PRACTICAL 
HOMOEOPATHY 
FOR THE PEOPLE : 
ADAPTED TO THE COMPREHENSION OF THE NON-PROFESSTON AL, 
AND FOR REFERENCE BY THE YOUNG PRACTITIONER, 
INCLUDING A NUMBER OF MOST 
VAIJ AHLi: NI.W REMEDIES. 
TENTH EDITIOf^ 
BY J. S. DOUGLAS, A. M., M.D. 
Late Professor of Mat. Med., Special Pathology and Diagnosis, 
In Hie Western Hom. Med. College, Cleveland, 0.; 
Fellow and corresponding Member of the Penn. Hom. Med. College 
at Philadelphia. 
Author of " Treatment of Intermittent Fever," 
"IIOM<EOPATHY,IT8 PRINCIPLES ANDPRACTICE EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED," 
" Modern Spiritualism, its Scientific and Moral Aspects," Etc. 
^is.: 
DOUGLAS & PERRINE. 
CHICAGO : HALSEY BRO.'S. COPYRIGHT SECURED BY THE AUTHOR. 
GoOficr & Crandall, Book and Job Printer*, No. 1 Spring St., Milwaukee. 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 system. 
Second.-A large portion of the population, of 
the West especially, are not within reach of a 
Homoeopathic physician, and if they employ the 
remedies, are obliged to depend upon such knowl- 
edge of them as they can acquire from books 
designed for domestic use. 
Third.-The reputation of Homoeopathic reme- 
dies has become so general, and the demand for 
them so great, that the country is becoming flooded 
with Homoeopathic quackery, under the name of 
"Specific Homoeopathic Remedies," no one know- 
ing 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 
nostrums, or some of his agents, to get it replen- IV 
PREFACE. 
ished. The unfortunate example of this mode of 
quackery has been set by a medical man at the 
East, who has thereby forfeited his standing in 
the profession, and been, very properly, expelled 
from the American Medical Society. His example 
is being followed by others who have a higher 
regard for their own pockets than for their pro- 
fessional reputation, or the interest of the public. 
All reasoning persons will prefer to know' what 
the medicines are which they use, and when one 
is exhausted, be able to replenish it at any place 
where Homoeopathic medicines are kept, and at 
the same time enjoy the practical benefits of know- 
ing what the remedies are which effect cures of 
different diseases. 
Besides these considerations, any reasoning per- 
son, by a moment's reflection, will be convinced 
how totally inadequate these "Specifics" 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 Reme- 
dies" 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 physicians 
of the public, nor expect that every case of disease 
canbe safely treated domestically. But I do know, 
from numerous examples of domestic practice, that PREFACE. 
V 
a loim catalogue of acute and serious diseases, as 
o o 
well as lighter disorders, will be treated much 
more safely and successfully by families, by follow- 
ing 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 consulted, with remedies enough to meet 
these cases, among which is a considerable number 
of most valuable and even indispensable remedies, 
which have been recently introduced. 
It is greatly to be regretted that so many Allo- 
pathic 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 neces- 
sary 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 serious 
mischief, they pronounce Homoeopathy not adapt- 
ed to such cases. As well might a bungler, after 
spoiling a board and mangling his hand, by at- 
tempting to use a saw, pronounce a saw not adapt- 
ed for use. 
In short, my one great object in this issue of VI 
medicines, with appropriate directions, is to make 
known and extend the blessings of Homoeopathic 
remedies properly applied, by bringing the com- 
munity to a practical acquaintance with them, and 
inducing them to witness their beneficent effects 
under their own administration and experience. 
We hope that very many who have never used 
Homoeopathic remedies will be induced to make 
the trial. 
It will not be deemed egotistic by those who 
know him, or know7 of^him, to say that this work 
is written by one who has devoted over forty 
years to the study as well as the practice of medi- 
cine, and who, in his intercourse with the best and 
most progressive physicians of the day, and in the 
performance of his duties as a teacher of medicine, 
the reading of the latest practical works, and the 
habitual proving of new remedies on himself and 
others, has anxiously labored to collect practical 
information, and apply it to the treatment of 
disease. 
PREFACE. INTRODUCTION. 
