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       PRACTICAL

 HOMOEOPATHY
        FOR THE  PEOPLE:
ADAPTED TO THE COMPREHENSION OF THE
  NON-PROFESSIONAL, AND FOR REFERENCE
      BY THE YOUNG  PRACTITIONER.
     I.VCLL'DLVG rf  XUMBER  OF MOST

 Valuable New  Remedies,
r   FIFTEENTH EDITION.
 By J. S. DOUGLAS, A. M., M. D., Ph. D.,
        'V
Late Professor of Mat. Med., Special Pathology and Diagnosis
  in the Western Horn. Med. College, Clevpland, O.; Fellow
     and*Corresponding Member of the Penn. Horn.
        Medical College at Philadelphia.

             AUTHOR OF  .  " ' _ .. „ . I [

'"Treatment of Intermittent Fever," "Homoeopathy; Its Pi r"
     pies and Practice Explained and Illustrated."
 Phblished by LEWIS SHERMAN,
448 Jackson St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
         1894. 
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Copyrighted by Lewis Sherman, 1882.
           MILWAUKEE :
COMMERCIAL PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO.
             1894. 
PREFACE.
  In furnishing the public with Homoeopathic
remedies, with directions for their use, it is
proper to state the motives for so doing.
These are :
  First—A knowledge of the vast superiority
of Homoeopathic treatment over the old sys-
tem.
  Second—A large portion of the population,
of the West especially, are not within reach of
a Homoepathic physician, and if they employ
the remedies, are obliged to depend upon such
knowledge of them as they can acquire from
books designed for domestic use.
  Third—The reputation of Homoepathic rem-
edies has become so general, and the demand
for them so great, that the country is becom-
ing flooded with Homoeopathic quackery, un-
der the name of "Specific Homoeopathic Rem-
edies," no one  knowing what  they are but
him who prepares them. When  a  bottle or
box is exhausted, the owner has  no resource
but to send to  the  getter-up of these nos- 
IV
PREFACE.
trums, or some of his agents, to get it replen-
ished.  The unfortunate example of this mode
of quackery has been set by a medical man in
the East, who has thereby forfeited his stand-
ing in the profession, and been, very properly,
expelled from the American Institute.  His
example  is  being followed by others, who
have  a higher regard for their own pockets
than  for their professional reputation or the
interests of the public.
  All  reasoning persons will prefer to know
what the medicines are which they use, and
when one is exhausted, to be able to replenish
it at any place  where Homoeopathic medi-
cines are kept, and at the same time enjoy the
practical benefits of knowing what the reme-
dies are which effect cures of different diseases.
  Besides these considerations, any reasoning
person, by a moment's reflection, will be con-
vinced how totally  inadequate these  "Speci-
fics"  are  to cure all the  diseases for which
they  are advertised, and how unsafe it must
be  to trust them.  We have no hesitation in
saying to the public that it is totally unsafe
to trust to these "Specific Remedies "  for the
treatment of  the various diseases for which
they  are prescribed, as much so as to trust
the thousand other mixtures  advertised to
cure everything.
  I do not  aim to make accomplished physi-
cians of the public, nor expect that everv'case 
PPvEFACE.
T
of disease can be safely treated domestically.
But I do know, from numerous examples of
domestic practice,  that a long catalogue of
acute and serious diseases, as well as lighter
disorders, will be treated much more safely
and successfully by families, by following the
directions here given, than they are treated
by the best drugging physicians.
  Nor is it my design to treat of every disease
to which humanity is subject, nor to prescribe
every remedy of the Materia Medica.  But I
shall give brief and unmistakable directions
for curing the great mass of diseases of the
country, constituting nine-tenths of all the
cases, for which the  physician is usually con-
sulted, with remedies enough to meet those
cases, among which are a considerable  num-
ber of most valuable and even indispensable
remedies, which  have been  recently  intro-
duced.
  It is greatly to be  regretted that so many
Allopathic  physicians  are  dabbling  with
Homoeopathic remedies, and  pretending that
they can practice Homoeopathy where it is
appropriate, as well as we, without any of
the study or knowledge necessary to use them
with any success or credit  to the system.
When by their  bungling misapplication  of
these beautiful remedies, they fail of success,
or, by giving them in Allopathic doses do ser-
ious mischief, they pronounce Homoeopathy, 
vi
PREFACE.
not adapted to such cases.  As  well  might a
bungler, after spoiling a board and mangling
his hand, by attempting to use a saw, pro-
nounce a saw not adapted for use.
  In short, my one great object in this issue
of medicines, with appropriate directions, is
to make known  and extend the blessings of
Homoeopathic remedies properly applied, by
bringing the community to  a practical  ac-
quaintance with them, and inducing them to
witness their beneficent effects under their own
administration and  experience. I hope that
very many  who have  never used  Homoeo-
pathic remedies will be  induced to make the
trial.
  It will not be  deemed  egotistical by those
who know him, or know of him, to say that
this work is written by one who has devoted
over forty years to the study as well as prac-
tice of medicine, and who, in  his intercourse
with the best and most progressive physicians
of the day, and in the performance of his du-
ties as a teacher of medicine, the reading  of
the latest practical works, and the habitual
proving of the new remedies  on himself, and
others, has anxiously labored to collect prac-
tical information, and apply it to the treat-
ment of disease. 
PREFACE TO 12th EDITION.
  This little book, in its  first edition, was in-
tended merely as a directory for the treat-
ment of the most common diseases, to accom-
pany family medicine chests, so much needed
in the West, where Homoeopathic physicians
were not accessible.  It was not offered or in-
tended for sale.  But  dealers and physicians
who happened to see a stray copy, applied for
it, and urged  its  publication,  somewhat en-
larged, for the market.  The author yielded
to these solicitations, and the 12th edition of
the  unpretentious work is now demanded.
By the advice of dealers and judicious medical
friends, the present edition is considerably en-
larged, embracing diseases not treated in for-
mer  editions,   and other  additional  matter.
The  author has always been partial to small
plain works for domestic use.  There are but
few amateurs who want a large work.  To
the mass they  are but puzzles and stumbling
blocks.  This  little work  is designed for the
million, and  is, therefore,  written in  such
language as to be understood bv them.
                           J. s/douglas.
   Note to the 14th edition.—The writer of this book will write
no more.  This, the first posthumons edition, is issued in answer
to repeated calls for the book from all parts of the United States.
No alterations are made from the text of the previous edition.
The few additions which it has been thought desirable to make
are placed in brackets, thus :  [S.]
                     LEWIS SHERMAN, A. M. M. D. 
 
INTRODUCTION.
  Most persons who have  not given special
attention to Homoeopathy have  very mis-
taken  notions of it.  It is very commonly
thought to consist in giving very small doses.
If an  Allopathic physician gives very small
doses, it is thought that he is almost Homoeo-
pathic.  This is  a great mistake.  One may
give just  as small  doses as  we do,  and yet
make no approach to being  Homoeopathic.
Homoeopathy consists in treating disease ac-
cording to a certain fixed law of cure. This
law is expressed by the phrase, "Like Cures
Like."  The meaning of this  phrase  is, that
a medicine in small doses will  cure a  disease,
the like of which the same medicine will pro-
duce- on a healthy  person if given  in large
doses.   The first inquiry  which we make,
when called to treat a disease is, "What med-
icine will produce a disease like it, in a  healthy
person, if given  in large doses?"  When we
find such a remedy, we give it with entire con-
fidence of success, if the disease is curable. The
correctness of this law any one can prove on
himself.   For example,   after one has seen
fevers cured in a few hours by Gelseminum, in
doses of half or quarter of a drop, let him test 
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INTRODUCTION.
 the correctness  of the law, by taking, when
 he is well, five or ten  drops of the same rem-
 edy.  If he is at all  sensitive, he will  find,
 within five minutes, that his pulse has from
 ten  to  fifteen or twenty beats fewer in the
 minute,  than it had  before;  and he will feel
 more or less chilly and dull.  This will soon
 be followed by heat, quick pulse, flushed face,
 fullness and pain of  the head,  and perhaps
 pain of the back and limbs.  In short he will feel
 that he has got a fever.   Soon a prickling of
 the skin is felt, and a  sweat breaks  out, and
 after a few hours, he  is  well again.  Now, it
 is just because  Gelseminum produces a fever
 in large doses, that it cures a similar fever in
 small doses.   The first dose I ever took of
 this  remedy, when I was in perfect  health, I
 knew that it would cure our prevalent fevers,
 as well as I know it now,  after curing hun-
 dreds with it, because I knew that the law of
 "like cures like " was  a true and reliable law.
 This is the law that guides us in all our treat-
 ment of disease.  Every remedy prescribed in
 this book, for particular diseases, is prescribed
 because it produces a  similar disease.  This is
the secret of our great success, in the most
formidable and dangerous diseases; a success
 that often astonishes  those who do not un-
 derstand the secret.  Allopathic  physicians
have no such law to guide  them. ■ The  only
law that they have for treating disease is, the 
INTRODUCTION.             XI
"cut and try " law, or the law of experiment,
and all their experiments are made upon the
sick, and at their expense.  Our experiments
are made  beforehand on the healthy, and we
enter at once on the cure of the sick,  while
they are experimenting upon  them. Ours is
a certain science—theirs is an uncertain art.
  It will be readily seen that we cannot safely
give large doses.  If we  did, we should pro-
duce the diseases we now cure.  The accuracy
of this law is proved to a demonstration, and
every one may satisfy himself of it, a layman
as well as a physician. And if this is a true law
then the practice of Homoeopathy is a true
practice, and all others are false.  A most in-
teligent clergyman  was investigating  the
truth of this law, and one day  called and re-
lated the following case:
  Said he, "In my younger days I was  in the
habit of drinking wine.  I have a most vivid
recollection of the  bursting  headache,  the
parched mouth, the burning thirst, the nausea
and the prostration the morning after a hard
night's drinking. \  awoke  a few mornings
since with all the feelings in a most distressing
degree, though I had drank nothing. I rela-
ted my feelings to my wife, saying that I felt ex-
actly as if I had had a night's debauch on wine.
She laughingly replied that a  Homoeopathic
dose of wine ought to cure me.  I thought it
a good chance to test the truth of the princi- 
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INTRODUCTION.
pie.  I took two drops of wine in some water,
and  the effect  was more remarkable than I
ever witnessed  from a dose of medicine.  In
five minutes my mouth was moist, my thirst
abated, my headache vanishing, my strength
returning,  and  in fifteen minutes I was per-
fectly well."
  Here was a beautiful illustration of the law.
A minute dose—two drops of  wine—cured in
a prompt and truly Homoeopathic manner, a
formidable train of symptoms, like those pro-
duced by large doses of the same article.  This
is equally true of all remedies.  Tea produces,
in those not accustomed to its use, anxiety,
trembling, weakness, palpitation of the heart;
3^et every lady knows that tea, in moderate
quantity, is an excellent remedy for those very
symptoms.  Allopathic medical  authorities
furnish  a thousand  examples which prove
this very law, though they do not understand
it.
  Tobacco, according to  all  Allopathic au-
thorities, both produces and cures giddiness,
nausea,, trembling and weakness;  Agaricus
produces and cures epilepsy;  Belladonna both
produces and cures delirium and headache;
Ipecac,  and antimony produce and cure nau-
sea and vomiting; nitric acid, iodine and mer-
cury produce and cure salivation and ulcera-
tion of  the mouth.   We might  fill a volume
with similar examples.  Large doses produce 
INTRODUCTION.
xiii
diseases—small ones cure them.  It may seem
strange to those who have never looked at
the subject, that the same  remedy should act
in such contrary directions, and produce and
cure the same affections.  It is,  nevertheless,
founded on nature and reason, which is more
than can be said of most medical doctrines.
  As  I  am desirous that  every  man and
woman who reads this  book, should know
more  of the philosophy of medicine that Allo-
pathic physicians do, and  to be able to meet
the argument brought by them against Hom-
oeopathy, I propose to explain the philosophy
of this Homoeopathic law,  so that  all will
understand it.
  It is founded on the law of life—a vital prin-
ciple.  Let us question nature in this, as in all
other things.  My  hands are cold,  and  I
plunge them into cold water, or rub them in
snow, and what is the result ?  In a few min-
utes they are glowing with warmth.  This is
not a freak of  nature.  Nature has no freaks.
Her laws are uniform and  universal, and this
is an example of her laws.   Take another ex-
ample : My hands are hot, and I plunge them
into hot water, and after a minute's exposure
to the air, they become cool. Take other and
varied examples:  I  burn  my  hand;  it is
hot, red, inflamed and painful.  On Allopathic
principles, we  should apply cold to remove
this heat.  And  what would be the effect? 
XIV           INTRODUCTION.
WThy, the heat and pain would be relieved for
a short time, but the  vital principle of reac-
tion is aroused against it, and the hand soon
becomes more  hot, red and painful than be-
fore.  Hence, experience without a knowledge
of the law, has taught  the  profession that
cold applications to a burn, though comfort-
able temporary palliatives, are very bad cur-
atives. But adopt an opposite treatment, and
apply a heating stimulant, as aleohol, or spir-
its of turpentine, or soft soap; the vital prin-
ciple reacts  against this also, and in a short
time, the heat, pain, and inflammation sub-
side, a comfortable coolness follows, and the
burn is soon cured.
  A restless patient is  put to sleep on opium,
but on the following night he is more restless
and sleepless than before.  We might give a
thousand examples of similar character.
  This will enable us to  understand two uni-
versal and  practical  laws, of the action of
remedies which the community should under-
stand, if physicians do not.   Such an under-
standing will  do away with an immense
amount  of all-pervading  and  mischievous
quackery.
  First Law.  Every medicine produces two
directly opposite effects, in the order of time.
The  first, the  primary and transient effect;
the second,  the  secondary and more perma-
nent one. 
INTRODUCTION.
XV
  To illustrate this law by example: A patient
takes a cathartic or a laxative.  Its  first, or
primary effect, is to  stimulate the intestines
to unusual and unnatural activity; so much
so, that he has,  during its action, a medicinal
diarrhoea.  But this  effect is transient, last-
ing only a few hours.  Then comes the secon-
dary effect, which is exactly, the opposite, viz.:
unnatural inactivity  and torpor, producing
constipation.
  Another illustration: Opium or morphine is
given  to  allay  pain,  and procure rest and
sleep.  This purpose is answered by its prim-
ary effect;  but this soon ceases, and  then
comes the opposite, or secondary effect, that
is, increased sensibility, restlessness and sleep-
lessness ;  and this is increased  with  every
dose.
  What is true of these two remedies, is true
of all  others. Yet this is the strange princi-
ple on which all Allopathic prescriptions are
made; that  is,  to get the primary effects of
medicines, which,  if good, are at the best but
very brief, and  are soon followed by the op-
posite effect,  which,  of course must be  bad.
Everybody  is familiar with  the fact,  that
multitudes of persons,  after an Allopathic
treatment, are left with lasting ruinous medi-
cinal diseases, though the medicines ma}- have
clone them temporary good.
  If the public were thoroughly  acquainted 
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INTRODUCTION.
with this one law, they would never tolerate
another dose of Allopathic medicine for them-
selves or for their families.  If the physician
should prescribe a laxative or catharic, to re-
move constipation, the better informed patient
would say to him something like this:  "My
dear sir, as I understand the laws of cure, your
dose will give me very transient relief by its pri-
mary effect; but the secondary effect will be
just the reverse, and will be lasting, so that I
shall get only temporary relief, at the expense
of a lasting aggravation of the very difficulty
from which you propose to relieve me.  I
really cannot  afford to pay such a price for
so  small  a benefit."  The  same reasoning
applies equally to every Allopathic prescrip-
tion for every disease.
  Second Law.  But there is another law,
equally practical, and equally important,  viz.
That all medicines produce two exactly oppo-
site effects, according to quantity; that is,
small and large doses produce precisely oppo-
site effects. So far is it from being true, that
if a small dose will do a little good, a large
one will do more, the truth is, that if a small
dose  does good, a large one will certainly do
mischief,  for the  effects  of the two are just
the  opposite of each other.  For example:
a small dose of opium produces wakefulness
and exhilaration, while a large dose produces
stupor and sleep.  Small doses of  rhubarb, 
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XV11
mercury,  and other  cathartics,  allay irrita-
tion of the bowels,  and cure diarrhoea and
dysentery,  while  large  doses,  everybody
knows, produce precisely  opposite effects.
Very  small doses of  ipecac, or tartar emetic,
allay irritation of the  stomach,  and  stop
vomiting  and  cholera  morbus,  while  large
doses produce only irritation and vomiting.
The one  is the disease-curing, the other the
disease-producing, effect.
  Guided  by this law, the physician will so
administer his medicines as to secure the dis-
ease-curing effect, and avoid the disease-pro-
ducing effect. Patients, well informed, will be
wise  enough to refuse a prescription made in
violation  of this  law.   But  the Allopathic
plrysician always aims to get the primar}',
or disease-producing  effect.  He knows noth-
ing of treating disease by any other method.
A wise patient will  say to  a physician who
prescribes for him a large dose  of medicine,
(and  all  Allopathic  doses are large, though
they call them small):  "Sir, I consulted you
for the purpose of being cured, and you offer
me a drug in a dose that will make me sick.
The law of cure, as I  understand it, makes it
no part of the business of a physician to pro-
duce disease, but his  exclusive business is to
cure it.  The time is past, when the appropri-
ate inscription  on a physician's  sign  was
'Disease Manufactory,' and the proper title 
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INTRODUCTION.
of the profession,  'The destructive  art  of
healing.'  I must insist on your treating me
in harmony with the now well-known laws
of cure, or I must take the treatment into my
own hands, or  consult some one better in-
formed."
  We can now better understand the reason
of the law,  "Like Cures Like."   We see a
patient  laboring under  symptoms exactly
like  those produced by large doses of Bella-
donna.  This,  then, must be the appropriate
remedy, because, in small doses, it produces
symptoms  exactly  the opposite of those un-
der  which the patient labors, and, of course,
establishes an  opposite effect; that is,  in
other words, cures the disease.
  Is  not this  law  of cure, then, founded on
nature,  and does it not commend itself to
our  reason  and common sense?  And when
we see our remedies in small doses, prescribed
according to this law, perform such wonder-
ful cures, is it  not just what we ought to
expect?  We always know why we give any
certain remedy, and know what its effect will
be, for we have tried them in  large doses on
the healthy and understand their properties.
How different it is with the Allopathic physi-
cian! Let us see how he learns to treat a
disease.  He takes up, for example, the study
of fever, with a view of preparing  himself to
treat it.  He reads in his books that one phv- 
INTRODUCTION.
XIX
sician recommends cold  affusions,  and  an-
other disagrees  with him  and thinks them
dangerous.  One advises wine and another
insists that his patient should have only the
most cooling drinks.  Many prescribe Peru-
vian bark or quinine, and others object to
these remedies as hurtful.  Some recommend
a free use of cathartics and others warn the
young physician against  their use.   Some
recommend  opiates, others think them dan-
gerous.  And so  on to the end of the chapter,
almost every remedy in the  Materia Medica
being recommended by some and repudiated
by  others.   Thus  furnished, the  physician
goes forth to take the lives of the public in
his  hands, at full liberty, under high medical
authority, to employ just  what remedies he
pleases, and sadly puzzled  to make a choice.
During all his practice he never has a glimpse
of any law to guide him in his perilous work.
The best  reason he can give for prescribing
any of his drugs is that somebody thinks he
has  found it  useful, without knowing why,
in cases that seem similar.  It is an unmiti-
gated system of guess work, and life-and-
death experiment upon the sick and suffering.
  How different it  is with the Homoeopath !
When we see a patient with the symptoms of
an ordinary attack of fever, we give Gelsemi-
num, because we have taken it ourselves be-
forehand,  while in  health,  and know that it 
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INTRODUCTION.
produces just  that train of symptoms, and
therefore know that  it will cure them, and
we are not disappointed.  In another form of
fever we give Tartar emetic for the same rea-
son, and with  the same result.   We always
know  why  we give a remedy,  because we
have  a clear and unmistakable law to guide
us.
  We  have  constantly new  diseases, or  old
disease putting on new forms.   We are pre-
pared for them beforehand.   Every Homoeo-
pathist knew,  years before choler a appeared
in this country, that  Camphor, Arsenicum
and  Veratum  would  cure  it, because these
remedies have been proved on  the healthy,
and found to produce symptoms  like those of
cholera.  And when  cholera appeared,  we
treated it with the most triumphant success,
from the very  first; while Allopathic physi-
cians  were experimenting and their patients
dying; and they are still experimenting on
this and all other diseases.   Even now, after
so many years of experimenting,  they cannot
save  half the  proportion of patients that
Homoeopathists saved the very  first year of
its appearance.   Is it strange  that a man,
with any feeling of humanity, should be anx-
ious to diffuse  a knowledge of a system of
medicine possessing so many  advantages,
and so full of blessings to the sick?
  Finally, we  feel certain that if the public 
INTRODUCTION.
XXI
mind can become imbued with the doctrine of
Homoeopathy, and generally  adopt  it  in
practice, it will be the most  effectual remedy
for the now  all prevalent  and  destructive
quackery, and be a vast saving of health and
life.  Try it, and then decide on its merits. 
REMEDIES IN FAMILY CASE OF 43 REMEDIES.
NAMES.	STRENGTH.
Aconitum Napellus. ..	3d in pellets or dilution
	tincture or pellets 4th in pellets..
	3d in pellets.. "
Calcaria carbonica. ..	6th in trit..... 3d in pellets..
	6th in trit.....
	
