseness
187
_-

Hooping Cough- - - -- - --- 226
---- 48
HOiKEoPATlY -----Its Principle-------49
51
Its Disadvantages ____
Domestic Homoeopathy 51
56
- - -_---52,
Its Success
53
The Secret of it -- -61,

Causes of Failure--

74

32
Hot W ater -------------124
Hypo------ Hypochondria----- ---- -- 181
Hysterics ---- ---- ---- -- 181

----

32
182
In fant's Colic ------ 147
Food-- - - - - 243
Inflammation of Eyes__. 166
182
Influenza -------------25
--Injections
252
Insanity-----Intercurrent Remedies - - 257
Involuntary Emissions - 183
Iron, Phosphorus and the
31
Phosphates-----185
- --Tee

W ater

---

Indigestion

66

--

--

-

-

Itch

Kidney

Complaint-

185

Labor Pains------------ 187
1187
Lameness -------------125 179
--Lemon
Leucorrhea-------------186

Juice

Lice

-------------------

186

Light ---- ---- ---- ------ 13
Liver Complaint-------186

Hair------------ 168
6
94Voice---------186
Spirits ------------- 187

Loss of
Low

Lumbago -------------- 187
Lungs---------------9,

32

Bleeding-rom--------127

Inflammation of

187

Malaria------------Materia Medica---------76

189

261

INDEX.

PAGE
(The Remedies are arranged alphabetically and can be easily referred
to.)
MEDICINES.

Aggravation of Symptoms--------------65
Alternation of Remedies, 67

-----

Antidotes .

69

Attenuations---------64
Combinations-------70
Different Forms of Medicine--73, also Appendix
Drug Store Supplies--62

Fraud in Medicines____62
Potencies-------65
How to Drop Liquid
from a vial-see Appendix
How to Procure the
Medicines see Appendix
Interference of Remedies--------------68
Potencies------------64
Preparation of--------72
The Dose--60
How often to give it__
61
High

Measles----------------

187

and Scarlet Fever,
How to Distinguish Between----------------- 188

196

Megrim---------------

- 190
Early

Menstruation,. Delayed-

96

Too

190

Late__. 190
"Profuse
190
" Painful _ - _- 190

Babies --

Milk for

240, 243

Milk Crust-----------Morning Sickness-------Mother's

190
190

Milk-------240

" "Lack of _ 241

""

Substitute

for ----- ---- ---- ---- 242
Moth--- ---- --- ------ 191
Mumps--------191
Nausea---------------

191

NDEX.26
PAGE
Nervousnese--------198
Nervous Debility-------197
.4

Headache-

_198

Nettle Rash------------- 198
Neuralgia-------191
Nose Bleed-----------__126
Nurses_---_---------_235
Nursing the Sick____ 12, 15, 16

-------- --

Nursing Bottles
Nursing Sore Mouth
Object of this

244
245

Book

3

198
OpiuamHabit -------- 18, 237
Old Sores ---------

Oxygen Treatment------Ozone - - - -- - - --

140
144

Pain in Bones-----------198
167

Palate, Falling of-------Palpitation of Heart

-_-

-_198

Pepsin Powder-__-_165, 195
Piles----------------199

Pleurisy---__---------199

--------------

Pneumonia
Prolapsus Ani----------166
"
Uteri
Poisoning

200

--------- 169
-------------- 201

Prairie Itch-185
Preventive Medicines
203
Principal Remedies, Uses
of---- ---- -------- ---- 76

-----------

Prophylactics
Puberty___---------------Pure Air------------12

203

254

7
Quiet in the Sick Room, 13, 174

Reputation of the Publishers

-- --- ---

6

Rheumatism -----203
Rickets -- - - - - - - - 204

Ring

204

Worm-------

Run-around---

Rupture ----

---- 225

----

204

Salt Rheum-----------206

262

INDEX.
PAGE

PAGE

Scalds-----------------132

Sunstroke--------------217

Scald Head------------206
Sciatica----------------211
Scarlet Fever---------206

Suppression of Menses Surgery---- ---- -------

44
"and

Scrofula------------33,
Sea Sickness-----------211

254

----

185
Seven Years' Itch
-212
Shingles __--------180
Sick Headache
212
Skin, UnhealthySleep, Its Value----------9
Sleeplessness-----------212
Small Pox--------------213
Snake Bites------------213
Soothing SyrupsA52, 237, 253
Sore Eyes--------------214
"
«

Nipples-----------214
Throat----------214

Spasms----------------215
108
Special PreparationsSpermatorrhea----------183
Spinal Meningitis

----

217

Sweating--------------221

Measles,

Difference between_-_188

- 217

Tan

--------------------221

Teething Troubles
221
Tetter-----------------221
Thecal Abscess __--------_ 225
Throat Sore-------------221
Thrush-134
Tic-douloureux---------196
Toothache-------------222
Tooth Rash------------247
Tobacco----------------18
Tonsils, Inflammation of

- 221

Tonsils, Chronic Inflammationof-----221
Training.of Babies
-

233

Urinary Difficulties

-

Vaccination----------26,

-

Spotted Fever__----------Sprains-----------------

Stiff Neck---------------

Varicose Veins------223

215

Vomiting

215

Wakefulness------------

215

Walking vs. Running ____
Warts-----------224

215

Stings'-of Insects-------- 216

-------------- 223

Stimulats----_17,193, 253
" Love of----253
Stitch in the Side __
-_ -_
_216

Weak Back------------Wetting the Bed---------

Stomach Ache-----------

Whites___----------------Whitlow

"

Bleeding from-N~ose

222

215

Spleen, Inflammation of

Stoppage of

222

--------

216

128
216

Strains-----------216
Stye ---- ---- ---- -----216
Sulk----------124, 216
Summer Complaints-_____248
Sunburn---------------___216

Whiskey and the Stomach,

223
9
224
224

9

225

--------- 225

Whooping Cough-------__ _226
Womb, Bleeding from _ _128
Worms-------2,256
Worm Fever

------------ 227

Wounds-----------__219,

228

VETERINARY HOMEOPATHY,
ACCORDING TO

Moore, Haycock, Schaefer, and Other Reliable
Authorities.

-in

Before an amateur can recognize disease
animals, it is first necessary that he should familiarize
himself with the general appearances presented by
animals in a state of health such as the appearance
of the eye, the skin, and the hair; the clear, florid
color of the membrane lining the nostrils; the soft,
regular motion of the ribs during the act of breathing; the clear, moist, healthy appearance of the
mouth and tongue; the slow, but regular and full,
action of the pulse; the cool state of the feet; the
equable temperature of the skin, and the natural
ease with which the animal stands when alone.
Having noticed a few of the principal appearances
presented by the animal when in health, it follows
that any variation therefrom is indicative of a diseased condition. What the peculiar disease maybe,
and what the best course to pursue to conduct it to
a favorable termination, will be treated of in the
following pages.
Many diseases will not yield until after the fre-

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GUIDE.

quent repetition of the remedy chosen. If you are
satisfied that you have definitely ascertained the
nature of the disease, and selected the appropriate
remedy, you should persevere in its administration,
and success is certain to reward your efforts, where
cure is possible.
THE PULSE.-One of the principal guides indicative of the internal state of the animal is the pulse.
It is best felt where the artery passes over the edge
of the jaw-bone. Apply the fingers to the angle of
the jaw-bone, and slowly pass them down to where
a notch in the bone may be felt; the artery passes
along this notch. The normal pulse varies from
thirty-six to forty-two beats per minute. Any great
variation from- this is indicative of a diseased condition.
DIET.-It is of the utmost importance in the
treatment of sick animals, especially during the
period of convalescence or recovery, that they have
food of a proper quality, and at proper intervals.
During the early stage of the most acute maladies
it is seldom the animal will partake of food. As the
disease abates the appetite will return. When it
does, encourage it by the allowance of small quantities of food at a time. Cooked food is to be preferred, and it should be given at a temperature
agreeable to the animal.
The following articles will be found to be often
desirable:

VETERINARY HOM(EOPATHY.

WATER.-Cold water will not only prove grateful,
but is highly salutary to a sick animal. It should
be given in small quantities, say two or three quarts
at a time,* repeated three or four times a day..
BARLEY WATER is serviceable in the generality of
diseases. It should be made from pearl barley; or,
if made from the common article, the grain should
first be crushed, and after being boiled, the liquor
should be strained through a fine sieve. One pound
of pearl barley will require about two gallons of water.
It should be boiled until the barley obtains a soft, pulpy
condition; when cool it is ready for use. The barley may be allowed as food mixed with a small quantity of bran.
RICE WATER iS a pleasant beverage.
Prepare in
the same manner as the barley water. From one
to two quarts may be allowed at a time, repeated two
or three times a day. Season with salt or sugar,
should the animal prefer. The rice itself may be
allowed as food.
OATMEAL AND LINSEED GRUEL.-In the making
of gruel, care should be exercised, otherwise it
will be burned. It should be given a little under
blood-heat, and of the consistency of milk. Gruel
is rendered more agreeable by adding a little salt
and milk.
MILK.
MILK AND WATER.-Milk is a valuable
* In directions as to.quantities and doses, the larger animals are intended
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diluent, and there are but few animals which will
not drink it with avidity. It is best after it has
been taken from the cow eight or ten hours. The
cream should be removed before giving it to the
patient. Give it warm, and allow about three
quarts at a time. If required as a diluent merely,
combine it with an equal quantity of tepid water.
It may be repeated three or four times a day.
HAY.--The giving of hay as a part of the diet of
a sick animal, will depend upon circumstances.
The following symptoms forbid its use:-When
the pulse is feeble, quick, and irritable; when the
the digestive organs are in a foul state (which may
be known by a soapy-looking tongue, a bad smell
from the mouth, and rapid variation of the temperture of the body), and when the nasal membranes
are pallid, or of a dull leaden color; and yet it is not
unlikely that a patient so affected will prefer it to
any other kind of food. When hay is allowed, it
should be selected with care,* and sparingly given.
BRAN.-Bran is an indispensable article of diet
for sick animals. Its color should be clear and
glossy, and it should be perfectly sweet to the
smell. Fine bran is unfit for use. It may either
be given alone as a mash, or mixed with boiled oats,
barley or rice. In preparing a mash, care should
be taken that every portion of the surface is thoroughly moistened. Let it stand for half an hour
previous to giving it.

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It should be
RICE is an excellent article of diet.
prepared as though intended for the table.
MALT.-In cases accompanied with great debility,
malt forms an excellent article of diet. Also in
farcy, grease, and mange, when accompanied with
emaciation, it may be used with marked effect; but
in such cases it should be given in considerable
quantities without admixture with other grain.
Prepare as directed for bran mash.
BARLEY should be prepared as directed for rice,
and may be used instead.
OATS are allowed only when convalescence is well
established. They should be boiled.
GREEN FooD.-Carrots are a very nutritious
vegetable, and form an excellent fodder for animals,
both in health and sickness. They are to be given
when convalescence is established.
Green clover, grass, and food of a similar kind,
frequently prove of marked benefit. Care, however,
should be exercised in their use, as colic might
result. It is better to mix the green fodder with a
little hay, and give small portions of this at a time.
MEDICINES.

It is a mistaken idea that the domestic animals
require stronger medicines or rougher treatment, in
any way, than human beings. On the contrary, their
freedom from prejudice and the influence of imagi-

nation, together with the fact that they do not use
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deaden the sensibility of the nerves and interfere
with the action of remedies, render them especially
and quickly susceptible to the curative action of
homoeopathic remedies; so that it is only necessary
to give a larger quantity in proportion as the animal
has a larger surface of nerve and tissue to be
affected.
INTERNAL REMEDIES.-The

medicines prescribed

in the following chapters for domestic animals and
poultry are, with two or three exceptions, the same as
those used in the family for their own ailments, so
that, having a case for veterinary use, you have
nearly all that you require in the family also. It is
better, however, to have a large case with all the
medicines prescribed in the entire book, if one is
likely to have need of them. Lists for the different
cases will be found in the Appendix.
The Remedies for External Use are Lotions prepared from the mother tinctures of Arnica, Arsenicum,
Calendula, Rhus, or Thuja, by mixing two tablespoonfuls of the tincture required with a pint of pure
water.
Sulphur Ointment, made by mixing one ounce of
Sulphur with two or three ounces of lard.
Plain or Veterinary Calenduline, which is the
same as Calenduline, except that it is not perfumed.
Arnica Oil Compound.
Bran Poultice, made by pouring hot water on a
sufficient quantity of bran.

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Turnip Poultice, made by boiling turnips until
quite soft, and then mashing fine.
The lotions and poultices should be applied warm.
Rhus lotion should not be applied by a person
easily affected by "poison ivy," as the tincture is
prepared from that plant.
DIRECTIONS FOR GIVING THEIMEDICINES.-Forthe

larger animals-horses, cows, etc.-the proper dose
is ten drops of a liquid, or ten cones, or as much of
a powder as will lie on a nickel five-cent piece. Dissolve it in half a gill (four tablespoonfuls) of water.
For colts, calves, sheep, pigs, and dogs, from one to
four drops or cones, or, of the trituration, a powder
in proportion-all depending upon the size and age
of the animal.
The triturations (powders) may be mixed with a
little bran or meal, or dissolved in a little milk or
water.
The most convenient instrument for administering
the medicines, when in solution, is a small horn
capable of holding a half gill. It should be thoroughly cleansed each time before using it. A good,
hard-rubber syringe, holding two ounces, is very nice
for the purpose, when it can be had. Should the
patient violently resist the introduction into the
mouth, of the horn or the syringe, the medicine may.
be dropped upon bran, or otherwise mixed with it
without dissolving in water.

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OF DISEASES.

In classifying the diseases hereinafter mentioned
we have thought it unnecessary to distinguish
between those of the different animals, as in all
essential particulars-names, symptoms, etc.-they
are the same (with the exceptions, which will be
mentioned), and require the same treatment.
DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

THE skin is subject to a number of diseases,
which, however, are seldom destructive to the life of
the animal.
The term surfeit is usually applied to designate
nearly every affection of the skin to which animals
are liable.
MANGE.

MANGE is very similar in its general character to
itch in the human being. The general health of
the patient may suffer when it is severe; but in the
milder forms, not noticeably.
SYMPTOMs.-Great

itching,

which

causes

the

animal to be always rubbing himself. The skin is
covered with little pimples, which inflame and form
small blister-like risings.
These blisters may be
distinct from each other, or several of them join
together. They at last burst, and the fluid flows
out. The hair then falls off, and patches of skin are
left quite bare. In old cases the skin becomes
thickened, hard, and wrinkled.

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TREATMENT.-Give in alternation a dose of Sulph.,
at night and Arsen., in the morning.
Sulphur Ointment.-The cure will be more speedily accomplished by applying the Sulphur Ointment
to the mangy places night and morning.
Arsenicum Lotion.-Should the Sulphur dressing
fail, Arsenicum Lotion may be substituted. Apply
night and morning.
GREASE-CRACKED

HEELS.

GREASE is a very common malady, and one with
which all observers are familiar. It prevails most
during the fall and winter.
SYMPTOMS.-The animal appears unwell and
refuses his food. The hair looks dry, and is harsh
to the touch. The skin of the heels cracks, and
from these cracks exudes an offensive, greasy discharge. There is more or less lameness.
TREATMENT.-Arsenicum is a remedy applicable
in the treatment of all skin diseases, and in Grease
may be considered a specific.
Administer night
and morning.
It will be necessary, on commencing treatment,
to clip away the hair from around the edges of the
cracks, and to Wash the parts with warm water and
soap, and dry well with a soft cloth; repeat the
washing every day, and apply bran or carrot poultice
night and morning until the soreness is relieved,
then use the Arsenicum Lotion night and morning.
Apply with a soft clean sponge.

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AND SALLENDERS.

These are the names given to a scurfy eruption,
located at the fore part of the hock or back of the
knee.
It seldom causes lameness, but looks
unsightly.
TREATMENT.-Thuja occidentalis is a specific in

this disease.
Give a drop mixed with thirty of
water night and morning, and apply Thuja Lotion to
the parts, night and morning.
WARTS

OR ANGLEBERRIES.

