two-thirds full, put in just liquid enough to wet every one, but not so
as to dissolve any. Shake them until all are equally wet, and let them
stand for four or five days, if practicable, shaking them up two or
three times a day until all are dry.
INDEX.
Administration of Remedies, 11
Ague, 22
Ague, preventive treatment of, 153
Asthma, 57
Aphthæ, 90
Asiatic Cholera, 104
Amenorrhoea, 129
Ague in the breast, 135
Attenuation of medicines, 151
Bathing, 12
Bilious Fever, 26
Preventive treatment of, 153
Bronchitis, 51
Burns and Scalds, 64
Bilious Colic, 19
Brain Fever, 70
Bee stings, 75
Bite of Rattlesnake, 77
Bruises, 95
Cholera Case, 3
Colic, 18
Colic, Bilious, 19
Cholera Morbus, 21
Cholera, Asiatic, 104
Preventive treatment of, 153
Chill Fever, 22
Continued Fever, 28
Catarrhal Fever, 28
Cough, 52
Colds, 57
Colds, Preventive treatment of, 154
Croup, 55
Constipation, 62
Chilblains, 69
Convulsions of Children, 72
Crusta Lactea, 122
Carbuncle, 122
Diarrhoea, 14
Preventive treatment of, 154
Dysentery, 16
Preventive treatment of, 154
Diet, Rules for, 13
Dyspepsia, 58
Diseases of Females, 129
Dysmenorrhoea, 131
Enteritis, 53
Erysipelas, 62
Epistaxis, 81
Earache, 84
Foreign Substances in the Ear or Nose, 144
Fevers, 22
Intermittent, 22
Chill, 22
Fits of Children, 72
Felon, 126
Flowing, 132
Female weakness, 198
Gastritis, 54
Hooping Cough, 58
Heartburn, 62
Hoarseness, 70
Headache, 78
Sick, 80
Introduction, 5
Intermittent Fever, Ague, 22
Inflammation of the Lungs, 49
Inflammation of the Brain, 70
Inflammation of the Bowels, 53
Inflamed Eyes, 91
Incontinence of Urine, 117
Involuntary urination (nightly), 117
Itch, 120
Itch, preventive treatment of, 154
Inflamed Breast, 135
Inflammation of the Uterus, 140
Jaundice, 120
Local application of Remedies, 145
Leucorrhoea, 138
Mammary Abscess, 135
Menorrhagia, 132
Measles, 73
Mumps, 74
Morning sickness of pregnant females, 143
Nursing Sore-mouth, 133
Nosebleed, 81
Neuralgia, 118
Nightly urination of Children, 117
Otalgia, 84
Ophthalmia, 91
Preparation of medicine, 155
Pleurisy, 48
Prolapsus Uteri, 138
Pneumonia, 49
Piles, 97
Painful urination, 117
Painful menstruation, 131
Profuse menstruation, 132
Preventives of Disease, 151
Quinsy, 53
Rheumatism, 30
Rheumatic Fever, 29
Remitting Fever, 27
Rattlesnake bite, 77
Scarlet Fever, 35
Preventive treatment of, 151
Sore Throat, 52
Scalds, 64
Stings of Insects, 75
Sick Headache, 79
Sore-mouth of Children, 90
Sea Sickness, 103
Small-Pox, 110
Preventive treatment of, 153
Scald Head, 122
Suppression of the menses, 129
Sore Nipples, 139
Table of Remedies, 3
Traveler's Case, 3
Typhoid Fever, 31
Tonsillitis, 53
Toothache, 86
Teething of children, 88
Thrush, 90
Ulceration of the Uterus, 140
Urination painful, 117
Urination, Involuntary, 110
Variola, 117
Varioloid, 117
Worms, 82
Wounds, 93
Whitlow, 126
Yellow Fever, 38
Preventive treatment of, 153
APPENDIX
ON THE USE OF GELSEMINUM SEMP. IN FEVERS. BY J. S. DOUGLAS, A. M., M.
D., Prof. of Mat. Med. and Special Pathology, in the Western
Homoepathic College, Cleveland; author of "Treatment of
Intermittents," &c.