	
	
Coffea.................	
	
	
	
	
Hepar sulphuris......	6th in trit.....
	3d in pellets... "
	
Kali bichromicum — Kali hydriodicum —	1st in pellets..
Mercurius corrosivus. Mercurius iodatus___ Mercurius solubilis...	3d in trit...... 4th in pellets. 3d in trit...... 6th in trit.....
	
Phosphoric acid......	3d in pellets .. ''
	
Rhus Toxicodendron .	3d in pellets .. "
	
	
Veratrum album......	3d in pellets... "
ABBREVIA-
  TIONS.
Aeon......
Apis.......
Am......
Ars........
Bell.......
Bry.......
Calc.......
Cann......
Canth.....
(Jarbo v...
("auloph
Cham.....
Chin......
Cina......
Coff.......
Coloc.....
Dulc......
Gels.......
Ham.......
Hepar.....
Hyd.......
Ign........
Ipecac —
Kali bichr
Kali hyd..
Lept.......
Mac.......
Merc. cor.
Merc. iod.
Mer. sol ..
Nux.......
Phos......
Phos. ac ..
Pod........
Puis.......
Rhus......
Spongia ..
Sulph.....
Tart.......
Verat..... 
LIST FOR CASE OF 24 REMEDIES.
V 1.	Aconitum Napellus.	13.	Macrotin.
2.	Arnica montana.	14.	Mercurius corrosivus.
».3.	Arsenicum album.	15.	Mercurius iodatus.
>>4.	Belladonna.	M6.	Nux vomica.
^"t.	Bryonia alba.	M7.	Phosphorus.
6.	Chamomilla.	M8.	Podophyilin.
7.	Cina.	19.	Pulsatilla.
^8.	Colocynth.	n 20.	Rhus Toxicodendron.
-9.	Gelseminum.	21.	Spongia tosta.
10.	Hamamelis.	2!.	Sulphur.
"11.	Ipecacuanha.	23.	Tartar emetic.
12.	Kali hydriodicum.	24.	Veratrum album
 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS.
  The usual dose of pellets (size No. 3) for an
adult is six; for children  one or two, accord-
ing to age.  When the  pellets  are  dissolved,
which is preferable,  if pure water can be had,
put ten or  twelve into a gill of water, and
give teaspoonful doses.   When tincture of
Aeon, is used internally,  two or three drops
maybe put in a gill  of water; dose a tea-
spoonful.   When grains of the triturations or
powders are mentioned, what  will  lie upon a
three cent coin (new style) may be considered
about five grains.
  The usual dose of a powder, when not other-
wise directed, is two grains; or, if dissolved,
three or four grains in a gill of water;  dose
a teaspoonful.  Gels, same as Aeon.
  When taking Homoeopathic remedies, the
patient must abstain from all other medicines,
herb drinks,  odors—as Camphor,  Cologne,
Hartshorn, etc.—and avoid vinegar, pepper
and spices; and, as far as possible,  coffee and
tobacco. 
PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY
      FOR THE PEOPLE.
                  Fevers.
  In a work like this, it would be worse than
useless to treat of fevers under the various
and numerous names by which they are called
in medical books.  We shall regard all fevers
as one disease, with a number of varieties,
and give the treatment for the principal dif-
ferent forms it assumes.
  The great majority of fevers in this country
are what they call Bilious, or Bilious remit-
tent; because they give evidence of bilious dis-
order, or  disordered action of the liver, and
have a remission—that is,  a period during
which the fever is less—every  twenty-four
hours.  This usually occurs in the morning.
  This form of fever, after somedays, 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 tasteof the mouth
and coated tongue. Its course will depend
on the treatment.  Under the physicking and 
26       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

drugging treatment, its course is  generally
prolonged for several weeks, and it often as-
sumes, 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 appetite,  more  or  less
thirst, and a general feeling of severe sickness.
The tongue becomes more coated with a dirty
white, or yellowish color, thepulseis frequent
often from  one hundred  to  one hundred  and
twenty  in  the  minute.   Towards  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 tips are sometimes
red, and sometimes the  whole  surface of the
tongue.
  The 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 ab-
stains from food, and gratifies  his thirst with
water only, and if  the surface  is washed fre-
quently,  whenever  the  skin is hot and  dry,
and the room kept well  aired, the  fever  will
generally be ended in from seven to nine days.
But under a good  Homoeopathic treatment, 
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27
it is usually cured in  twenty-four hours, and
where this fails, in less than a week.
  Treatment.—In the early, or chilly stage,
put a few drops 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 or fever subsides.  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 differ-
ence in the quantity required by different per-
sons. In many cases one-halt or one-quarter
drop is sufficient.  After a free perspiration is
is thus produced, the  pains  subside  and the
patient goes to sleep,  and  when  he awakes 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 des-
cribed, whether catarrhal, (from colds,) bil-
ious,  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 
28       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
certainty of success.  But it need not be con-
tinued over one daj% if it is  not obviously
doing good. If this fails, and the fever puts on
the forms and symptoms hereafter described
then corresponding  remedies  must be  used.
  Another form of fever comes on slowly and
almost imperceptibly, without pain and with
only a feeling of languor, or fatigue, and aver-
sion 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 Tartar
emetic,  (four  grains in a gill of water,) in
teaspoonful doses every three hours, and con-
tinue 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, delir-
ium 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
on 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 diarrhoea, high-colored urine, and feel-
ing  of  nausea the  stomach, Pod.  or Bry.
and Nux, are the remedies.  One may be given
alone, or both alternately, three hours apart. 
FEVERS.
2i>
If, however, the fever is  high, and there is a
good deal  of  pain in any  internal organ,
Aconite must be given, either alone or alter-
nated 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, Aeon, is the  indispensable reme-
dy for local inflammations, which often exist
in fever.   This  distinction is of great import-
ance, 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 Ars. and Bell.,
three hours apart.  If there  is a  diarrhoea
with this  state, Rhus is a good remedy.  In
children, Merc. 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 the patient's bed, to carry off
the effluvia constantly arising from the bod\\
It has long been observed in hospitals, that
patients with fevers did not do so well  when
placed in a corner where a current of air  could
not pass over then.  The whole surface should
be sponged over  several times a  day with
water of a temperature agreeable to the feel-
ing.  Once a day there may be a little salera-
tus or soda, or lye from ashes  added to the 
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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 sev-
eral  days, and  only water given.  The linen
and bedclothes shouldbechanged daily. The
patient should be kept entirely  quiet, undis-
turbed by noise, and especially  by conversa-
tion, and the room  should  be cool and not
disagreeably light.  After recovery  commen-
ces, if the bowels are costive,  give  a dose of
Nux every night.
      Intermittent Fever—Fever and Ague.
  This disease is characterized by a succession
of chills, fever and sweat, occurring very usu-
ally near the same time, on every second or
third day.   Between  these paroxysms,  the
patient  is comparatively comfortable,  but
never well.
  Treatment.—During the  chill  and fever
give Aeon, or Gels, every two hours.  During
the intermission, if there is  coated tongue,
impaired appetite and general  feeling  of  ill-
ness, give Bry. and  Ipecac, alternately, until
the tongue becomes cleaner  and the patient
feels  better. If there is not a decided im-
provement after two  days, give Ipecac, and
Pod. every three hours, or Ipecac, and Nux
for men, and Ipecac,  and  Puis, for women
and children.  Within  a  few days, by this 
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31
treatment, the disordered state during the
intermission will  improve, and  the patient
will feel tolerably well, except during the chill
and fever.   Then, if the chills  continue, give
Ars. every two or three hours.
  If the chill comes on in  the  morning  with
nausea and vomiting, and severe pains in the
bones, the Eupatorium perfoliatum or bone-
set is a very effective remedy.   A weak infus-
ion of the herb may be made and  drank mod-
erately during the day.  In obstinate  cases,
Polyporus  pin. tincture,  five  or six  drops
every three or four hours.
  From thirty years observation  and exper-
ience of Quinine, lam perfectly convinced that
it has done infinitely more mischief than the
ague would have done if left entirely to itself
It undoubtedly stops the  chill  and the fever
temporarily; but these are only two symp-
toms of a general disease, which remains after
the chills are  stopped, with a  more serious
Quinine disease added to it. Thousands have
thus "cured" an ague  a dozen times in the
course of a  season,  which, after  all, still re-
mains in an aggravated and more dangerous
form than at first.

               Typhoid Fever.
This form  of  fever is  characterized  by its
slow and gradual outset, and by the presence
of tenderness of the  bowels and diarrhoea 
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after the second week.  During the first week
there is a feeling of general  weakness, with
headache, backache, and slight but gradually
increasing fever.  The patient may not be
obliged to take thebedforseveraldays. Dur-
ing the second week the fever  increases and
the patient rapidly loses strength.  There is
a tender spot on the lower and right  side of
the abdomen.  During  the  third week the
fever  is  unabated, delirium or stupor may
come on, and the patient becomes so  weak-
ened as to pass the contents of the bowels in-
voluntary in  the bed.  During  the  fourth
week in favorable cases, the fever declines and
the patient  gradually  regains  the  bodily
strength. The effectsof the fever may remain
for weeks.
  Prevention.—It is now generally admitted
by medical scientists that  typhoid fever  is
propagated b}r infection from springs or wells
which have been contaminated with  sewer-
age or leakage from outhouses.  Well  water
in cities is for this reason unfit for drinking.
Country wells should be located so as to re-
ceive no surface drainage.
  Treatment.—The main remedies are in the
early stage, Gels, and Ars., in the middle stage,
Bell, may take the place of Gels.  If the diar-
rhoea is troublesome, give Rhus. In the fourth
week continue the ^4rs.
  The diet should consist of milk and  water, 
FEVERS.
33
 but if the patient refuses food, a little beef tea
 may  be given as a stimulant to the stomach.
 Abundance of fresh air and water is essential
 to  the rapid elimination of  the poison and
 the recovery of the patient.—S.]
                 Scarlet Fever.
  There are three principal forms.
  1.—Scarlatina  Simplex—Simple Scarlet Fever.
  This comes on with many of the symptoms
 of other fevers.  After a short time the pulse
 becomes very quick—often,  in  children, 120
 to  110 in the  minute.   The skin is  hotter
 than  in  any other disease.   The scarlet
 eruption comes out over the body on the
 second  day, but may  be  seen  in thickly
 scattered, red points over the tongue on the
 first day.   The fever often produces delirium.
 There is usually some soreness of the throat.
 This is the simplest form of  the disease and
 the mildest.
  Treatment.—Aconite  and Bell,  are the
 chief remedies, alternated every two or  three
 hours.  Whenever the skin is very  hot and
 dry, it should be frequently  bathed all over
 with water at a temperature to suit the feel-
 ing of the patient. This,  if frequently done, in
 a remarkable degree diminishes the fever and
 quiets the nervous irritability.  After a good
 bathing, the patient will recover from his
delirium, become quiet and fall asleep, while 
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the pulse falls from ten to twenty in the min-
ute. I have practiced  this free bathing  in
this disease frequently, with  cold  water, for
forty years.  The fear that it will  make the
eruption  "strike  in,"  is  totally   without
foundation.  A  chill should, of course,  be
avoided.
  2.—Scarlatina Anginosa—Anginose Scarlet Fever.
  This is a more severe form of the disease, in
which soreness and swelling of the throat is
a  prominent  symptom.   The throat  is
swollen inside and out.  Swallowing is pain-
ful and difficult. If the inner surface of the
throat is examined, it will be found  red, in-
flamed, and often covered with a membrane,
in patches of a dirty white, or ash, or yellow-
ish color. The fever is high and  the -pulse
quick.  There is more prostration of strength
than in the simple form, and more pain.
  Treatment.—Aconite and Bell,  are  still
remedies in the early stage alternated every
hour or two. If ulcers appear in the throat,
or if it is much swollen,  omit  the Aeon, and
give Bell, and Merc. cor. for men,  Merc. sol.
for women and children.  If the throat  re-
mains  ulcerated for  some  days,  after the
fever  has somewhat subsided, omit these
remedies and give Hydr. (ten drops in a gill
of water,) in teaspoonful doses, every two or
three hours, and gargle the throat after each
dose, with a wash of the same, a  teaspoon- 
fevers.               35
 ful to a gill.  I  have very recently seen  the
 most beautiful effects  from this use of Hydr.
 in cases where the throat is badly  ulcerated.
 In obstinate cases, Merc. iod. may be  prefer-
 able to other forms of Mercurius.
  3.--Scarlatina Maligna—Malignant Scarlet Fever.
  This is a still  more  dangerous form of the
 disease.  The prostration of strength is much
 greater,   the pulse  weak and quick,—the
 throat dark red and ulcerated—there is  ex-
 tremely bad, fetid  breath,—the nostrils  are
 often excoriated or raw with a fetid, acrid
 discharge, and  there  is a tendency to gan-
 grene of the throat, and general sinking.
  Treatment.—When these symptoms  ap-
 pear, give several doses of Ammon. carb. five
 drops in a gill of water, a teaspoonful every
 hour  or  two.  This will frequently change
 the dark, threatening color of the throat;
 and  other  corresponding symptoms, in a
 short time. Follow this with Hydr. as above
 for a gargle, and give Ars. every two or three
 hours. Most of the cases, even of malignant
 scarlet fever, will be cured by this treatment.
 I need not  say how hopeless they are with
 the common treatment.
  The treatment given for this disease, in  its
 malignant form, is equally applicable to the
 disease which has  appeared in several parts
 of the country, under the name of the "black
tongue,"  or  malignant  erysipelas.   For 
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dropsy  that sometimes  follows  Scarlatina,
Ars. and Apis, every two hours.
                 Diptheria.
  This disease has some resemblance, in char-
acter  and symptoms,  to Malignant Scarla-
tina.  From its  late prevalence  and its fre-
quent fatality it is very important that its
symptoms and treatment should be well un-
derstood. In  its simplest forms, it usually
comes on with  chilliness, fever and languor.
These symptoms are attended with redness,
heat,  and soreness of the throat, and more
or less pain on swallowing.
  Treatment.—When  it appears only in this
simple form, Bell, ever}' two hours, is the ap-
propriate remedy ;  or, if there is much fever-
ish heat, alternate with Aeon. If the throat
is red and sore, a gargle of a teaspoonful of
tincture of Bell,  to a tumbler of water, after
each dose of Bell., has a charming effect.  But
if the disease goes on, there are soon other
sj'mptoms.  There is more or less swelling of
the throat, externally and  internally,  the
nose  is  stopped, and  discharges a thin or
ropy  mucus,  the patient is more prostrate
and languid,  and complains of general sore-
ness or  lameness.   When  these symptoms
occur, give  Bell, and Merc, every  hour cr
two.
  But there is often sickness of the stomach,
with  pain and tenderness on pressure, great 
DIPHTHERIA.
37
weakness,  sweating  or  moist skin, with
patches of false membrane over various parts
of the  throat, of an ash or straw  color.
Sometimes these patches are  very small—
mere  points  and few—sometimes  numerous
and large.  With these  symptoms  there is
fetid breath  and often  fetid discharge from
the nose. In this condition Am. carb. is in-
dispensable,  three or four drops in a gill of
water, a teaspoonful dose every hour, for five
or six hours.  Then if the membrane is  not
thrown off,  Merc, and Bell, alternated every
hour  or two.  When the glands  are  much
swollen and the breath very fetid,  Chininum
arsenicosum as in Malignant Scarlatina, may
save the patient when other remedies fail.  In
these  worst  cases gargle the throat with
Hydr.  and if there is great prostration or
diarrhoea give it as in Scarlatina.   A recent
successful treatment, for the false membrane
in the throat, is Kalibich. and Merc. iod. in
alternation every two hours.
  There are  other remedies often important
as Nitric and  Sulphuric Acid, Bromine and
Iodine, which are difficult to keep by families,
for use.  Indeed,  this  formidable disease
should be in the hands of a physician  when-
ever a  competent one  can be  had.  If the
patient complains of heat and burning in the
throat, there is no gargle so good as Cayenne
Pepper in  water, of considerable  strength, 
38       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
every two or three hours,  at the same time
giving  teaspoonful  doses between, till the
burning sensation ceases.
             Variola—Small Pox.
  This usually comes on withachill, followed
by high fever and severe pain in the head and
back.  In about three days the eruption ap-
pears as small red points, which gradually
enlarge and fill with pus  and finally assume
the form of a ring with  a depression in the
center which  is characteristic  of the small-
pox pustule. These pustules dry up and form
scabs.
  Treatment.—When the fever  is high, give
Aeon,  every two  hours,  for several  doses,
then Bry. to bring out the eruption.   When
the pustules begin to fall,  give  Tart. em. till
they are pretty well dried up.  This is proba-
bly the most important remedy in this disease.
It 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.

        Varioloid—Modified Small  Pox.
  This is an abortive form  of Small Pox which
occurs in persons who have been vaccinated,
and requires treatment on the same principles
as Small Pox. 
MEASLES.
39
               Rubeol a —Measles.
   This conies on with languor, a coarse, harsh
 cough, watery eyes, and fever,  with pains in
 the limbs,headache, and chilliness.  Theerup-
 tion appears about thefourth day, but before
 this it may be seen on the roof  of the mouth
 and throat.
   Treatment.—The remedy  from the first is
 Gels., but  in  smaller  doses than  in  fever,
 three drops in a  tumbler of water, a  tea-
 spoonful every two or  three hours, till the
 fever  subsides.  If the cough should remain
' troublesome, Bry., Puis, or Phos., every three
 or four hours.
   The fever accompanying the measles cannot
 be at once "broken  up,"like other fevers, but
 can be greatly moderated during its course
 by Gels., and  the eruption under its use  is
 often but trifling.  If there is troublesome
 dry cough, or nausea, or diarrhoea,  Ipecac.
             Varicella - Chicken Pox.
   Is very much in appearance like Varioloid,
 but milder, and runs its course much quicker.
 The pustules being matured by  the third  day
 and dried up by the sixth day.  In most cases
 no treatment is necessary.   If  there is some
 fever, Aeon, may be given.   If there  is great
 restlessness,  Coff.  If the brain  is  affected,
 Bell. 
40       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
              Roseola—Rose Rash.
  This is an  eruption  of very small,  bright
 red spots scattered over the body.  There is
 generally but little if any fever, but it occas-
 ionally puts  on a form resembling Scarlatina,
 attended  with catarrhal symptoms.
  Treatment.—If there is fever, a  few doses
 of Aeon, should be given followed by Bell.
             Urticaria—Nettle Rash.
  This is characterized by spots or wheals of
 various sizes over the body, generally white
 or a little red, and surrounded by a rose col-
 ored circle.  It is a constitutional disease and
 requires general treatment.   It is very com-
 monly the result  of indigestion produced by
 improper food.   The attack  is preceded by
 restlesssness,  oppression, want of appetite,
 and fever.  When the eruption appears these
 symptoms are somewhat relieved,  but there
 is a good deal  of itching  and sometimes
 swelling.  The eruption  sometimes suddenly
 disappears and the patient suffers from nau-
 sea, vomiting and fever.   In this case Bry. is
 the proper remedy to restore the eruption.
                   Itch.
  Croton  tig.  and Lobel., alternately, every
six or eight  hours, will  generally moderate
the itching in a single  day, and  as I know,
from experience, cure the disease in a week or 
ITCH.
41
two.  If it fails after this length of time, or is
not improving, give Merc.cor.  three times a
day for a week,and the first remedies, as before.
Drying up the disease suddenly by external ap-
pliance, is a  dangerous practice, often pro-
ducing a variety of internal disorders,  and
sometimes death.
  If the disease is incorrigible, however, there
is no  danger in a  weak  sulphur  ointment,
(one part of sulphur to ten of lard,) thorough-
ly rubbed into the sores at the same time that
Sulphur, in Homoeopathic doses, is taken in-
ternally, three times a day.
                 Erysipelas.
  Consists in a diffused, and, at first, bright)
afterwards dark redness of the skin, with
burning and fever.  It appears in three forms;
the simple, vesicular, and  phlegmonous.
  It often appears about  the head  and face,
and is then a dangerous disease.
  Treatment.—In the simple form, consist-
ing of a simple diffused redness without great
swelling. Bell, alone, or alternated with Aeon.,
is sufficient every two, three or  four hours.
  In the vesicular form, that is, where blisters
rise on the inflamed skin,  if it is on the head
and face, Bell, and Rhus.  If on other parts,
the same,  or Rhus, and Graph.,  or Hepar.
  In this form of Erysipelas, Canth. is a  suc-
cessful remedy, given in pellets every two or 
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 three hours, and a wash of the tinctuie, ten
 drops to a gill of water,  applied to the parts
 which are to be kept wet with it. .
  In the phlegmonous form, that is, when the
 pain is  deep seated, and the inflammation
 extends beyond the skin, in the parts beneath,
 with a good deal of swelling and severe pain,
 the two last remedies are good, but Apis  mel.
 is probably the most reliable remedy.  It  may
 be given alone, or alternated with Bell,  and
 Rhus, every two or three hours.
  In all  other forms of Erysipelas, an appli-
 cation of freshly-mashed  cranberries will have
 an excellent effect.
                Rheumatism.
  Is characterized by pain or soreness  or stiff-
 ness, affecting generally the joints or muscles,
 but sometimes the periosteum or bone  sheath,
 or the pericardium or heart sheath.   The in-
 flammation frequently  wanders  from  one
 point to another.  The disease when acute is
 accompanied by an irregular fever  and  pro-
 fuse sweats.
  Treatment.—If it is attended with severe
 pain, redness and swelling and fever, espec-
ially if it comes on rather suddenly with chills,
give Gels.  By keeping up a perspiration with
 this for a short time,  the disease will fre-
quently be terminated.   If not, give Aeon.
and Bell,   alternately  every  two  or three 
RHEUMATISM.
43
hours.  When the inflammation has become
somewhat diminished, give Bry. and Colchi-
cutn one drop alternately every two hours.
  When Rheumatism changes its place from
one part to another, give Bry. and Puis., two
or three hours apart.
  If there is profuse sweating, which does not
relieve,  but  only  weakens the patient, as
sometimes occurs in this disease, give  Merc.
cor. for men,  or Merc.  sol.  for women  and
children, every two or three hours, till this
state is corrected.
  This treatment will cure a majority of cases
quicker than  they usually are cured, but there
are chronic and complicated cases of Rheuma-
tism, which require skill and  experience.  If
the disease has been long standing, electricity
becomes an indispensable aid.
          Neuralgia—Pain of a Nerve.
  The locality of this disease is  very various,
and wherever located, very  distressing.  One
side of the face  or head,  is a  very common
location.  It  occurs most  frequently in feeble
and nervous  females.
  Treatment.—A majority  of all cases will
be promptly  relieved by Gels.,  but it  some-
times requires to  be given in pretty large
doses, repeated every half hour till the pain
is relieved. Aeon, in drop doses of the tinct-
ure, and a wash of equal  parts of the same 
44      PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

and water, applied over the painful nerve, is
often equally effectual; but if any feeling of
numbness is  produced, it  should be at once
stopped.
  The disease usually consists of paroxysms
with intervals of ease.  During these intervals
give Ars. every two or three hours.
  If connected with disordered  menstruation
or female difficulties, Mac, Puis,  and Sep.
during the intervals, only one at a time, every
three or four hours.