Some animals are covered nearly all over with
these growths. When large, they require removal
by an operation; when small, they may be cut off
with scissors, or a piece of strong silk thread may
be passed around the root close to the skin, and
kept firmly tied until the warts fall away.
TREATMENT.-Calcarea carbonica.-Thisremedy

will, in a majority of cases, prevent their growing
again. Give a dose, night and morning, for a few
weeks.

There are other diseases of the skin occasionally
to be met with, such as Ringworm, Irritationof the
Skin, Prurigo,or a state of general itching, which
can be readily cured by the administration of
Sulphur and Arsenicum in alternation, a dose
night and morning; and the application, if necessary, of the Sulphur ointment, or the Arsenicum
Lotion.

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DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF BREATHING.
OZ(ENA-NASAL

GLEET.

NASAL GLEET arises from a diseased state of the
membrane which lines the inside of the nostrils.
It is.generally the sequel of a common cold which
has been neglected. It should not be confounded
with Glanders (which see).
SYMPTOM.-A white, yellow, or green discharge

from one or both nostrils, with swelling of the neck.
TREATMENT.-When the discharge is thick, yellow, or green, and offensive, give Mercurius iod., a
dose every three hours.
Should the discharge continue for a considerable
period, notwithstanding the above treatment, and
when the animal loses flesh and strength, give
Arsen., a dose every three hours.
Should the gland under the neck continue hard,
after a subsidence of the other symptoms, give Calc.
carb., a dose three times a day.
CATARRH.

CATARRH, or common cold, is an affection to
which animals are quite subject. Sometimes it prevails as an epidemic, when it is denominated
Influenza.
SYMPTOMs.-The animal is not so lively as usual;

there is want of appetite; he coughs and sneezes;
a watery discharge flows from one or both nostrils,
and also from the eyes, which are red and swollen.
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toms are-fever, difficult breathing, sore throat and
eyes, and red and dry nose. If not speedily
arrested, bronchitis results as a complication.
TREATMENT.-At the onset give Acon.,and Bellad.,
in alternation, a dose every hour, until the fever
subsides. If great weakness should supervene, the
legs swell, and difficult breathing continue, give
Arsenicum, a dose every two hours. Should the
glands under the jaw swell; dry and frequent cough,
and great flow of tears set in, give Merc. iod., in
alternation with Bellad., a dose every two hours.
Epizootic is epidemic influenza and may be treated
as above. The animal should be kept thoroughly
warm and dieted as for fever until the feeling of
prostration is gone.
LARYNGITIS-INFLAMMATION

OF THE LARYNX.

The larynx is the upper portion of the windpipe,
and inflammation of it is a very dangerous disease.

It seldom exists unconnected with Catarrh or Bronchitis; but occasionally constitutes the principal
feature in those diseases.
SYMPTOMS.-The outside of the throat is hot,
painful and swollen; swallowing is difficult, the
fluid portion of the food is returned by the nose;
the breathing is difficult, and accompanied by a
rough, snoring kind of a noise, which afterwards
becomes of a rasping or crowing character; the neck
is straightened and held stiffly; the head is raised;
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sweat ; the pulse is weak and irregular, and if not
relieved, the animal dies; really choked to death.
TREATMENT.-Commence treatment with Acon.,
and Antim tart., give them in alternation, a dose
every fifteen minutes, until the violent symptoms
are subdued, then every hour or two until all danger is past. Complete the cure with Bellad., and
Hepar. Give them in alternation, a dose every two
hours.
BRONCHITIS.

BRONCHITIS is an inflammation of the bronchial
tubes. It is often complicated with Pneumonia
(which see).
SYMPTOMs.-The disease begins generally with
short, frequent, tickling cough; quick breathing;
rattling in the windpipe at the breast; the head
hangs down; the skin is hot; there is great thirst,
and dislike of food; the pulse is full and quick; the
legs, ears, and mouth are hot at one time and cold
at another.
TREATMENT.-As soon as the disease is detected,
give Acon., and Bry., in alternation, a dose every hour,
until the violent symptoms abate, then every two or
three hours until the animal is cured. If sore throat
should set in, give Bellad., and Merc. iod., in alternation, a dose every two hours until relieved. If the
disease should become complicated with Pneumonia,
treat for that.

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PLEURISY.

The pleura is the membrane which lines the inside
of the chest, and covers the lungs. It is very liable
to attacks of inflammation-frequently in a simple
form. It is also often complicated with inflammation of the lungs, when it constitutes the so-called
pleuro-pneumonia.
SYMPTOMS.-

Chills, followed by hot skin, dry

mouth, white-coated tongue, red nose and eyes, low

spirits, want of appetite, anxious look in the face,
and hard, quick, and wiry pulse. The act of drawing air into the lungs, is short; the act of forcing
air out from the lungs, is slow and full. If the
inflamed side be pressed against, the animal gives
forth a sound like a grunt; the cough is short; the
skin over the inflamed side is hrown into folds, and
twitchings are occasionally seen at the same place.
The skin about the sides of the nostrils and at the
ends of the mouth is wrinkled; the neck is lengthened; the nose thrust forward, and the animal stands
in a crouching manner, and seems uneasy, but does
not move.
TREATMENT. Commence treatment with A con.
Give a dose every half hour or every hour, according
case, for three or four hours,
to the urgency of
then alternate with Br)y., a dose every one or two
hours. The remedies are almost certain to affect a
cure. Should the case be very violent, a mustard

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blister applied to the side affected, will prove of great
service.
PNEUMONIA.

Pneumonia is but rarely met with in its simple
form, being generally associated with bronchitis or
pleurisy; or, what is of common occurrence, the three
are present in the patient at the same time.
SYMPTOMs.-This disease begins, in some cases,
with a slight cold; in others, with shivering; the
legs, ears, and skin are cold; the hair is rough; the
nose pale and dry; full and quick pulse, beating at
first quick, then panting and heaving; the skin is
now hot, except at the legs, which remain very cold;
the mouth. is hot and dry; the eyes have a yellowish
color, and the animal looks uneasy and restless. As
the disease advances, the breathing becomes more
difficult, and is attended with heaving of the flanks;
the nostrils are much widened; the nose and head
are held out; the neck lengthened, the fore legs are
fixed in one place, and separated from each other; the
nose and eyes have a dark-bluish color; the face
looks anxious and distressed; the legs are fine and
the hair upon them glossy; the cough is frequent,
hard and painful; the animal seems drowsy; there
is no appetite; the dung is hard and covered with
slime; the urine high-colored and scanty. In the
last stage, the pulse is small, weak, and can scarcely
be felt; the breathing very difficult; the air coming
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lead in color; the skin is cold, and clammy sweats
break out on it here and there. The mouth is cold;
the tongue coated; the teeth are ground every now
and then; the eyes begin to look heavy, glassy, and
dim; diarrhea sets in; the strength fails; the animal
leans against the manger, or he wanders around the
box; he then staggers and falls; tries to get up again,
but can not; he groans, struggles, and dies.
Such is the termination, in fatal cases, of this
truly frightful disease. But, under the treatment
recommended below, such terminations are seldom
met with, as a cure is effected in nearly every
instance.
TREATMENT.-At

the commencement, when the

the fever runs high, with quick, hard pulse; great
thirst; the mouth burning hot; short, dry cough;
and when the animal trembles and shakes, give Acon.,
and Anit. tart., in alternation, a dose every half hour,
until the fever is lessened. Should there be short
breathing, attended with a catch or grunt, when the
air is drawn into the lungs, and pain in the side when
pressed, then alternate Acon., with Bry., a dose every
half or whole hour, until the animal is relieved.
When the disease makes progress, in spite of above
treatment, administer Phosph., a dose every hour.
Should the animal become worse, and especially
if there exists great weakness; cold skin; cold mouth;
bad smell from the mouth and nose; quick, small
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Arsen., and Ammon. caust., in alternation, a dose every
half or whole hour, as circumstances may require,
until relief is afforded.
Complete the cure with Phosph., a dose every
three hours.
THICK WIND-BROKEN

WIND.

Thick wind and broken wind, in many respects,
closely resemble each other. They are not strictly
to be regarded as diseases, but as effects, dependent
upon causes of a mechanical nature.
Thick wind arises from a portion of one, or both,
of the lungs being in a state of permanent solidification. It is the result of previous inflammation.
When fully confirmed there is no remedy; but, if
early detected, its complete development may be prevented.
TREATMENT.-Give Arsen., and Digit., in alterna-

tion, a dose night and morning.
Broken wind arises from the presence of air
between the substance of the lungs and the outer
membrane which invests them.
TREATMENT.-Arsenicum, a dose night and morn-

ing.
COUGH.

A cough accompanies many affections, such as
pleurisy, pneumonia, bronchitis, catarrh, etc., and is
then symptomatic. There are cases, however, in
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is then known as idiopathic. In such cases the general health of the animal remains good.
TREATMENT.-Give Bellad., and Bryon., in alterna-

tion, a dose night and morning.
DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF DIGESTION.
DENTITION-DIFFICULT

TEETHING.

The cutting or shedding of the teeth, and especially of the tushes, is sometimes attended with considerable disease of the body. The animal will
either not eat his f6od, or he has pain and difficulty in

chewing it. The body is thin; the bowels are out
of order, he may cough, and slight fever is present.
The gums are hot, painful and swollen.
the teeth are tardy in
TREATMENT.-When
appearing, give Calc. carb., a dose night and morn-

ing.
When the gums are tender and swollen, and the
animal is prevented from chewing, give Bellad., a
dose morning, noon and night.
DISEASES OF THE TEETH.

Some of the teeth, and especially the grinders,
grow longer than the others; or one part of the same
tooth may be longer than another. The consequence is, that the tongue, cheek, and roof of the
mouth are injured, and ulcers form; the animal cannot chew his food, owing to the pain which is
caused; often he will refuse it altogether.

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TREATMENT. Draw out the long teeth, and rough
down long-edged ones with a tooth rasp as often as
may be necessary.
Rotten teeth may produce the same conditions as
are given above; in addition, an offensive smell
comes from the mouth. If allowed to remain, the
fangs become diseased, the socket and gum inflame,
an abscess forms, and a portion of the jaw-bone may
decay. When this occurs in the upper jaw-bone,
the matter may burst into the nose, and be discharged, of a bad smell and color, from the nostrils
-a state that may be mistaken for Nasal Gleet or
Glanders.
rREATMENT.-Draw out all the diseased teeth,
and give Silic., a dose night and morning.
LAMPAS.

LAMPAS is the name given to a swelling of the
bars behind the front teeth of the upper jaw.
TREATMENT.--If the teeth are coming through,
treat as directed in the article on Difficult Teething.
If the stomach be out of order, follow the treatment
laid down for Indigestion.
INDIGESTION.

INDIGESTION is a common affection.

It is usually

owing to a diseased condition of the stomach, liver,
or bowels.
SYMPTOMS. Unthrifty state of the skin. The
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The abdomen presents a pinched up appearance.
The appetite is sometimes ravenous, and at other
times fastidious. The urine is scanty, and the
bowels bound. After a time the animal loses flesh,
becomes weak, and is readily fatigued. Occasionally
there is cough.
TREATMENT.--The

treatment of the more simple

forms of indigestion may be readily corrected by
attention to the diet of the animal. In severe cases,
however, it will be necessary to resort to remedial
agents. Administer Arsen., and Nux vom., in
alternation, a dose night and morning.
STOMACH

STAGGERS.

The symptoms of Stomach Staggers, are like
those of the first stage of Mad Staggers, and the
two diseases are known from'each other chiefly by
pointing out how the animal was before the attack
came on. (See Mad Staggers.)
COLIC.

COLIC is a common malady, and familiar to most
people. It is a very painful disease, and if
neglected or improperly treated, it is prone to terminate in inilammation of one or more of the digestive organs.
Colic presents itself in a variety of forms, all of
which agree, however, in certain essentials, and are
amenable to the same treatment.
SYMPToMs.-The attack begins suddenly. The

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animal is uneasy; he shifts his position; paws or
stamps the ground; kicks his belly with his hind
feet; looks frequently at his flanks; groans, falls
upon the ground, and rolls about violently, or lies
on his back, in which posture he remains quiet for
a short time, and free from pain. Soon, however,
another attack of cramp comes on, and the old
symptoms of violence are repeated with even greater
intensity than before. He grinds his teeth, bites
his manger, and looks toward his flanks with a wild
and anxious expression. If about to recover, the
pain lessens, and he is quieter for a long time; or, if
he is to die, every attack of cramp is more severe,
and death results from inflammation.
TREATMENT.-Commence with Acon. Give a dose
every fifteen minutes, until relief is afforded. This
remedy will be found sufficient in at least four-fifths
of the cases of genuine colic.
When the attack can be traced to the eatinig of
green food, and when it is characterized by distension of the belly, with violent pain, and purging of
a greenish fluid, without affording relief, give Coloc.,
as recommended for Acon.
When the attack is caused by constipated bowels,
resort to Nux von.; give a dose every fifteen minutes, until the animal is relieved; then every half
hour, until a cure is effected.
When excessive purging, attended with loss of
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place, give Arsen., and Verat., in alternation, a dose
every fifteen minutes.
For windy colic, which presents much the same
symptoms as enumerated above, except that the pain
is sharper, and the animal is more furious and violent; the belly on one or both sides is more or less
swollen with wind; rumbling noises are heard, and
wind is freely discharged, Ammon. caust. may be
considered a specific. Give a dose every fifteen
minutes.
This form of colic generally manifests itself after
eating green food.
DIARRHEA.

Diarrhea is a disease which generally prevails
during the spring and summer months; it is, however, occasionally observed at other times. Its tendency is to a speedy and fatal termination if improperly treated; but, if taken in time, it will generally
be found a very manageable disease.
SYMPTOMs.

Violent and continued purging of

slime, or of water and slime mixed. There is usually
great pain, though at times it may be entirely wanting. As the disease progresses, the animal is covered with a profuse, cold sweat. At this time there
is excessive debility, and the countenance expresses
great anxiety. The body wastes rapidly, and to an
alarming extent.
TREATMENT.Give Arse., and Verat., in alternation, a dose every half hour, until the animal is

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relieved; then every one or two hours, as circumstances may require.
For "scouring" in calves-a few doses of Sulphur.
The Cholera preventive, mentioned under "hog
cholera," is also excellent as a preventive of "scouring," and if one has many calves to care for, it is
worth while to dose them all as a preventive measure.
DYSENTERY-FLUX.

Dysentery occurs most frequently in animals in
good condition.
SYMPToMs.--Frequent passing of slimy matter,
sometimes mixed with blood. There is much straining, and frequent attempts to force a passage, without succeeding. There is great thirst, the mouth is
hot and dry, the legs are cold, the breathing is quick,
no food is taken, and the animal speedily becomes
very thin and weak. In some cases the lower part
of the gut protrudes from the fundament.
TREATMENT.-At the commencement of the disease,
administer A con., a dose every half or whole hour,
until the inflammatory symptoms subside.
Should frequent passages and violent straining
continue, after a subsidence of the inflammatory
symptoms, accompanied with protrusion of the gut,
administer Merc. cor., and Coloc., in alternation, a
dose every one or two hours, according to severity of
symptoms, until the cure is completed.
ENTERITIS-JINFLAMMATION

OF THIE BOWELS.

