Homoeopathy in Acute Diseases

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Leath and Ross, 1858 - 261 Seiten
 

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Seite 61 - Vapours of vinegar and water were frequently inhaled; ten grains of calomel were given, succeeded by repeated doses of emetic tartar, amounting in all to five or six grains, with no other effect than a copious discharge from the bowels. The powers of life seemed now manifestly yielding to the force of the disorder. Blisters were applied to the extremities, together with a cataplasm of bran and vinegar to the throat. Speaking, which was painful from the beginning, now became almost impracticable;...
Seite 209 - Sudbury ; a young country-woman came to seek advice ; the subject of small-pox was mentioned in her presence ; she immediately observed, ' I cannot take that disease, for I have had cowpox.
Seite 60 - Washington was attacked with an inflammatory affection of the upper part of the windpipe, called in technical language cynanche trachealis. The disease commenced with a violent ague, accompanied with some .pain in the upper and fore part of the throat, a sense of stricture in the same part, a...
Seite 127 - I went, to come away so favourably disposed as to advise a friend to send a subscription to your charitable fund, and I need not tell you that I have taken some pains to make myself acquainted with the rise, progress, and medical treatment of cholera, and that I claim for myself some...
Seite 128 - That there may therefore be no misapprehension about the cases I saw in your hospital, I will add, that all I saw were true cases of cholera, in the various stages of the disease, and that I saw several cases which did well under your treatment, which I have no hesitation in saying would have sunk under any other.
Seite 61 - ... an injection was administered, which operated on the lower intestines, but all without any perceptible advantage; the respiration becoming still more difficult and distressing. Upon the arrival of the first of the consulting physicians, it was agreed. as there...
Seite 61 - ... the throat, a sense of stricture in the same part, a cough, and a difficult rather than a painful deglutition, which were soon succeeded by fever, and a quick and laborious respiration.
Seite 128 - ... and I need not tell you that I have taken some pains to make myself acquainted with the rise, progress, and medical treatment of cholera, and that I claim for myself some right to be able to recognize the disease, and to know something of what the...
Seite 96 - The enunciation of a great truth, and the ingratitude of mankind toward their benefactor, are phenomena so constantly co-existing that the most consolatory aspect of the stern fact is to consider it to be a law by which the race is benefited at the expense of the individual. Truth is so terrible when exhibited in its concentrated form of a principle, and involves such consequences, that all the energies of man are required to test it in the furnace of human passions ere it can be purged of its dross...
Seite 141 - ... destroy the prevalent system of giving a vast quantity and variety of unnecessary and useless drugs, (to say the least of them,) but to encourage extreme simplicity in the prescription of medicines that seem to be requisite. Our system is here greatly and radically wrong. Our officinal formulae are already most absurdly and mischievously complex, and our fashion is to double and redouble, the existing complexities. This system is a most serious impediment in the way of ascertaining the precise...

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