Most persons who have not given special atten- 
tion to Homoeopathy, have very mistaken notions 
^Tit. It is very commonly thought to consist in 
giving very small doses. If an Allopathic phy- 
sician gives very small doses, it is thought that he 
is almost Homoeopathic. 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 accord 
ing to a certain fixed law of cure. This law it 
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 produce on a healthy person, 
if given in large doses. The first inquiry which we 
make, when called to treat a disease, is, "What 
medicine 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 confidence of 
success, if the disease is curable. The correctness 
of this law, any one can prove on himself. For VIII 
INTRODUCTION. 
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 the correctness of this law, 
by taking, when he is well, five or ten drops of 
the same remedy. 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, a 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 pro- 
duces a feverin 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 hundreds with 
it, because I knew that the law of "like cures 
like" was a true and reliable law, This is the law 
;hat guides us in all our treatment of disease. 
Every remedy prescribed in this book, for partic- 
ular diseases, is prescribed, because it produces a 
similar disease. This is the secret of our great 
success, in the most formidable and dangerous dis- 
eases; a success that often astonishes those who 
do not understand the secret. Allopathic physi- 
cians have no such law to guide them. The only INTRODUCTION'. 
IX 
law they have for treating disease is, the "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 before hand 
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 produce 
the disease 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 intelligent clergyman 
was investigating the truth of this law, and one 
■day called and related the following case: 
Said he, "In my young days I was in the habit 
of drinking wine. I have a most vivid recollec- 
tion of the bursting headache, the parched mouth, 
.the burning thirst, the nausea, and the prostra- 
tion, the morning after a hard night's drinking. 
I awoke a few mornings since with all these feel- 
ings in a most distressing degree, though I had 
drank nothing. I related my feelings to my wife, 
saying that I felt exactly 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 X 
INTRODUCTION. 
principle. 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 perfectly 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 for- 
midable train of symptoms, like those produced 
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, weak- 
ness, and palpitation of the heart; yet every lady 
knows that tea, in moderate quantity, is an excel- 
lent 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 authorities, 
both produces and cures giddiness, nausea, trem- 
bling, and weakness; agaricus produces and cures 
epilepsy; belladonna both produces and cures 
delirium and headache; ipecac and antimony pro- 
duce and cure nausea and vomiting; nitric acid, 
iodine, and mercury produce and cure salivation 
and ulceration of the mouth. We might fill a 
volume with similar examples. Large doses pro- 
duce diseases-small ones cure them. It may 
seem strange to those who have not looked at the INTRODUCTION. 
XI 
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 than Allopathic physicians 
do, and be able to meet the arguments brought by 
them against Homoeopathy, I propose to explain 
the philosophy of this Homoeopathic law, so that 
all will understand it. 
It is founded upon a 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 minutes 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 
one of her laws. Take another example: 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 paim 
ful. On Allopathic principles, we should apply 
cold to remove this heat. And what would be the 
effect? Why, the heat and pain would be relieved 
for a short time, but the vital principle of reaction 
is aroused against it, and the hand soon becomes XII 
INTRODUCTION. 
more hot, red, and painful than before. Hence, 
experience, with a knowledge of the law, has 
taught the profession that cold applications to a 
burn, though a comfortable temporary palliative, 
is a very bad curative. But adopt an opposite 
treatment, and apply a heating stimulant, as 
alcohol, or spirits of turpentine, or soft soap. The 
vital principle 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. 
'K 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 a similar character. 
This will enable us to understand two universal 
and practical laws, of the action of remedies, 
which the community should understand, if phy- 
sicians do not. Such an understanding 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 permanent one. 
To illustrate this law by an example: A patient 
takes a cathartic or a laxative. Its first, or prim- 
ary 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 INTRODUCTION. 
XIII 
is transient, lasting only a few hours. Then comes 
the secondary effect, which is exactly the opposite, 
viz.: unusual and 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 primary effect; 
but this soon ceases, and then conies the opposite, 
or secondary effect, that is, increased sensibility, 
restlessness and sleeplessness, and this is increased 
with every dose. 
What is true of these two remedies, is true of 
all others. Yet this is the strange principle 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 opposite effect, which, uf 
course must be bad. Everybody is familiar with 
the fact, that multitudes of persons, after an Allo- 
pothic treatment, are left with lasting and ruinous 
medicinal diseases, though the medicines may have 
done them temporary good. 