Enteritis is one of the most dangerous forms of

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disease to which animals are subject. Its treatment
requires great judgment, energy, decision, and
unwearied patience. When once established, it can
not be conquered, as it were, at a stroke.
SYMPToMs.-

Enteritis begins in most cases with

dullness, heavy eyes, staring coat, and restlessness.
The pulse and breathing are both quickened. No
appetite. Some cases are preceded by colic, others
begin with shivering. The animal kicks, paws, and
rolls about in the most violent manner. He tries
often, and strains hard, to pass water; but either none,
or only a few drops come away. The pain is most
intense, and does not cease for a moment; it is
increased by pressure and moving about. The belly
is hot, tucked up, and hard, unless there be wind in
the bowels, when it will be more or less swollen.
The bowels are very much bound. The legs and ears
are intensely cold. The pulse is small and hard, and
sweat breaks out all over. If the disease remains
unchecked, the pulse becomes smaller and weaker,
until it can scarcely be felt. The breathing is quick,
itrregular, and attended with sighs. The skin is covered with a cold, clammy sweat. The eyes seem to
have lost the power of seeing. The animal is very
weak, and trembles all over. Convulsions come on,
and then death follows.
DISTINCTIONS

BETWEEN COLIC

AND ENTERITIS.-

In colic, the attack begins suddenly; in enteritis.
it comes on generally by degrees. In colic, the pain

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is not constant, and there are times during which it
is not felt; in enteritis, the pain never ceases for a
moment, but becomes gradually more severe as the
disease progresses. In colic, the pain is relieved by
rubbing the belly and moving about; in enteritis, it
is greatly increased by these means. In colic, the
strength is not much weakened, unless the disease is
near its end; in enteritis, the weakness is very great
from the first.
TREATMENT.-As soon as possible after the attack

begins, give Acon., a dose every fifteen minutes, until
the more violent symptoms are subdued, then every
one or two hours.
If improvement does not take place in the course
of six or eight hours, alternate Bellad. with Acon.,
giving a dose every half hour, until the patient is
relieved, then every one or two hours.
If the disease continues to advance, and there are
cold, clammy sweats; the belly exquisitely tender,
and tucked up; the suffering constant and excruciating, and the failure of strength great, give Arsen.,
and Verat., in alternation, a dose every fifteen minutes, until relief is afforded, then every hour until
the patient is out of danger.
HEPATITIS-INFLAMMATION

OF THE LIVER.

the
yellow color of the nose, tongue, eyes, and mouth.
The dung is mixed with bile, and covered with slime.
The urine is thick, dark-colored, and deposits a sediSYMPTOMs.-This disease may be known by

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ment. The right side is painful when pressed against.
There is quick breathing, dry cough, quick, full
pulse, which afterwards becomes slow, and the. legs
are very cold.
TREATMENT.-Commence with Acon., and Bry., in

alternation; give a dose every one or two hours.
After the fever subsides, and the mouth, nose, and
eyes become yellow, together with slimy discharges
from the bowels, and dark-colored urine, give Merc.
viv., and Nux vomr., in alternation, a dose every two
or three hours.
COSTIVENESS.

When costiveness is a symptom of some disease,
it will yield when that disease is cured. Sometimes,
however, the bowels are bound without any other
disorder existing. Under such circumstances, pursue the following
TREATMENT.-Give a dose of Nux vom., at night,

and of Opium in the morning.
speedily effect a cure.

This treatment'will

WORMS AND BOTS.

All horses are more or less
and bots. Their existence can
observing the discharges from
they cause the animal much
the following

troubled 'with worms
be easily detected by
the bowels. Should
annoyance, resort to

TREATMENT.--Give a dose ,of

Arsenicum night

and morning. The use of this remedy for two or
three weeks, will eradicate them.

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Santonine Suppositories prepared expressly for
veterinary use will be found very successful. Introduced into the rectum they dissolve in an hour or
two, the Santonine is absorbed, and the whole surface of the bowel is medicated by them.
DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS.

THE urinary organs are not numerous, and, with
the exception of the kidneys, not complex in their
structure, nor difficult to understand.
As the diseases to which these organs are subject-namely: Nephritis, or inflammation of the
kidneys; Cystitis, or inflammation of the bladder;
Hmmaturia, or bloody urine; Dysuria, or retention
of the urine-present during their progress, very
nearly similar symptoms, and are amenable to the
same treatment, they will all be considered under
the head of
"

SYMPTos.-The

NEPHRITIS.

pulse is full, hard, and quick;

the skin hot and dry; the mouth hot; there is great
thirst; the urine is either suppressed, or made often,
.in small quam:tities, and with great straining; the
urine that is passed may be red and bloody, or it
may contain mucus or matter; the hind legs are
stiff, and placed widely apart; the animal is not willing to move, and when he does so, it is in a straddling manner; he turns with difficulty; the spine is
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and when pressed upon over the region of the kidneys, the animal feels pain.
TREATMENT.-As soon as the disease is detected,

give Acon., and Canth., in alternation, a dose every
hour, until the animal is relieved, after which, give
Nux vore., and Canth., in alternation, a dose every
two hours, until complete recovery.
GENEIRALITIES.
RHEUMATISM.

RHEUMATISM is a very common malady. Its duration is from one to four weeks.
SYMPTOMs.- It begins with shivering all over.
Then the animal
The skin and 'mouth are hot.
becomes lame in one leg, or several joints are

affected so that he cannot move, but stands in one
place. The joint or joints are very hot, exceedingly
painful, and swollen. The pulse is quicker at one
time than another, and stops now and then for a
moment or two. The breathing is quick, and sweats
break out. When the disease attacks the forelegs,
it is called "chest founder,"

and when it is in the

loins, with the back raised, and the belly tucked up,
it is known as "loin bound." Sometimes the pain
and inflammation removes from one leg to another,
or from one joint to another, in a remarkable
manner.

TREATMENT.-Begin treatment with Acon., give a
dose every hour until the fever is allayed; after

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which, give Bryon., and Rhus lox., in alternation, a
dose every two or three hours, until recovery takes
place.
Should the disease shift about from one part to
another, give Pulsal., a dose every two hours.
Externally-rub in very thoroughly and as often as
may be required, the Arnica Oil Compound.
STRANGLES.

STRANGLES is a disease which may be said to be
peculiar to young horses, and analogous to measles

in children. It occurs most commonly between the
first and fifth year.
SYMPTOMS.-The disease begins as if the animal
were about to have common cold. He is dull and
depressed, eats little or no food, coughs now and
then; the coat stares; the pulse is slightly quickened; the mouth hot and dry, and afterwards frothy
fluid comes from it; the throat is sore, the nose red,
and matter blows from the nostrils. The glands
under the jaw become swollen, hot and painful;
there is great difficulty in breathing, and the animal
seems almost suffocated. The swelling continues to
grow larger and softer until it breaks, when matter
is discharged; and from this time the animal begins
to recover. In some cases, however, other abscesses
form upon the back, shoulders, legs, breast, or
other parts of the body.
Give Bellad., and Merc. iod., in
TREATMENT.
alternation, a dose every two hours. After the

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fever subsides, and should the glands under the
neck remain hard and painful, apply bran poultice
night and morning, and give Hepar s., a dose every
three hours.
WEED-INFLAMMATION

OF THE LYMPHATICS.

SYMPTOMs.-This disease comes on very suddenly,
and begins, in general, with shivering, which is

soon followed by full, strong, quick pulse; accelerated breathing; hot, dry mouth, and general feverishness.
It attacks, in most cases, the left hind
leg, although, in some instances, the other hind
leg, or a fore one, may be affected. The leg is lifted
from the ground; it is hot, painful, and swells
from above to below. The swelling increases very
rapidly, and the pain prevents the animal from
moving. When the leg is pressed upon, it is
snatched away. Several hard, round, and very
painful, cord-like swellings may be felt on the inside
of the leg; these end in small lumps, which are
hard, and more painful than the cords. A watery
fluid exudes from the skin, and may be seen in
drops upon the hair.
TREATMENT.-Commence with Acon.; give a dose

every two hours. Foment the leg with hot water
for an hour, night and morning. After the fever
has somewhat subsided, give Bellad., and Bryon.,
in alternation, a dose every three hours, until the
patient recovers.

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ABSCESS.

An abscess is a gathering of matter.
They are divided into two kinds: Circumscribed,
in which the inflammation is of a healthy character,
and its tendency toward recovery; and Diffused, in
which the inflammation is of an unhealthy character, and prone to extend.
SYMPTOM.-A hot, painful swelling, at first hard
in the middle, softer around, and attended with
fever, which is of a mild or severe kind, according
to the nature and situation of the abscess.
TREATMENT.-Externally, the treatment to be
employed is-remove all foreign bodies, if the
abscess depends on their presence; if it arises from a
blow, the bruised part must be kept wet with Arnica
Lotion, until the heat, pain, and swelling disappear.
But if the latter symptoms increase, foment with hot
water three times a day, and after each fomentation,
apply a large bran poultice. After the abscess
breaks, and the matter is discharged, a piece of soft
linen may be well moistened with Calendula Lotion,
and applied several times a day to the sore. As
soon as the abscess is detected, and while the fever
continues, give Acon., a dose every two hours.
Should the abscess, under -he use of this remedy,
and the external treatment recommended, not disappear, but give every evidence of running on to suppuration, give Bellad., and Merc.iod., in alternation,
a dose every two hours. Should there be delay in

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the softening of the swelling, give Hepar s., a dose
every three hours.
ANASARCA-GENERAL

DROPSY.

This is the name given to a watery swelling over
the whole body, between the skin and flesh; the
swellirig depending on a collection of serum.
SYMPTOM.-The

belly, sheath, breast, lips, and

eyelids, are more or less swollen. The swelling has
little or no pain, is soft, and an indentation is left
when the finger is pressed upon it. The legs and
thighs become very much enlarged; there are,
besides, poor appetite, low spirits, quick breathing,
small and weak pulse, and purging.
TREATMENT.--Give Arsen., and Digit., in alterna-

tion, a dose every three hours.
PURPURA

HIEMORRHAGICA.

Purpura Hamorrhagica is a disease of a severe
character, and is at all times to be considered highly
dangerous.
SYMPTOMs.-The symptoms of this affection are
usually well defined. The attack is generally sudden. Its first appearance is marked by swelling of
the hind legs, which is speedily succeeded by an
extension of the swelling to other parts of the body,
such as the head, the fore legs, and under the abdomen. The inside of the nose is covered with large
purple-colored, or blood patches. As the disease
proceeds, other symptoms of a peculiar character

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are presented. The head, if not affected at the commencement, will swell, and in the course of a few
hours reach such a size as to present a truly hideous
appearance. Sometimes the swelling of the head
will, for a time, be limited to the eyelids of one eye;
or the tongue may swell and ultimately attain such
a size as to gag the mouth open. When the nostrils
are covered with blood patches, the breathing
becomes snuffling and harsh in sound; and when the
eyelids are rapidly distended, bloody serum is
exuded, which runs down the cheeks, and the animal
appears as though weeping blood. Not unfrequently
the dung is coated with blood, and the urine may
also contain it.
Commence treatment with Bellad.,
TREATMENT.
and Bryon., in alternation: give a dose every two
hours; if the animal improves, continue them until
he is well; if no improvement takes place, substitute
Rhus. lox., and Arsen.; give them in alternation, a
dose every two hours.
GLANDERS AND

FARCY.

GLANDERS and Farcy are different forms of the

same disease. Glanders may appear first, and Farcy
supervene; or Farcy may first appear, and Glanders
follow.
Glanders is sometimes developed with extraordinary rapidity. In other cases again, the disease
may be slow and insidious.

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The disease is highly contagious, not only to
other animals, but to human beings also.
SYMPTOMS.-Glanders.-A constant discharge
from one or both nostrils, generally from the left
only; at first thin, then thick like the white of an
egg. It may continue in this way for some time,
or it becomes very soon more like matter, of a
greenish or yellowish color, sometimes streaked with
blood, and having a bad smell. Soon after, the
glands under the jaw becomes painful and swollen,
and one of them appears to be fixed to the inner side
of the jaw-bone (a characteristic symptom). Then
the membrane lining the inside of the nose, has a
yellowish or leaden color; small elevations are
noticed upon it, which afterward become ulcers;
these have sharp borders, and spread, until the
gristle and bones beneath become ulcerated. The
disease now spreads to the lungs, which become
filled with small abscesses. There is cough, wasting, want of appetite, and weakness. The hair is
dry and loose; the lips and eyelids become swollen,
and in a short time the animal dies.
Farcy.-Upon the face, lips, or other portions of
the body, and especially upon the legs, hard, painful, hot lumps are felt, which are called farcy buds.
They increase in size, pain, and heat, until the skin
ulcerates through, and a thin discharge flows out.
Between these lumps, hardened cords are felt.
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legs, become swollen and very painful, and soon
Glanders ensues.
TREATMENT.-Resort at once to Arsen. and ]Merc.
iod. Give in alternation a dose every three hours.
If, under this treatment, the disease is not subdued in a short time, or if there should be no perceptible improvement, but unmistakable evidence of
its being confirmed glanders, the animal should be
destroyed forthwith. The liability of the malady to
spread, and the great danger of its being communicated to human beings, makes this imperative.
OPHTHALMIA-INFLAMMATION

OF THE EYES.

SYMPTOMs.-The pulse is full and frequent; the
eyelids are swollen and closed; scalding tears flow in
great quantities; the eyes cannot bear the light and
are drawn into the socket; the white of the eye
and the inside of the eyelids are covered with
red blood-vessels.
Matter is observed, in some
cases, behind the clear portion of the eyeball. Only
one eye is affected, in general, at once; and when
the inflammation is leaving it, the other one becomes
diseased.
TREATMENT.
Give Acon. and Bellad. at once, in
alternation, a dose every one or two hours, as the
violence of the symptoms may demand, until the
inflammation is, lessened.

Should there be- great intolerance of light, with
profuse discharge of matter from the eyes, give lferc.
cor., a dose every two hours.

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After continuing the Mere. cor. a sufficient length
of time, should the eyes not recover, substitute
Hiepar s. Give a dose every three hours.
A shade must be kept over the eyes, to shield them
from the light; also, bathe them frequently with
warm water and milk, to free them from matter.
ABORITION.

A threatened miscarriage on, account of some accident, or rude treatment, or over-driving, may usually
be prevented by giving two or three doses of Arnica
an hour apart.
DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND OF THE NERVOUS
SYSTEM.
PHRENITIS-MAD

STAGGERS-INFLAMMATION

OF THE

BRAIN.

Phrenitis is, fortunately,' but rarely met with.
Animals in high condition are most liable to be
attacked with it; and the exciting cause is usually an
exposure, for a considerable time, to the direct rays
of the hot sun.
SYMPToMS.-The first symptom noticed will be a
dull and heavy appearance of the animal. He will
stand in a fixed position, with his head down, and
apparently asleep, from which he is easily aroused,
but almost immediately resumes the same listless
condition. This may continue for a day or two; then,
if the disease does not yield, symptoms of greater
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the eyes have a wild and fierce look, and the feet are
stamped as if he were in a rage. He will plunge
about, rear upwards, and fall back upon the ground,
where he will lie, covered with sweat, and panting
for breath. Should the disease now make further
progress, convulsions will set in, which will, in all
probability, soon terminate in death.
TREATMENT.

Commence

treatment

by giving

Acon. and Bellad. in alternation, a dose every hour.
As improvement takes place, lengthen the intervals
to two or three hours.
Should symptoms of lethargy supervene, so that
there is great difficulty in rousing the animal, give
Opium and Bellad. in alternation.
MEGRIMS

FITS.

Very little can be done whilst the animal is in the
fit; the' chief point is, therefore, to prevent another
coming on.

TREATMENT.-Bellad. and Nux vom. administered
in alternation, a dose night and morning, will affect
a

cure.

PARALYSIS-PALSY.

Paralysis is not a disease of frequent occurrence.
It is important, however, that every owner of horses
should be familiar with its symptoms and treatment.
It generally attacks the animal in a very sudden
manner, and from the particular parts of the body
in which it is liable to manifest itself, so is it named.
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or two muscles only are affected. This is most likely
to attack the lips and face.
Paralysis hemiplegia-as when one side of the
body only is affected.
Paralysis paraplegia-as when both hind limbs
are affected, and the rest of the body is free from the
disease.
SYMPToMs.-Paralysis of the face.-The lips hang
pendulous; the animal experiences great difficulty
in eating; during the act of seizing the food, the
head is held away, the food is gathered slowly and
imperfectly, and not unfrequently it falls out of the
mouth, the animal being unable either to retain or
to masticate it. Sometimes the loss of power is limited to one side of the face, in which case the muscles affected are drawn toward the contrary side.
Paralysis hemiplegia.-The head will be drawn to
the contrary side of the body paralyzed; one half of
the lips, and the ear of the side affected, will hang
pendulous and powerless; the eyelids will be drawn
downwards, and the eye will present a squinting
appearance; the limbs of the same side will be placed
wide from the trunk, and at irregular distances from
each other, and the animal, if made to walk, will do
so slowly and spasmodically, and instead of moving
in a line directly forward, the body will move in a
curved direction.
Paralysis paraplegia.-Loss of motive power as a
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cured. The sooner an animal so circumstanced is
destroyed, the better. When arising, however, from
the effects of inordinate labor, or struggling long
and violently, the probability is that the animal may
be relieved.
TREATMENT.-For

paralysis

of the face,

give

Bellad. and Nux vomr. in alternation, a dose every
three hours.
For hemiplegia, give Acon. and Rhus lox. in alternation, a dose every three hours.
For paraplegia, give Arnica and Rhus lox., a dose
every three hours.
TETANUS-LOCK JAW.