             Cankered Sore Mouth.
  Give Merc. cor. and  wash with Hydrastis
every half hour.

        Pharyngitis—Simple Sore Throat.
  In the first stage  a few doses of  Gels, will
often effect a speedy cure.   If not, Bell, and
Arum or Merc, every two or three hours.   If
the throat becomes ulcerated, use a gargle of
Hydr. frequently, as in scarlet fever, and give
Merc. iod. or Merc. sol.  If fever, Aeon.
       Quinsy—Inflammation of the Tonsils.
  In this disease the tonsils or glands of  the
throat, on one or both sides, areswollen, red,
sore, and painful.   The pain often extends to
the ears.  It  is produced by a cold.
  Treatment.—Aeon,  and Bell,  while there
is much fever.  If there is but little fever, Bell. 
neuralgia.              45
and Merc. iod.  If not soon  improved, Apis.
In those, subject to the attacks of  Quinsy, it
will usually be avoided by washing the neck
every morning with cold water, and rubbing
it  well, and gargling  the throat with the
same.
     Peritonitis—Inflammation of the Bowels.
  By this we mean inflammation of the outer
or peritoneal coat of the bowels.   It usually
comes on like  other inflammatory diseases,
with a chill.  This is accompanied or followed
by pain over some part or the  whole of the
abdomen, which is sharp and severe, often
burning.   The  abdomen becomes sensitive
and painful to the least pressure, and is more
or less enlarged or swollen.  A full breath is
painful.  There is often vomiting;  the face is
pale, and looks anxious and  suffering.   The
breathing is short and quick, and the pulse
quick and small; the  disease is  dangerous,
and may be fatal in two or three days.
  Treatment.—During  the  early or chilly
stage give Gels,  as in  fever, and  keep up a
perspiration for some  time,  till the pain
and fever abate.   But if this fails of giving
some relief after a few hours, give Aeon, and
Bell,  alternately every two hours  till the
violence of the  disease  abates;  afterwards
Bell, and Merc, every three or four hours.
After the patient is fairly recovering, if there 
46       practical homoeopathy.

is constipation, give Nux at bed time.
  Throughout the disease, cloths wrung out
of hot water, laid on the bowels and covered
with flannel, and copious hot water injections
greatly aid the cure.
      Hepatitis —Inflammation of the Liver.
  This I known by pain just under the edges
of the lower rib of the right  side and pit of
the stomach,  with  tenderness on pressure.
There is often a feeling of fullness  in this
region, pain on taking a deep breath,  and a
sympathetic pain in the right shoulder. If it
proceeds very far there is obvious enlargement
of the liver, producing a visible fullness in the
region, constant  dull  or sharp  pain,  and a
good deal of fever.  There is a loss of appetite,
perhaps  nausea and bilious  vomiting;  the
bowels are costive, or there is looseness, with
discharges of unnatural colorfrom unhealthy
bile.  The skin and eyes are often somewhat
tinged with yellow.  There'is often a dry,
hacking cough.
  It frequently comes on with a chill.
  Treatment.—In the early  or chilly  stage,
Gels, is the  most likely  to "breakup"  the
disease by copious perspiration.  This remedy
has the advantage of acting very quickly, so
that if it fails, as it seldom does, not  much
time is lost. Two or three doses will  deter-
mine  whether the  expected  effect  is to be 
HEPATITIS.
47
realized, the dose repeated every half hour.
If it produces  perspiration, or  abates  the
fever and pain, it should be continued as long
as it does good.
  If it fails, Aeon, and Bell,  may be given
every two hours till the acuteness of the  dis-
ease is abated.  If some  soreness and pain
remain, the remedies are Bell., Merc, Nux,
China, Pod. and Bry.
  Bell, is preferable if there is restlessness, full-
ness or pain of the head, fullness of the pit of
the  stomach,  difficult breathing, thirst or
dizziness;  Bryonia,  if there is  a feeling of
tightness,  burning  or stinging in the liver,
more when  pressing it, or when coughing or
deep breathing.
  Merc if there is a yellowness of the skin,
bitter taste, and tendency to chilliness.
  Pod. for the  same symptons and irregular,
loose state  of the  bowels, or nausea.
  Nux if there is considerable  tenderness of
the liver, thirst, red  urine and constipation.
  China applies to  almost  all  the above
symptoms,  especially if there is considerable
weakness.  Either of these may be given every
three or four hours. 
48       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
                  COLDS.
Cold in the Head—Coryza, and Cold affecting the Bron-
      chia—Bronchitis —Bronchial Catarrh—
              Cold on the Lungs.
  Treatment.—If a  cold  affecting any of
these parts comes on with a chill, or with a
soreness or rawness of the throat,  windpipe
or bronchia, extendingintothe chest, or fever,
Gels, is the prompt and sovereign remedy.  A
single dose will often "break up " the violence
of the disease, remove the inflammation and
soreness, and leave only a mild,  loose cough,
which will only require a few doses of Bry. or
Puis.  The patient with a  cold  at all  severe
should go to  bed and keep  quiet and  warm
till better. Medicine produces a vastly bet-
ter effect when the patient is in bed, and keeps
in a quiet and passive state, than when he is
moving about.
  If a cold is confined to the head, with stop-
page of the nose,  Nux  is the remedy every
two or three hours till relieved.
  If there is profuse, watery, or acid discharge
from the nose, Kali hyd. is perhaps the best
remedy, but ,4rs. and Merc. sol.  are effectual.
  If there is a rough, raw, sore feeling of the
throat or chest,  with  tightness, oppressed
breathing and painful cough, Gels, is the rem-
edy till these symptoms subside.  Kali hyd.
and Phos. ate good remedies.  When only a
loose, painless cough remains, Tart, em., Bry.> 
COLDS.
49
 Merc, or Puis., will soon complete the cure.
 Abstain from food as in fever  till the cold is
 relieved.  If thereisdeep soreness of thechest,
 and fever, Aeon., Bry., Phos. or Tart. em. are
 the best remedies.  If catarrh  has continued
 a long time, Cutler's  Inhaler is the most cer-
 tain remedy.
                  Influenza. .
  Is only an aggravated form of the above
 affection, prevailing periodically or epidemi-
 cally.
  Treatment.—Similar  to the above—Gels.
 is the  first  remedy. If the symtoms are se-  '
 vere. .Irs. and Merc, or Kali. iod.
      Pneumonia—Inflammation of the Lungs.
  This is distinguished  from  the preceding
affection of the bronchia by  the following
symptoms:
  It usually comes on  with a chill,  followed
by high fever,  a full,  strong, quick pulse,
 short difficult breathing, a dull pain in one
side of the chest, generally the right, which
prevents a full breath, white-coated tongue,
and red cheeks.   The pain in the side is some-
times changeable in its location for hours be-
fore  it settles  in one  fixed place.  There is
cough from the first.  The expectoration is
 at first, white  and  viscid, or sticky  and
 
50       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

to the nature of the  disease there need be no
longer, after this  reddish expectoration ap-
pears, for this is a sure sign of inflammation
of the lungs.
  Treatment.—In the first or chilly  stage of
the disease, as in most other inflammatory dis-
eases, Gels, is capable of breaking up the dis-
ease.  If the disease has become established,
the remedies are Aeon.,  Bry.,  Phos., Tartar
em. and Sulph.  I believe Bry. to be the near-
est to a specific  for Pneumonia.  In many
cases it is the only  one needed.  But if the
fever is very high, and the pain and  soreness
great, give Aeon, and Bry. alternately every
two hours without change.  Phos.  may be
given instead of Aeon, if the fever is  not ex-
cessive, if there is great weakness, bloody ex-
pectoration, or burning in the lungs.  Tart.
em. if there  is  great  difficulty of breathing,
gasping for air; if expectoration is  delayed,
or  there is great  rattling  of mucus in the
chest.
  Sulph. if recovery is  slow and difficult—a
few doses.

      Pleurisy—Inflammation of the Pleura.
  This consists of inflamm ation of the covering
membrane of the lungs.  It  has many of the
general  symptoms  of  Pneumonia,  but the
pain in the side is sharp, acute, stitching, in-
stead of dull.  It is impossible to take a full 
INFLAMMATIONS.    -       51
breath on account of this sharp pain.  The
pulse is sharper and smaller—there is less ex-
pectoration, and it is not bloody, unless it be
some  small streaks  of blood.  Not unfre-
quently the two diseases are combined,  con-
stituting what is called  pleuro-pneumonia.
  The same remedies are applicable  as  in
Pneumonia.

      Nephritis— Inflammation of the Kidneys.
  This usually comes on like most inflamma-
tory  diseases,  with a chill, accompanied or
followed by pain in the  back, (not in the
spine, but on one or both sides of it; that is
in the location of the kidneys,) tenderness on
pressure in  this region,  fever,  nausea, often
vomiting, the urine scanty and  high-colored,
often bloody—the bowels  constipated.  The
pain  often  extends down  to the groin and
neck of the bladder.
  Treatment.—Gels, as in other inflammato-
ry diseases, in the early stage, is the remedy,
continued as long as it  gives relief.  This, if
commenced early,  "will break it up"  by per-
spiration .
  If this has been neglected, or  if the disease
has continued for some time,  and Gels, fails
of producing the desired effect,  and the  pain
shoots from the kidneys down to the bladder,
and there is colicky pain, give Bell, every hour
or two. 
 52      PRACTICAL'HOMOEOPATHY.

  If there are  shooting,  tearing  or cutting
 pains,  with  very  scanty urine,  which  is
 is passed with pain,  Canth. every two  or
 three hours.  In general, these two remedies
 may be given to advantage, alternately.
  During the treatment the bowels should be
 freely moved by copious injections of water,
 making a free use of warm hip-baths; that is,
 sitting in a tub of quite  warm water, deep
 enough to come up over the hips.
       Cystitis—Inflammation of the Bladder.
  This comes on with the same general symp-
 toms as the last  disease, with pain in the
 bladder, constant  desire to pass urine, which
 is very scanty at each discharge, often bloody,
 and passed with terrible pain, often with nau-
 sea and vomiting.  There is a feeling of weight
 is the region of the bladder, and tenderness  to
 pressure.
  Treatment.—The treatment is nearly the
 same as that  of Nephritis. If not  soon  re-
 lieved by Gels, give Aeon,  every  hour till the
 fever is somewhat abated,  and the most dis-
 tressing  symptoms somewhat  moderated,
 then Canth., every two or three hours.
      Meningitis—Inflammation of the Brain.
  This disease is characterized by pain of the
head, rolling the head  from side to side,  di-
lated or  contracted pupils, throbbing of the
arteries of the neck and temples, delirium, 
MENINGITIS.
53
sometimes followed by drowsiness or stupor.
There is fever, with quick pulse.   It is very
apt to end in convulsions, when fatal.

  Treatment.—The chief remedies are Aeon.,
Bell, and Bry.  Give the two first alternately,
overy two hours, till the fever and other symp-
toms are somewhat abated; then  Bell,  and
Bry. every  three  hours.  Persevere  in  this
theatment even though the improvement may
not be very perceptible.  Do  not irritate and
forfhent the patient with blisters, mustard
plasters, or any other irritating applications.
Shut out all strong light, avoid all noise, and
especially conversation within hearing of the
patient, (and the hearing is very acute in this
disease;) keep the  room well "aired  and of
comfortably  cool temperature,  and  disturb
and excite the patient as little as possible.
Do not apply cold water to the head.  I have
been entirely satisfied for years, that vastly
more mischief than good is  done by cold ap-
plications in this disease.  Clothes wet in hot
water  may be now and then  applied  for a
short time only, with benefit; keep the bowels
free by injections of water,  and keep  the feet
warm.  Sponge over the surface of the body
with warm water,  if the patient is hot and
restless.
  In  advanced  stages,  with dilated  pupils,
stupor, and other evidences of dropsy of the 
54       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

brain, Helleborus, Merc and Apis, are neces
sary.
      Ophthalmia—Inflammation of the Eyes.
  Symptoms.—Bright redness, pain and heat,
intolerance of light;  dryness  or watery or
thick discharge. If severe, with headache and
fever and  redness of the whole white of the
eye.
  Treatment.—Aeon, every two hours.  If
there is deep redness and pain  of a pricking,
burning or smarting  character, and  profuse
watery discharge.  Bell., when these symp-
toms are somewhat subdued and there exists
redness, puffing of the eyes, aching pains in
the  eye-ball or  orbit, pain on moving the
eyes, &c.
  Merc after Bell, or when there are  cutting
pains or pain as from sand  in  the eyes, flow
of tears, intolerance of light, pain in orbit or
forehead, or inflammation of the iris or col-
ored part of the eye.
  Sulphur in very obstinate cases.
  Never apply cold water or other cold wash
to inflamed eyes.  Hot water is the best ap-
plication for acute, painful inflammation of
the eyes.
  Chronic  Ophthalmia  or  inflammation of
the  eyes of long standing, requires  Hepar.,
Ars., Sulph., Calc and a different class of local
applications, of which the physician can alone
judge. 
        cerebrospinal meningitis.     <~>5

     Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis - Spotted Fever,
  This disease has become so .prevalent and
so fatal, that it is very important to be ac-
quainted with its symptoms, so as to give it
the earliest possible attention.
  It usually comes on suddenly with  a chill
accompanied and followed by severe  head-
ache, pains in the back  and limbs, and often
vomiting.  Though  the body  is not usually
very hot, the pulse is quick and the breathing
rapid.   Delirium, a tendency to  throw the
head backwards, squinting of the eyes, double
vision  and  convulsions  frequently  follow.
Often, but not always, the second  or third
day, red spots of various size  appear on the
body and limbs, which  gives the  disease the
name of Spotted Fever.
  Treatment.—A few doses of Aeon, should
usually commence  the treatment, whether
there is fever or not.  Then  a selection is to
be made from Bell., Gels., Ars., Bry. and Rhus.
Bell, if the head is strongly affected,  with de-
lirium, flushed face, eyes red, with the pupils
dilated or contracted, or convulsions, head-
aches severe.
  Gels, if the patient has  a dull,  stupid, in-
toxicated feeling of the head ; dull, stupefying
headache, dizziness,  difficulty of keeping the
eves open, dim, blurred sight or double vision.
  Ars., tenderness and pain in the  nape of the
neck, with stiffness  and bruised feeling, dry 
 56      PRACTICAL homoeopathy.

 tongue, foul discharge from  the bowels and
 great weakness.
  Bry., heat of the body which prevents sleep,
 but chilliness  when  uncovered; parts of the
 body on which one  lies  ache,  violent head-
 ache,  increasing  intolerably  by  stooping,
 white or yellow coat of the tongue.
  Opium, great drowsiness and stupor.
  Cuprum may become an important remedy
 in the paralysis and mental  derangement
 which sometimes remains after the disease
 has subsided.
  When the symptoms nearly equally indicate
 two of the above remedies, they may be given
 alternately.
                    Stye.
  Puis., Hepar.,  or, what is  generally  more
 certain, Apis mel. three times a day.  Not un-
 frequently one or two doses will cure a stye
 when taken early.
                   Corns.
  Shave them close, and apply a little patch
 of cloth on which is placed a drop of the gum
 from  the white  pine.  Let it remain  till it
 comes off of itself,  when  the corn will have
 generally disappeared; if not, apply it again.
 This is a sovereign remedy.  But "this takes
 time.   If the patient is in a hurry to get cured,
 touch  the  whole surface of "the corn with
strong Nitric acid, or Carbolic acid. 
            BURNS, BRUSES, ETC.          57

                  Chilblains.
  An application of Am. tinct., a teaspoonful
to a gill of water,  affords  temporary relief,
but internal remedies are necessary.  Of these
in ordinary cases Agaricus is one of the best.
  If the parts become of a bluish red color, Bell.
  If there is troublesome itching, Nux, and if a
few doses do not relieve, Sulph.
  If the parts are very painful, Phos.  Any of
these may be given every three or four hours
till an  improvement begins.
        Stings of Insects, Bees, Wasps, Etc.
  Ledum taken internally, and applied exter-
nally is a  very  effectual  remedy for these
stings,  as well  as  the bites  of  mosquitoes,
flies, etc., allaying the itching and pain in a
few minutes.
  I am indebted to Professor Hill for the in-
formation that a fresh onion applied to the
part is a quick and effectual remedy.  If ap-
plied immediately, it relieves in a few minutes;
if later, it  of course takes longer.  A fresh
piece should  be  applied every ten or fifteen
minutes.  Ammon. carb. applied to the part,
and taken internally often produces the same
result.
        Bites of Rattlesnakes, Spiders, Etc
  I have been for many years convinced from
actual  knowledge  of many  cases, that the
most safe and effectual remedy  is alcohol  in 
58       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

any of its forms that can be most easily pro-
cured ; as alcohol so much diluted as to ren-
der it tolerable, rum,  whisky, gin or brandy.
It should be  taken in large  doses, every fif-
teen or twenty minutes till the symptoms  be-
gin to abate,  or the patient feels its  effect.
At the same time the  part bitten should be
kept wet with the same.  It is surprising-
how large a quantity will be sometimes borne
in these  cases.  A  quart or two of strong
brandy has been taken in an hour  or  two,
without  any  perceptible effect than to kill
the poison and  cure  the patient.   But the
poison of alcohol proves quite a match  for
rattlesnake poison. It seems not to  produce
intoxication  till enough has been taken  to
fully neutralise the poison,  and the excess
only produces the ordinary effect.