If the public were thoroughly acquainted with 
this one law, they would never tolerate another 
dose of Allopathic medicine for themselves or their 
families. If the physician should prescribe a laxa- 
tive or cathartic, to remove 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 XIV 
INTRODUCTION. 
by its primary effect; but the secondary effect wilr 
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 Allo- 
pathic prescription for every disease. 
Second Law.-But there is another law, equally 
practical, and equally important, viz.: That all 
medicines produce two exactly opposite effects, 
according to quantity; that is, small and large 
doses produce precisely opposite 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, mercury, and 
other cathartics, allay irritability of the bowels, 
and cure diarroea and dysentery, while large 
doses, everybody knows, produce precisely oppo- 
site effects. Very small doses of ipecac, and emetic 
tartar, allay irritation of the stomach, and stop 
vomiting and cholera morbus, while large doses 
produce only irritation and vomiting. The oncis 
the disease-curing, the other disease-producing, 
effect. INTRODUCTION. 
XV 
Guided by this law, the physician will so admin- 
ister his medicines as to secure the disease-curino; 
effect, and avoid the db ease-producing effect. 
Patients, well informed, will be wise enough to 
refuse a prescription made in violation of this law. 
But the Allopathic physician always aims to get 
the primary, or disease-producing effect. He 
knows nothing 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 
nail 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 produce disease, but his 
exclusive business to cure it. The time is^past, 
when the appropriate inscription on a physician's 
sign was a 'Disease Manufactory,' and the proper 
title of the profession, 'The destructive art of heal- 
ing.' I must insist on your treating me in harmonv 
with the now well-known laws of cure, or I must 
take the treatment into my own hands, or consult 
some one better informed." 
We can now better understand the reason of the 
law, "Like Cures Like." We see a patient 
laboring under symptoms exactly like those pro- 
duced by large doses of Belladonna. This, then, 
must be the appropriate remedy, because, in small 
doses, it produces symptoms exactly the opposite XVI 
INTRODUCTION. 
of those produced by large doses, and the opposite 
of those under 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 wonderful cures, is it not just what 
we ought to expect? We always know why we 
give any certain remedy, and know what its effects- 
will be, for we have tried them in large doses on 
the healthy and understand their properties. How 
different it is with the Allopathic physician ' 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 physician recommends cold affu- 
sions, and another disagrees with him and thinks 
them dangerous. One advises wine and another 
insists that the patient should have only the most 
cooling drinks. Many prescribe Peruvian bark or 
quinine, and others object to these remedies as 
hurtful. Some recommend a free use of cathar- 
tics and others warn the young physician against 
their use. Some recommend opiates, others think 
them dangerous. And so on to the end of the 
chapter, almost every remedy in the Materia 
Medica being recommended by some and repudi- 
ated by others. Thus furnished, the physician goes forth to take the lives of the public in his 
hands, at full liberty, under high medical authori- 
ties, 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, with- 
out knowing why, in cases that seem similar. It 
is an unmitigated 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 Celseminum, because we 
have taken it ourselves before hand, while in 
health, and know that it produces just that train 
of symptoms, and therefore know that it will euro 
them, and we are not disappointed. In another 
form of fever we give Tartar, for the same reason, 
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 diseases 
putting on new forms. We are prepared for them 
before hand. Every Homoeopathist knew, years 
before cholera appeared in this country, that Cam- 
phor, Arsenieum and Veratrum 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 
INTRODUCTION. 
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it with the most triumphant success, from the very 
first; while Allopathic physicians were experi- 
menting 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 anxious to 
diffuse a knowledge of a system of medicine pos- 
sessing so many advantages, and so full of bless- 
ings to the sick ? 
Finally, we feel certain that if the public mind 
can become imbued with the doctrines of Homoe- 
opathy, 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. 
INTRODUCTION.  
NAKIS. 
STRENGTH. 
ABBREVIATIONS. 
- 
Aconitum napellus 
3d in pellets... 
Aeon 
...3 
2 
Agaricus mus 
3d in pellets... 
Agar 
....3 
3 
Ambra grisea 
6th in pellets.. 
Amb 
.. ..6 
Ammonium carb 
3d in trit.... 
Ain. c .... 
...3 
5 
Apis mellifica 
3d in pellets... 