Tetanus arising from injuries of a distinct nature,
is the most common form of the disease; and it is
also the most fatal. It is more liable to occur from
injuries inflicted upon the hind limbs than upon the
fore limbs.
Not unfrequently a wound causing tetanus, may,
to all appearance, be healed before the disorder is
observed.
On the other hand, it may arise within a few hours
after the occurrence of the accident, and run its
course to a fatal result with exceeding rapidity.
Wounds so quickly inducing tetanus are usually
of the variety called punctured wounds.
In those cases of tetanus where the jaws become
firmly closed, recovery is rare.
The period of the duration of the disease, in fatal

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cases, is from a few hours to fourteen or even twentyone days.
Tetanus is a remittent disease. In cases which
tend to a favorable result, the paroxysms (f spasms
occur less and less frequently, and are less and less
severe, until, in the end, they entirely cease, and the
patient recovers.
The time at which tetanus may appear, after the
infliction of an injury, varies from a few hours to
even three weeks. From three to ten days, however,
appears to be the average period.
SYMPTOMS.-One of the earliest symptoms observed
is a manifest peculiarity of gait; presenting a degree
of stiffness and disinclination to move altogether
unaccountable to beholders. Another early symptom, and one perhaps more clearly indicating what
is about to supervene than any other, is the projection of the membrane called the haw over the front
of the eye. A degree of stiffness in the gait may
arise from other causes-such as recent exposure of
the animal to cold and wet, or from severe labor. By
lifting up the head of the animal, however, and
observing if the haw suddenly projects over the front
of the eye, we may at once decide that the case is
one of tetanus. The jaws may not be closed, nor the
animal present anything peculiar to the ordinary
observer; but the projection of the haw together
with the general hardness of the muscles of the body,
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As the disease advances the general stiffness becomes
more confirmed. The animal, when made to turn
around, does so as stiffly as a beam of wood. The
muscles present a state of lightness peculiar to the
disease; the ears are cocked and firm; the hind legs
are placed wide apart: the animal straddles, and
walks exceedingly slow; the tail is constantly elevated, and has a peculiar quivering motion; the
muscles of the belly are cramped; the haw projects
more or less over the eye continually. Should the
animal be disposed to eat, food will be sought with
avidity. The disease, being a remittent one, the
spasms and general excitement of the system become increased, and afterwards decline.
This
remittent character of tetanus is of constant occurrence. An increase of the general spasm may come
on every twelve or twenty-four hours, for many days
in succession, and continue for a long time with a
similar degree of force; then slowly abate, until it
disappears and leaves the animal convalescent; or,
the last stage of this fearful malady may supervene,
and terminate in death.
TREATMENT.
When the disease arises in consequence of a wound, Arnica and Nux om. will be
found the most appropJriate remedies. Give them in
alternation, a dose every one or two hours.
Bellad. is a remedy of the highest value in tetanus.
It is better to resort to it after the disease has existed
for some time. Its use should be steadily persevered

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in for a week or ten days, or even longer, should the
animal improve under its use. Give a dose every
two hours.
Camphor is a valuable remedy to commence with
when the disease arises from exposing the animal to
cold and wet. Give a dose every hour for one or two
days.

DISEASES OF THE FEET AND LEGS.
LAMINITIS-INFLAMMATION

OF THE FEET.

LAMINITIS, in its acute form, is an exceedingly
painful and dangerous disease, and its tendency is
to utterly destroy the usefulness of the animal.
The fore feet are more liable to suffer from the
disease than the hind ones. Sometimes the disease
will shift from one to the other.
SYMPTOMS.---The early symptoms are the anxious

appearance of the animal and his frequent shifting
position. If made to walk, he does so with pain
and reluctance; he steps short, and paddles in his
gait; the feet, also, are warmer than natural. As
the disease progresses, the breathing becomes more
hurried, and the pulse greatly quickened. The
movements of the animal are peculiar; he does not
lie down.; and if the fore feet are inflamed, the hind
legs are brought forward and placed well under the
belly; the fore feet are frequently shifted; the k'nees
are maintained in a semiflexed position; while the
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sought to be thrown, either on the outer sides of the
feet, or the points of the toes. The hoofs are of an
unnatural heat; the legs swell from the knees to the
coronets; the arteries of the limbs affected throb
with violence; in the more severe forms of the
disease, the animal perspires profusely; drops of
clear water chase each other rapidly down the hairs,
the mane and tail; and the eyes are wild, haggard,
and bloodshot.
TREATMENT.-The shoes must be removed from

the inflamed feet, and the soles must be pared out
until the horn yields to the pressure of the thumb.
Make the animal to lie down; soak some cloths in
cold water and wrap them round the feet, which
must be constantly kept wet. Cold poultices, made
of turnips, applied to the feet, are sometimes of
service.
Administer Acon., and Bellad., in alternation,
give a dose every two hours. When the disease is
owing to violent concussion over hard roads, give
Arnica, a dose every two hours.
PRICK IN THE FOOT.

INJURIEs from pricking, when nailing the shoe
upon the foot, and puncture from gathering a nail,
are of frequent occurrence.
TREATMENT.-When the foot is pricked or punct-

ured, the shoe must be removed, and the sole of
the foot pared until it readily springs from pressure;
apply a large poultice made of bran or turnips,

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which should be changed every six hours, and its
use perservered in until the inflammatory action subsides. After which, apply Calendula Lotion three
times a day. Should matter form, it will be necessary to make an opening for the purpose of evacuating it, then dress as before with poultice.
Should there be fever, give Aconite, a dose every
three hours.
QUITTOR.

A QUITTOR is a sore on the coronet and connected

with an abscess in the foot. It may arise from
puncture of the foot, also from suppurating corns.
TREATMENT.

Apply a

bran or turnip poultice

night and morning. Should a discharge of matter
continue for some time after the abscess breaks, a
small probe should be used to find out the number
and direction of the fistula, and Calendula Lotion
should be injected into them three or four times a
day; at the same time continue the poultices.
SANDCRACK.

SANDORACK is a well-known disease. It consists
of a fissure or division of the hoof.
TREATMENT.-Apply a bran poultice for four or
five days, then with a sharp knife cut away the horn
at the top of the sanderack. When the necessary
amount of horn is removed, cover the fissure with

melted cobbler's wax, immediately after which, the
foot should be firmly bound up by passing a
quantity of copper wire around it.

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CORNS.

CORNS are sometimes very troublesome.
They
are most common to flat feet.
TREATMENT.-First pare the corn, then apply
Tinct. of Arnica on a piece of cotton, afterwards
tack on the shoe lightly with the pressure off the
corn, and a leather sole between it and the foot.
Should matter form, evacuate it by making an
opening, then apply a bran or turnip poultice for
two or three days.
THRUSH.

THRusH is an inflammation of the sensible frog.
It may be known by a discharge of fetid matter
from the middle and sides of the frog.
TREATMENT.-Poultice the feet for two or three
days. After the inflammation has somewhat subsided, pare the frog in every part, particularly along
its sides, until the tissues are exposed which secrete
the matter. Having done this, smear the frog with
a mixture composed of half an ounce of Sulphate of
Copper and six ounces of Tar. Apply it by dipping
a small piece of tow in the mixture and afterwards
placing it in the cleft, or in whatever part of the
frog a sinus may exist. It may be necessary, in
some cases, to repeat the dressing every day, in
others once in two or three days will answer.
Give a dose of Arsenicum night and morning.
RINGBONE,

SPLINT,

AND SPAVIN.

These diseases are of a very similar nature and

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from similar causes, and require about the same
treatment.
RINGBONE is a bony enlargement on the outer or
inner side of the coronet, or it may encircle the
whole of that part.
SPLINT is a deposition of bony matter at the
upper part of the cannon bone or shank, below the
knee.
SPAVIN is an enlargement of the same character
as those called rifLgbonie and splint, but is situated,
for the most part, in front of the union between the
splint bone and the shank, at the inner side of the
hock joint.
These deposits or enlargements result usually
from inflammation of the tissues and membranes
surrounding the bony parts of the leg, which has a
tendency, if not relieved at the onset, to end in an
accumulation of partly disorganized bone material
in these tissues and upon the bone; keeping up a
chronic inflammation, and producing more or less
pain and weakness by irritation, and by interference
with the action of all the parts.
These affections are sometimes hereditary, sometimes are caused by over-exertion, over-heating, a
false step, straining against a heavily loaded wagon,
blows or kicks upon the hock, local swelling of the
principal blood vessels of these parts, etc.
TREATMENT.-Rub thoroughly with Arnica Oil
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inflammation or lameness is discovered. Give a
dose of Rhus. lox., 30th, every morning, and of Calc.
caib., 6th, every night. This may entirely relieve
and prevent further progress of the disease. If the
weakness and lameness continues, continue the rubbing, and give Silicea, 200th, instead of the Calcarea, for a week, and then return to Calcarea again,
for another week. Then Silicea again if needed.
Old cases require the same treatment to begin
with, say for four weeks; then give Sulphur, 6th,
once a day for a week; then Rhus. lox., 30th, and
Merc. cor. 3rd, morning and night, every other week
for several weeks.
The first symptoms of Spavin are about as follows: "The animal seems to be afraid of freely
using one or the other hind leg and a little lameness is perceived at the commencement of moving.
Afterwards when returning to the stable, after an
exertion, the horse stands upon the toe of the
affected limb, limps considerably on turning about,
and when commencing to walk; after walking a
little, the lameness disappears, and is only perceived
again after the horse has been standing a few minutes. At this period we begin to notice a swelling
in the region of the hock, accompanied by increasing
lameness or complete stiffness; this swelling may be
either hard and bony or soft. Sometimes the muscles of the hind quarters are not visibly affected,
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or the other, or both, unnaturally high, and puts
them down again with a spasmodic twitching motion.
"To detect Spavin, place the horse on level
ground, with the hind legs on the same line; raise
the tail with one hand, .step a few feet side-ways
behind the horse; look attentively at the suspected
joint, especially at the inner side and observe the
shape of the parts. Then observe the hock of the
other leg in the same way, and if we discover, at
either leg, an elevation not seen at the other the
horse is affected with Spavin. If such a horse,
after remaining quiet for a while is walked about,
we shall find that it has an uneasy twitching gait."
WOUNDS AND INJURIES.

Of flesh wounds there are four varieties, viz.
1st. Incised wounds.
2d. Lacerated wounds.
3d. Punctured wounds.
4th. Contused wounds.
An incised wound is a wound where the skin and
sub-tissues are clean cut.
Lacerated wounds are those where the skin and
sub-tissues are torn.
Punctured wounds are wounds inflicted by sharppointed instruments.
Contused wounds are injuries inflicted upon the
skin and sub-tissues, without any perceptible breach
or division of the skin.

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the

first indication is to stop the hemorrhage, which can
generally be accomplished by the constant application of cold water; should this fail, and the hemorrhage be copious, the bleeding vessel should at
once be got at, and made secure by a ligature of
silk around it. The color of the blood and the
manner in which it issues forth, will be sufficient to
determine the character of the vessel injured. If
the blood be of a bright scarlet color, and if it issues
in partially interrupted jets, the vessel injured is an
artery; while the size of the current will afford some
indication of its calibre. In searching for the
blood-vessel a large, soft sponge is necessary to
soak up the blood from the bleeding vessel.
Having secured the bleeding vessel, next remove
any extraneous substance which may be present.
Foreign bodies may be taken away with the common forceps; but to remove sand and dirt, the best
instrument is a syringe, which you fill with tepid
water, and send the contents forcibly upon any part
where the dirt may lodge, the object being to wash
it away by the force of the current. After which,
clip away all fragments of loose tissue, whether it
be skin, muscle, or tendon. These fragments cannot unite again; therefore remove them, and save
nature the trouble by a process far more tedious
and uncertain.
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it is to be observed: The cleaner a wound is cut,
the more perfect the cure. Sutures to such wounds
are proper; but where wounds are much jagged and
torn, the skin torn, or the muscular substance broken
or ploughed deeply into--or where foreign substances are lodged within the part injured, and cannot be entirely removed, it is better not to insert
sutures, but to cut away the loose bits of skin and
flesh, to remove all the dirt which it is possible to
remove, and give the wound the most finished
appearance possible under the circumstances. On
the other hand, in wounds which are large and deep,
and where pieces of skin and flesh hang loose, sutures
will be found of service.
SUTURE.-The best'sutures for securing a wound
are those which receive the names of the twisted
and the interrupted sutures.
The twisted suture is made by passing a strong
pin through each side of the wound, and then drawing the borders closely and securely together by
means of a small hempen string wound around the
pin and fastened; the point of the pin is then
removed, and one suture is complete. This form of
suture is best for wounds not immediately contiguous to any of the joints.
The interrupted suture is made with a needle and
strong, soft, white silk. The needle should be
broad and curved, and the silk be used of double
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wound, at a sufficient depth to hold the suture, and
then secure the thread by tying a square knot in it,
drawing it tight enough to place and retain the
edges of the wound in contact.
Unless great care is exercised in placing the
injured parts straight, and afterwards keeping them
so, unsightly blemishes are certain to remain.
The most common form of wound is that of a
triangle.
In fixing'sutures place them so as to make the
divided parts fit each other as exactly as possible.
The best way to do this is to commence by securing
the wound at its most conspicuous parts, by which
means accuracy of adjustment throughout will be
more readily effected. If the injury, for example, be
of a triangular form, it is best to commence by
making sutures at the highest point of the triangle;
by this mode the sides of the wound are placed
straight against each other.
The distance at which sutures will be fixed apart
from each other will depend upon circumstances.
One inch, however, may be set down as the average
distance.
In fixing sutures, avoid forcing the skin into the
folds or corrugations. The wounded parts will be
found to grow together in the way they are set.
Whatever kind of suture is resorted to, secure a
firm hold of the skin, and make the suture no tighter
than what suffices to hold the divided edges in
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The lowest part of a wound should be left more
open than any other, to allow free exit to any serous
exudations which may collect.
When sutures are properly fixed, let them remain
until the wound is thoroughly healed.
Sutures should not be inserted before the injured
vessels have ceased to bleed, nor until the exposed
surfaces have put on a glazed appearance.
DRESSINGs.-After having secured the wound
with sutures, apply Calendula Lofion'--the wound
should, be kept constantly wet with it.
Small cuts and wounds can be smeared with Calenduline and bandaged to keep the dust out, or
allowed to go without bandaging, applying the Calenduline now and then as convenient. It is very
healing.
For sprains, use Arnica Oil Compound, and in
bad cases give Rhus fox., 30th, three times daily.
For wounded tendons, rub in Calenduline frequently.
For chafing, galling, sore shoulder, anoint freely
two or three times a day with Ocdenduline, and rub
in gently with the finger.
For deep cuts, wounds with pitchforks, or other
sharp instruments, smear the end of a feather with
Calenduline and anoint the whole inner surface of
the wound, then anoint the edges of the wound, and
apply a bandage, if convenient, to keep out the dust.
Two or three applications will be sufficient.

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For bruises, with laceration of the surface,
abscesses, ulcers, etc., anoint freely, rubbing in
gently. Rest the affected muscles as much as possible, and adjust the harness so as to avoid irritation
of the inflamed part.
Swollen udders and sore teats should be anointed
freely twice a day with Calenduline.
In all cases of bruises, or contused wounds, Arnica
Lotion is the proper application.- Use as the
Calendula.
BANDAGES. Bandages will be found of service to
incised wounds inflicted upon the lower part of a
limb. Their application will prevent undue swelling. They should always be applied wet; the hair
should be wet also. The bandage should fit easy;
it should also press equally upon every part to
which it may be applied.
DISEASES PECULIAR TO CATTLE.
INFLAMMATORY

FEVER, QUARTER

EVIL, ETC.