              Burns and Scalds.
  Apply  as   quickly  as  possible,  alcohol,
whisky,  rum, brandy, spirits turpentine  or
soft soap, lime water  and linseed oil in equal
parts, or cosmoline, and keep it on, and keep
the part  thoroughly protected from the  air
till the pain subsides.   Nothing is better than
soft soap, and this  is  generally  at hand.  I
have seen this applied from  my early  boy-
hood, and  have never  seen anything  do
better.  Cold water though  it feels comfort-
able for a moment, is a very bad application. 
CARBUNCLE.             59
The above treatment cures burns in half the
time.   If there is fever, give Aeon.
Mechanical Injuries, Blows, Falls, Bruises, Sprains,
                    Etc.
  Arnica is the great remedy in  these  acci-
dents.  It should be taken internally in pel-
lets, and the parts injured rubbed frequently,
or kept wet with Am.  tinct.,  a teaspoonful
in half a pint of water.  If inflammation and
fever follow, give Aeon.
  But where the skin is broken, or  the  flesh
torn,  Calendula  is  the remedy, used exter-
nally  the same as Am.
  It acts like magic in allaying pain and pre-
venting inflammation.  The edges of the cut
or torn wounds should, of course, be brought
as near together as possible,  and kept there.
                 Carbuncle.
  This appears at first,  much  like a  common
boil, but larger and much more painful, and
with much more  constitutional disorder.  It
does not come to a point like a boil, but is
broad  and flat  on  the  top, with several
openings instead of one.  It is attended  with
chills, loss of  appetite,  depression of spirits,
fever and  prostration.
  It more commonly appears on the back, or
the neck.  It is attended with great destruc-
tion of the flesh, which •mortifies  and  falls
out, leaving  a large cavity which is  very 
60      PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

slow in healing.  At the  close the patient is
as much reduced as after a long fever.
  Treatment.—Give in  the  beginning,  Am-
mon. carb. three drops in a gill of water,
teaspoonful doses  every  two  hours,  and
apply a cloth wet in the  same,  (but twice as
strong, and hot,) to the  part—continue it as
long as it does good. If it goes on and open-
ings appear in it,  and the pain is not abated,
stop this, and give Ars.  every two  or  three
hours.  At the same time apply caustic pot-
ash, 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.  Apply this once
daily, placing over it a warm soft poultice of
slippery elm, flax seed,  or bread.  The  above
treatment is much better and more success-
ful than that ordinarily practiced.  The ap-
plication of the caustic speedily changes and
relieves the terrible burning pain of the car-
buncle, and Ars. aids in  this, and preserves
the system from running down, and greatly
shortens  the   disease.   Carbuncle  should
never be laid open by the knife.

Malignant Pustule or Carbuncle of the Extremities.
  This affection is of frequent occurrence dur-
ing some seasons. It much resembles the or-
dinary carbuncle, but being located on  the
small extremities, it  cannot acquire  so  great 
FELON.
61
a size,  and is more rapid in its course.  It
seems at first,  like the bite  of  some insect,
and the patient generally thinks it is.  It is
at first a little red, somewhat pointed eleva-
tion like a small boil, with  the appearance
of a little hole  in  the tip.  It is painful  and
burning.  The inflammation increases rapidly,
and runs up the limb.  If it occurs on the toe,
for example—the  whole top of the foot be-
comes rapidly red and swollen.
  If it goes on, it  soon has  several openings
in it like a carbuncle, and ends in suppura-
tion, and destruction of the substance,  leav-
ing a  large opening. It is attended with a
pretty  severe,  generally burning pain,  and
considerable feverish disturbance.
  Treatment.—Ammon. carb. is the specific
and effectual remedy, given  as in carbuncle,
and applied  in the same way.   The pain is
often  relieved  in fifteen  minutes, and in
twenty-four hours the whole character of the
disease is changed and the inflammation sub-
dued.   Since using this  remedy, we have not
found occasion for any other.

               Felon—Whitlow.
  Apply as early  as  possible,  strong Nitric
acid or lye over the  whole inflamed surface.
If the application  is  painful,  apply over it a
warm poultice  till the pain subsides.  If not
soon cured, lance it to the bottom. 
62       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

  For the last few years we have found  a
fresh lemon a sovereign remedy.
  Cover the affected part of the finger with a
slice of fresh lemon, and renew it every two
or three hours. It gives immediate  relief to
the terrible pain, and soon cures the  disease.
    AFFECTIONS OF THE STOMACH
             AND ABDOMEN.
                Constipation.
  A dose of Nux every night is often effectual.
Bry. in hot weather.   If it arise  from torpid
liver and want of bile, Lep.   When very ob-
stinate with very dry, hard fecass, Plumbum.
Physic or laxatives in any form greatly in-
crease this difficulty.   A few doses  of Sulph.
is  sometimes  effectual,  but diet should  be
greatly depended on for the cure of  constipa-
tion.  Avoid  all high-seasoned food, stimu-
lants and coffee; live largely, and if necessary,
exclusively for a time, upon Indian mush, rye
mush, Graham mush, cracked wheat,  with
syrup and a little cream, and ripe fruit, es-
pecially  apples, figs, oranges and prunes.
Collinsonia has proved an efficient remedy.
                 Diarrhoea.
  Under this head,  we do not include the dis-
ease in infants.   In ordinary cases, if it is
produced by improper food, Nux and Ipecac 
DIARRHOEA.
63
for men, and Puis, and  Ipecac for  women.
A dose after each evacuation will be all that
is necessary.
   If the  discharges are copious and watery,
Ars.  If not soon improved,-24#®r-enid Verat.,
or Phos. acid.
   If  the evacuations are  bilious, yellow,
green or dark,  Merc, or  Pod., or—both alter--
-,^—
   If they contain undigested food, Ars. or
China,  or  Phos.  acid, a dose  in  all cases,
after each evacuation.
   If the disease is at  all bad, the patient
should remain quiet in bed and abstain from
food till cured.
   If the  disease  has been of long  standing,
 Sulph.  may sometimes  be necessary.   But
generally it will be cured by Ars. or Pod. and
Lept. alternately.
   A patient whoappliedto me for a  diarrhoea
 of two years standing, contracted  in  Pana-
 ma, and who  had paid over $500 to Allo-
 pathic physicians without benefit, was cured
 with a small vial of Ars. When  the disease
 has  continued  for a  long time  and  the
 bowels are much  weakened, Hydr. is  a very
effectual remedy, in doses of one-half drop or
 one drop.   Of late CEnothea, a drop or  two
 after each evacuation has proved an effectual
 remedy.
   In dysentery  of long  standing,  Pod.  and 
64       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY,

Lept.  alternately,   are  effectual remedies.
Keep the patient in bed.  If there is much
blood  in  the evacuations  Erigeron is the
most effectual remedy.
             Colic—Stomach Ache.
  Treatment.  If this  arises from  indiges-
tion or improper food, Nux or Puis.   If from
cold drinks, ice cream, etc., Ars.
  In bilious or wind  colic  with violent  pain
coming on in paroxysms, with large disposi-
tion to bend forward, Coloc. in pretty large
doses is a most prompt remedy7, often curing
the most violent colic almost instantaneous-
ly.  If necessar}- it may be repeated in a few
minutes.  Dioscorea is equally good.
  If there is  great  restlessness  and bilious
vomiting or diarrhoea,  Cham, or  Pod.  In
flatulent colic, or colic from  wind, Nux,  Co-
loc or Cham.
                Sea Sickness.
  Treatment.— A   dose   of   Nux   taken
half  an  hour  before  going  on   board,
will frequently  prevent  this  for  some time.
When it is felt, Nux Ipecac,  Ars., Puis, and
Mac are very effectual remedies.  One agrees
better with some persons, and another with
others. Armed with these remedies one need
not suffer much from sea sickness. In obstinate
cases Petroleum  and Silicea are sometimes
necessary, or  Cocculus. 
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65
                  Worms.
The three kinds of worms which usually in-
habit the digestive canal are:
  1st.  Ascaris lumbricoides or long round
worm.   They are from  6 to  10 inches in
length, and inhabit chiefly the intestines, but
sometimes pass up into the stomach, mouth,
ornostrils. Symptoms:  Occasional fever and
pain in the bowels, starting in sleep, picking
the nose, pale circle around the mouth, irreg-
ular appetite,etc.  All of these symptoms how-
ever may arise from indigestion when there
are no  worms.   The  only reliable sign is
the sight of the worm.
  Treatment.—Santonine  2nd trit., every
night, or what is equally  as good, Cina two
or  three times daily.   But what are taken
for worm symptoms are  often  the result of
improper food, and are best cured  by Nux,
Puis., Ipecac or  Pod.  When fever  attends
worm symptoms, Aeon.
  2nd.  Taenia solium—Tape Worm.  These
worms  measure from 9 to 35 feet in length.
Symptoms are more severe and persistent
than  those produced by  the round worm,
and are accompanied by the passage of seg-
ments of the worm  about Vi of an inch in
length.
  Treatment.—Pumpkin seeds  ground in a
mortar to a pulp, in doses of two  or three 
66       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
ounces, fasting, and followed in a few • hours
by a full dose of castor oil.
  Kousso is a very certain and effectual rem-
edy.  Take  half an  ounce and  steep in half
pint of water, sweeten it, and  give it all in
divided doses during the day  and evening,
without any food.  In the morning give an
ounce  of castor  oil.  This  seldom fails  to
bring away the tape worm if there is one.
  3rd.  Oxyuris  vermicularis—Pin  worms,
These worms inhabit the rectum or lower end
of the bowels.  They are slender  and  about
an inch in length.  Symptoms: Itchingat the
lower end of the bowels and the appearance of
the worms in the stools.
  Will be readily removed by  Merc,  sol.,  a
dose daily, auda daily injection of lime water.
The lime water will not be made too strong
if permitted to settle perfectly clear.—S.]
             Piles—Hemorrhoids.
  This disease consists in enlarged veins filled
with blood, either within the bowels or just
outside of the opening, or both.  The tumors
thus formed  often become very painful, in-
flamed and tender.
  Treatment.—If the  tumors are external
and very painful and sore,  apply cloths wet
in hot water. If not  soon relieved, apply a
tobacco poultice, warm.  This, in the worst
cases, will produce a temporary relief.  If it
produces any sickness, remove it at once.  In 
PILES.                67
 the meantime give Aeon,  and Bell., half an
 hour apart.  Continue this external and in-
 ternal treatment  till the  violent pains  and
 soreness are abated.
   The tumors should not be permitted to re-
 main protuded externally,  as  it gives rise to
 great suffering and mischief.  They should be
 oiled, and by careful pressure, returned en-
 tirely within the bowel, and secured there by
 a compress and bandage.
   As constipation always  increases the dif-
 ficulty, the bowels must be kept in a healthy
 state.  This is to be done by a regulated diet,
 brown bread, fruits,  etc,, and  avoiding all
 stimulating drinks and highly seasoned food,
 and by appropriate  medicine.  Nux at night
 and Pod. in the morning, will generally remove
 both the constipation  and  the  tendency to
 piles. If not, Nux one night andSulph. the next,
 continued for some time. I have cured cases
 of twenty years standing by this course.  If
 there is burning, ^4rs.
   In bleeding piles,  if the bleeding is  at all
 profuse, take Phos.,  and if not relieved in a
 few hours, Ham. one drop  every  hour, and if
 necessary, injections of agill of water and ten
 drops of the Ham.
   Avoid physic in  this disease.   If necessary,
 it is infinitely better  to use an occasional in-
jection of water.  Lept.  is  another  excellent
 remedy in this disease, twice a day. 
68      PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
               Cholera Morbus.
  This is characterized by an attack of vomit-
ing and diarrhoea  of  bilious matter,  with
pain and cramp of the stomach and bowels.
It is very distressing and may be dangerous,
but is very quickly cured by Homoeopathic
treatment.
  Treatment.—Ipecac,  alone repeated every
ten or  fifteen minutes,  is generally  very
quickly  effectual.  If the pain of the stomach
and  bowels is considerable, Coloc. may be
alternated with Ipecac.    This  relieves the
pain while Ipecac stops the vomiting.  If the
patient  has become much weakened, and the
above does not promptly  relieve, give .4rs.,
and if the diarrhoea is at all obstinate, Ars.
and  Verat.  alternately.   Iris,  is one of the
best remedies.
               Asiatic Cholera.
  In the commencement of the attack, a few
doses of camphor, in doses of a drop, will
often arrest it.  If it does not, if  vomiting is
the most prominent symptom, Ipecac every
ten or fifteen minutes is often effectual.
  But if there are copious rice-water evacua-
tions  from the bowels, and vomiting of the
same, with  thirst and prostration, the chief
reliance is to be placed upon Ars. and Verat.,
alternately every  fifteen or twenty minutes.
These are the  only remedies  generally  re- 
CHOLERA.
69
quired.  If there are cramps give Cuprum be-
tween the other doses.
  Thousands  have been cured  by these few
remedies  by the peasantry of Europe, while
from half to two-thirds of all cases were fatal
under  Allopathic  treatment.  It has every-
where been  wonderfully successful.

            Dysentery—Bloody Flux.
  This consists in inflammation of the mu-
cous membrane of the lower portion of the
bowels,  and is distinguished by  slimy and
bloody evacuation with pain and tenesmus
or straining, without discharging any of the
natural contents of the bowels.
  Treatment.—The principal remedy is Merc.
cor.  after each evacuation. If pain extends
over the bowels, or griping, give Coloc alter-
nately with Merc. cor.  or Erigeron Cana-
dense.
  When this griping is alleviated, if there is
no natural  evacuation—only  bloody mucus,
or if there are passages of little round balls,
give  Merc.  cor. and Nux.  If the disease has
become established, do not be in a hurry  to
change this treatment,  for it may require
some days to effect a change.
  If nausea  and vomiting occur, give Ipecac.
with Merc,  cor., or  if there is  much thirst
with the  nausea,  Ats.  till the sickness sub-
sides. 
70      PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

  An injection of warm water several times a
day, does a great deal of good.
  If, after  a time, the evacuations become
bilious, yellowr, brown or dark, give Pod. or
China.
                  Jaundice
Is marked by the yellowness of the skin and
eyes,  with languor, weakness, loss of appe-
tite, coated tongue and often headache.   The
urine is high-colored  and  makes  a  yellow
stain on the linen, and the evacuations  from
the bowels are a light clay color.
  Treatment.—The remedies are Lept., Merc,
China,  Pod., Nux.  Either of these may be
taken  separately, or any two of them alter-
nately every three to  six hours till improve-
ment commences, (which will seldom exceed
a Jew  days,) then less frequently.  By  these
remedies the disease is cured vastly quicker,
and the system is left in a vastly better con-
dition than  under the old mercurial treat-
ment.
  This is a disordered state of the liver, which
may be inflamed, for which see page 47.
                 Biliousness.
  This is not a scientific term, but one which
most persons understand.  One feels languid,
dull,  sleep}-, especially after dinner;  he gets
easily tired, his appetite gets impaired;  often
there is dull headache and tendency to consti- 
BILIOUSNESS.             71
pation, and the complexion loses its freshness
and becomes of a dirty appearance.  People
generally understand  that these are bilious
symptoms.   They are  not  unfrequently the
precursors of bilious fever or Jaundice.
  People having these symptoms generally
suppose  that they need  a "cleaning out,''
and accordingly take  bilious  pills,  or some
other physic, which often results in a "fit of
sickness."  We can point  out what all will
find "a more excellent way," when they try
it.
  Treatment.—Pod.  is generally the  only
necessary remedy.  A  single dose will often
remove all these unpleasant feelings in a few
days.  If not, continue in three times a day
in doses of a grain. If there is a tendency to
chilliness or an  inactive state of the bowels,
after  a day, take Nux at night and Pod. in
the morning. This course, for a short time,
will save a fit of sickness  and a doctor's bill.
        Dyspepsia—Chronic Indigestion.
  The  symptoms of dyspepsia are very nu-
merous.  Feeling of a load in  the stomach
after meals, sour eructation, heartburn, pain
of the stomach, throwing up the food, dull-
ness and pain of the head, low spirit,  nervous
symptoms, etc.
  Treatment.—For  the present relief from
the  effects of too hearty a meal Nux or Puis. 
72       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

every hour till relieved.  For permanent effect
—if  there is constipation  with other symp-
toms—Nux  before each meal, or for women
Puis.
  In ordinary cases either Nux, Puis., Phos.
or Pod. before each meal will be appropriate.
For heartburn, Nux and Ars. alone, or in al-
ternation with Phos.
  A  regular diet, the avoidance of stimulat-
ing  drinks and tonic medicines, bitters, etc.,
of highly seasoned food and physic,  are in-
dispensable.
  One need not expect to be cured of dyspep-
sia by drugging.
  In chronic cases when the stomach  has be-
come very much weakened, the use of electric-
ity will often expedite the  cure  in the most
charming manner, and save months of treat-
ment or an entire failure.
  Those of sedentary habits must abandon
confinement, and  take free exercise  in  the
open air, daily.
  Daily bathing with cold water, rubbing
the surface well, especially over the stomach
and bowels, is of great service.
  In soreness of the stomach, heartburn, ris-
ing of sour fluid into the throat, and gulp-
ing of wind,  there is no remedy so effectual
as Robinia. 
ASTHMA.
73
                  Asthma.
  Confirmed asthma is a difficult disease to
cure.  The principal  remedies are Ars.  and
Ipecac.   Either of these may be given during
a paroxysm every hour, till relieved. In nerv-
ous or hysterical women,  Aeon.,  Bell.,  Am-
bra, sometimes give relief.  Distressing  par-
oxysms  are sometimes promptly  relieved by
sufficient doses of Lobelia to produce nausea.
Gels,  sometimes  affords  very prompt relief,
especially if brought on by a cold.
  But  a change  of climate or locality effects
the greatest number of  cures.  Many persons
afflicted  with Asthma  at the East, are per-
manently relieved on moving to the West.
Horses  afflicted  with the heaves—a similar
disease—so  as to be rendersd useless at the
East, are often entirely  cured  on being taken
to the Western prairies.  This is  one of the
diseases  that is often most promptly relieved
and  evidently cured  by electricity.  Persons
who have not been  able to  lie  down  for
weeks, are  sometimes  able to  do so from a
single application. Cases which have resisted
all  other means are  sometimes cured  by
Asafcetida in two or three grain doses.
                  Cough.
  This sometimes exists without obvious in-
flammation.   Bry.,  Phos,,  Balsam  Cop.,
Mac.  or Arum  may be taken two or three
times a day. 
74       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

  Hoarseness, without fever, will be removed
by  Arum, Spongia, Hepar., Phos., Kali hyd.
or Nux.
  See the Materia  Medica, in this  volume,
and compare the remedies.
  A  hacking cough  is often produced by an
elongated palate which requires removal.

           Palpitation of the Heart.
  People who suffer from  this affection are
often frightened with apprehensions  of heart
disease.  In  a vast majority of cases  it arises
from  other  causes.  We can  only  mention
some of the more common causes and indi-
cate the proper remedies.
  From great loss  of  blood,  China.  From
too  great fullness of  habit  and  excess of
blood, Aeon.  From Anemia or pale, blood-
less condition, often seen in young  females,
Ferrum., Calc and Puis.
  From  nervous,  hysterical  temperament,
Cham., Cocculus,  Asafcetida, Coffea, Each.,
Puis., Nux.
  From severe disappointment, ^4con., Cham.,
Ign., Nux.
  From grief from loss of friends, Ign.
  From fright, Opium,  Coff.
  From fear, Verat.
  From excessive joy, Coff.
  From indigestion or dyspepsia, the  remedies
for that disease. 
        PALPITATION OF THE HEART.     75

  From the  drying up  of eruptions or old
ulcers, Ars., Caust., Each, or Sulph.
  From disease of the heart it demands skill-
ful  medical treatment.  When it cannot be
had,  Cactus is  the most  prudent and safe
remedy.
            Bleeding from the Jfose.
  When this occurs after or during many dis-
eases, as  apoplexy, epilepsy,, fevers, &c, it
is salutary and should not be interfered with
unless excessive.
  If it occurs  in  pale persons, with scanty
and thin blood, give China or Ferrum.
  If produced by a blow or contusion, Am.
  If it occurs frequently from slight causes,
Calc carb., Silicea, or  Carbo. veg.
  If it is very profuse, Aeon., Bell, or Am.
  If it accompanies  scanty  menstruation,
Macrotin  or Puis.  Hold both hands above
the head.

  Bleeding from the Stomach—Vomiting of Blood.
  If there  is fever, Aeon, or Bry., otherwise
Ipecac, or Nux  vom. or Erigeron Canadense.

           Bleeding from the Lungs.
  Treatment.—If there is much fever,  Aeon.
every hour till moderated, then Hamam., one
drop  every hour  or half hour, or even one-
fourth hour, according to urgenc}\  If there 
76      PRACTIAL HOMCEOPATHY.

is a sore, bruised feeling of the chest, Arn. is
an appropriate remedy.   If  there is much
weakness, with irritation of the lungs, Phos.
acid.

               Angina Pectoris.
  In an  attack of this distressing affection,
"the  patient  suddenly experiences, beneath
the sternum, a feeling of strangulation  and
pain,  which  almost  always shoots  in  the
direction  of  the left arm, less  frequently
towards the  right.   This is accompanied by
a distressing feeling of dread and sense of im-
pending  death.  The sufferer  imagines that
he cannot breathe, but if forced to do so suc-
ceeds in making a deep inspiration. He does
not dare to speak, but groans and sighs.  If
the attack comes upon him while walking, he
stands still seeking a support and clasping
his breast.  The hands are cool, the counte-
nance pale, the features perturbed.  After the
lapse  of a  few minutes,  or in a quarter or
half an hour, the paroxysm gradually abates,
nearly always with eructations of gas.
  Treatment.—Apply cold over  the  heart
and warmth to the extremities.
  In one of full habit,  give Aconite, frequently
repeated.
  If there is extreme  difficulty of breathing,
with pale face, feeble,  irregular pulse and fear
of instant death,  Ars.   In extreme  cases, 
ANGINA petoris.
77
camphor, brandy,  or either in small doses
may be of service.  If these attacks continue
to occur, and if connected with indigestion,
Nux two or three times daily, or if attended
with frequent palpitation of the heart,  Cac-
tus in the same manner may prevent the re-
currence.