Apis 
...3 
6 
Arum tryphyllum 
2d in trit 
Arum 
...2 
* 
Arnica montana 
Tinct 
Arn 
. ..0 
i 
e 
Arsenicum alb 
6th in pellets.. 
Ars 
. ...6 
o 
g 
Atropine 
6th in pellets.. 
Atrop 
....6 
10 
Belladonna 
3d in pellets... 
Bell.* 
....3 
ii 
Bryonia alba 
3d in pellets.. 
Bry 
....3 
-ii 
IO 
Calendula 
Tinct 
Caiend.... 
.... 0 
AZ 
13 
Calcarea carb 
6th in pellets.. 
Calc 
.. .6 
14 
Cannabis sativa. 
3d in pellets 
Cann 
... .3 
15 
Cantharis 
3d in pellets .. 
Canth .... 
...3 
15 
Carbo veg 
6th in pellets.. 
Carb. v... 
....6 
■ 17 
Canlophyllin 
3d in trit 
Caul 
... .3 
18 
Chamomilla 
3d in pellets... 
Cham .... 
...3 
10 
China 
3d in pellets... 
Chin 
.. .3 
20 
Cina 
3d in pellets... 
Cina 
....3 
21 
Cocculus 
3d in pellets... 
Coc 
. ...3 
22 
Code a 
3d in pellets... 
Cot 
...3 
23 
Colocynth .... 
3d in pellets... 
Coloc 
...3 
24 
Croton tiglium 
3d in pellets... 
Crot 
...3 
25 
Cuprum met .. 
6th in pellets.. 
Cup 
...6 
25 
Drosera 
3d in pellets... 
Dros 
....3 
27 
Dulcamara 
3d in pellets... 
Dulc 
....3 
28 
Gel semi num 
Tinct 
Gels 
...0 
20 
Graphites 
6th in pellets.. 
Graph 
...6 
30 
TFaniamoliH 
Tinct 
Ham 
... 0 
31 
Hepar sulph 
6th in pellets... 
Hep 
...6 
32 
Hydrastis 
Tinct, 
Hyd 
. ..0 
33 
Tgnatia .......... 
3d in pellets... 
Ig* 
.. .3 
34 
Ipecac 
3d in pellets... 
Ip 
...3 
35 
Kali bi ch rom 
1st in trit 
Kali b.... 
...1 
36 
Kali hydriodicum 
3d in pellets... 
Kali h.... 
...3 
37 
Leptandrin 
3d in trit 
Lept 
...3 
38 
Macrotin 
3d in trit .... 
Mac 
...3 
39 
Mercurius cor 
6th in pellets.. 
Mer. c.... 
...6 
40 
Mercurius iodatus 
2d in trit 
Mer. iod... 
...2 
41 
Mercurius sol 
6th in pellets.. 
Mer. s.... 
...6 
42 
Nux vomica..... 
3d in pellets... 
Nux 
4-3 
Phosphorus 
3d in pellets... 
Phos 
...3 
41 
Phosphor® acid 
3d in pellets .. 
Phos. ac... 
.. 3 
45 
Podophyllin 
3d in trit 
Pod 
...3 
46 
Pulsatilla 
3d in pellets... 
Puls 
. ..3 
47 
Ph us tox 
3d in pellets... 
Rhus 
...3 
48 
Sepia ••••.... 
6th in pellets.. 
Sep 
...6 
49 
Spongia 
3d in pellets.... 
Spon 
...3 
50 
Sulphur .. 
6th in pellets... 
Sul 
....6 
51 
Tartar stih 
3d in trit 
Tart 
. ..3 
52 
Veratrum alb 
3d in pellets.... 
Verat 
...3 
REMEDIES IN FULL FAMILY CASE. CASE OF 32 OF THE MOST IMPORTANT REMEDIES 
1 Aconitum nap. 
17 Ipecac, 
2 Ambra grieea. 
18 Kili hyd. 
3 Apis mel. 
19 Leptandrin. 
4 Arnica. 
20 Macrotln. 
5 Arsenicum. 
21 Mercurius cor. 
C Belladonna. 