The disease which bears this name is known by
different local terms, such as black quarter, quarter
evil, joint mnurrain, etc.
SYMPTOMS.-There are few premonitory symptoms
of inflammatory fever. Often, without indications
of previous illness, the animal is found with neck
extended; his head brought, as much as he can effect
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red; the muzzle dry; the nostrils exposed; the breath
hot; the mouth partly open; the tongue enlarged;
the pulse full, hard, and quick, and the flanks heaving violently.
Occasionally the animal is in full possession of his
senses, but as a general thing he is unconscious. He
will stand for an hour or more without the slightest
change of posture; he can scarcely be induced to
move, or, when compelled to do so, he staggers.
After a while he becomes more uneasy, yet it is
oftener a change of position to ease his tired limbs
than a pawing; at length the animal lies down, or
rather diops, gets up almost immediately; is soon
down again; debility rapidly increasing, he continues
prostrate, sometimes in a comatose state, at others
there are occasional, but fruitless, efforts to rise. The
symptoms rapidly increase, and the animal dies in
from twelve to twenty-four hours. In the majority
of cases the animal seems to rally a little, and some
of the symptoms appear, from which the common
names of the disease derive their origin. He attempts
to rise, after several efforts he succeeds, but is sadly
lame in one or both of the hind quarters. If he has
not yet fallen, he suddenly becomes lame, so lame
as to be scarcely able to move. He has quarter evil,
joint murrain.

One of the symptoms now most to be dreaded is
the rapid progress of that which has already begun
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animal will not bear even the slightest pressure on
these parts. The case is worse if to these are added
swellings about the shoulders, back, and loins, with
a peculiar, cracking noise, as if some gas were extricated in the cellular membrane, and the process of
decomposition had commenced during the life of the
animal. Worse even than this is the sudden appearance of hard, scurfy patches of what seems to be
dead skin. It is a kind of dry gangrene, and the
commencement of a sloughing process, extensive and
rapid to an almost inconceivable degree. Now we
have black quarter, with all its fearful characteristics.
The ulcers first appear about the belly, the quarters, and teats, but they spread everywhere, and particularly about the muzzle and the mouth. There
is also a considerable discharge of offensive or bloody
fluid from the nose and mouth. The urine, which
had before been high colored, becomes darker or
bloody; the dung, likewise, has streaks of blood over
it, and both are exceedingly fcetid. In this state the
animal may continue two or three days, until it dies,
a mass of putridity.
TREATMENT.-In the first stages of the disease
characterized by quick breathing; hot breath;
extended nostrils; red eyes, and dry muzzle, give
Ammon. caust., a dose every half or whole hour.
Should the disease increase in severity, and the
animal become unconscious, or lie in a deep sleep,
give Aecon. and Bellad. in alternation, a dose every
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If there should be a great loss of strength, and
hard patches appear on the skin, with ulceration of
the parts, together with bloody, fluid, foetid discharges, give Arsen. and Merc. iod. in alternation, a
dose every hour.
Should ulcers remain after the disease has been
subdued, they must be treated with hot fomentations,
poultices, etc.
VESICULAR EPIZOOTIC.

Of late years this disease is not of frequent occurrence. Occasionally, however, it prevails as an epidemic, running a rapid and fatal course in some localities, while in others it is of a lingering and tedious
character.
SYMPTOMs.- The first symptoms are dullness, and
want of appetite; the muzzle, ears, horns, etc., are
cold at one time, hot at another; the animal seems
uneasy, and does not associate with the other cows;
the cud is not chewed; the milk is found to be lessened, yellowish, and thick; the bag is swollen, hot,
and painful when touched; the back is arched; the
feet are hot and painful; the hoof at the top is swollen, and a discharge runs from the heels; inside of
the nose and the white of the eyes are red; the
mouth is dry, and the membrane which covers it has
little red spots upon it, which soon rise into blisters,
and sores are left, which become deep and ragged
ulcers. These blisters also form upon the bag, and
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hoof may fall off; the bones may become diseased,
and other mischief of a serious character may ensue.
There is great weakness, wasting, and a discharge of
a stringy, bloody fluid fror the mouth; offensive
running from the nostrils; swollen face; quick,
grunting breathing; small, weak, quick pulse; dropsy
of the belly and legs; purging and death.
TREATMENT.
As soon as the disease is detected,
which may be known by the udder being swollen,
hot, and painful; the hoofs tender and burning to
the touch; the mouth dry and parched; the eyes dim
and watery; the membranes of the nose and eyes red
and injected, give Bellad. and Arsen. in alternation,
a dose every two hours.
When the mouth is dry, red, hot, and swollen
throughout its entire extent; the membrane of the
mouth covered with red spots, which become vesicles
and then pustules, and, at last, by bursting and coalescence, deep ulcers, the discharge offensive, slimy,
stringy, tenacious, and bloody, the face swollen, the
tongue much enlarged, and when blisters form in
other parts of the body, give Merc. cor., a dose every
two hours.
Should the fMerc. cor. produce no amendment after
several'doses have been given, resort to Antim. tart.,
giving a dose every two hours.
FOOT ROT.

TREATMENT. IRemove

all dirt or other foreign

substance that may be found, then pare the hoof and

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cut away those portions of it which may be thought
likely to interfere with the escape of matter, after
which foment the foot with hot water for an hour,
every night and morning, and afterward apply a bran
or turnip poultice until the sore assumes a healthy
appearance; then dress with the Calendula Lotion,
keeping it on the foot by a bandage.
LOSS OF CUD.

Loss of cud is symptomatic of many diseases, and
will yield when the complaint which produces it is
removed. Occasionally, however, it may be present
without any other derangement. When such is the
case, give Nua vomn., a dose three times a day.
GLOSS-ANTHRAX, OR BLAIN.

SYMPTOMS.-The

cow is

low-spirited, dull,

and

does not eat, nor chew the cud; a.clear fluid without
smell, flows from the mouth; the head and neck gradually swell until they are much increased in size; the
breathing is difficult and obstructed; the fluid from
the mouth becomes like matter, or is mixed with
blood; the tongue is swollen, and its sides are covered with large red blisters, which, at last, burst, and,
discharging their contents, leave deep sores, which
are apt to mortify. Symptoms of low fever come on;
the whole of the tongue becomes inflamed, and if not
soon relieved, the animal dies within a few hours
after the beginning of the disease.
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give Merc. iod., a dose every one or two hours.
Should improvement not take place in the course of
a few hours, give Ant. tart., a dose every hour.
The diseased cow must be placed by herself, to
prevent healthy animals becoming affected. The
blisters must be freely opened, care being taken by
the operator not to get any of the fluid from the
mouth upon a cut or sore on the hand, or he will
probably suffer.
MILK

FEVER.

Milk fever is a disease of frequent occurrence, and
is also attended with considerable fatality, unless
promptly met at its onset. It usually attacks the
cow within twenty-four hours after calving; if three
or four days pass over, she may be considered safe.
SYMPTOMS.--The disease begins with restlessness,

accelerated breathing, hot and dry muzzle, the udder
tense and hot, and loss of power in the hind legs;
she sways about, staggers and plunges, and falls
Perhaps she remains quiet,
down, unable to rise.
with her head turned back toward the udder; in other
cases she is very restless, tosses her head about, bellows, foams at the mouth, and makes frequent, but
ineffectual efforts to rise. Should the disease progress, the horns, legs, and surface of the body
become cold; the belly swells to an enormous size,
and death often ensues within a few hours after the
attack.
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and Bellad. in alternation, a dose every half hour,

until the patient is relieved; should relief not follow
in the course of a few hours, administer Ammon.
caust., a dose every half hour.
After the fever has yielded, and the more urgent

symptoms have disappeared, complete the cure by
giving Nux vor., a dose every three hours.
GARGET, OR INFLAMMATION OF TIE UDDER.

Inflammation of the udder is a disease of frequent
occurrence. The part is very hot, painful, and much
swollen.
TREATMENT.-As soon as the disease is discovered,

give Acon. and Bellad. in alternation, a dose every
two hours. Should matter form, give Hepar s., a
dose every three hours.
Many people regard Phytolacca, 3x, as a specific
for this trouble, bathing the parts with an infusion
of the root, or with the Distilled Extract.
RED WATER.

This disease may be known by the color of the
urine, which may be either red or black. It most
commonly attacks in the spring.
TREATMENT.-Alternate Aconite and Nux vom., a
dose every three hours.
FLOODING

AFTER CALVING.

Some blood is always lost after calving, without
injury to the cow, and it is only when the amount of
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term flooding is applied, and that means are required
to arrest it.
TREATMENT.-If the after-birth is discharged, and
the bleeding continues, the cow must be allowed to
lie down and be kept quiet, with the hinder parts
rather higher than the fore; cold air must be freely
admitted into the box where she lies; a bandage
must be applied tightly round the belly; cloths wet
with cold water must be placed over the loins; injections of cold water must be thrown up the fundament
every hour or half hour, or water may be poured
from a height upon the belly.
REMEDIES.-Belladonnaand Pulsatillaalternately
every half hour.
THE CLEANSING.

The cleansing or after-birth, or, as it is technically
called, the placenta, unless discharged soon after
calving, may cause considerable fever and general
derangement. In some cases it is necessary to
attempt its withdrawal by mechanical means; but in
the great majority of instances, the proper medical
treatment will render this proceeding unnecessary.
TREATMENT.--Pulsatilla every hour.
SWINE.

Most of the common diseases of swine are like
those of the other domestic

animals, in

causes,

symptoms and treatment, and require no special
mention: but as the disease, known as

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HOG CHOLERA

has become such a terror to farmers in all parts of
the country that many have concluded it unprofitable to try to raise hogs on account of its ravages,
we give it a special chapter.
Its symptoms are sudden loss of energy; prostration of strength; loss of appetite; restlessness, sometimes lying down, sometimes moving about as if
there were some internal distress; eyes dull and
sunken, frequent, almost continuous dark colored
evacuations, with fetid odor and containing much
bile; cold extremities; tenderness of abdomen; pulse
quick and slight; tongue furred.
Its causes are primarily a something in the
atmosphere which begets the disease in hogs which
have been prepared for the infection by filthy pens,
over-crowding, over-heating, or over-driving, and
perhaps a getting chilled after the over-heating, or
by a cold rain, or a snow storm; for hogs are supposed, by many people, not to require any protection
from bad weather.
Feeding with "still slops " . is also good preparation for cholera infection, for the carcase of a hog
saturated with the poisonous waste from a distillery
or brewery is as ready to go to corruption at the
touch of cholera as that of any other whiskey toper
or beer guzzler, and it is probably just as well so;
for hogs so fed are certainly not wholesome food for
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THE CURE.

According to " old school" authorities there is no

cure. They say that nothing can be done but to
try to prevent the "disease.
Homceopaths expect to treat this disease as successfully as any other of its nature; and if a porkraiser is careful to avoid the above-mentioned
causes, and to have, always at hand, the preparations
mentioned below, he never need be much afraid of
hog cholera.
The best preventive now known is the following:
Sulphur, three pounds; fresh charcoal, one pound;
Copperas, (Sulphate of Iron) one ounce. All must
be in very fine powder, and after being intimately
mixed, must be triturated together in a mortar,
using small portions at a time so as to permit thorough rubbing.
This preparation is to be mixed with a little food,
and so fed to the animals, three times a day, that
each one will get about a teaspoonful at each dose.
This treatment for three or four days at the time of
an epidemic of cholera, or at any time when the
animals have, by neglect or bad treatment, been
made liable to the infection, will probably prevent
serious trouble.
THE CURE.-Instead of making a prescription for
the disease as it occurs in human beings, having
regard to the symptoms of each individual, we find
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practically successful to prepare the medicines in
the form of a specific. Thus the person treating
the animals has only one medicine to give to all
those which show symptoms of the disease; which
is a great advantage when, as usually occurs, there
are many to be treated at the same time, and the
disease is one which will terminate fatally in about
twelve hours if not cured.
Full directions accompany "Halsey's Specific
for Hog Cholera," and we need not give them here.
Hogs showing no symptoms of the disease,
should, of course, be kept entirely separated from
those under treatment.
DISEASES PECULIAR TO THE DOG.
DISTEMPER.

SYMPTOMs.-The premonitory symptoms are very
insidious. They are rarely well marked, and may
fail to excite suspicion as to the existence of the
disease. They consist of dullness, loss of appetite,
of flesh, and of strength; whilst purging and vomitThere is a dry, husky,
ing are not uncommon.
short cough; watery eyes; increased vascularity of
the membrane of the eye; sensibility of the eyes to
the light; increased frequency of the pulse, etc.
As the disease advan ces, the animal shivers with cold,
dislikes to be disturbed, seeks warmth, and courts
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the eye covered with numerous fine, bright, red vessels; a thick discharge of matter flows from the
eyes; the nostrils are covered with a glairy yellowish fluid; the cough is increased in frequency, and
comes on in fits, which terminate in the discharge
of a yellow, frothy fluid from the stomach; and the
skin is hot.
Later, all the foregoing symptoms are aggravated,
the body wastes; the shivering is constant; the eyes
are filled with thick matter which glues them
together in the morning; a tenacious matter clogs
the nostrils, and obstructs the breathing; this causes
much, uneasiness and frequent but abortive attempts
to overcome the cause of annoyance. The discharge from the nostrils becomes bloody and offensive; the breath is fetid; the lips covered with
ulcers; short cries express pain; and the animal
becoming weaker and worse in every respect, at last
dies-severe diarrhea being the usual harbinger of
that event.
TiREATMENT.-The usual treatment is as follows:

At the commencement of the disease, Aconite every
two hours.
When the eyes become inflamed, watery, and
sensitive to light, and the cough frequent and spasmodic Belladonna every two hours.
If the appetite is gone and the strength wasting,
and there is discharge of thick yellow mucus from
the nose, or if diarrhea has set in Arsenicum and
Sulphur alternately every two hours.

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If thick yellow matter is discharged from the
eyes, and they are glued togetherJMercuriusevery
three hours.
Some dog-fanciers regard Arsen. iod., 3d, as an
almost certain specific in distemper. It should be
given three times a day.
GLEET.

SYMPToMs.-

Discharge from the internal surface

of the sheath, sometimes from the urinal canal, consisting of matter of a yellowish or slightly green
color, gluing together the hair about the parts.
Sometimes the surface is red, angry looking, and
swollen and painful, but, in general, these are absent.
In other respects the animal may be well.
TREATMENT.-Ordinarily, Mercurius, but if there

is much pain
Cantharis.

and difficulty in urinating-give
MANGE.

CAUSES.-Long confinement in a close place from
which The dung and dirty straw are not often enough
removed; certain improper kinds of food; want of exercise, with goo much food; starvation. A healthy
dog may " catch" the disease from a mangy one; a
liability is transmitted in some cases from a mangy
dog or bitch to its puppies.
SYMPTOMs.-The

skin is itchy and the dog is

always rubbing himself, sometimes so much that
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instances blotches appear on the skin, which may
become ulcerated. The dog becomes thin, low
spirited, and gradually dies, unless relieved.
TREATMENT.--1St. Arsenicum, three times a day.
2d. Apply the A rsenical Lotion to the skin night
and morning.
3d. If necessary to a cure, apply Sulphur Ointment
after a few days. It should be well rubbed into the
skin every night, and after three days the animal
should be well washed and dried; another applicaSulphur
tion to be made if the disease reappears.
6th, should be given while the ointment is being
used; the animal must be kept as clean as possible
during the treatment.
ABOUT POULTRY.
GENERAL

HINTS.

The more nearly you approach to perfect cleanliness in all the arrangements of your poultry house,
the better the health of your fowls, and the greater
your profit in keeping them.
If fowls are kept clean, are well sheltered from the
weather, have suitable food, are not over-fed, and
have always a supply of clean water, there will not
often be trouble from disease.
Twice a year the inside of the poultry house should
be well whitewashed.
If the place has been neglected and needs to be

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cleared of insects, or disinfected, mix one ounce of
carbolic acid with one gallon of thin limewash, and
sprinkle the walls and floor.
The floor should be swept clean once a day, and
then covered lightly with dry soil or fine coal ashes
until the next sweeping. The sweepings are worth
saving as excellent manure for your garden-equal
to guano.
Build your house so as to have plenty of sunshine
for your fowls; penetrating, if possible, to all parts
of the house some time in the day.
Protect from excessive heat, and look out for good
ventilation without exposing to cold draughts, or the
danger of its being too cold in winter.
In bad weather fowls do better in the house than
in the yard, if they have soil or gravel to scratch in.
At any time they are healthier for having exercise
in scratching or moving about moderately than if
left on a hard, smooth floor in small space.
Provide a box as large as a good nest would
require, fill it nearly full of dry earth or wood ashes
for a dust bath, and occasionally sprinkle a little
powdered sulphur on the tcp, and mix it in. This
will keep the fowls free from lice.
Oyster shells, broken fine, and crushed bones,
should be supplied from time to time as materialfor
egg shells and eggs. Plenty of fine gravel is also
desirable.
Be careful about over-crowding the hen house.