              Syncope—Fainting.

  This may arise from  grief, fear and other
strong mental emotions, going from cold air
to a hot room, fatigue,  fasting, breathing a
vitiated atmosphere, loss of blood and other
fluids,  &c.
  In any case the patient should be laid with
the head low, in a current of fresh air, and if
not quickly restored,  sprinkle cold water in
the face and hold camphor to the nose.
  On a feeling of faintness, if there is palpita-
tion of the heart or buzzing in the ears, Aeon.
If from loss of blood or other fluids, China.
Avoid  the causes enumerated above.

                   Cancer.

  We do not mention this disease in a domes-
tic work for the  purpose  of  describing  a
treatment, but simply for the pnrpose of say-
ing,  that when  anything of a  cancerous
nature is suspected, immediate advice should
be sought from a skillful Homoeopathicphys- 
78      practical homoeopathy.

ician.  Never go with such a case to a cancer
doctor.  They never cure a cancer.  They call
every pimple and induration a  cancer, and
sometimes get well after being converted into
very ugly sores by bad treatment.
     Enlargement of the Glands of the Neck, &c.
  Frequently enlargements of the glands of
the neck, especially in  scrofulous  children,
continue for a long time and at  last suppur-
ate and discharge unhealthy matter.
  In the early  stage Bell., Rhus, and Merc.
are proper remedies.
  If they continue long and threaten suppura-
tion. Hepar.
  After they have  suppurated,  Silicea  and
Calcarea carb.
            Goitre—Swelled Neck.
  This is a very common disease in particular
localities, as at the foot of the Alps, &c-  It
has the characteristic slowness of scrofulous
enlargements, and requires considerable time
for its cure.
  The following treatment will  often effect a
cure:
  Take Spongia morning  and evening,  and
rub  the  enlargements  thoroughly once  in
three or four days with  an ointment of Bin-
iodide of Mercury, heating it with a hot
shovel or smoothing iron. Do this at night
and apply a flannel cloth  around the  neck, 
GOITRE.
79
which may be  removed  in  the  morning.  If
this is not effecting a cure  in two or three
months, apply to a Homoeopathic physician.
                 Poisoning.
  When it is .suspected that  poison has been
swallowed, give the patient immediately con-
siderable quantities  of the white of eggs
beaten up with water or milk, then give  an
emetic of a tablespoonful of ground mustard.
When the vomited matter becomes free from
poison, administer a chemical antidote.
  For acid poisons, common soda.
  For alkaline poisons,  as  hartshorn or ley,
vinegar.
  For arsenic, hydrated per oxide of iron.
  For lead, white lead, &c,  epsom salts.
  For copper, hydrated per oxide of iron.
  For lunar caustic, (nitrate of  silver,) com-
mon salt.
  For opium, laudanum, &c, camphor.
  For the secondary effects of poison consult
the Materia Medica at the end of this work,
and give the remedy which corresponds most
nearly to the symptoms of the case.
                 Headache.
  Headache arises  from a  great variet}r of
causes, and is attended by such  a variety of
complaints  and constitutional  conditions,
that it is difficult to prescribe, except for in-
dividual cases.  We can only give some gen- 
80       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

eral directions, which will, however, be found
to apply to a great number  of individual
cases.
  1st.  It is often produced by indigestion or
disordered stomach.   This often goes  under
the name of sick headache.
  Treatment.—Nux  will  often  promptly
cure such cases if taken when the symptoms
are first felt.  Pod.  and  Ipecac,  are often
equally  good,  and  for  women, Puis. The
same may be said of Mac for women.  Nux.
at night and Pod. in the morning,  will often
prevent it in those subject to it.
  2d.   It often occurs in females as  an essen-
tially nervous disease, and is generally called
nervous headache. In these cases. Mac, Puis.
and Sepia  are frequently efficient remedies,
and when relieved, an occasional dose of one
or the other  of these will prevent its recur-
rence.
  If connected with female weakness, or ac-
companying monthly disorders, the last three
remedies are specially applicable.
  If connected with a  hysterical state, Mac.
or Cocculus. If produced  by grief, Ignatia.
Either may be taken every  hour or  two till
relief is obtained. A dose of Mac, Sep. Puis.
daily, will often do much to prevent these at-
tacks.  But aremedy of extraordinaiw power,
and which will cure  a  large  proportion of
what are called nervous and sick headaches, 
HEADACHE.
81
than perhaps any  other, is Atropine.  It is
most applicable to  those cases that  are not
caused by disordered stomach or other affec-
tion, but depend upon a disordered condition
of the nervous  system itself; to cases  that
come on rather suddenly,  and are very acute
and severe.   It  may be taken  every ten or
fifteen minutes, till  an effect is felt.   Increase
the dose if necessary.  As soon as an effect is
felt, suspend it till the effect ceases or while
improvement continues. If an  overdose in-
creases the pain, stop  it altogether.   When
the temporary aggravation ceases it will be
followed by an improvement.
  This will cure  a great number  of habitual
nervous headaches,  which have  resisted all
treatment.
  Those cases which come on  with dizziness
as the first symptoms, will be almost uniform-
ly cured in this early stage by Nux.
  In many cases of obstinateheadaches, which
resist all remedies, electricity, properly ap-
plied, is a  most important remedy, but  it
must be applied  by  one who understands the
human system, or it may  do mischief rather
than good.
  I have effected many permanent cures of ex-
tremely obstinate cases by this means.
  I have not given  directions  for the use of
this  powerful agent, because I have been long
convinced, from  many examples, that it can- 
82      PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
not be profitably or even safely used by the
public, at least without some experience, and
special personal instructions.  Nor is it a safe
agent  in Allopathic  hands.  It is  a most
beautiful and beneficent Homoeopathic rem-
edy, and to be either useful  or safe must be
used on Homoeopathic principles and in cor-
responding  doses.   I have never had  the
opportunity of observing its use in Allopathic
hands, when it was not,  like other powerful
remedies, in the same hands, as often product-
ive of  injury as a benefit, and sometimes of
very serious injury.
                  Fatigue.
  When the muscles become fatigued  by long
walking, or excessive labor, or over exertion,
a few doses, oreven asingledose of Am., Rhus.
or  Gels,  affords great  relief.  If particular
muscles or limbs are sore and lame, rub them
with the Arn.  wash.

          DISEASES  OF WOMEN.

    A*meuorrhcea—Absence of the Monthly Turns.
  When  a stoppage or suppression occurs in
young girls, Puis, three times a day, Cauloph,
or  Mac, the last  two alternately.   If  the
menses do not make their appearance at  the
usual age, do  nothing, unless  the health  suf-
fer.  In no case give what are called "forcing 
AMENORRHCEA.
83
medicines."  They do great mischief, and are
often dangerous, and are the  source of long-
lasting difficulties.
  If sudden suppression is produced by a chill,
or getting wet, put patient in bed, give one
or  two doses  of Gels., put  the feet m hot
water, apply hot,  wet cloths to the lower
part of the abdomen,  or  use, if convenient,
the warm sitz  bath.   If not soon relieved,
give Puis.
  If the suppression is  produced by a fright,
give one or more doses of Aeon., then Puis.
  If, at the  time  when the  menses  should
come on, there are  nervous or  hysterical
symptoms, or spasms, Cocculus every hour
or two.
  If there is Leucorrhcea or whites, instead
of the regular menses, Cauloph., Mac, Puis.
and Sepia, are the remedies—either one alone,
or either two alternately, three or four times
a day.
  If suppression has been of long standing in
girls, with paleness, weakness, palpitation of
the heart, etc., the remedies are  Calc  card.,
Ferrum. Puis., Sepia and Sulph.  Either of
these may be taken three times a  day for a
week, when, if not improved, take another in
the same manner.
      Dysmenorrhea—Painful Menstruation.
  If the flow is profuse with pain and sickness 
84       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

of the stomach, give Ipecac  every half hour
till relieved.  Mac. or Cauloph. may be used
in the same way—the first  especially, if there
is headache.
  If there are spasms in the abdomen, hyster-
ical symptoms, difficulty of breathing,  and
especially if the discharge is black, Cocc.
  For present relief, Gels, in five-drop doses is
very effectual.
  But  Cauloph.,  Mac. and Puis,  are,  in
general, the three most important remedies.
When  there are no  particular reasons for
using other remedies  the  patient  may take
either of them, (perhaps usually  Cauloph. is
the best,)  or either two of them alternately,
every fifteen or twenty minutes, till the severe
pain is relieved.
  During the interval of a  month, a dose of
Cauloph. one day  and Mac. the next will
generally prevent these painful  recurrences,
and effect a permanent cure.  But there  are
obstinate cases of this  painful difficulty, de-
pending on particular cases, which cannot be
prescribed  for without personal attention.
         Profnse Menstruation—Flowing.
  If  this is attended with  pressing  down
pains, and pain in the back,  Bell, every half
hour, till this is relieved. If much reduced by
loss of blood, a few doses of China.  But the
most important remedy is  Hamamelis. If at 
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85
all urgent, a drop of tincture may  be given
every half hour, and if at all alarming, inject-
ions into the womb with a female syringe, if
at hand, if not, with any other, of a teaspoon-
ful of the tincture in a gill of cold water, and
often repeated  if necessary.  This is equally
appropriate, whether the flowing occurs at
the monthly period or any other.  All this is
for present relief.  But for those who have,
habitually, too frequent and too profuse men-
struation, and who  are, at  the same time,
somewhat feeble, give,  during the interval,
Nux every night, and China every morning
for two weeks,  and during the  remainder of
the interval, Calc. carb. one night and Sulph.
the next.  This will seldom fail to bring about
an improvement; but if this  state is not en-
tirely corrected, repeat the same  during the
next interval.  This has cured many cases of
long standing in one, two or three  months,
which have been treated  for years without
benefit.
  The worst cases offlowingafter delivery are
speedily checked by copious injections of cold
water with Hamamelis or  Arn., and drop
doses of Hamam.  The cold water injections,
so much feared  by some at  such times,  are
perfectly safe.  I have used them hundreds of
times, and for many years,  and never  had
reason to  regret their use. 
86       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
     Prolapsus Uteri, or Falling of the Womb.
  This is a very frequent and very trouble-
some difficulty,  frequently  imposing  upon
women long  and  painful  disability,  If a
proper treatment is begun at an early period,
it may often be cured  by proper medicines.
These are chiefly Bell.,  Calc carb.,  Nux and
Pod.
  Homoeopathic physicians have been strong-
ly opposed to the use of mechanical supports,
such as the numerous forms  of pessaries and
uterine supporters; and  with good reason'.
Those hitherto  in use  have  been  very ob-
jectionable, producing  great irritation, and
entailing numerous evils, without effecting a
permanent cure.
  For the sake of the suffering, we are happy
to say that a Uterine Supporter has recently
been invented free  from all the objections to
former instruments.  Experience has proved
that  with this  improved  Supporter,  and
proper medical treatment,  instant relief is
given, the patient is  able at once to attend
to active duties, and a permanent cure  may
be expected.  It consists  of an external pad-
ded abdominal supporter, to which a  small
ring pessary is  attached by  a  silver  wire
stem.  They  are  kept by Lewis  Sherman,
Milwaukee, and other Pharmacists.
  We strongly recommend them in cases not
readily cured bv other means. 
LEUCORRHCEA.
87
             Leucorrhoea—Whites
  This diseased condition, so common among
feeble women, is  seldom permanently cured
by the  old drugging process,  astringents,
etc., but the most stubborn cases  are  daily
cured by skillful Homoeopathic treatment.
There  are cases  attended with ulcerations,
and  diseased conditions, which  require the
personal attention of the  physician; but by
following the brief directions which  follow,
a great majority of the  cases  will be cured
more promptly than is done by the ordinary
prevalent medical treatment.
  The  remedies  generally required in domes-
tic practice are Caul.,  Mac, Pod., and Puis.
In most cases, the two first are  sufficient.
One may  be taken every morning, and the
other every evening, in a dose of one or two
grains.   Hundreds of cases will be cuted by
these remedies.
  Pod. is especially appropriate where bearing
down and Leucorrhoea  come  on after con-
finement—a grain three times a day.
  If Leucorrhoea accompanies suppression of
menses, Puis, is  the  efficient remedy, three
or four times daily.
  When the discharge is  acrid  or  irritating,
or there is internal smarting,  or burning,
injections  of the Hydrastis wash, as  pre-
pared for  scarlet fever, is  often extremely
useful. 
88      PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

  If the discharge is like jelly,  or if it pro-
duces itching or burning, Sepia  three or four
times a day.
     Sickness and Vomiting During Pregnancy.
  This  is sometimes a very troublesome  and
even dangerous affection, but  by Homoeo-
pathic treatment it can, almost uniformly, be
promptly relieved.  For this we have many
remedies, and it is well to know several, as
sometimes one agrees best,  and  sometimes
another.  Often a remedy gives prompt re-
lief, but soon loses its influence,  and another
will be equally prompt.  The   patient may
have the choice of the following:
  Mac. in a majority of cases, is a sufficient
remedy.   If not,  Ipecac,  Arsenicum,  Nux,
Puis.,  Sepia,  Pod.,  Tartar em. and  Verat.
may be employed,  each with good effect in
different cases.  They may  be taken from
once to five or six times a day,  according to
necessity.  A dose of Mac. at night, or  Ipe-
cac, etc.,  will often prevent the usual sick-
ness in the morning.
       Confinement—Child-Bed Difficulties.
  As a preparation for labor, a multitude of
observing   Homoeopathic physicians  now
testify to  the great benefit of Mac. and Caul.
They render  the labor much   shorter,  and
much easier, and prevent after pains.  Many
who have  always had tedious  and difficult 
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89
labor, have quick and easy ones, after this
preparation.  A grain of one mav be taken
at  night,  and a grain of the other in the
morning, for some weeks before confinement.
These two remedies have  proved a blessing
to thousands.
      Irregular and Ineffectual Labor Pains.
  Caul., one grain every  quarter  of  an  hour
till the  pain  becomes regular,  which will
generally be after one  or  two doses.  Bell.
and Nux are often effectual remedies. In ted-
ious labors, from  a  rigid  and unyielding
state of the parts, Gels.,  in doses  of  three
drops, acts like a charm.
                 After Pains.
  Caul, is the potent remedy, unless there is
excessiye  flowing notwithstanding its use,
when injections  of cold water,  with  tinct.
of Hamam. are required.
     Inflammation and Swelling of the Breast.
  Early  in the  attack, if it comes on with a
chill, a few doses of Gels., as in fever, by pro-
ducing  perspiration,  dissipates the disease.
But if this does not check the inflammation,
give Aeon, and Bell., alternately every two
hours  till the  inflammation  is  somewhat
abated, and then Bry.,  and Bell.   Keep the
breast  covered with a cloth wrung out of
warm  water.  Do not permit  the breast ^0
become distended with milk. 
90       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

  But if the case has been neglected, or badly
treated till suppression  has taken place, and
the breast is discharging,  give Phos.,  three
times a day.  If it has been of long standing,
and the breast is very hard, after  the dis-
charging has continued for some time, Calc,
carb., Silicea or Sulph., may be required.
                Sore Nipples.
  Apply, frequently, a wash of Hydrastis—
ten drops to a tablespoonful of water.  Or,
if the nipple is raw, Calendula jelly.  Cos-
moline is a  good remedy.
                 Milk-Leg.
  Under the  ordinary treatment, this is a most
severe and   protracted  disease.   The old
school have never  leaened to  cure  it.   The
following directions  will enable a husband to
treat his wife for this serious affection, with
vastly greater  success,  and  cure  her in one
quarter the  time that  is  required by  Allo-
pathic treatment, in the hands of the  most
skillful physicians.
  It generally makes its attacks within one or
two weeks after confinement, like most other
inflammatory diseases, with chilliness  and
fever.  Pain usually commences in the loins,
back and lower part of the bowels, extending
to.  the  groin, and  thence  down  the limb.
This commences to swell and in two days the
whole limb  may  be twice its  natural  size. 
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91
Though hot and inflamed, it is not red, but a
very marked white.  The feeling is hard and
elastic.  The disease consists of inflammation
of the veins, and  along the principal  veins,
down the inside of the thigh and back of the
leg, is the principal pain.   These  veins may
be traced with the finger, enlarged and hard,
like a cord, and very tender.  These lines are
interrupted now  and then by a hard knob.
Under the usual treatment, the limb does not
turn to its natural  state and size for a long
time, often for years—sometimes never.
  Treatment.—As soon  as this  affection is
ascertained, give  Hamam., ten drops in a
tumbler of  water—teaspoonful doses  every
two or three hours.
  Rub the limb faithfully with a wash of the
same—two spoonsful to a gill of water, ap-
plied as warm as  possible.   When the pain
and tenderness are considerably abated, give
the remedy less frequently, and apply it chiefly
along the line of the hard and tender veins on
the inside of the thigh and back of the leg by
rubbing, and wet cloths. Continue this treat-
ment less and less vigorously till the soreness
and pain have entirely  disappeared, and rub
the limb with the wash daily, till the swelling
subsides.  If,  after this,  any considerable
weakness is felt, give Nux at  night and Ars.
in the morning.  Under  this treatment, this
formidable and dreaded disease will  be com- 
92       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

paratively trifling.  Drops}' will  not follow
this treatment.  When it follows the old rou-
tine, its management is very difficult.

     General Directions During Confinement.
  Never give physic after confinement.  It is
productive of infinite mischief.  If the bowels
are not moved in two or three days, give Nux
at night and Bry.in the morning.  If delayed
four or  five days,  give injection of warm
water; this is always sufficient,  and avoids
the long train of evils that follows the use of
cathartics.
  The  proper treatment of a woman, after
confinement,is as follows: After resting for a
few minutes, inject into  the  womb a pint of
cool water, containing a few drops of Arn. or
Calend.   If the flowing is excessive, repeat
the injection, using Hamam. instead.  Apply
cloths wrung out of cool water to the parts,
instead of hot and dry  ones.  Wash  the
patient all over with a wet cloth or sponge,
of a temperature to suit the feelings of the
patient, without too much exposure of the sur-
face, and carefully avoiding any chilliness.
After washing and rubbing dry, putting a wet
bandage around her, instead of  a dry one,
covered with  a flannel  or cotton one, dry.
Keep the  room thoroughly aired and cool.
Repeat the washing daily. Be no more afraid
of water and air than before confinement.  Un- 
     DIRECTIONS DURING CONFINEMENT.   93

der this treatment a woman will be as well
and as strong at the end of four or five days,
as two or three weeks under the old abomin-
able, physicking, confining and heating treat-
ment.  I am perfectly aware that many, both
in and out of the profession, are horrified at
this dreadful exposure at such a time.  They
seem to labor not only under a hydrophobia,
but an airphobia.  They relatecases in which
women, after confinement, have been thrown
into fevers and had broken breasts, and even
died from merely  touching their hands  to a
cold wet cloth.  This all may very well be.
Shut a woman up  in a  tight, hot room, and
roast her for several days, without a breath
of fresh air, before  confinement, or after, and
she will take cold at a very slight exposure,
and so will a man. But let a woman go on
after confinement with the same free use ofboth
air and  water, to  which she has previously
been accustomed, and she is  in  no  danger of
taking cold, unless the exposure is so great as
to produce chilliness.
  The advantages of the cold injections are the
following:
  1st.  The internal organs, after labor, are
hot, fatigued and exhausted.  An application
of cool water to them  is  always extremely
grateful to the feeling of the patient, quieting
and strengthening.
  2d. It produces an immediate and  prompt 
94       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
contraction of the womb, and thus insures
the patient against an unnecessary or dan-
gerous loss of blood, by flowing.
  3d.  It is a sovereign  preventive  of after-
pains which often produce so much suffering
and exhaustion.
  This will be plain when it is understood
how  after-pains are  produced.  When the
womb is  not  well contracted,  but remains
open, blood flows into it,  and coagulates
until it becomes  accumulated in such a quan-
tity that it excites the  womb to contract, in
order to expel it, just as it contracted to expel
the child and after birth.  The pains come on
just as often as there is a sufficient accumula-
tion of coagulated blood to render them nec-
essary to remove it; no oftener.  Bnt if the
womb is made to contract vigorously at first
by cool water injection, no such acumulation
can take place, and there is  no occasion for
pains to expel it, and of course there  are no
pains.  Why  do  after-pains increase with
every successive  confinement, so that after a
woman has had many children, they often
become even more distressing than the labor
itself?
  It is  simply because the womb becomes so
much distended and weakened, that  it does
not contract promptly after delivery,  but re-
mains open,  so that  blood flows into it, in
large quantities, causing repeated efforts to 
      DIRECTIONS DURING CONFINEMENT.   95

expel it, and each effort produces an after-
pain.  A few injections of cool water, or cold
if necessary, immediately, by giving tone to
the  weakened  organ, produces the  same
prompt  contraction  that  took  place  spon-
taneously  in early labors, and of course the
same freedom  from after-pains.  I have wit-
nessed the  delightful results of this treatment
for years,  and  in hundreds of cases.  Many
patients who had the greatest fears of it at
first, are now loudest in its praise.
  Hydropathic practitioners have long prac-
ticed  it, and hundreds of other physicians,
witnessing its safety and success, have adopted
it, and all are delighted with it.  I have re-
ceived every year, from successive classes of
medical  students  in  the medical college, to
whom I have  taught the uses of water and
air, numerous  letters, thanking  me  for  the
teaching, and speaking in rapturous terms of
the success of the practice, and the reputation
they  have  gained by it.   I  have never  yet
known of the first case of mischief done by it,
when administered with any sort of prudence.
The  old ruinous,  roasting and physicking
practice  is fast going  out of fashion, and
common sense is taking its place.
  The  woman,  after confinement, should ab-
stain  from all stimulating drinks, and have
only light  unstimulating food, till after  the
milk is fully established.  If the after-pains 
96       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

require it, give Caul. By this course, the milk
fever, on the second or third day, so common
within my recollection, with often a  broken
breast in its train, will be avoided. A woman
with  a  good  plrysician and a  good nurse,
should have  neither milk fever nor a  broken
breast.
            Nursing Sore Mouth.
  This is a sore mouth mostly affecting nurs-
ing women, but sometimes coming on some
weeks before  confinement.   Under the  old
treatment, it  is  very troublesome and often
an  incorrigible disease.   If it  continues for
some time, it frequently  extends along the
mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels,
producing intolerance of food, and an obstin-
ate diarrhoea, under which the patient is rap-
idly exhausted.   Many mothers are  obliged
to  wean  the child before the disease can be
cured.
  By  a very simple Homoeopathic treatment,
it is almost invariably and rapidly cured.
  Treatment.—Pod., three grains in a tum-
bler of water, a teaspoonful before each meal,
and at  bedtime, if begun in an early stage,
often effects a speedy cure.  If the case is not
improving in a  few days,  take Nux every
night, and Ars. every morning.   I have cured
cases with these two remedies in a week or
ten days, that had been six or eight  months
under treatment without benefit. 
           nursing sore mouth.        97

  Hydrastis  is in many cases, an invaluable
remedy, every three or six hours.  It mav be
made of the strength of six or eight drops to
a tumbler of water, and taken in teaspoonful
doses; the mouth being well washed with the
same,  before each dose, or the wash may be
made two or three times as strong.
  In cases of long standing, where the bowels
have become affected,  and the above treat-
ment  is not successful after  a reasonable
trial, Pod.  and Lept.  are invaluable.   One
may betaken at a time, or the two alternated,
every three or six hours—two or three grains,
in half a tumbler of water,  and teaspoonful
doses.
  There is not one case of nursing sore mouth
in a hundred that  will not be cured by this
treatment, and in a much shorter time than
it is usually done under medical  supervision.
  In a few obstinate cases, in diseased consti- *
tutions, it may be necessary to take Sulph.,
two doses daily, for a few days, or Sulph. and
Calc. carb.
  A weak solution  of Carbolic acid as a wash
for the mouth is excellent.