22 Mercurius sol 
7 Bryonia. 
23 Nux vomica. 
8 Calcarea. 
24 Phosphorus. 
9 Caulophyllin. 
25 Phosphoric acid. 
10 Chamomdla. 
26 Podophyllin. 
11 Colocynth. 
27 Pulsatilla. 
12 Dulcamara, 
28 Rhus tox. 
13 Gelseminum. 
29 Sulphur. 
14 Hamamelis. 
30 Spongia. 
15 Hepar. 
31 Tartar stib. 
16 Hydrastis. 
32 Veratrum. GENERAL DIRECTIONS. 
The usual dose of pellets (size No. 3) for an 
adult is six: for children, one or two, according 
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 teaspoonfuil 
doses. When tincture of Aeon. is used internally, 
two or three drops may be put in a gill of water ; 
dose, a teaspoonfull. When grains of the tritura- 
tions 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 teaspoon- 
full. Q-els. same as Aeon. 
When taking Homoeopathic remedies, the patient 
must abstain from all other medicines, herb drinks, 
odors-as Camphor, Cologne, Hartshorne, etc. - 
and avoid vinegar, pepper, and spices; and,as far 
as possible, coffee and tobacco. 
21 PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY 
For the People. 
In a work like this, it would be worse than use- 
less to treat of fevers under the various and 
numerous names by which they are called in medi- 
cal books. We shall regard all fevers as one dis- 
ease, with a number of varieties, and give the 
treatment for the principal different forms it 
assumes. 
The great majority of fevers in this country 
are what are called Bilious, or Bilious remittent, 
because they give evidence of bilious disorder, or 
disordered action of the liver, and have a remission 
every twenty-four hours-that is, a period during 
which the fever is less. This usually occurs in 
the morning. 
This form of fever, after some days, or hours 
only, of languor, loss of appetite, and perhaps 
nausea, headache, and feeling of fatigue, makes 
its attack by a chill more or less severe, pain in 
the head, back, and limbs, restlessness, a feeling 
FEVERS. 
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PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. 
of weakness, bad taste of the mouth and coated 
tongue. Its course will depend on the treatment. 
Under the physicking and drugging treatment, its 
course is generally prolonged for several weeks ; 
often assumes, at a late stage, a low, typhoid form, 
and is not unfrequently fatal. 
After the chilly stage is over, which may be 
from one or two, to six or eight hours, it is followed 
by dry heat, continued headache, restlessness, loss 
of appetite, more or less thirst, and a general feel- 
ing of severe sickness. The tongue becomes more 
coated with a dirty white, or yellowish color, the 
pulse is frequent, often from one hundred to one 
hundred and twenty in the minute. Toward 
morning, some remission comes on, and perhaps 
there is a slight moisture of the skin, the pains 
are less, and the patient sleeps more quietly. This 
is repeated from day to day. Sometimes the 
tongue is dry, and of a browner color in the mid- 
dle. The edges and tips are sometimes red, and 
sometimes the whole surface of the tongue. 
This form of fever, if well drugged, according 
to the usual Allopathic practice, as I said, is 
usually prolongued to several weeks. If no medicine 
is given-if the patient entirely abstains from 
food, and gratifies his thirst with water only, and 
if the surface is washed frequently, whenever the 
skin is 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 treat- FEVERS. 
25 
ment, 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 spoonfulls of water, and give a spoon- 
full every half hour till the chill ceases, and per- 
spiration is procured, or the pain and fever subside. 
Then stop it as long as the improvement continues. 
As soon as the symptoms begin to return, renew 
it. In a majority of cases, the first dose stops the 
chill within fifteen or twenty minutes. If the first 
dose produces no effect, increase it to two, three, 
or five drops, for there is a great difference in the 
quantity required by different persons. In many 
cases one-half or one-quarter drop is sufficient. 
After a free perspiration is thus produced, the 
pains subside and the patient goes to sleep, and 
when he wakes is conscious that his fever "is bro- 
ken up." It is important that this treatment 
should be adopted in the early stage of the attack. 
I have cured innumberable cases by this remedy 
alone. This is applicable to all fevers that come 
on with chills and pains, as above described, 
whether catarrahal, (from a cold,) bilious, typhoid 
or rheumatic. When these symptoms are present, 
G-els. is the remedy. If the treatment is not com- 
menced till a later period, it will often succeed, 
and should be tried as the first remedy, but there 
is much less certainty of success. But it need not 
be continued over one day, if it is not obviously 26 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
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 inperceptibly, without pain and with only 
a feeling of languor, of fatigue, and aversion to 
any effort. The mind is dull, and the tongue is 
either merely coated, or it is more or less red at 
the tip and edges, or it is dry and brownish through 
the middle. In such cases, if not soon relieved by 
G-els. give Tartar (four grains in a gill of water), 
in teaspoonfull 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, delirium or 
headache, give, besides, a dose of Bell, three times 
a day. 