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About three square feet is the space required for
each fowl; and in the yard considerable more space
should be allowed the more the better.
Roosts should be so low that the fowls can easily
reach them and will not be injured, if heavy birds,
injumping down. Also, they should be on the same
level, or the fowls will crowd the higher ones.
Do not make them flat, or with sharp edges.
To be most comfortable they should be from two to
two and a half inches diameter, and rounded like the
bough of a tree that size, so that the claws will easily
cling, and the whole foot, be well supported.
Next to the imperative necessity of a constant
supply of clean water stands the need of a supply of
green food of some kind. Grass is best, but it can
not always be had. If the fowls can not be allowed
to run where they can eat the growing grass, they
must have a green sod thrown to them, or the trimmings of the lawn; and when these are not to be had,
a small supply of cabbage leaves, or other green
refuse, may take its place. In winter, celery tops,
chopped cabbage, chopped turnips or beets, or potato
peelings, will answer a good purpose.
This chopped green food should be in small pieces,
and mixed with meal or other soft food when used.
In feeding, make it the rule to feed chickens till
they are satisfied, and to feed grown fowls as much
as they will eatcd
eagerly.
Food should not be left lying about.

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Soft food is best in the morning: warm, if in cold
weather. Grain is best at night; and care should be
taken that, in cold weather, each bird has a good cropfull of grain before going to roost.
DISEASES OF POULTRY.
GENERAL

SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE.

Loss of color in the comb, loss of gloss and brightness of the feathers, slow gait, sad or indifferent
manner, and a disposition to keep away from the
other fowls, who (according to fowl nature), are disposed to tease and peck at it.
Special symptoms will be mentioned as the different varieties of disease are considered.
THE DOSE. For common sized hens and cocks,
two pellets (No. 30). The most convenient way of
dosing is to dissolve twelve or fifteen pellefs, two or
three cones, two or three drops, or a small powder,
size of a grain of corn, in a half gill of water, stirring it well, and giving a teaspoonful at a dose.
Very young fowls need less of the medicine.
Take the bird on the lap, holding it with the left
arm and hand, and opening the bill with the thumb
and finger; hold the head up, stretching the neck
somewhat. The medicine can then be poured slowly
into the throat from the spoon or from a small vial.
APOPLEXY.

Quite sudden death from this cause sometimes

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OF POULTRY.

73

occurs among hens apparently healthy, but really
over-fed, and lacking exercise. If hens act as if
giddy or crazy, spinning around without motive, give
Gelsemium, 3x every fifteen minutes.
APPETITE

LOSS OF,

'Is usually caused by over-feeding, or by feeding
food which has become musty and unwholesome, or
lack of exercise from being too closely confined. If
fasting does not soon relieve and make the fowl
hungry for food, Arsenicum, two or three doses, four
hours apart, will assist nature. If this does not
relieve, it is probable there is some fault in the
digestion, which Nux vom., given in the same way,
will cure.
CATARRH.

For catarrh, with sneezing, watery eyes, hoarse,
snoring breathing, with discharge of mucus from
the nostrils, give Mercur. three times a day. If
there is fever, give A con. every hour. Halsey's
Catarrh Disks will cure also. Feed soft food, warm,
and keep the bird warm till recovered. The disease
is caused, as in man, by cold or wet weather, or sudden changes of weather, without sufficient protection
or shelter.
CHOLERA.

As a preventive of hen cholera, a very little Copperas, dissolved in the drinking water is excellent.
Keep a bottle of Copperas (Sulphate of Iron) Solution always at hand. Add a teaspoonful of it to

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each pint of drinking water.
It is made by dissolving one ounce of Copperas in one pint of water.
Cholera symptoms are sudden and violent diarrhea,
greenish droppings which grow thin and white,
anxious look, and extreme weakness.
The disease, if not cured, may terminate fatally in
twelve or fifteen hours.
Camphor at first, and afterward Arsenicum or
Veratrum as indicated (see Materia Medica, pages
87, 79, and 108) would be the correct treatment,
but if you have the "Hog Cholera Specific" in the
house it will be equally efficacious and less trouble.
See page 66.
CONSTIPATION.

The restlessness of the bird and frequent ineffectual attempts to evacuate the bowels indicate the
difficulty. Sometimes dung is passed, but it is
dark, hard, and in small quantity only.
Too much dry food and grain, with lack of water
and green food are apt to cause this difficulty. It is
sometimes caused by taking cold.
Bryon. and Nux vom., alternately, will cure
almost any case.
DIARRHEA.

This is caused usually by cold, wet weather with
insufficient shelter; or by lack of cleanliness about
the house and yard. Sometimes it is a reaction
from constipation. Give at first a Camphor cone
crushed fine. Three or four times a day will do, and

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OF POULTRY.

75

will probably cure, unless the diarrhea has been
neglected and allowed to run into dysentery, which
will be indicated by bloody evacuations. In such
case MIVPrcur. cor., 3d, is the remedy. Give a dose
every three or four hours.
Warm" barley meal is considered the best food.
Well cooked rice is also good, fed warm; and a
little green food may be allowed.
DISTEMPER.

This is a contagious malady, in which, after general symptoms of disease, the skin about the anus
is found to be colored a high red with black spots.
The hens crouch in the corners of the coop or yard
and die rapidly. The disease usually occurs in hot,
dry weather, and is supposed to be caused by a
peculiar condition of the atmosphere. Hens that
seem to be affected should be at once separated from

the rest, and given a dose of Nux vom. every three
or four hours. Have the coops thoroughly cleaned
and well ventilated.
EYES-SORE.

Watering, ulceration, and sometimes the formation of small ulcers-caused by over-heating, dusty
or damp enclosures; sometimes resulting fatally if
not soon cured. Give Halsey's Eye Balm, a drop
four times a day, and if the case is bad and the fowl
valuable, bathe the eyes gently in quite warm water
twice a day.

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FLEDGING-BAD.

Keep the chicks out of the wet especially if the
weather is cold. If they seem drooping, see that
they have a little hashed meat every day. Give
Cale. carb., 3d, twice a day.
GAPES.

Some believe this disease infectious, others only
look upon it as an epidemic.
Foul water, dirty
coops, want of nourishment, and exposure to cold
wet weather are among the predisposing causes.
The gaping, or gasping, for breath is caused by
small worms infesting the wind-pipe.
At the commencement of the disease give half a
Camphor cone, (or a whole one to a full grown
fowl) three or four times a day if necessary. If
the case has continued until the worms are grown
large, introduce a horse-hair loop into the wind-pipe
and by twisting it around, withdraw all the worms
that can be reached, repeating the process if necessary. A small feather stripped so as to leave only a
tuft at the top, is also a good instrument for this
purpose.
HERNIA.

Protrusion of the laying-gut of the hen, especially
of the larger species, is no uncommon thing. The
gut may return, or be returned to its place,
but it comes down again at the evacuation of dung.
The usual cause is the expulsion of a very large egg.

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OF POULTRY.

77

If a laying hell is very long on the nest and it is
found she has difficulty in passing the egg, the
simplest plan is to tap the egg and let out its con
tents. The shell will soon follow.
If the hernia is already established, the fowl may
as well be killed at once; unless so valuable as to be
worth the trouble to oil and return the gut every
time it comes down, and give Arnica lx, three times
a day for two or three days.
ITCH.

This may be known by the constant scratching and
biting of the fowls, which at the same time become
droopy and lose their feathers. The body is more
or less covered with an itch-like eruption, particularly frequent, and more coarse than fine, on its back.
It is contagious.
Bad food, filthiness, want of a dust bath and of
clean water are causes.

times

Sulphur, 6th, three
a day; dusting Sulphur
among the feathers, an a good ash-bath with a little
Sulphur mixed in it, should be the treatment.
LEG-WEAKNESS.

If from too rapid growing, in highly-fed prize
stock, give a part of a Napiform cone three times
daily, and feed more with animal food, and mix with
the food some bone meal. If from cold or wet, keep
warm and dry, and give Bryon., 3d, three times a
day.

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LICE.

The same causes as itch. Give Sulphur, 6th, and
wet the whole surface of the body carefully with
Cocculus Lotion (see Appendix), using a small
sponge for the purpose. This may need to be
repeated once or twice. The whole coop, probably,
will need cleansing and whitewashing, and the ashbaths renewing. Persian Insect Powder dusted into
the feathers is also recommended to destroy lice.
LOSS OF FEATHERS.

Want of the dust-bath or ash-bath, and insufficient
supply of green food frequently causes fowls to lose
their feathers, and go with bare skin. This unpleasantness should be avoided, for nothing will restore
the lost feathers until the next moulting time.
MARASMUS.

Obstruction of the oil-glands, which are situated
near the rump, which should serve to lubricate the
plumage of the fowl, results in inflammation, feverish condition, some pain, and constipation. The
fowls cease scratching and feeding, and sit about
dejected and trying to reopen the glands with their
bills.
Rub the glands thoroughly, but very gently, once
a day with Calenduline.
It may be that some of the glands will, after two
or three days, need to be opened carefully with a
sharp knife, and the hardened substance to be care-

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79
79

fully pressed out, after which the Calenduline should
be applied again.
The disease is called "marasmus" or "consumption," because, unless the fowls are soon relieved,
they become rapidly emaciated and die.
MOULTING.

Moulting is not a disease any more than is the
process of "cutting teeth" in babies, or the process
of shedding the first teeth and getting the permanent ones; but the season of moulting is one in which
the fowls are more subject to disease, and require
special care and attention as to their food and
shelter. Old fowls are more liable to disease at this
time than young ones.
Give stimulating food-oats, some meat, red pepper in warm mush; keep sheltered from bad weather;
add a little Copperas solution to the drinking water
every day, enough to give it a slight iron taste; see
that there is a vessel of pounded oyster shells, or
crushed mortar, where they can get at it.
PIP.

The sick hens are sad, do not scratch, like to hide,
sit with open bill and ruffled feathers, are bloated,
snore, and from time to time make the sound "zip,
zip." The nostrils are stopped by tough mucus, the
comb is loose, pale, hanging, and the skin of the
under part of the tongue is hardened. There is difficulty in swallowing, so that the fowl eats but little.

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Some insist that this is not a disease-only a symptom of roup, or of bad digestion.
The best treatment is feeding with soft food;
cooked vegetables and meal, or rice, suit well. A
few doses of Spongia, 3x, will cure.
ROUP.

This is called the disease of poultry. It is caused
by wet or very cold wids. It begins with a common
cold, which results in more or less hoarseness of
breathing, and an offensive discharge from the nostrils and eyes, which often hangs as froth from about
those organs., It is highly contagious, and the
affected fowls should not be allowed to drink from
the same water-supply with the other fowls, and, in
fact, should be entirely separated from them.
Keep them warm; give soft, warm food well seasoned with red pepper, and administer, three times
a day, a dose of Merc. bijod., 3x.
SOFT EGGS.

The dropping of soft eggs may be caused by overfeeding, or by want of lime supply.
Sometimes it happens after a hen has been badly
frightened by being driven about by children or dogs.
SURGICAL CASES.

BRUISES.-Bathe with Arnica Lotion.

CUTs.-Cuts or other wounds in which the flesh

is lacerated are best bandaged with soft cloth wet
with Calendula Lotion. If the wound is small, or

DISEASES

OF POULTRY.

81

cannot be kept bandaged, smear it well with Calenduline.
FRACTURES.-Use thin splints made from the common elderbush, after taking out the pith and paring
the wood to the proper shape and thickness. After
binding up properly, and wetting the bandaging
with Arnica Lotion, put the bird in a basket or box,
with some straw, and keep the other fowls from
molesting it.
SWELLED CRor.---This is produced by an excess
of food, and can easily be ascertained by examining
the crop which is so distended that it seems ready to
burst.
Sometimes the hens help themselves by standing
quietly erect, with the head stretched upward, waiting till a portion of the food has passed on and is
digested. Arsenicum and Nux vom., alternately,
every two hours, will aid in this difficulty.
If there is no improvement, the crop must be
opened with a sharp knife a little on one side, making the cut about an inch long. Then by the use
of the finger and gentle pressure the clogging food
can be removed. Afterward stitch up the slit with
soft silk and anoint the cut with Calenduline.
The first cut through the skin should be made on
the side opposite the cut in the crop, so that the two
cuts and the stitching will not come against each
other. The crop can be easily turned after the outside cut is made. Both cuts require the same treat-

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ment, and if nicely done the hen will be as good as
ever in a few days. Keep her separate from the
others and feed soft food.
TUMORs OR ABSCESSEs.-These sometimes are
caused by neglected wounds, or other external or
internal injuries. Acon. will relieve the inflammatory symptoms, and when the tumor has come to a
head it should be opened like a boil; and after discharging, if it does not heal readily, use a little
Calenduline.

INDEX TO VETERINARY MANUAL.
PAGE

PAGE

Abortion--------------38
Abscess---------------33
Anasarca-------------34
Anieberries-----------12
55
Bandages -Black Quarter----------55
-60
Blain-----Bots_---_- ---- ---- ---- 28
Broken Wind----------19
Bronchitis-------------15
Bruises--------------54
Calving:-----------62
Catarrh---------------13
54
Chafing -----Cholera in Hogs--------64

Dog Distemper---------66
Dropsy---------------34

Dysentery---__----------

25

Epizootic

13

Enteritis--------------Farcy --------- ----- ---Fits -------- --------Flooding--------------Flux---- -- ---- ------- Foot RootGalling------------Garget----------------Gleet

-------------

Health, Indications
Hepatitis

System----

---------

of

3

-------------- 27

Inflammation of Bladder-

it
"1

"

"
"
"

25

--37

Liver

-

Feet__44
Kidneys. 29
Larynx - 14

41
"

29

Eyes

-6

4

-

Bowels

"Brain--38

44

Of. Cattle---- __------55
Of. Brain and Nervous
Of. Dogs ---- -------Of Feet and Legs --

68

Hog Cholera----- --- 64
Indigestion------------ 21

Difficult Teething--------20
Diarrhea--------------- 24
DISEASES.