                Nervousness-
  Many women, as well as some men, in bad
health, have a train of symptoms well known
as nervous.  These symptoms  generally de-
pend upon a diseased or disordered state of 
98       PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

some organ or organs, of which this nervous
condition is only a symptom, and which must
be cured in order  to remove this symptom.
But these distressing nervous sensations may
often be greatly alleviated by palliative reme-
dies.  One of the most generally useful is Am-
bra  grisea. In almost any condition attend-
ed with  nervous restlessness,  and sleepless-
ness,  if not in acute fever,  or inflammation,
an occassional dose of Am bra will allay the
irritability, and procure sleep, without any of
the disagreeable consequences of opiates.
  Coffea,  Aeon.,  Bell., Cham., Ign., Nux and
Puis., often allay nervous irritability.
                 Milk Fever.

 (See General Directions during Confinement.)

        DISEASES OF CHILDREN.
                  Thrush.
  This white, flaky eruption in the mouth of
children is familiar to all.  The mouth is sore,
and  nursing is painful.  There is no better
remedy than  Borax  dissolved in water and
applied several times daily over the mouth,
with  a soft swab.   The child will swallow
enough for an internal remedy.  At the same
time  Cham,  may be given, alternated with
Merc, sol., each twice daily.  If it is obstinate,
instead of Merc, give Sulphur. 
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99
            Sore Mouths of Infants.
  Touch the mouth all over the sore surface,
not rub it, with a wash of Hydrastis of the
strength of ten drops to a tablespoonful of
water,  three or four times a day.   The child
will swallow sufficient  quantity  for a dose
each time it is used.  Merc, Nux, Cham., and
Sulph.  acid,  are  also  effectual  remedies.
Either  of them may be given  three or four
times a day.

     Stoppage of the Nose—Catarrh—Snuffles.
  Nux is the sufficient remedy. Besides giving
it internally three  or  four times a day, a
prompt method of relief is, to rub a few pel-
lets very fine with a little sugar, and blow a
few grains up the nostrils  through a quill.
Sambucus is a good remedy.
                  Crying.
  When infants  cry, it is always for some
good reason.  Endeavor carefully to ascer-
tain the cause.   It  may an uncomfortable
state of the dress. It may be chafed, and  the
sore parts are  rendered painful   by being
suffered to remain wet.   It may be earache,
or more probably, colic.  If it is chafed, keep
the parts dry— give Cham, three times a day,
and wash the parts as often with Hydrastis
as  for  sore  mouth; or  Calendula. If not
soon better,  give Sulph. twice a day.  If it 
 100     PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

 proceeds from earache, the child will manifest
 it by uneasy movements of the head,  and
 often  by screams.  In  this case, if there is
 fever, give A eon. and Bell,  every two hours,
 till the fever subsides,  then Bell, alone.  If
 this fails, after a few doses, give Cham,  and
 Puis.  If the crying arises  from colic, give
 Cham., Coloc. or Bell.
  A great deal of colicky pain and crying are
 caused by feeding the child when it  should
 not be fed.  It  is a mistaken and very mis-
 chievous  notion, that a child must have food
 within a few hours  after birth.  If this were
 so, an Allwise Creator, who  makes all neces-
 sary provision for His creatures, would have
 provided it.  The bare fact that the mother
 does not usually have milk  for it before the
 second or third  day, is  sufficient proof that
 the child does  not need it before that time.
 For at least thirty-six hours it should not be
 fed at all, unless the  mother furnishes food
 before.  A teaspoonful of water occasionally
 is the only thing it should swallow.
  Above all, avoid medicine of every descrip-
 tion,  even catnip or saffron tea.  Some seem
 to suppose that  every child is sick or  starv-
 ing as soon as it draws its first  breath, and
 it must be outraged by  unnatural food and
 more unnatural  medicine.  Nine-tenths of all
the fits, the vomiting, the colic and  the cry-
ing, in young children,  are produced by this 
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101
 abominable and unnatural treatment.   Dr.
 Dewees, whose experience is very  great, says
 he has never known a  young infant to  have
 fits that had not been fed or dosed.
   If the mother's milk, from any cause is de-
 layed longer than thirty-six hours, the  child
 may  be cautiously fed with a mixture of new
 thin  cream, from milk that has stood not
 more than two or  three hours,  and  water,
 with the  slightest perceptible taste of pure,
 white  sugar;  the  proportion being  three
 parts of water to one of cream.
              Summer Complaint.
   There are two  distinct diseases that go by
 this name, viz:  Cholera Infantum and Diar-
 rhoea.  The most  obvious  distinction be-
 tween  them is,  that the first is attended
 with  vomiting, and the latter is not.
              Cholera Infantum.
  This is a very prevalent and 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
 diarrhoea at the same time, but  quite as
 often  the vomiting  does  not come on till
 the diarrhoea has continued for a few hours,
 or a day or two.  It is often rapid in its pro-
gress,  and fatal in  two or three days. At
other times  it is of long continuance, and re- 
102      PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

duces 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 fre-
quent, and exceedingly  various in appear-
ance, being yellow, brown, or green—often
grass  green, or mixed,  and  sometimes the
color often changing, scarcely any two evac-
uations being alike.  In this disease there is
always inflammation of the mucous mem-
brane of the stomach, or bowels,  or both,
and inflammation and congestion of the liver.
Vomiting or diarrhoea will predominate ac-
cording  as the stomach or bowels,  are most
affected.   If the  disease  goes on  for some
time, the brain is apt to become  sympatheti-
cally affected, and under the Allopathic treat-
ment of  opiates, hopelessly diseased.
  Treatment.—In the early part of vomit-
ing  and  diarrhoea, give Ipecac, 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 Ars.
in the same  manner, not more than four
pellets in half a tumbler of wrater, teaspoonful
doses. If there is great  restlessness, Cham.,
alternated  with  either of the  above  rem-
edies.
  If the  evacuations  are  yellow, brown or 
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dark, Pod. is an effectual remedy; two grains
in a tumbler  of water, a teaspoonful,  same
as  other remedies.  When  the evacuations
are green, Agar, is the best remedy, or Cham.,
Merc, sol. or Pod.
  If the patient is much reduced, and vomit-
ing and diarrhoea continues,  Ars. and Verat.
  In many  obstinate and protracted cases,
when there is reason to  believe that the bow-
els  are ulcerated, Hydras,  will save the pa-
tient.
  Pod.,  in  alternation with either  of the
above two remedies, is also applicable in the
same case.
                 Diarrhoea           m
Occuring in hot weather, or from indigestion,
is  usually  quickly  arrested  by  Ipecac, or
Nux, or both alternated.  If the evacuations
are thin and  watery,  Ars. alone or  with
Vera t. •
  If they are  green,  Agar., Ham. or Merc.
If they are yellow, brown or dark, Pod.
  If the  disease has been of long standing
Pod. and Lept. or Hydras., will often  effect
cures in cases that seem very discouraging.
The remedy should  be  repeated after each
evacuation.
  There is no disease which  requires greater
caution in diet than cholera infantum and
diarrhoea.  When cases  are almost cured, the
least imprudence in diet  will cause a relapse, 
104      PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

which may be fatal.  Dulc.  is sufficient in a
great many cases of  diarrhoea, especially in
damp weather.

     Incontinence of Urine—Wetting the Bed.
  The  principal  remedies  are  Apis,  mel.,
Canth. and Pod.  One of them may be given
three or four times  a  day.  Phos. acid, is
often effectual.
           Con vul sions—Spasms—Fits.
  These are frequently produced by  indigest-
ible food, or excess,  as from raisins, nuts,
pastry, etc.  In these cases, if it can be done,
get  down a sufficient  quantity  of  warm
water to produce vomiting.  Whether this is
effected or not, give Nux, two or three doses,
every two or three  hours.
  If  from worms,  Santonine  or Cina, as di-
rected under that head.  If from  a "nervous
condition,  without   the  above  obvious
causes,  Bell., Cham., Ambra, Nux, or Ignatia.
  During the fit put the child in a cold  bath,
and  apply the cloth wet in cold  water to the
head, then wrap in warm  flannels, and  get
the patient warm as soon as possible.
Rickets—Weakness of the Limbs—Slowness in Learn-
                ing to Walk.
  This disease has a good deal of resemblance
to some forms of scrofula.   It usually occurs
during or before  the first  set of teeth  It is 
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105
■characterized  by  slow formation, softness
and weakness of the bones.
  The  fontanelle  or open  place  on the top
and front of  the skull  remains  open.  The
child  is weak, averse to  motion and  looks
sickly.  The teeth are slow in coming, the
long bones of the legs and arms  are soft and
can be considerably bent.  The  muscles are
weak, the child has difficulty in holding up
its head, and has not  strength to walk.  The
arms and legs are small and the belly large.
There is often  diarrhoea.
  Homoeopathic treatment makes one of its
greatest triumphs in this disease.
  Treatment.—The all-sufficient remedies are
Calc. carb., Phosphorus, Silicea and Sulphur;
of these, Calc. is the most important, and one
dose a day may be given for a week and then
omit a week or more, and then repeat or give
one of the other remedies in the same manner
for a week, and so on.
  Consult the  Materia Medica for a choice.
  The child should not be urged to exert itself
when it complains of motion, nor should it
be much in sitting posture, as  the bones are
liable to become crooked.  To avoid this it is
better to be lying than sitting, or attempting
to stand.
  It should be as much as possibleinthe open
air, and be bathed in as cool water as can be 
106     PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
comfortably  borne,  and thoroughly rubbed
daily.
  A change will  soon be evident and a cure
eventually effected.
                 Scrofula.
  Scrofulous affections occur in two forms, the
acute and the chronic.  The acute or tubercu-
lous form is accompanied by persistent fever,
emaciation and the deposit  of a  peculiar
cheese-like substance called tubercle.  The de-
posit  may take place in almost any organ of
the body.  When  it is formed in the lungs it
constitutes the dreadful scourge of our race,
consumption.
  The chronic form  of scrofula is character-
ized by slow and gradual enlargements and
suppuration of the lymphatic glands, inflam-
mation of the eyes, persistent catarrh, thick-
ening of the upper lip and pustular eruptions
of the skin.
  The one prominent feature is defective nu-
trition.
  Treatment.—Nourishing diet,fresh air, out-
door  exercise and regular  habits are as  im-
portant as proper medication. Where there
is emaciation, cod liver oil is a valuable aid to
nutrition. The most important remedies are
Sulph., Calc. carb., Kali hyd., Phos. and Sil.,
in the chronic or glandular form ; and Aeon.,
Bell, and Ars. in the acute or tubercular form.
  Consult Materia Medica. 
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107
                  Croup.

  There are  two  forms of croup, differing
widely in their nature, and  requiring an  en-
tirely different treatment.
  Spasmodic or False Croup,  is much  the
more common. It comes on suddenly, almost
always in  the  night; with noisy, wheezing,
difficult breathing, sometimes threatening  suf-
focation, sometimes with and sometimes with-
out  fever.   This form of  croup is  usually
quickly cured by ^4co/7. and Spongia.
  Membranous Croup, much the more dan-
gerous, comes on  more gradually, and more
like  a cold;  with chilliness, sneezing, some
soreness of the throat, hot skin, hoarse voice,
and more or less difficulty of breathing.   The
fever, difficult breathing, with croupy, ringing
sound, and other alarming symptoms, grad-
ually increase, till suffocation is imminent. In
this form Kali bichr., Hepar., Spongia, Tar-
tar emetic and Sulph. acid are the remedies to
depend upon.   Aeon, may be  occasionally
given to diminish fever, but it can do nothing
to prevent or remove the false membrane that
is threatening to fill up the air passages,  and
produce suffocation.   Kali bichr. is perhaps
the most important.  It  may be alternated
with Hepar or Spongia.  If  it does not  suc-
ceed, Sulph.  acid is  the  next reliable.  This
should  be  put in water, and  made  strong 
108      PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
enough to  taste acid, and given every hour.
Desperate  cases  are  sometimes cured by it.
  At the beginning, put a cloth wrung out of
cold water over the throat and chest, and
cover  it well with  a flannel; renew every
hour.
              Whooping Cough.
  The remedies most frequently required in the
early stage are Bell, and Nux  alternately, a
dose after each paroxysm of cough.  If there
is fever, Aconite.  If without fever, the  par-
oxysms are very violent  with  nose-bleed,
Drosera.  If the chest is stuffed,  and breath
ing difficult, Tartar  emetic.  If the chest is
sore and coughing painful, Arnica.  Bromide
of Ammonium, if the cough is frequent and
severe and  the patient's sleep  is disturbed,
gives relief.  If the paroxysms are very severe
with tendency to spasms, Cuprum is needed.
The patient should eat and drink sparingly,
as a full stomach is sure to bring on a par-
oxysm of coughing.   Exercise should be very
moderate as well as talking or anything that
increases the breathing. Avoid sudden changes
of temperature.
                  Mumps.
  Most persons know this disease of childhood
as a swelling of the glands just below the  ear,
and often extending  considerably so  as to
give the sides of the face and neck a ver}- full
appearance. 
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  Mercurius sol. is generally the  only necess-
 ary remedy.  Avoid exposures  of the face to
 cold.  If exposed to cold, the swelling is lia-
 ble to leave the  face and locate itself upon
 other glands or organs where it may be much
 more serious.
       Falling or Protrusion of the Bowels.
  Nux and Ignatia are the best remedies, but
 only one at a time, three or four times a day,
 orJEscuIus.
                  Teething.
  The process of cutting teeth often produces
 great disturbance in  the infantile organism.
 The child is  feverish,  and  often exceedingly
 peevish and irritable.   Aeon,  and  Gels,  are
 effective remedies while there is a feverish state
 repeated as often as required.  If there is no
 fever, Ambra or Co flea.
  When there is dullness, and stupor, Gels, is
 the remedy.
            Inflammation of the Eyes.
  Is attended by redness of the lids, extending
to the ball, swelling of  the lids,  aversion to
the light, discharge of matter, which sticks
the lids together.  In bad cases, ulceration of
the cornea quickly follows,  and  the eye may
be destroyed if not early  and  well treated.
Aeon, is the best remedy at first.   If not yield-
ing in a day  or two,  and there is much dis-
charge, Merc. sol.  If the light is very painful, 
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Cham., or Bell. If the child is scrofulous, con-
sult  Calcarea and  Sulphur  in the  Materia
Medica at the end of the book.
              Scurf of the Head.
  Avoid irritating it by  combing,  and give
one dose of Sulphur daily.
           Crusta Lactea—Milk Crust.
  If there  is  feverishness,  give  Aeon,  till it
subsides.  Then Rhus, three times daily for a
week. Juglans after this is usually an effect-
ive remedy.  Sepia  is regarded  by some as
almost  a specific.   Lappa  major is now
thought to be a good remedy.   Viola  trie is
highly esteemed.
  If the crusts become thick and hard, apply
a bran, flax-seed  or  slippery elm poultice till
they become softened, and then  carefully re-
move them,  so  as not  to leave a bleeding
surface.   Wash the head occasionally with
warm water and fine Castile  soap,  avoid all
drying ointments and washes.  If the disease
is unusally obstinate, the use  of sulphur twice
a day for a week may be  required. 
MATERIA MEDICA.
Ill
MATERIA MEDICA.
Characteristic Indications for many of the more Fre-
           quently Required Medicines.
                   Aconite.
  Chilliness  and  shivering.  Shooting  and
acute pains;  worse at night.  Great internal
heat, even with chilliness.  General heat of
the body,  with pains of the head, back and
limbs.  Skin  dry and burning.  Restless sleep-
lessness,  with  tossing from side to  side.
Starting in sleep.
  Congestion of all the  organs,  external and
internal, with low pulse  and chilliness,  and
succeeding inflammation, with heat, pain, and
high pulse.  Dryness of mouth and tongue.
  Watery diarrhoea, with white  stools, and
red urine.
  Short, dry cough, with tickling in the throat,
heat, thirst, and difficult breathing.
  Palpitation of the heart, with great anguish.
Very painful  neuralgia.
                  Agaricus.
  Itching, burning, and redness of the fingers
and toes, and other parts, as from frost-bite.
  Dizziness and headache,  as from intoxica-
tion.  Painful sensitiveness  of the scalp.
  Chapping of the upper lip.  Palpitation of
the heart when standing.  Profuse sweat on
the chest at night. 
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                A mora Grisea.
  Nervousness, with great irritability of tem-
per.
  Great languor in the morning in bed.  Drow-
siness during the day; restless  sleeplessness
during the whole night, and weariness in the
morning.
  Low spirits and extreme nervousness.
  Painful spot on the top of the head.
  The hair feels sore, when touched.
  The arms go to sleep easily.
  Cramps in the hands and legs.
  Burning in the bottoms of the feet.
           Ammonium Carbonicum.
  Boils  and  pustules  on the nose and face.
Freckles.  Face pale and  bloated.  Burning
vesicles on the inside of the lips and tongue.
Burning on the tip of the tongue, painful to
the touch.
  Sore  throat,  whieh  is very  dark red, or
black, with fetid breath.
  Obstinate nursing sore mouth.
  Violent, acrid leucorrhoea, causing soreness.
Watery, burning leucorrhoea.
                    Apis.
  Chronic headache, in nervous  subjects,
which is moderated by pressure.
  Inflammation of the  peritoneum, or outer
coat of the. intestines, characterized by burn-
ing, internal soreness, and external tenderness, 
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even on slight pressure.  Abdomen full, swol-
len, tender.
  Dropsy,  especially  after   scarlet  fever.
Dropsy of the abdomen and brain.
  Nettle rash  and  other itching, stinging,
pricking and burning eruptions.  Stye.
               Arum triphyllum.
  Cold with irritation of the eyes, nose  and
throat. Nose stopped or discharging an acrid
fluid.
  Sore tongue, mouth and throat, with biting,
stinging pain.  Tickling burning in the throat.
                   Arnica.
  Mechanical injuries, as falls, blows, sprains,
bruises and concussions.
  Pains in the limbs as if bruised.
  Burning in the brain, the rest of the body
being cool. Headache, increased by stooping,
with heat of the head  and face.
  Pain in the back, as if bruised and lame.
  A succession of small boils.
                 Arsenicum.
  Rapid sinking of strength;   feels stronger
on lying down, but weak on standing. Faint-
ing fits.  Great emaciation of children.
  General dropsy.   Dropsy after scarlet fever.
Intermittent  fever,  with  violent chills, in-
creased by drinking, and in the open air; the
heat, dry, and burning, followed  by scanty
or cold clammy sweats. 
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  Religious melancholy.   Violent periodical
headache, relieved by the application of cold
water.
  The hair is painful and sore.
  Inflammation  of the eyes,  with  burning
pain.
  Sunken, pale face, or livid and blue.  Puffed,
bloated face.   Bluish lips.
  In fevers, tongue bluish  or white; or red
and dry; or brown and blackish.
  Burning inflammation   of  the   throat.
Throat dark red, with fetid breath.
  Violent  vomiting of yellow-green mucus
and bile; of brownish or blackish  substance.
During the vomiting,  violent  pain in the
stomach.  Vomiting and diarrhoea.  Cholera
morbus.  Asiatic cholera.  Pain of the abdo-
men, with vomiting and diarrhoea.   Violent
diarrhoea, with  colic.   Vomiting  and great
weakness. Piles, burning and painful.
  Colds,  with  watery  discharge from the
nose; sneezing, or dryness of the nose, scrap-
ing of the throat, with soreness; hoarseness ;
short,  hacking cough, with  soreness of the
chest;   sense  of suffocation and anxious,
short breathing.
  Asthma. Palpitation of the heart, with a
feeling of suffocation.
  Dropsy of the chest.
  Ulcers with burning pain.
  Scaly eruptions, as dry  salt-rhenm.  Blue 
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spots.  Black blisters, burning and  painful.
Putrid ulcers, with fetid discharge.   Proud
flesh.
                  Atropine.
  Much the same as Bell., but more efficacious
in many  nervous  affections, especially ner-
vous headache, coming on suddenly.