In fevers, in which the bilious symptoms are 
most prominent, such as yellowish coat of the 
tongue, bitter taste, feeling of fullness or tender- 
ness 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 feeling of nausea at the stom- 
ach, Pod. or Bry. and Nux. are the remedies. 
One may be given alone, or both alternately, three 
hours apart. If, however, the fever is high, and 
there is a good deal of pain in any internal organ, 
Aconite must be given, either alone or alternated FEVERS. 
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with Bry., until these symptoms are subdued. 
And here is a good place to remark, that while 
G-els. is the best remedy known for simple fever, 
Aeon. is the indispensable remedy for local inflam- 
mations, which often exist in fever. This distinc- 
tion is of great importance, and should not be 
forgotten. 
If the fever has assumed a low, typhoid charac- 
ter, 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 con- 
tinue 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 con- 
stantly arising from the body. 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 them. The 
whole surface should be sponged over several times 
a day with water of a temperature to be agreeable 
to the feeling. Once a day there may be a little 
saleratus or soda, or lye from ashes added to the 
water. During the continuance of the fever there 
should be a total abstinence from food, except 
water, gruel, rice-water, barley-water, or similar 
things, made very thin, for a drink; and even thesa 28 
had better be omitted for several days, and only 
water given. The linen and bedclothes should be 
ehanged daily. The patient should be kept en- 
tirely quiet, undisturbed by noise, and especially 
by conversation, and the room should be cool and 
not disagreeably light. After recovery commences, 
if the bowels are costive, give a dose of Nux. v. 
■every night. 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. 
Intermittent Fever-Chill Fever. 
Treatment.-During the chill and fever, give 
Gels., or Aconite. During the intermission, if 
there is bilious derangement, such as coated tongue, 
impaired appetite, headache and feeling of illness, 
.give Ipecac and Pod. alternately every three or four 
hours; or Ipecac and Nux. for a man, and Ipecac and 
Puls, for women and children. Within a few 
days, by this treatment, the disordered state during 
the intermi sion, will generally subside, and the 
patient will feel tolerably well, except during the 
chill and fever. Then, if the chills and fever con- 
tinue, give, during the intermission, Ars. every 
three or four hours. But few cases will continue 
many days under this treatment, unless complicated 
with other disorders. Many cases that have been 
treated for months with Quinine, will be cured 
with this simple course in a few days. If the case 
is not soon cured, give Boletus, first trit., every 
three or four hours. 
From thirty years observation and experience of Quinine, I am perfectly convinced that it has done 
infinitely more mischief than the ague would have 
done, if left entirely to itself. It undoubtedly 
stops the chills and the fever temporarily; but 
these are only two symptoms of a general disease, 
which remains after the chills are stopped, with a 
more serious Quinine disease added to it. Thous- 
ands have thus "cured" an ague a dozen times in 
the course of a season, which, after all, still re- 
mained in an aggravated and more dangerous form 
than at first. 
FEVERS. 
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Scarlatina-Scarlet Fever. 
This comes on with many of the symptoms of 
other fevers. After a short time, the pulse be- 
comes very quick-often, in children, 120 to 140 
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 excess of 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 tem- 
perature to suit the feeling of the patient. This, 
if frequently done in a remarkable degree dimin- 30 
ishes the fever and quiets the nervous irritability. 
After a good bathing, the patient will frequently 
recover from his delirium, become quiet and fall 
asleep, while the pulse falls from ten to twenty in 
the minute. 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. 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
Scarlatina Anginosa. 
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 painful and difficult. If 
the inner surface of the throat is examined, it will 
he found red, inflamed, and often covered with a 
membrane, in patches of a dirty white, or ash, or 
yellowish color. The fever is high and the pulse 
quick. There is more prostration of strength than 
in the simple form, and more pains. 
Treatment.-Aconite and Bell, are still the 
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 remains ulcerated for 
some days, after the fever has somewhat subsided, 
omit these remedies and give Hydr. (ten drops in 
a gill of water), in teaspoonfull doses, every two or 31 
three hours, and gargle the throat after each duse, 
with a wash of the same, a teaspoonlull 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 preferable to other forms of 
Mercurius. 