54

Gloss-Anthrax--------60
Grease---------------11

Dentition, Difficult ___-.20

Diet in Sickness---------

25
35
39
62
25
62
35

Glanders-------------

Cleansing-------------63

Colic----------------22
Corns-----47
Costiveness------------28
Cough---------------19
Cracked Heels
----11
Cuts-----------------____54

--------------

27

"Lymphat-

38

'Cs

- -

32

of BreathOf the Organs' of Digestion

66
44

Inflammatory Fever __--

55

13

Influenza
Injuries-,--------------

13
50

Of the Skin-----------

10

Of. the Organs

ing----- ------------

---------

Teeth----------

Of Urinary Organs

-

--

--------------

62

Joint Murrain----------20

Of Swine ---- ----- --- 63
Of the

"Udder

20
_
-- _29

55

Laminitis --------------

44

Lampas---------------Laryngitis-------------Lock Jaw-------------Loss of Cud------------

21

(83)

14
41
60

84
INDEX.

84'

PAGE

8PP

Mad Staggers
Mallenders
Mange--.---

16

Medicines
«

Used

Directions for

__

Giving_
Dose

Megrims
Fever
Nasal Gleet
NephritisOphthalmia

of- --

Milk

38
12
10
7

Sandcrack

9
9
39
61
13
29

PAGE

Retention of Urine
Rheumatism __ ____
Ringbone____ _____
Sallenders ____ ___

29

30
47

-------

Sore Shoulder_

__

Sore Teats_

- -- -- - - -

Spavin"6
to Detect-----

Splint

-

-

-----

-

12
46
54
55
47

49
47

Sprains-- - - - - - - - 54
Staggers______37'
22
Ozcena ---- -- -- 13 Strangles
31
----52
Palsy- -- - - - - -- 39 Sutures ___ _ ____
Paralysis_
_____ __ _ 39 Swollen Udders__
55
54
Phrenitis--- --- - 38 Tendons WoundedPleurisy __ ____
16 Tetanus--- -- -- -- 41
Pneumonia ------17 Thick Wind------19
47
47
in
the Foot_____
Epizootic
Purpura Hemorrhagica - 34
58
Pulse, The------ 4 W -- ---- - 12
We -arts
- 32
Quarter Evil______ _ 55
Quittor----- -- - 46 Worms----_---------- 28
50
62
Red Water-------___
Wounds------------

Stomach

-

Prick

TuhVesicular
--

INDEX TO

POIULTRY
PAGE

Appetite, Loss of-------- 73

Apoplexy-------------72
Bruises--------------80
Catarrh-----------------

Cholera-

-

-

Cleanliness---------------Constipation------------

73
73

69

74

Cuts---- --- ---------- 80
Diarrhea--------------- 74
Disease Symptoms------- 72
Distemper-------------75

Dose---------Dust Bath--

--- -- 72
70
-

Exercise--------------69
Eyes, Sore

------------- -75

Feeding ----------------

71

-

-

-

--

MANUAL.
PAGE

Fledging-------- -------- 76

-------------- 81
'---------------- 76
---------------- 76

Fractures
Gapes
Hernia

Hints-----------------

69

Itch ---- -- ---- ------- 77
Leg, Weakness---------- 77
Lice- ---- ---- ---- ----- 78
Loss of Feathers---------Marasmus--------------

78

78

Moulting----------79
Pip ---- ---------- ---- 79
Roosts---------------- 71
Roup------- ------ --- 80
Soft Eggs-------------- 80
Swelled Crop ------ 81

APPENDIX TO

H-omcopahi
Ho rn

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hic

PUBLISHED

*Gude

BY

C. S. & GEO. E. HALSEY,
(Not "Halsey Brothers.")

HOMIEOPATHIC CHEMISTS AND PHARMACISTS
88 State Street, Chicago, U. S. A.
SPECIAL ARRANCEMIENTS
FOE THE CONVENIENCE 01FOUR CUSTOMERS IN CITY AND COUNTRY.

Any article mentioned in this catalogue, except those marked
"not mailable." will be sent promptly by mail, postpaid, to any
address, on receipt of the list price.
Any goods in this catalogue (whether mailable or not) will
be sent promptly, carriage free, to any address* in the United
States, on receipt of the list price, if the amount is one dollar or

more, (except to a few remote points, where the cost would be
out of proportion to the amount. In such case we divide the
expense with the purchaser.
If we have to send goods by Express 0. 0. D., it costs us for
the collection of the money, so that we can not so well afford to
pay the charges on the goods, unless the money comes with the
order.

Goods will be delivered in the city at the earliest possible
moment by messengers.

HALSEY>S

HOM(EOPATHIC

GUIDE.

City customers who cannot conveniently call at our office,
can send by messenger or by letter or postal card. Mail matter
is brought to us five times a day. Calls by telephone (No. 5489)
promptly attended to between 8 a. m. and 6 p. m.
Goods going outside of Chicago, will be carefully packed,
sent by express, charges paid, (except as above stated) and
their safe delivery guaranteed.
Small amounts of money can be safely sent in stamps or
postal notes.
Larger amounts in postal money orders, and
bank drafts on Chicago or New York.
Prescriptions of Homoeopathic physicians attended to with
accuracy and promptness.
References.-As to our reliability, we take pleasure in
referring those who are strangers to us, to any Homosopathic
physician of the United States or of Europe.
See also pages 5 and 6 of " HALSEY's HOMIEOPATHIC GUIDE."
To Clergymen.
It has always been our custom to supply clergymen with
medicines, books, cases, etc. for their own use, or for their
friends, at a discount from the retail prices.
If you will please remember to write "Rev." before your
name, when ordering goods, or to mention your professional
calling when making purchases at our place of business, the
discount will be cheerfully given you.
To the Worthy Poor.
If you are really in need of any of the medicines mentioned
in this book, and of our own manufact, re, and are not able on
account of lack of money to procure them, you can have them
without cost, by sending to hs a written statement, signed by a
Homoeopathio physician, a clergyman, a city missionary, or
other good referee, testifying that you are worthy, and not able
to pay for the desired medicine.
To iHisionary Societies.
The missionary journals and religious newspapers have a
great deal to say about the importance and value of medical
missions wherever they have been or can be established, both as
a means of lessening the woes of the ignorant and benighted
people to whom you send out missionaries, and as an aid in
introducing the religious teaching which is your primary
object.

APPENDIX.

Healing stands only second to preaching in the commission
given to those whom The Master sent out as the first missionaries, and was coupled with it. "Preach the Gospel, heal the
sick," is the wordifig; and in His life on earth the healing
often came first, and led to the faith which resulted in the
saving.
HOMEOPATHY has been often called, by those who have
experienced its benefits and blessings," the gospel of healing ";
and if the advantages of "old school" (Allopathic) medicine (the
only kind now recognized by our principal Mission Boards)
have already proved so great among those who have nothing
approaching the name of a system of medicine; how much
greater the advantages of HOM(EOPATHY, which is the only
system of medicine that has a right to the name "Scientific"!
(See pages 39 and 49.)
Numerous letters received by us from missionaries in both
the home and foreign field, would satisfy one that this suggestion is not without weight.
Even if Allopathic medicine were not far behind the age-a
sort of relic of barbarism-HOMEOPATHIC medicine would
be far better for your missionaries.
Experience proves daily that it can be used successfully by
a person who has had no medical education or training. It is
not unpleasant to the taste or the smell. It cures more quickly,
and leaves the patient free from drug influences when the disease is gone. It costs very much less for a supply. The health
of your missionaries will be better; they will do more work and
last longer. Therefore it will pay you to furnish every one of
them with a copy of this, or some other simple manual, and a
supply of the common remedies.
It is worth the while of every believer in HOMEOPATHY
who is also a believer in Gospel mission work, to see that something of this kind is done.
We are ready to do our part, and doubtless others in our line
of business will manifest a similar willingness.
We will continue to furnish all such supplies at the mere
cost of material and labor, and in any case where funds are
lacking for this purpose, we will bear our share of the cost.
How to Order

Medicines,

FIRST-Read pages one and two of this Appendix carefully:
perhaps you can save your express charges.
SECOND-Read pages 60 to 65 of the "Guide" and find out
about the medicines and how to avoid fraud in them. Then
page 72, to know about the different potencies or attenuations,
and page 73 about the form of the medicines.

HALSEY'S

HOMEOPATHIC

GUIDE.

Remember that the letter x after the number of the potency
indicates the decimal scale; without the x the number means
centesimal scale.
Then if you look through the Materia Medica (page 76 and
following), and the Clinical Index (page 122 and following),
and consider what diseases and disease symptoms you are likely
to need medicine for, you will know about what to order.
THIRD-WHERE TO BuY.

Perhaps your family physician

will be able to supply you with all you need, or he will take the
trouble to send for a case for you when he is ordering his own
supplies.
If not, it may be you are acquainted with some reliable
homoeopathic pharmacy. You will find that you can not, as a
rule, obtain what you want at a drug store.
You will see by our advertisements that it is our intention
to make.it to the advantage of every one requiring goods in our
line to send orders to us.
FOURTH--As to the best form for the medicines for home
use. It is largely a matter of convenience.
Some always buy the medicines in liquid*form, and take a
drop in a teaspoon of water, or on a little sugar, or on pellets
or cones, or put a few drops into a glass of water and take a
teaspoonful of the solution; but there is always a danger of
upsetting the vial when the cork is out, or having it leak or
evaporate; and some trouble in dropping it into a spoon, and of
administering it to young children, or children asleep.
Powders (triturations), medicated globules or pellets, or
medicated cones, are very much more convenient for almost all
uses. Latterly, medicated cones, or disks, have come very
much into favor with those who know about them. They absorb
nearly their own bulk of the liquid medicine, and as only one is
required for a dose, they are at once the most convenient and
economical form for general use.
Latterly we have succeeded in preparing the triturations
also in the form of cones, a still greater convenience, as the
cone contains just the proper dose. These are called Cone
Triturates, and are destined to become very popular with
physicians and lad men.
A case can now be filled entirely with cones if desired, with
the exception of a very few remedies not often required.
l
Unless otherwise ordered, we will in future fill domestic
cases with cones, as they give general satisfaction.
*In dropping liquids from a vial, hold the smaller end of the cork against
the lower side of the lip of the vial, so that as the liquid passes slowly out
of the vial it will strike the cork and fall in drops from its sharp edge.

APPENDIX.

Prices
of the regular Homoeopathic remedies, in tincture, dilution, trituration, medicated pellets, medicated cones, or cone triturates:
1 drachm (-ounce) vial, 100.; per dozen--------$ 1 00
---1 50
2
"
(4 ounce) " 15c.; "
2 50
1 ounce vial, $0 25; per dozen
1
2
4

"

"

"
"

"

"

40;"
75; "
1 25; "

"

"
"

-----------

4 00
7 50
1200

High potencies (200th or higher), cost 15c. for 1 dr.; 25c. for
2 dr.; 40c. for oz.
A few low triturations cost extra price, viz.: Bebeerine
Sulph. lx, Chinin. Sulph. lx, Santonine, lx; A oz., 25c.; + oz., 40c.
Empty vials, properly corked and labeled, will be re-fill°d
with the same remedies as before, at a reduced price.
Liquids are not mailable.
CHEAP CASES.-It will be seen by the above schedule of
prices that a considerable saving can be made by purchasing a
dozen or more vials of medicine at a time, and we add to this
inducement the advantage of a plain paper case, with partitions,
arranged to hold one dozen or two dozen vials, either one-quarter
ounce or one-half ounce, without additional cost.
We offer also the following list and descriptions of our principal styles of
Cases of Medicine,
And can furnish any other sizes or styles to order at correspondingly low prices.
It will be noticed that a suitable list of remedies is given
with the description of each case. But the list can be varied to
suit each purchaser's requirements.
Pocket Cases, for Travelers or Home Use.
Ten large
No. 1. (Fig. 1.)
Stout card-board frame,
vials.
covered with best English binders'
cloth, very strong and durable
will wear as long as leather-flap
to keep vials from dropping out, if
case is opened wrong side up.
Case lined with soft material to
keep the vials from breaking.
Outside measure of case: Length,
inches; width 2 inches; thickness, 4 inch. Price, filled with
remedies for domestic use, $1.00,
Fig. 1.

51

HALSEY'S IOMOIOI'ATnIO GTtDf.
3 for $2.50. The usual list for this case is Aconite 3x, Arsenicun
30, Belladonna 3, Bryonia 3, Chamomilla 6, Hepar sulph. 200,
Ipecac 3, Mercurius 6, Nux 3,. Pulsatilla 3.
No. 2.-Twelve extra large vials. Case the same style,

make, and finish as No. 1. Outside measure: Length, 7 inches;
width, 3T'inches; thickness, * inch. Price, filled with remedies,
$1.50; 2 for $2.50. The list of remedies will be the same as in
No. 1, with the addition of China, 6, and Colocynth 3x.
No. 9.-(Fig. 2.) Strong
but light wood 'frame, covered with best Turkey Mo-

Inside lined with

rocco.

velvet. Twelve large vials.
Outside measure: Length,
5s inches; width, 3* inches:
thickness, inches. Price,
filled with rem2dies as No.
2, $2.50.
10.
N&i~e. Same, style
and finish as No. 9. (See
Fig. 2), but containing'Fi;.
4

///
/

2.

twelve vials, which are considerably larger than the vial of the No. 9 Case. Outside measure of Case: Length, 6*inches; width, 35 inches; thickness,
inch. Price filled with remedies as No. 2, $2.75.
Family

Chests.

No. 3,-(Fig.3) A strong and neat

Chest with
7/ered

~

//

Outside

partitions.

coy-

with good French Morocco, inside
oz.
lined with silk or velvet.
upright. Price, vials filled
vials

Twelve
standing foi domestic use as No. 2,
with remedies
Al N
tl
o.
$3.50

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ILI
~

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4

4

make and

style

as

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3) but con~KlIp1tPl.

3
Fg

4 ounce vials.

Price,

t a i n s 24

filled
above, $4.00. the No.usual list
The
remedies foi
4 Case

as}

as
3x, ArnicaBry1x
Arsemicnm 30, Belladonna 3,

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tl
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1
-= i
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of

is

follows:

Aconite

i.4
onia 3, Calc. caib. 6, Chamom. 6,
China 6, Cina. 3x, Colocynth 3x, Gelsemium 3x, Hepar sulph. 6,

AP PE

NrnL.

Ipecac x, IKali bich. 3x, Mere: cor. 3, Mere. Sel. 0, Nux vew.
3, Phosphorus 6, Podophyllin 3x, Pulsatilla 3, Rhus. tox. 3,
Spongia 3x, Sulphur 6, Yeratrum aib. 6.
5.-(Fig 4.) This case is same style and finish as Nos.
3 and 4, and containhs twenty-four oz., vials. Price, filled with
medicines for domestic use, $6.00.
The usual list of remedies for the No. 5 case is the same as
for No. 4, unless it is filled expressly for a
*Veteriinaiy Case,
then Chamom., China, ina., Gelsem, Ipecac, Kali and Podoph.
are omitted, and the following remedies take their place:
Ammon. caust.
Antim. tart. 3x, Digitalis 3, Mere. iod. 2x,
Opium 6, Phytolacca 3x, Silicea 30.
No. 6.-Same style as Nos. 3, 4 and 5, and arrangement of vials
similar to that in Fig. 5. There are thirty-six I-ounce vials and
three 1 ounce vials for Arnica, Galendula, Glycerine, or other preparations for external use. Price, filled for domestic use, $6.00.
The usual list of remedies for the No. 6 case is as follows:
Aconite 3x, Antim. tart. 3x, Apis, mel. 3x, Arnica Ix, Arsenicui
30, Baptisia 2x, Belladonna 3, Bryonia 3, Gale. earb. 6, Gale.
phosph. '3x, Gantharis 3, Chamomilla 6, China 6, Gina. 3x.
Goffea 6, -oloynth
3x, Gelsemium 3x, Hamainelis lx, Iepar
sulph. 6, Hepar sulph. 200, Ipecac 3, Kali bich. 3x. Mere,
bijod. 3x, Mere. cor. 3, Mere. iod. 2x, Mere, sol. 6, Nux vom.
3. Phosphorus 6, Podophyllum 2, Podophyllin, 3x, Pulsatilla 3,
Rhus tox. 3, Silicea 200, Spongia 3x, Sulphur 6, Veratrum 6,
besides large bottles of Tinetures.

No.

Ix,

rum 3
1:111No.

4

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1,

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u~t

5.)

remedies for the No. 7

Case,same ouTnthee
withas
one ce

Case is the

:1u..
\.. In

7.-(Fig.

Contains thirty-six ~
ounce vials and.four
I-oz. bottles.
Price,
filled as above, $8.00.
The usual list of
o.11'ilu
6
addition of

for

ottle of llarm ameli.
oe8:Samesty],

and finish as No. 7.
Gontains sixty -ounce

Fig. 5.

vials and fiTe 1-ovince
bottles. Puice, filled
as above, $10.00.

* By reference to page 8 of the Veterinary Manual, it will he seen

that

the same medicines may he used ia the family or for the domestic animals
and for poultry.

HALSEY' S HOMEFOPATHIC

GUIDE.

