The Family Homoeopathist, Or Plain Directions for the Treatment of Disease |
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abdomen Aconite acute affected applied Arnica Arnica montana Arsenicum attack bath Belladonna bilious bladder bleeding blood body bottles bowels brain breathing bronchitis Bryonia Calcarea Calendula cause chest chill cholera chronic Cina cold water congestion constipation cough cure damp dessert-spoonful of water diarrhoea digestion disease disordered dose every three drink drop dose drop dose three drop dose twice excess expectoration eyes face feverish symptoms flushed followed four hours fresh air given head head-ache Hepar sulphuris Homœopathic hot water Ignatia inflammation Ipecacuanha irritation liver lungs medicine menstruation mental emotion Mercurius mucous membrane nausea nervous night Nux vomica pain phlegm phorated pilule poultice prevent profuse prostration Pulsatilla pulse rash relieve remedy rheumatism Rhus scarlet fever scrofulous severe skin sometimes sore throat sponging stage stimulants stomach Sulphur taken teeth three hours three or four three times daily tincture tion tongue treatment twice daily vomiting warm weakness windpipe worms
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Page 8 - ... 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...
Page 8 - You are aware that I went to your hospital prepossessed against the Homoeopathic system ; that you had in me, in your camp, an enemy rather than a friend, and that I must therefore have seen some cogent reason...
Page 8 - ... no misapprehension about the cases I saw in your hospital, I will add, that all I saw were true cases of Cholera, in the various stages of the disease ; and that I saw several cases which did well under your treatment, which I have no hesitation in saying would have sunk under any other.
Page 9 - ... members; 26 State societies report 1,783 members ; of 103 local societies, 66 report 2,355 members; of 13 clubs, 7 report 97 members ; of 23 general hospitals, 18 report 1,268 beds, — 15 of these last year treated 6,675 patients, and the estimated value of 1 1 of these hospitals is 770,500 dollars.
Page 9 - Of 39 dispensaries, 27 report, last year, 111,469 patients, and to these have been furnished 256,589 prescriptions. 12 medical colleges have had 1,267 students, and graduated 421 physicians this year and 5,680 since they were founded. 16 journals have published this year 9,748 pages.