Such has been the general result of the treatment of the fevers of this
country, that most Homoeopathic physicians deny the possibility of
_breaking up_ a fever when once established.
Those who labor under this impression, will be soon convinced of the
error by properly employing the _Gelseminum semper virens_, or yellow
Jasmine. Having proved this drug repeatedly on myself and seven or eight
others, it was impossible to avoid the conviction that it would be
homoeopathic to the ordinary fevers of this country.
The pathogenetic symptoms, almost uniformly experienced, are the
following, the dose being from one to five drops:
Within a few minutes, sometimes within two or three, a marked depression
of pulse, which becomes 10, 15 or 20 beats less in the minute, if quiet,
but greatly disturbed by movement. Chilliness, especially along the
back, pressive pain of the head, most generally of the temples,
sometimes in the occiput, at others, over the head. The chilliness is
soon followed by a glow of heat and prickling of the skin, and quickly
succeeded by perspiration which is sometimes profuse and disposed to be
persistent, continuing from twelve to twenty-four hours. As soon as the
re-action takes place after the chill, the pulse rises as much above the
normal standard, as it was before depressed below it. With these
symptoms is a puffy, swollen look and feeling of the eye-lids, slimy and
disagreeable or bitter taste in the mouth, languid feeling of the back
and limbs, and sleepiness.
As example affords the best illustration, we will give one to illustrate
the usual action of this drug in fevers:
P. W., aged 21, sanguine temperament, had been complaining of languor,
and want of appetite for three weeks. For a week has been unable to
attend to business. Took a cathartic, and was, of course, worse. For the
last thirty-six hours had been seriously sick. June 30, 1858, had the
following symptoms: Pulse rather full, but weak and vascillating, about
100 per minute. Tongue red and dry; hands tremulous when extending them;
tongue trembles when protruded; the mind wanders; he reaches after
imaginary objects; lips dry and parched; he is uneasy, restless. Now
this, all will recognize as a case which had been long in coming on,
and was fairly established, and was not likely to be _broken up_ by
ordinary means. He took one drop of _Gelseminum tincture_ to be repeated
every hour, if needed. The next morning he reported that he had been in
a perspiration ever since fifteen minutes after taking the first dose,
had slept quietly during the night, the tongue and lips were moist, mind
clear, pulse 80, and steady. The next day I found him dressed and down
stairs, with good appetite and free from disease. I could give sixty
cases of equally prompt results from this precious drug, in fevers which
make their attack rather suddenly, whether from cold or otherwise, and
attended with chilliness, pain in the limbs, head and back, variously
disordered taste of the mouth, with great restlessness. The almost
uniform effect, in these cases is, a cessation of the chills, within
from two to five minutes, quickly followed by a glow of heat and
prickling of the surface; and within from five to twenty minutes,
perspiration with progressive abatement of all the pains and
restlessness. The patient falls asleep, and after a longer or shorter
time, wakes with a consciousness that his disease is _broken up_--and
this proves to be the truth. Like all other drugs, the dose must be
various, generally one drop repeated every half hour, till the desired
effect is produced repeated afterwards as occasion may require.
In simple cases of fever, I regard it as _the_ remedy, not only, but
_the only_ remedy required. There are, of course, many cases of fever,
with local complications, as inflammation of the liver, &c., &c., where
other remedies will be necessary. Half a drop, or even a quarter, is
often sufficient. The largest I have yet given is five drops, and this
in only one case.
Several Homoeopathic physicians to whom I have recommended it, have
made equally favorable reports of it.
My experience has been, that not a few of our Western fevers, especially
if neglected beyond the incipient stages, are accompanied by such
gastric and bilious disorder, as to require _Mercurius_, _China_, or
_Podophyllin_, after the general febrile symptoms are removed by _Gels._
But at an early stage, the _Gels._ alone will prevent the development of
these complications.
The drug seems to me to act specifically and energetically, not only
upon the circulatory system, but equally so upon the nervous system,
allaying nervous irritability more effectually in fevers, than _Coff._,
_Cham._, _Bell._, _Nux_, or any other drug we possess. As it acts very
quickly, the first dose may be soon repeated and increased, if no effect
is observed.
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