The usual list of remedies for the No. 8 Case is as follows:
Aconite lx,* Aconite 3x, Antim. 3x, Apis mel. 3x, Arnica mont.
1x, Arnica mont. 3x, Arsenicum 3, Arsenicum 30, Baptisia 2x.,
Belladonna 3, Belladonua 200, Bryonia 3, Cae. carb. 6, Caic.
carb. 200, Cale. phosph. 3x,.Cantharis 3, Carbo. veg. 30, Caulophyllin 3x, Chamomilla 3x, Chamomilla 6, China 6, Cimicifuga
3, Cina 3x, Cina 200, Coffea 6,.Colocynthis 3x, Cuprum 6,
Dulcamara 3, Euphrasia 3, Gelsemium 3x, Graphites 6, Hamamelis lx, Hepar sulph. 6, Hepar s. 200, Hydrastis tinct.,
Ipecac 3, Iris vers. 3x, Kali bich. 3x, Kreosote 6, Lachesis
30, Lycopodium 30, Mere. bijodat. 3x, Merc. cor. 3, Merc.
dulc. 2, Mere. iod. 2x, Merc. sob. 6, Nux vom. 3, Nux vom. 6,
Opium 6, Phosphorus 6, Podophyllum 2, Podophyllin 3x, Pulsatilla 3, Rhus tox. 3, Rhus tox, 30, Silicea 200, Spongia 3x, Sub
phur 6, Sepia 6, Veratrum album. 6, one ounce each of the
mother -tinctures-Arnica, Calendula and Hamamelis, and a jar
each of Calenduline and Arnica Oil Compound.

Veterinary Chest, Complete.
Strong, nicely finished, with lock and key, and handle on
top, and a copy of the Veterinary and Poultry Manual. Price,
$20.00.
The Veterinary Chest contains, complete, thirty 2-oz. bottles
filled with remedies, as follows: Aconite lx, Aconite 3x, Ammon.
caustic. lx, Antimon. tart.-3x, Arnica lx,)Arsenicum 6, Belladonna
3, Bryonia 3, Calc. carb. 6, Cantharis 3, Colocynthis 3x, Digitalis
3, Hepar sulph. 6, Merc. cor. 3, Merc. iod. 2x, Merc. sol. 6, Nux
vom. 3, Opium 6, Phosphorus 6, Phytolacca 3x, Pulsatilla 3,
iRhus tox. 30, Silicea 30, Sulphur 6, Veratrum 6, and the mother
tinctures of Arnica, Arsenicum, Calendula, Rhus tox. and

Thuja

occid.

Other

Styles

and

Sizes.

Any other styles or sizes of cases for families, travelers or
physicians will be made to order in our factory at fair prices and
of the best quality of material and work.
N. B.=Old cases refitted and refilled at reasonable prices.
Please remember that any of these cases will. be sent
free to any address if the cash accompanies tbe order; also, that
a copy of HALSEY'S HOMEOPATHIc GUIDE will be sent without
extra charge with every case valued at $4.00 or more; and that
for the pocket cases a card of directions is, furnished free.

MIx

*Acon.
is superior to Acon. 3x in colic or any other acute disease
requiring very prompt action of Aconite. After giving three or four doses
it is better to use Acon. 3x if necessary to continue the remedy.

APPENDIX.

HOMEOPATHIO

BOOKS.

FOR DOMESTIC USE.
Sent FREE on Receipt of Price.

QUTA more complete description of any of these Books will
be furnished on application. Any Book purchased will be
exchanged if not satisfactory. Any other Medical Books sent
free at the list price.

Halsey's Homoeopathic

Guide, a complete
265 pages on the common
Domestic Manual.
diseases of men, women and children; with hints
on diet, bathing, etc.; 85 pages on the diseases of
dogs and poultry.
horses, cattle, sheep,

'swine,

Large type, heavy paper, nice binding.

The cheap-

est and most practical book of the kind yet published, price---------------------------------

$1 00

Halsey's HIomoeopathic Guide, without the
Veterinary Manual, cheap edition- -- -- -- -- -- -- -Halsey's Hlonoeopathic Veterinary and
Poultry

M~anual------------------------

50

30

Stone to fIomo opathy and
1 00
by Dr. E. H. IRuddock, Am.
Health,
homoeopathic Family Guide, by Dr. Geo. E.
100
Shipman- --- -------- -------- -------- ----The Lady's M~anual of llomoeopaty, by
Drs. Ruddock and Ludlam---- ---- ---- ---- --- 1 50
Stepping

For M~others

Edition-

and

entirely new,

finely

illustrated,
G. Cook, M. D.------------

Daughters,

Mrs. E.

1 50

8Y.8EOM(iOPATHITC GUIDEI,
SH
Tokology, (The Science of Child-bearing) by Mr.
A.B. Stockham, M. D. Abundant and valuable
illustrations. A copy of the table of contents sent
to any address-------------------------------2 00
For Girls, by Mrs. Shepherd, see page 59----------1 00
Guide to Hom opathic Practice, by Dr.
J. D. Johnson--------------------- -2 00
The
Family Physician, by Dr. E.
H. Ruddock---------------------------------3 00
lomoeopatlic Veterinary
complete, 5 00
The People's IIealt Journal, devoted to
healtb, hygiene and preventive medicine. Edited
by L. D. Rogers, M. D., and S. Ida Wright Rogers,
M. D., $1.00 a year.

Complete

Manual,

PIRICES OF SPECIALTIES.

*}Esculus

Cerate (see page 199), 1 oz. jar, 25c.; 5 for $1.00.
(see page 109), per box, 50c.; 6 for

*Antidote to
$2.50.

Malaria

*Apocyiium Cannab. Distilled Extract

(see page
156), pint bottles, $1.00.
5
*Arncea Oil Colupofnund (see page 110). 1 oz. jar.
for $1.00; 8-oz. can, $1 00.
*Arniica Tincture, Concentrated. (Our Arnica Tincture is made fromt the whole plant, and is far superior in
virtue and strength to any that can be bought at drug stores
or made at home from dried and worthless flowers.)
It
can be diluted with nine parts of water and is then strong
enough for application to any bruise or contusion (see page

25c.;

78), 2 oz. bottle, 25c.; 4 oz.,

35c.;

8 oz., 60c.; pint, $1.00.

*Artificial Cuticle, far superior to "court plaster" for small
cuts, scratches and excoriations, burns and scalds; excellent
for cracked or excoriated nipples.
(Apply with the end of
the cork; it hardens quickly; then apply a second or third
coating.) It is medicated (very healing), flexible and waterproof. Per bottle, 25c.; 5 for $1.00.
'Articles marked with the star (y) are not mailable, but will be sent
safely by express on receipt of price, according to page 1.

AP1fNIt

:Calendutila Cerate (see page

86), 1 oz. jar, 25c.; 5 for $1.00,

*Calendula Tinture, Concentrated.

Made from

the true French Calendula (see page 86). Price same as
Arnica Tincture.
*Calenduline, Perfumed (see pages 86 and 111), tubes.
jar, 25c.; 5 for $1.00; 8 oz. can,
10c.; per dozen, $1.00;
$1.00; 1 lb. can, $1.85.
for veterinary use, 2 oz. can, 25c.;
*Calendiliiie,
5 for $1.00; 8 oz. can, 75c.; 1 b. can, $1.40.
Camphor Cones (see pages 87 and 113). Per bottle, 25c.,
5 for $1.00.
Camphor Pills (see pages 87 and 113), per bottle, 25c.; 5
for $1.00.
Catarrh Disks (see page 113), per box, 50c.; 6 for $2.50.
.*Cocciliis Lotion (see page 186), per bottle, 35c.
Cinclho-Carbon Tablets (see page 114), per box, 50c.; 6
for $2.50.
Oxygen Rome Treatment. Two months' treatment,
with inhaler and full instructions (see page 140), free to any
address on receipt of $10.00.
*Conserve of Calendula and Roses (see page 113),
1 oz. jar, 25c.; 5 for $1.00.
* Dermnal Cologne, to remove moth and freckles (see page
191), per bottle, f1.00.
*Eye-.Balm (see page 115), per bottle, 25c.; 5 for $1.00.
Foundlings' Hoene Infant's Food (see page 244),
pound cans, 50c. (Postage 18c. additionad.)
Nursing Bottle (see page 245)9
Foundllinigs'
25c.; 5 for $1.00. (Postage extra.)
Fuss-Schweiss-1!Iittel (see page 178), per box, 25c.
Goitre Powder (see page 179), per bottle, 75c.
5
llamamnelis Cerate (see page 199), 1 oz. jar, 25c.; 5 for

1oz.

Plain,

Home

$1.00* laniamnelis, Distilled Extract (see pag~e 91), 4 oz.,
25c., 12 pint, 35c.; pint, 60c.; quart, $1.00.

*lepair sulph. hiali Lotion (see page 185), per %2pint
bottle, S0c.

HALSEY' 8 IOM EOPATHTO GUIDE.

Rog

Cholera Specific (see page 65 of Veterinary Manual),
per bottle, $1.00; 6 for $5.00.
*Lacteal Syrup (see page 115), pint bottle, $1.00; 3 bottles
.

$2.50.
Lumbago Plaster (see pages 185, 187 and 224), 35c.
1Magnetic Insoles or Foot Battery, for Cold Feet,

Rheunmatism, Bad Circulation, per pair, $1.00.

Magnetic Belts, Bands, Vests, Corsets, etc. Price
list sent on application.
Napiform Tonic (see page 116), per box, 50c.; 6 for $2.50.
*Nipple Salve (see page 117), 1 oz. jar. 25c.; 5 for $1.00.
Ozone G:enerator-Cook's, $6.00.
Pepsini Powder (see pages 165 and 195), per bottle, 75c.
*Phytolacca Cerate (see page 204), 1 oz. jar, 25c.; 5 for

$1.00.
*Phytolacca, Distilled Extract (see page 131),-pint
bottles, $1.00.
*Pile Cerate (see page 117), per jar, 50c.; 6 for $2.50.
Prescription No. 610 (see page 118), per bottle, 75c.
"
S30)(for easy child-birth) per bottle, 50c
S4S (see page 184), $1.00.
per pound, 50c.; postage 18c.
Red Clover
*Red Clover Oil (see page 133), 4 oz. bottle, 75c.: 16 oz.
bottle, $2.50.
Santonine Suppositories (see page 227), per box, $1.00.

Blossoms,

(06 1 410,

(for Horses), (see page

29.

Veterinary Manual), per box, $1.00.
*Scalp Renovator (see page 168), -4 oz. jar, $1.00.
*Specific for Cougih and Croup (see page 118), per
bottle, 50c.; 6 for $2.50.
*Specific for Salt Rheuiu (see page 118), per package,,

$1.00.

APPENDIX.

*Speeifjc

for Rhus, or Ivy Poison (see page 119), per
package, $1.00.

*Specific for Hog Cholera

(see page 65 Veterinary

Manual), per bottle $1.00; 6 for $5.00.
Suipho. earl. Sodiium (see page 119), per bottis, 50c.; 6
for $2.50.
Suppository, "A" (see page 119), per box,
3 boxes,
$2.50.
Suppository, "B" (see page 119), per box,
3 boxes,
$2.50.
Suppository, "C" (see page 119), per box,
3 boxes,
$2.50.

$1.00;
$1.00;

Suppository,

$1.00;
"BD" page 119), per box, $1.00; 3 boxes,
(see

$2.50.

Syringes. A good syringe is often needed in the family, and
it is often

difficult to obtain readily a really good one at a

fair price. We give below a list of the most convenient and
economical styles, and warrant them of best quality of
material and manufacture. We send them to any address,

postpaid, on receipt of

price.

PmnIax SYRINGE, two pipes, nickel plated, 65c.

HALSEY'S HOMTEOPATHIC

HOME SYRINGE,

GUIDE.

No. 3, two bard rubber pipes, paper box, $1.00

HOME SYRINGE, No. 2, three hard rubber pipes, wooden case,
$1.25.

APPENDIX.

HOME SYRINGE, No. 1, four hard rubber pipes and spray noz.

zle, ebonized wood case, $1.75.

HALSEY'S HOM(EOPATHIC

GUIDE.

FOUNTAIN SYRINGE, large rubber bag holding a quart, hard
rubber tubes and vaginal irrigator-something new and
very useful. $2.00. (See Cut.)
Tape-worm Remedy (see page 227), per box, 50c.
Teething Disks (see page 120), per box, 50c.; 6 for $2.50.
Tooth Powder, the Best, it cleanses, beautifies and
preserves the teeth, heals and strengthens the gums, and
sweetens the breath. We believe this to be the only tooth
powder which will arrest and prevent the decay of the teeth.
Its frequent use will also be of general benefit to the health.
Large, handsome package, 35c.; 5 for $1.50.
" Turkish Bath " Soap. The demand for the peculiar
variety of soap which we have for years supplied chiefly to
physicians for their special needs, has become so largely
popular that we make special mention of it here. For the
information of those who have not used it, we simply say
that it excels any other soap we know of in its remarkable
cleansing power, its agreeable perfume, and its economy.
It leaves the skin clean, soft and with a clean smell. Per
cake, 15c.; per dozen cakes, $1.50.
Voltaic Bands, Belts, Insoles, etc. Descriptive list
with prices sent on application.

APPENDIX.

DR.

COOK'S

IMPROTEDOZONE GENERATOR

Ozone is nature's great disinfector; it destroys all foul odors
and poisonous gases. It is needed in all inhabited dwellings
for sanitary purposes, especially where there are water closets.
It is needed as a disinfectant in sick rooms. This generator produces pure ozone by a simple and inexpensive process,
causing the atmosphere to become similar to that of the
mountain regions of Colorado. The great relief it affords to
Asthmatic patients is well worthy the most careful consideration. Ozone prevents infection, destroys the germs of disease,
annihilates all offensive odors and renders the air in dwellings, hospitals, school-houses and public buildings pure and
fragrant. Scientists insist that CHOLERA cannot prevail where
there is abundant Ozone in the atmosphere. The cost of operating this apparatus is about one cent a day.
PRICE,

$6.00,

With a supply of chemical for three months.
THE

LIQUID

ORIGINAL

BOVININE,
OR

FOOD,

+

The Vital Principles of Beef and Mutton Concentrated.
The expressed juices of fresh meat, combined with pure
albumenoids, forming a perfect food rich in nitrogenous constituents and wholly free from insoluble elements, containing no
medication whatever. Being a highly condensed nutriment, rapidly assimilated by the weakest digestive organs and capable of
sustaining life for an indefinite period, it is adapted to the
wants of humanity from infancy to old age.
Gen. Grant was sustained for months by its blood-making
qualities.
As a RAw Foon EXTRACT in which the albuminous portions
are uncoagulated by heat, thereby rendering it easily absorbed
by the enfeebled gastric forces, it stands unique before the
world.
$1.00 per bottle; 6 fo $5.00. Orders filled by
C. S. & GEO.. E. HALSEY,
88 State St., Chicago.

HALSEY'S

HOM1EOPATHIC

GUIDE.

OXYGEN HOME TREATMENT.
THE GENUINE.
The more we see of its virtues and the more we hear from
the physicians to whom we have been selling "treatments," the
more ready we are to recommend it to our customers, for the
relief and cure of general debility, nervous prostration,weakness of the lungs after pneumonia, bronchitis,consumption in
its early stages, asthma, catarrh, hay fever, impure or impoverished condition of the blood, from weak or imperfect action
of heart, lungs, liver or spleen.
The Oxygen inhalations will also be found very useful by
those who have taken a cold, by exposure to raw, cold winds,
causing hoarsenessor loss of voice; also to public speakers, who
have wearied their vocal organs by too prolonged speaking. A
dozen inspirations, every six hours, with a dose of the Oxygen
water after each use of the inhaler, will work wonders in such
cases.
Notwithstanding the great amount of fraud and humbug
which have prevailed in connection with its use, "the record of
cases cured by Compound Oxygen Treatment is indeed a wonderful one." No one now need go "to the mountains" to breathe
air rich in Oxygen and Ozone. Such patients can enjoy the
advantages of mountain air, and still be surrounded with home
comforts and conveniences; and as to the cost, we are glad to be
able to offer The Genuine Home Treatment, (which is now
believed by those of most experience to be superior to the Office
Treatment) at a cost of only 17 cents a day. That is to say, we
send you a "two months treatment" complete, with inhaler and
full instructions for $10.00, and if the cash accompanies the order,
so that we have no expense of collection, we pay the express
charges.
C. S. & GEO. E. HALSEY,
88 STATE ST., CHICAGo, U. S. A.
THE CLOSED CELL

Electro-Magnetic Pocket Battery.
The best apparatus of the kind yet invented; small, compact,
light, handsome, durable. Very powerful, and easily controlled.
No chance to spill out the chemical solution.
PRICE-Single Cell, $7.50. Double Cell, (especially
for physicians' use) $10.00.
Sent free on receipt of price.

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