                 Belladonna.
  Spasms of the limbs, with delirium,  Con-
vulsions.  Excessive sensibility of the organs
of sense.
  Swelling  of the glands.  Ulcers, burning
when touched.
  Erysipelas, especially of the head and face.
  Chilblains, red and burning.
  Drowsiness and stupor.  Deep,  lethargic
sleep, with snoring.
  During fever, delirium ; red face and*violent
thirst.
  All sorts of delirium and craziness, singing,
talking, laughing, crying, quarreling, raging,
biting.
  Dizziness and intoxicated feeling.
  Headache,  as  if  the  brain was stunned.
Feeling of great weight and heaviness of the
brain.  Pressive headache in the  forehead,
preventing opening of the eyes, increased by
motion.   Throbbing headache.   Feeling of
swashing in the brain.
  Heat and redness of the face, with violent 
116     PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

headache; when stooping the blood  rushes
to the head.                         •
  Face bluish red, or dark red.
  Inflammation of the eyes.  One sees objects
double or wrong side up. Dilated pupils.
  Tongue red, hot, dry, cracked.
  Inflammation of the throat and glands.
  Contractive griping in the abdomen.  Long,
lasting pain in the whole abdomen, as if sore
and raw.
  Urgent bearing down  in  women, followed
by discharge of mucous leucorrhoea. Leucor-
rhoea with colic.  Inflammation and  painful
swelling of  the breasts.  Erysipelas  of the
breasts.
  Hoarseness, noise and rattling in the bron-
chial tubes.  Every breath causes dry cough.
Night cough. Violent dry cough.  Whooping
cough.
                 Bryonia.
  Every  part of  the  body on  which one is
lying, aches.
  Sleeplessness from heat, but when one un-
covers he feels cold.
  Delirium atnight. Somnambulism.   Night-
mare.
  Chilliness and shuddering,  followed by dry
heat, then sweat.   Sour sweat.
  Headache, which does not begin when wak-
ing but  when opening and moving the eyes.
  The blood  rushes to the head, and the head 
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 feels  compressed  from  temple  to  temple.
 Violent headache; the head feels very heavy.
 Headache when stooping,  as if all the con-
 tents  of the  head would issue through the
 forehead.   The headache begins chiefly in the
 morning; is aggravated by motion, especially
 by opening and moving the eyes.
  The scalp is sore and painful to the touch.
  Dryness of the mouth;  tongue coated white
 or yellow.
  Dry, sore throat, with hoarseness.  Stick-
 ing sensation in the throat when swallowing,
 turning the head or touching the throat.
  Pain and sensation of swelling  in the re-
 gion of the stomach.
  Tightness, burning or stinging, in the region
 of the liver, when touching it when coughing
 or taking a long breath.
  Soreness  and bloating of the abdomen.
  Dropsy of the abdomen. Constipation.
  Hot urine, red or brown, and scanty.
  Hoarseness and roughness of voice when in
 the open air.  Hoarseness with easy  sweat-
 ing.
  Dry cough.  Vomiting of food when  cough-
ing.   Sensation when coughing as if the head
and chest would fly to pieces.
  Burning pain in  the right half of the chest.
  The breathing is short and hurried. Cough,
difficult breathing and mucous or  bloody ex- 
118     PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

pectoration.   Inflammation  of the  lungs.
Pleurisy.
  Rheumatism. A great variety of rheumatic
pains in the back and limbs, with or without
redness and swelling.

                 Calcarea.
  Is best adapted to children of a plethoric,
scrofulous or rickety constitution, who have
a tendency to cold in the head, sore eyes or
diarrhoea;  tedious  and  difficult  teething;
weak limbs and slowness in learningto walk.
Also,  to plethoric  or  feeble women, who
menstruate too frequently and too profusely.
  Great weakness and sensitiveness  to cold
air, and great  liability to take cold.
  Unhealthy skin, so that small wounds or
scratches inflame and ulcerate and do not
heal.
  Chaps and cracks in thehands and lips.
  Palpitation  of the heart, with weakness.
  Exhausting  sweat, day and night.   Sweat
from the slightest exercise.   Night sweats.
Internal chilliness.
  Melancholy, low  spirited,  and apprehen-
sive.  Great inclination  to weep.   Change-
able mood.  The head  is easily affected by
mental labor.
  Headache every morning on waking. Pain
on one side of  the head.  Pain  and pressure
in the top of the head.   Pain  in the back  of 
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119
the head, as if pressed asunder.  Throbbing
pain in the middle of the brain every morning.
Inflammation, redness and ulceration  of the
nose.  Dryness, stoppage and bad smell from
the nose.
  Thin pale face, with dark-bordered eyes.
  Swelling  of the upper lip in  the morning.
  Swelling  and bleeding of the gums.  Blisters
in the mouth and on the tongue.
  Weakness and sleepiness after dinner  or
supper.  Violent  beating  of the heart after
dinner.
  Pain and fullness in the abdomen and liver.
  Constant gurgling in the abdomen.
  Obstinate constipation in  feeble constitu-
tions.
  Diarrhoea in scrofulous  or  consumptive
persons.
  Too  frequent  and  profuse menstruation.
During menstruation,  rush  ofbloodtothe
head; heat in the head and painful pressure
in the top of the head; or toothache.  After
menstruation, milk-like or burning and itch-
ing leucorrhoea.
  Bearing down in the lower part of the back.
  Sweat of the knees and of the feet.  Burn-
ing or pain and soreness  in  the soles of the
feet.
                 Calendula.
  This  is  an essential remedy  as an external
application in wounds, when  the flesh or skin 
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is broken or cut.  It prevents inflammation,
and greatly hastens the healing.  Also in old
suppurating, inflamed,   and painful ulcers
and sores.
                 Camphor.
  Coldness and chilliness. Cold sweat. Small,
weak pulse.  Pale face.   Spasms of the mus-
cles of the mouth, and frothing.  Dim vision.
  Cholera  with  cramps,  coldness,  anguish
and  burning, and pains at the pit of the
stomach.
  Pain and difficulty in urinating.
  Slow panting breathing; oppression of the
chest, and feeling of suffocation.   Spasms of
the chest.
  Fainting.
               Cannabis Satira.
  Opacity of the cornea. Specks on the cornea.
  Piercing headache.  Headache in the top of
the head,  as if a stone were pressing on it.
Painful pressure in the forehead, temples and
eyelids.
  Pain in  the region  of the kidneys.  Pain
and difficulty  in urinating.  Burning  pain
along the passage when urinating.   Bloody
urine.   Discharges of mucus.
                 Canth aris.
  Erysipelas,  with  burning  and  blisters.
Heat and burning in the stomach  and abdo-
men.  Pains in  the  kidneys, and  along the 
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121
passage from the kidneys to the bladder.  Ex-
treme pain, burning and difficulty in urinat-
ing.  Violent pain, heat and  burning in the
bladder, and  difficult  and  painful  urination.
Constant and urgent desire to urinate, pass-
ing  a  few drops with great pain. Urine
bloody.  Entire suppression  of urine.  The
urine passes involuntarily.  Wetting the bed,
in children.

                 Carbo Veg.
  Is adapted  to the following symptoms in
persons weak  and debilitated:  Rheumatic,
drawing pains in the limbs and whole body
and  great  weakness  after the pains.   The
limbs go to sleep, feel  bruised and the joints
are weak.
  Burning of the skin in different parts.   Net-
tle rash.  Great disposition to sweat. Morn-
ing and night sweats, with weakness.
  Peevish, irritable, and whining mood.
  Aching on top and back of the head, with
pain when the hair is touched. Beating head-
ache. Buzzing  in the ear.  Falling out of the
hair, after sickness.
  Black flying spots before the eyes.
  The complexion becomes very yellow  or
verv pale.  After eating or drinking, fullness
of the abdomen, and headache.
  Diarrhoea, with burning, smarting and ach-
ing in the rectum.  Wind colic. 
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  Burning in the soles, or profuse  sweat of
 the feet.

                Caulophyllum.
  Nervous  sleeplessness in weak  females.
 Rheumatic headache.
  Nursing sore mouth.
  Full, pressed feeling of the uterus. Drawing
 in the groins. Labor-like pains.  Premature
 pains threatening miscarriage.  False, wrang-
 ling pains.  After-pains.
  Painful menstruation.
  Taken for some weeks before confinement,
 it renders labor more easy.
  Rheumatism of the small joints, feet, hands,
 legs and arms.

                Chamomilla.
  Convulsions of children.  Weeping, moan-
 ing, and starting in sleep.
  Great thirst, and dry, red tongue.
  Chilliness in the open, air, or when uncov-
 ered.
.  Night or morning sweat, without sleep.
  Tendency to weep, and  start.   Crying on
 account of a very trifling, and  often imagin-
 ary offense.  Peevish; is unable to stop talk-
 ing about old vexations.
  Excessive sensitiveness to odors.
  Headache as if it would burst, on walking.
 The head feels bruised. 
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  Toothache, aggravated by anything warm
in the mouth, or a warm room.
  Sour, bitter or putrid taste of the mouth.
  Sour eructations, fullness after a meal, and
then nausea and vomiting.
  Wind colic; fullness of the abdomen, which
feels  bruised.   Colic,   with  light-colored
stools.  Hot diarrhoeic  stools, smelling like
rotten eggs.  Discharges of white or  green
mucous, with colic.
  Yellow, corrosive leucorrhoea, or acid and
watery.  Passing down, like labor pains.
  Before menstruation, cutting colic; abdom-
inal spasms and drawing in the thighs.
  Cramps in the calves.

                   China.
  Weakness and other affections,  attending
the loss of blood, and other fluids.
  Excessive sensibility  of the nervous sys-
tem, with great weakness.
  Languor and exhausted state of the body
and mind.  Easy sweating.
  Headache, pressive, tearing  or  throbbing,
increased by stepping or a current of air.
Pain and soreness  of the scalp.  Sweat of the
head.  Face pale,  sickly and  sunken.   Lips
dry, parched and chapped, or blackish.
  Yellow skin.  Jaundice.
  Drowsiness in the day, and restless sleep at
night. 
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   Tongue coated  white,  yellow  or dirty.
 Loss of appetite. Taste flat, insipid or bitter.
 Desire for various things,  without knowing
 what.  Desire for wine or sour things.
   Hungry, with nausea. Fullness  after eat-
 ing.
   Pain in the  region of the  liver, when
 touched.  Swelling of the liver and  spleen.
   Undigested,  blackish,  bilious  or  white
 stools.
   Excessive menstruation of weakly women,
 with discharges of clots of black blood.
                   Cina.
   Bronchial catarrh and  cough, remaining
 after measles.
   Convulsions, and contortions of the limbs.
  Epileptic convulsions, without loss  of con-
 sciousness.   The child tosses from  side to
 side; restless, whether  asleep or awake.
  Weeping and complaining.
  Disposition to bore  in the  nose, and  rub
 the nose.  Stoppage of the nose.
  Pale face, and sickly appearance around
 the eyes.  Grinding the teeth.
  Changeable appetite—sometimes voracious
  Vomiting and diarrhoea after drinking.
  Cutting pain in the abdomen.  Vomiting of
 worms.  Diarrhoea, and itching of  the anus.
  Various complaints,  arising from worms.
  N. B— Cina takes the place of Santonine in
former editions of this work. 
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125
  Copious, frequent urination.  Turbid urine.
Wetting the bed in children.
  Tickling low down in the throat, producing
cough.  Before coughing, the child  raises it-
self suddenly;  the whole body looks rigid; it
is without consciousness, as if it would  have
an  epileptic  fit.  The child  moans  after
coughing.
  Violent hunger, shortly after a meal.

                 Cocculus.
  Absorbed in reveries and sad  thoughts.
Restless eagerness to do something.
  Headache, with nausea.
  Nausea from  riding in  a carriage,  with
colic.
  Painful menstruation, with discharge of
coagulated blood.

                  Coffea.
  Great  nervousness.  Sleeplessness, owing
to agitation of body and mind.
  Frequent yawning.
  Sensitiveness to cold, and aversion to open
air.
  Pain on one side  of the head,  as if a nail
had been driven into the skull.
  Headache, as if the  brain were  torn, and
would be dashed to pieces, coming on during
a walk  in  the open air, and subsiding in a
room.   Pain in the head, as if too full. 
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  Diarrhoea during teething.
  Crampy sensation in the calves and feet.
                 Colocynth.
  Spasmodic pain of the stomach, extending
into the throat, with nausea.  Sharp griping
in the abdomen.  Griping about the umbili-
cus, like cutting or squeezing; worse on mov-
ing, and  relieved on bending forward. Feel-
ing as if the intestines were squeezed between
stones, and would burst.
  Wind colic.  Bilious colic.
  Diarrhoea, and straining at stool.  Dysen-
tery.  Frequent stools, with nausea.
  Mucous  stools,  or liquid  and frothy, of
yellow color and musty odor.
  Itching, burning soreness  and rawness of
the anus, after stool.
                  Croton.
  Scarlet redness of the  skin, with rashlike
vesicles.  Itching,  followed  by painful burn-
ing.   Itch.
  Burning inflammation of the mouth,  lips
and throat as if burnt.
  Great flatulence of the bowels.
  Fullness, pressure and burning in the stom-
ach and bowels.  Piercing and cutting in the
bowels.
  Numerous  liquid  stools,  with straining.
Violent purging.
  The urine looks dark and fiery, with greasy 
CROTON.
127
particles floating on the top, and producing
burning in passing.
               Cuprum met.
  Cramps and convulsions.  Deep sleep, with
jerking of the limbs.
  Convulsive laughter.  Craziness, with mer-
ry singing.  Artful craziness.
  Vomiting. Violent vomiting with diarrhoea.
  Vomiting,   with  colic.    Cholera,  with
cramps.
  Spasms in the abdomen, with colic.
  Violent  diarrhoea.  Spasms in the throat.
Cough  like whooping-cough, arresting  the
breathing.   Spasmodic asthma.
                  Drosera.
  Tickling  in the throat, with short, hacking
cough.  Rough, scraping feeling of dryness in
the throat, with cough and hoarseness. Pain
below the  ribs when coughing.  Cough  so
rapid and  hurried that he  is out of breath.
Whooping-cough; the cough causes vomiting
and nose bleed.
                Dulcamara.
  Eruption of the skin, like nettlerash.  Erup-
tion forming crusts over the body.
  Slimy diarrhoea, from  a cold.
  Urine thick and white, or reddish and burn-
ing. Red or white sediment  in the urine.
  Difficult and painful urination.  Catarrh of
the  bladder,   and  discharge  of   mucus, 
128     PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

with the urine.  Cough, with expectoration
of tough mucus, with  stitches  in the chest.

                Gelseminum.
  Irritability.  Dull, stupid,  intoxicated feel-
ing of the head.
  Dull, stupefying,  pressive headache.  Dizzi-
ness.
  Heaviness  of the eyelids;  difficult keeping
the  eyes  open; dim, blurred vision.  Double
vision.  Dilated pupils.
  Cold in the head, with sneezing and watery
discharges from the nose. Influenza.   Mea-
sles.
  Chilliness,  as in  the  beginning  of  colds,
fevers, and many inflammatory affections.
  Chills, with headache  and pains in the back
and  limbs.
  Scarlet fever.  Bilious fever (early stage.)
  Excessive and tedious labor pains.  After-
pains.
                 Graphites.
  Spots on the skin like flea bites. Small, red,
itching  pimples. Small boils on the  neck,
back and arms.
  Unhealthy skin;   small injuries inflame and
suppurate.
  Night sweat; fetid and sour sweat.
  Itching of  the hairy  scalp.  Scabs on  the
head.  Moist eruptions on  the  top of  the 
GRAPHITES.
129
 head, painful to the touch.  Scurfy spots on
 the head.  Falling of the hair.
  Single hairs get gray.
  Bad smelling discharge from the ears.
  Sore  feeling in  the nose,  when blowing it.
 Black, sweaty pores on the  nose.  Dry scurfs
 in the nose. Sore, cracked, ulcerated nostrils.
 Bad smell from the nose.  Obstruction of the
 nose.
  Erysipelas of the face; freckles.
  Ulcerated corners of the mouth.
  Eruption  on the chin.
  Profuse leucorrheoea, mucous or thin.
  The toe and finger nails  are thick,  rough
 and deformed.
                 Hamamelis.
  Bleeding from the  nose, stomach, bowels,
 lungs, uterus and  bladder;  the  blood being
 usually dark.  Bloody dysentery. Piles. Milk
 leg.  Inflammation and enlargement  of the
 veins of the legs and other parts.

              Hepar Sulphur.
  Fine stinging,burning,itching. Nettlerash.
 Chapped skin of the hands  and feet.   Slight
injuries become sore  and suppurate.   Ulcers
bleed easily.
  Redness and swelling of the upper eyelid.
Styes.  Running of fetid pus from the ears.
  Eruptions about the mouth. Itching pimples
on the chin. 
130     PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

  Looseness of  the   teeth—the gums bleed
easily.
  Smarting  roughness  and  rawness of the
throat.  Stinging and stitches in the throat—
sometimes extending to the ears.
  Fetid sweats in the arm-pits.
  Cough, from scraping and roughness of the
throat.
  Perhaps the best remedy for felon; chilblains.

                 Hydrastis.
  Old ulcers.  Small pox.  Running from the
ears.  Cancer.
  Swelling of the eyelids, with  discharge of
pus, and sticking together  of the  eyelids.
(Externaland internal use.)
  Obstinate catarrh,  (used  internally and
snuffed.)
  Cankerof the mouth.  Nursing soremouth.
  Ulcerated throat;  (asagaigle.) Diphtheria.
  Dyspepsia, with weakness of  the stomach.
  Chronic, mucous diarrhoea. Obstinate con-
stipation.
                  Ignatia.
  Jerks in the limbs  when going to  sleep.
Restless sleep, with night-mare.  Moaning in
sleep.  Snoring.   Excessive convulsive yawn-
ing.
  Anxious desire to do  things in haste; hur-
ried ness. 
IGNATIA.
131
  Impatient—intolerant of contradiction, or
noise.
  Still, serious melancholy.  Brooding to him-
self.
  Great grief at loss of friends.
  Ulcerated nostrils, or pain as if ulcerated.
  The lips crack and bleed.  Ulceration in the
corners of the mouth.
  Stinging in the throat when not swallow-
ing.  Sensation when swallowing as if one
swallowed over alump. Stingingsore throat.
  Rough, dry cough, especially after measles.

                   Ipecac.
  Rigid stretching of  the body  in children.
Chilliness, but unable to bear  warmth.
  Peevish, impatient; unable to bear theleast
noise.
  Headache, as  if the brain and skull  were
bruised, through all the  bones, down to the
root of the tongue, with nausea.
  Yellowish or white coating  of the tongue.
  Sweet taste, as of blood in the mouth.
  Bitter taste.  Nausea and vomiting.
  Vomiting of food or mucous; yellow, green
or jelly-like, or of black,  pitch-like substance.
Sense of great emptiness and goneness of the
stomach.
  Wind colic, with diarrhoea.
  Stool green  as  grass, or  fermented, like
yeast. 
 132     PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

  Fetid stools.  Stools  covered  with bloody
 mucus.
  Liquid diarrhoea, with  nausea.    Bloody
 stools.
  Bloody urine.  Turbid  urine, with brick-dust
 sediment.
  Uterine hemorrhage.
  Rattling of mucus in the bronchial tubes.
  Suffocative cough.  Cough from tickling in
 the throat and through the chest.
  Bleeding from the lungs.
  Spasmodic asthma.