FEVERS. 
This is a still more dangerous form of the dis- 
ease. The prostration of strength is much 
greater, the pulse weak and quick-the throat 
dark, red, and ulcerated-there is extremely bad, 
fetid breath-the nostrils are often excoriated or 
raw with a fetid, acrid discharge, and there is a 
tendency to gangrene of the throat, and general 
sinking. 
Treatment.-When these symptoms appear, 
give several doses of Ammon. carb., five grains in 
a gill of water, a teaspoonfull 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 
In the worst forms of the disease with obstinate- 
tendency to gangrene, if other remedies fail, Gian 
Malignant Scarlatina. 32 
derine should be given every hour or two. It is a 
powerful remedy. It is said, on good authority, 
"In terrible cases of Scarlatina, where the odor 
of the breath is putrid, and the mouth and throat 
are filled with tenacious mucus, while the swollen 
tonsils close the throat, this remedy alone, seems 
capable of rescuing the patient." In all malig- 
nant and gangrenous ulcerations, it is a remedy 
of great power. 
The treatment given for this disease, in its 
malignant form, is equally applicable to the dis- 
ease which has appeared in several parts of the 
country under the name of the "black tongue,'' 
or malignant erysipelas. For dropsy, that some-, 
times follows Scarlatina, Ars. and Apis every two 
hours. 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
DIPTHERIA. 
This disease has some resemblance, in character 
and symptoms, to Malignant Scarlatina. From 
its late prevalence and its frequent fatality it is 
very important that its symptoms and treatment 
should be well understood. Tn its simplest forms, 
it usually comes on with chilliness, fever and lan- 
guor. These symptons are attended with redness, 
heat, and soreness of the throat, and more or less 
pain on swallowing. When it appears only in this 
simple form, Bell, every two hours, is the appro- 
priate remedy; or. if there is much feverish heat. DIPHTHERIA. 
33 
alternate with Aeon. If the throat is red and 
sore, a gargle of a teaspoonfull 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 symptoms. There is more 
or less swelling of the throat, externally and inter- 
nally, the nose is stopped, and discharges a thin or 
ropy mucus, the patient is more prostrate and 
languid, and complains of general soreness or 
lameness. When these symptoms occur, give 
Bell, and Merc, every hour or two. 
But there is often sickness of the stomach, with 
pain and tenderness on pressure, great 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 indispensable, 
three or four grains in a gill of water, teaspoonfull 
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, Glan- 
derine, as in malignant Scarlatina, may save the 
patient when other remedies fail. In these worst 
cases, gargle the throat with Hyd. and if there is 
great prostration or diarrhoea give it as in Scarla- 
tina. A recent successful treatment, for the false 34 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. 
membrane in the throat, is Kali bich. 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 be kept by families for use. 
Indeed, this formidable disease should be in the 
hands of a physician whenever 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, every two or three hours, at the same 
time giving teaspoonfull doses between, till the 
burning sensation ceases. 
SMALL POX. 
This usually comes on with a chill, followed by 
high fever and severe pain in the head and back. 
In about three days the eruption appears in small 
red points, changing to large pustules filled with 
matter or pus, which at length dry up and form 
scabs. 
When the fever is high give Aeon. every two 
hours, for several doses, then Bry. to bring out the 
eruption. When the pustules begin to fill, give 
Tart, till they are pretty well dried up. This is 
probably the most important remedy in this dis- 
ease. 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. MEASLES-ERYSIPELAS. 
35 
MEASLES. 
This comes on with languor, a coarse, harsh 
cough, watery eyes, and fever, with pains in the 
limbs, headache, and chilliness. The eruption 
appears about the fourth day, but before this it 
may be seen on the roof of the mouth and throat. 
The remedy from the first is Grels., but in smaller 
doses than in fever, three drops in a tumbler of 
water, a teaspoonfull every two or three hours, 
till the fever subsides. If the cough should remain 
troublesome, Bry., Puls., 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. 
Consists in a diffused, and rather dark redness 
of the skin, with itching, 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, consisting of 
a simple diffused redness without great swelling, 
ERYSIPELAS. 36 
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 Bhus. If on other parts, the same, 
or Bhus. and Graph., or Hepar. 