              Kali Bichromicnin.

  Excessive weakness, and small pulse.  Sore-
 ness of the  nose, with watery discharge, and
 sneezing.   Stoppage  and  ulceration of  the
 nose.
  Loss of smell.
  Tongue smooth, red and cracked.
  Scraping of the throat.   Throat sore, red,
 swollen, painful and finally ulcerated.
  Important in diphtheria,  ulcerated  throat
 and membranous croup.
  Tickling in the throat, causing cough.
  Loud  wheezing cough, with  retching  and
expectoration of  tough mucous.   Chronic
loud cough.  Loud wheezing and rattling in
the chest.   Difficult breathing, withexpector-
ation of white mucous as tough as pitch. 
KALI  HYDRIODICUM.         133
               Kali Hydriodicum.
   Profuse, dry eruption  on the face, on the
 shoulders and over  the whole body.
   Catarrhal fever.
   Burning in the eyes, with secretion of yellow
 mucous.  Burning and redness of the lids, and
 itching.
   Redness and swelling of nose.  Discharge
 of burning acrid water from the nose.
   Profuse watery discharge from the nose.
   Dry, chapped lips.  Ulceration  of the tongue
, and mouth.
   Sore  throat.  Dull, stinging  pains in the
 throat.
   Thin, watery, acrid leucorrhoea.
   Hoarseness, cough, soreness of the bronchia,
 and oppressed breathing.
   Influenza,  with sneezing,  headache  and
 drowsiness.
   Irritation of the throat, with dry cough, fol-
 lowed by copious, greenish expectoration,

                  Leptandrin,

   Bilious Headache,  with coated tongue, bit-
 ter taste, and low spirits.
   Dull aching in the region of the liver, extend-
 ing to the back.  Jaundice, with light clay-col-
 ored stools.  Stool followed by a feeling of
 weakness of the bowels and rectum.  Stools
 hard, black and lumpy, then soft and mushy. 
134      PRACTICAL  HOMCEOPATHY.

  Great rumbling and distress in  the lower
bowels, with profuse, black, fetid stools.
  Mucous, bloody stools.
                 Macrotin.
  Nervous, Rheumatic and menstrual head-
ache.  Dull pain in the back of the head and
neck. Leucorrhoea.  Excessive menstruation.
Suppressed  menses.   Weight  and  bearing
down of the uterine region and back.
  Labor-like pains during pregnancy.  Spinal
irritation.
  Rheumatism in the back and limbs.
                 Mercurus.
  Inflammation of theeyes, with itching, burn-
ing,  swelling and redness. Scurf round  the
eyes.  Running of water and pus from  the
eyes, and sticking together of the lids.  Ulcer
on the cornea.
  Pain and discharge from the ears.
  Swelling of the nose. Sneezing and running
of the nose.
  Ulcerations and cracks  in the corners of the
mouth.
  Swelling and ulcerations of the gums. Sore
mouth; cancer; salivation.  Swelling of the
tongue.
  Sore  throat.  Pain   when  swallowing.
Ulcers in the throat.  Diphtheria.
  Inflammation and  pain in the liver. Jaun-
dice. 
MERCURUS.
135
  Colic and diarrhoea, pain worse by walking,
and chilliness.  Inflammation of the bowels.
  Diarrhoea, with  chilliness,  and urging  of
stool.
  Dysentery.
  Brown  urine; dark red as if  mixed with
blood.
  Constant desire to urinate.
  Catarrh,  with chilliness,  sore  throat and
running at the nose.
  Swelling of the glands of the neck, arm-pits
and groins.
  N. B.—Merc.  cor. is  usually preferable  in
dysentery.  In other  cases Merc sol. is pre-
ferred for  women and children, and Merc. cor.
for men.
  Merc, iodatus is preferable to either in diph-
theria, and some forms  of ulcerated throat.

                Nux Vomica.
  Chronic  ailments from the use  of  wine,
spirituous liquors, coffee and other narcotics,
and from watching.
  Pain in all the joints, as if bruised;  worse
from  motion.  Paralysis and trembling  of
the limbs.   Trembling of drunkards.  Con-
vulsions and Spasms.  Bending the head and
body backwards.  St. Vitus dance.
  Chilblains, itching and burning.
  Great chilliness; sometimes  with hot Lead
and face, and headache. 
136      PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.
  Burning, internal heat and thirst.
  Starting on goingto sleep.  Horrid dreams.
  Sour night sweat.  Morning sweat.
  Great sensitiveness to all external impres-
sions.
  Noise, talk, strong odors and  bright  light
are intolerable.
  Headache, from stormy weather,  wine or
coffee; from thinking; piles from  sedentary
habits.  Headache with  nausea.  Headache
on one side.
  Stoppage of the nose.
  Earthy, yellowish complexion.
  Cankered mouth. Sour taste.  Milk sours.
  Putrid taste.  Hungry,  but  aversion  to
food.
  After a meal, sick feeling, as if  he had  over-
loaded his stomach; low spirits; chilly; hot
face; dull headache;  sleepiness and nausea.
  Hiccough; bitter or sour eructation ; heart-
burn.
  Pressure in the stomach, as from a stone.
  Fullness and throbbing in the  liver.  Jaun-
dice.
  Constipation from sedentary habits.
  Mucous diarrhasa.  After  stools,  burning
and  smarting in the rectum.  Piles, burning
and  pricking.
  Painful discharge  of thick urine; burning
and  pricking. 
NUX VOMICA.
137
  Internal swelling of the vagina, like prolap-
sus.
  The menses appear  too early.  During the
menses, nausea, chilliness, fainting and head-
ache.
  Yellow leucorhoea.
  Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
  Symptoms of  miscarriage.   False  labor
pains.
  Colds, with  headache;  heat in the face;
Chilliness and scraping in the throat and
chest with hawking.
  Dry, fatiguing, continuous cough.
  Bruised pain in the  back.  Stiffness  of  the
back and neck.

                Phosphorus.
  Hectic fever, night sweats.
  Pale, sickly, or  sunken,  livid countenance.
  Sore throat, with  dark redness, burning
and dry.
  Burning in the stomach.
  Chronic diarrhoea;  also of consumptive
persons.
  Alternate  constipation  and  diarrhoea of
old persons.
  Burning, gnawing and itchingin the rectum.
  Colds, with  roughness of the throat and
windpipe.
  Violent cold, with  hoarseness, cough and
fever. 
138     PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

  Expectoration of tough or reddish mucous.
  Inflammation of the lungs.

               Phosphoric Acid.

  Pains in the bones and  weakness of the
young who are growing rapidly.
  Profuse morning sweat.
  Scurf on the nose and large pimples on the
face.
  Diarrhoea,  with rumbling and pain.  Wat-
ery diarrhoea, or white-grey. Passage of un-
digested food.
  Milky urine.



  Pains in the bowels, followed by diarrhoea.        4
  Fullness, pain and soreness in  the region of
the liver.
  Diarrhoea in the morning or after eating.
  Diarrhoea,  with   screaming,  in children,
when teething.
  Green,  white, slimy or hot, watery stools,
with  great  weakness.  Undigested stools.
Dark-yellow  mucous stools smelling like car-
rion.  Chalk-like  stools, with  gagging and
thirst in children.
  Chronic diarrhoea, worse in the morning.
  Falling of the bowel in children.  Piles.
  Leucorrhoea, thick, transparent.  Prolap-
sus uteri. 
PULSATILLA.
139
                 Pulsatilla.
  Restless sleep, with dry, burning heat.  Dis-
posed to weep or cough.  Gloomy ;  peevish ;
sullen; chilly.
  Headache deep in the orbits, when moving
the eyes.
  Headache, as if from intoxication, or watch-
ing, or as from overloading the stomach, or
from fat meat.
  Redness and swelling of the edges of the
eyelids.  Stye.
  Earache.  Hardness of hearing.  Discharge
from the ears.
  Green, fetid discharge from the nose.
  Toothache when taking anything warm in
the mouth.
  Slimy taste, or taste of putrid meat.
  The  middle  of the tongue feels as if burnt.
  Nausea.  Vomiting, sour,  salt or bitter.
  Food tastes bitter.  Waterbrash.  Eructa-
tions,  tasting of the food, or sour, bitter or
bilious.
  Urging to stool,  as if diarrhoea would set
in.
  Suppressed menses, with nausea and vomit-
ing-
  Before the  menses, chilliness,  stretching,
yawning and heaviness of the abdomen.
  During  the menses, pain of the stomach ;
pressure in the abdomen and back; chilliness
and pale face. 
140     PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

  The blood is thick, black and clotty.
  Leucorrhoea;  burning, or thin and acrid ;
or milky, or thick and  mucous.  Swelling of
the breast, and excessive secretion of milk,
when weaning.
  Cough, with  difficult expectoration of yel-
low mucous, or bitter.  Cough, with putrid
expectoration and hectic fever.

                  Rhustox.
  Rheumatism, with stiffness and weakness of
the joints, with stinging pains.
  Swelling or redness on or near the joints.
  Rheumatism of the hip joint and wrist.
  The greatest stiffness and  pain  are felt on
first moving the joints  after rest, and in the
morning.
  Bad effects from straining parts.   Pains as
if sprained.
  Greatest sensitiveness to the open  air.
  Burning, itching eruptions of vesicles.
  Nettle  rash.   Shingles.   Erysipelas, with
blisters.  Swelling of glands.
  Evening fever, with diarrhoea.
  Inflammation of the  eyelids.  Glueing of the
eyes together.   Red, hard stye on the lids.
  Milk crusts.
  Parched, red, dry tongue.
  Diarrhoea.   Red and  yellow stools, mixed
with  mucous,  jelly like,  and  fluid.  Stools
mixed with blood. 
SEPIA.               141
                   Sepia.
  Is an important remedy for females.  Ring-
w orm.  Flushes of heat.
  Palpitation of the heart,  in the evening in
bed, and beating of all the arteries.
  Profuse night sweat.  Cold night sweat on
the  chest, back  and thighs.  Sourish night
sweat.   Morning sweat.   Sweat from the
least exertion.
  Despondent; sad ; indifferent.   Sensitive to
noise.
  Dizziness only when waking.
  Morning headache, with nausea.   Beating
headache in the evening.  Headache as if the
head would burst, and the eyes fall out.
  Pain in the scalp, when touching it.
  Great falling off of the hair.
  Small red pimples on the  forehead.  Rough
forehead.
  Yellow spots on the face.  Black pores on
the face.  Yellowness round the mouth.
  Pain of the tongue, as if burnt and blistered.
  Everything tastes too salt.
  Heat and palpitation of the heart, after eat-
ing.  Morning nausea.
  Vomiting, during pregnancy.
  Exhausting diarrhoea;  green   or  sour in
children, or putrid, sourish, fetid smell.
  Slimy diarrhoea, with distended abdomen.
  Itching and stinging in the rectum.
  Prolapsus of the uterus and vagina. 
112      PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY.

  Before the menses, colic and faintness, shud-
dering, and acrid leucorrhoea, producing sore-
ness.
  During the menses, exhaustion, toothache,
pain in the limbs, spasms in the abdomen and
pressing downward.
  Leucorrhoea, with stiches in the uterus, or
with itching in the vagina.   Bloody, yellow-
ish, watery or mucous leucorrhoea.
  Discharge of a greenish,  red fluid,  during
pregnancy.
  Leucorrhoea like milk, only in the day time,
producing soreness.
  During pregnancy—toothache, nausea  and
vomiting, and stinging in the breast.
  Sprained, weary  feeling in the small of the
back.
  Violent cramps in the calves at night.
  Profuse sweat  of the feet.  Burning of the
feet at night. Fetid smell of the feet.

                  Spongia.
  Stinging in the throat. Hoarseness, cough
and running at the nose.  Scraping and burn-
ing at the throat.  Difficult breathing, as if
the throat were  closed  by  a  plug.  Hollow
cough, day and night.  Pain in the chest and
windpipe, when coughing, with roughness in
the throat.   Constant  cough, from a deep
spot in  the  chest where a  pain is felt, as  if
sore.  Croup. 
SULPHUR.
143
                  Sulphur.
  Scurfy eruptions, itching.
  Stinging, itching rash.  Milk crusts.
  Nettle rash, with  fever.  Burning, itching
eruptions.
  Liver spots on the chest and back; itching.
  Yellow brown spots.  Dry, scaly eruptions.
  Unhealthy skin.  Boils.
  Swelling,   suppuration,  or  hardness  of
glands.
  Disease of bones.
  Low spirits.  Extremely forgetful.
  Pain in the center of the head, from cough-
ing or sneezing.  Pain in  the top of the head
as if the eyes would be pressed down.
  Scald head, or  fetid  and moist  eruption
with thick pus, yellow crust, and itching.
  Itching of the eyelids.  Painful dryness of
the eyeballs. Heat or bruised pain in the eyes.
  Running of matter from the eyes.
  Ulceration of the nose.   Dryness.  Loss of
smell.
  Chapped lips.  Eruption round the mouth.
  Chronic  constipation,   and  with  piles;
lumpy stools, mixed with mucous, with burn-
ing pain in the rectum.  Scalding, hot stools.
  Burning in the vagina,  and itching in the
external parts.
  Burning, painful  leucorrhoea,  producing
soreness.
  Dry cough, only when in the open air. 
144      PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY.

  Dry night cough.   Coughing up greenish
lumps.

               Tartar Emetic.
  Violent itching and suppurating rash.
  Round,  large,  burning,  painful pustules,
surrounded by a red circle.  Boil-like pustules,
with violent, painful itching.  Pustules con-
taining a bloody or blackish fluid.  Small-
pox.
  Fever with restlessness; chilliness, alternat-
ing with heat; great heat and thirst; mutter-
ing delirium.  Headache and palpitation of
the heart; dullness; drowsy and  weary feel-
ing.
  The eyeballs feel bruised and sore.  Influen-
za. Dryness of the  lips and  mouth.  Red
tongue, covered with raised, red points.
  Sore throat, with burning heat of throat.
  Loathing of food; nausea,  vomiting and
diarrhoea.
  Feeble voice.  Cough and sneezing.
  Short and difficult breathing.   Inflamma-
tion  of the lungs, with continued  dry,  or
loose, rattling  cough; cannot breathe lying
down.
  Velvety feeling of the chest.

               Yeratrum Album.
  Blue skin in cholera.   Coldness of the body.
Cold sweat.  Sweat, with burning skin. 
YERATRUM ALBUM.
145
  Headache, with nausea, vomiting and pale
face.
  Chilly on the top of the head.
  Cold sweat on the forehead.
  Cold disfigured face, as of a dead person.
  Redness of face when lying  down and pale
when sitting up.
  Tongue dry, blackish and cracked.
  Desire for fruit and  acid things.  Intense
thirst.
  Nausea  before  breakfast.   Nausea,  with
bitter taste.
  Hiccough.  Drinking is  followed  by  shud-
dering or goose skin.
  Great nausea,  with  thirst.  Vomiting of
bile of food and of mucous, with great weak-
ness.
  Black vomit.  Cholera. Cholera morbus.
Coldness or burning of the stomach.
  Violent  diarrhoea, with  chilliness.    Ex-
treme weakness during the stools.
  Scanty,  burning, yellow, turbid  or  dark.
red urine.
  Cramps of the calves.  Icy cold feet. 
INDEX.
                        PAGE.
Abdomen, Affections of....62-72
After I'aius.................   89
Amenorrhoea..............   82
Angiua Pectoris............   76
Asthma...................   73
Heating of the Heart.......   71
Bee Stings..................    57
Bilious Fever...............   25
Biliousness.................   70
Bites of Insects, &c........   57
Bladder, Inflammation of..   52
Bleeding from the Bowels..   69
            "    Lungs...   7-")
    "       "    Nose___   7")
  •  "       "    Stomach   75
Blows.......................   59
Bones, weakness of......  104
Bowels, affection of.....  .62, 101
    "  bleeding from .....   69
    "  falling of...........  109
    "  inflammation of....   15
    "  loosene.-s of......62-101
    "  pain in..............64-68
Breast broken..............   89
Breathing difficult.........73-76
Brom Jiial Catarrh.........   73
Bronchitis..................73-48
Brain, inflammation of__52-55
Bruises......................   59
Burns.......................   5H
Cancer......................   77
Carbuncle...................   59
(anker......................41,96
Catarrh   ...................48,99
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.   55
Chicken Pox................   39
Chilblains...................   57
Children,  Diseases of.......   s 8
Chillsand bVver..........   30
Cholera. Asiatic............   '8
        Infantum..........  101
        ■Morbus...........   68
Colic.......................   64
Cold in the Chest..........   48
        '•   Head..........   48
        "   Nose..........   48
Constipation................   62
i  onvulsions................  104
Corns.....................   56
Ooryza......................   48
Costiveness.................   6^
Cough..................18,73,107
                        PAGE.
Crying......................   99
Croup.......................  107
Cystitis.....................   52
Diarrhoea..................62,103
Diphtheria..................   36
Diseases of Children.......   98
            Women........   82
Dose........................   24
Dysentery...................   69
Dysmenorrhoea.............   K)
Dyspepsia..................   71
Epistxxis..................   75
Erysipelas..................   41
Eyeli'ls, Inflammation of..   56
Eyes,Inflammation........54,109
Fainting....................   77
Falling of the Bowels......  109
Fatigue.....................   82
Felon .....................   61
Feet, Inflammation of......   57
Fevers......................   25
Fevers, Bilious..............   25
   "  Intermittent......   30
   "  Scarlet..............   33
       Spotted.............   52
   "  Typhoid.............   31
Finger.............■.........   59
Fits.........................  104
Flowing     ....'...........   84
Glands,Eulargementof...78, 106
Goitre.......................   78
Head, Scurf of..............  110
   "   Cold in...............   48
Headache...................   79
Heart, Palpitation of  ....   74
Heart, Spasm of ...........   76
Hemorrhage from B< >wels..   69
             "   Lungs..   75
                  Nose___   75
Hemorrhoids...............   66
Hepatitis.................   46
Indigestion.................   71
Inflammation of the—
     Bladder...............   52
     Bowels................   45
     B ain..................   52
     Breasts ......."........   89
     Eyes.................54, 109
     Fingers...............   61
     Kidneys...............   51
     Liver..................   49
     Lungs.................   46 
                        PAGE.
Inflammation of the—
     Throat................36, 44
Influenza....................   48
Intermittent Fever.........   30
Itch.....................\ ...   40
Jaundice.....................   70
Kidneys, Inflammation of..   51
Labor..................... 88, 92
Leucorrhoea................   87
List of Remedies...........   22
Liver, Inflammation of___   46
Lungs, Inflammation of___   49
Lungs, Cold  on.............   48
Malignant Scarlatina......   35
Materia Medica.............  Ill
Measles.....................   39
M enstruation, Scanty......   82
             Painful......   83
             Profuse.......   84
Milk Crust,..................  110
MilkLeg....................   90
Morning Sickness..........   88
Motithly Sickness, see Men-
    struation.
Mouth, Sore............44 96, 98
Mumps......................  108
Nephritis...................   51
Nervousness.    ..........   97
Nettle Rash.................   40
Neuralgia...................   43
Nipplns, Sore...............   90
Nose Bleed..................   75
Nose, Stoppage of..........   99
Nursing Sore Mouth.......   96
Ophthalmia.................   54
Pain in Head...............   79
       Stomach............61,71
Pain of N  erves..............   43
Pains of Labor..............   89
Pains after Labor..........   89
Palpitation of the Heart.  .   74
Piles........................   66
Pin Wofms.................   65
Pleuri sy....................   50
Pneumonia.................   49
Poisoning...................   79
                        PAGE.
Prolapsus of Bowels........  109
     "      Uterus........   86
Quinsy......................  44
Rattlesnake Bite...........   57
Remittent Fever............   25
Rheumatism...............  42
Rickets......................  104
Roseola..  .................  40
Scalds.......................  58
Scarlatina..................   33
    "    Anginosa.........   34
    "    Maligna..........   35
Scarlet Fever, see Scarlatina
Scurf on head...............  110
Scrofula.....................  106
Sea Sickness................   64
Skin, Yellowness of,........   70
Small Pox...................   38
Sore Mouth.............96, 98, 44
Sore Nipple.................   90
Sore Throat.................   44
Spotted Fever..............   55
8tings.......................   57
Spasms......................  104
Stomachache..............   64
Stomach, Affections of.....   62
Stoppage of Nose...........   99
Stye.........................   56
Summer Complaints......62,101
Syncope.....................   77
Tape Worms................   65
Teething....................  109
Throat, Sore................   44
Thrush......................   96
Tonsils, Inflammation of...   44
Urine. Incontinence of.....  104
Variola......................   38
Varioloid...................   38
Weakness of the Limbs___  104
Wetting of the bed.........  104
Whites......................   87
Whitlow....................   61
Whooping Cough...........  108
Womb, Falling of.. .*.......   86
Women, Diseases of........   82
Worms......................   65 
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                     -BY-
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