In this form of Erysipelas, Cantharides is a suc- 
cessful remedy, given in pellets every two or three 
hours, and a wash of the tincture, 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, into 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, or Bhus. every two or three 
hours. 
In all the forms of Erysipelas, an application of 
freshly- mashed cranberries, will have an excellent 
effect. 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
RHEUMATISM. 
We need not occupy space in describing this, as 
every one recognizes it. 
Treatment.-If it is attended with severe pain, 
redness and swelling and fever, especially if it 
comes on rather suddenly with chills, give Gels. RHEUMATISM-NEURALGIA. 
37 
By keeping up a perspiration with this for a short 
time, the disease will frequently be terminated. 
If not, give Aeon. and Bell, alternately every two 
or three hours. When the inflammation has become 
somewhat diminished, give Bry. and Colchicum 
one drop alternately every two hours. 
Sometimes Rheumatism changes its place from 
one part to another. In this case, give Bry. and 
Puls., two or three hours apart. 
If there is profuse sweating, which does not 
relieve, but only weakens the patient, as some- 
times 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 Rheumatism, 
which require skill and experience. If the dis- 
ease 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 the cases will be 
promptly relieved by Gels., but it sometimes 38 
requires to be given in pretty large doses, repeated 
every half hour till the pain is relieved. Aeon. in 
drop doses of the tincture, and a wash of equal 
parts of the same 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. 
This 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., Puls., and Sep. during 
the intervals, only one at a time, every three or 
four hours. 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
INFLAMMATIONS. 
This is not a very common disease, but requires 
very prompt attention. The end of the tongue 
first becomes red and swolen, and in a few hours 
the whole tongue becomes so large that it protrudes 
from the mouth. 
Treatment.-Merc, every two or three hours 
till improvement is obvious, then less and less fre- 
quently. If there is much fever, give Aeon. 
between the doses of Merc. 
When inflammation of the mouth and tongue, 
with ulceration of the gums, is produced by Mer- 
cury, as is often the case in the old practice, give 
Infhnmation of the Tongue. INFLAMMATIONS. 
39 
Hydr.. and wash the mouth with the same before 
each dose, with an occasional dose of Hepar. 
Inflammation of the Th~oat, or Sore Throat from a 
Cold. 
In the first stage a few doses of G-els. will often 
effect a very speedy cure. If not, Bell, and Arum 
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. 
Inflammation of the Tonsils-Quinsy. 
In this disease the tonsils or glands of the throat, 
on one or both sides, are inflam ed, 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, and 
Merc. If not soon improved, Apis. In those sub- 
ject 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. 
Inflammation of the Stomach-Gastritis. 
This is distinguished by a pain of the stomach, 
usually with a burning sensation internally, and 
tenderness to pressure; vomiting, especially when 
any food or drink is taken; a feeling of great pros- 
tration; thirst; and often cold extremities. The 40 
tip and edges of the tongue are red, and some- 
times the whole tongue. 
Treatment.-First give one or two doses of 
Aeon. Then Ars., not more than three pellets in 
a gill of water, a teaspoonfull every three hours. 
Allow no food or drink while the vomiting lasts, 
allow small pieces of ice. 
If it is connected with indigestion from improper 
food, Nux. alternated with Ars. 
If the patient becomes greatly reduced with 
cold extremities, Ars. and Verat. 
practical homoeopathy. 
Inflammation of the BoweJs"_Enteritis. 
By this, we mean inflammation of the outer or 
peritoneal coat of the howels. 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 swolen. 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; it is dangerous, and maybe 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 is consti- 
pation, 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. 
CONSTIPATION. 
41 
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 obstinate with 
very dry, hard foeces, Plumbum. Physic or laxa- 
tives in any form greatly increase this difficulty. 
A few doses of Sulph. is sometimes effectual, but 
diet should be greatly depended on for the cure of 
constipation. 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, especially apples, 
figs, oranges, and prunes. 42 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
DIARRHEA. 
Under this head, we do not include the disease 
in infants. In ordinary cases, if it is produced 
by improper food, Nux. and Ipecac for men, and 
Puls, 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, Ars. and Verat., or Phos. 
acid. 
If the evacuations are bilious, yellow, green or 
dark, Merc. or Pod., or both alternately. 
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, Sul ph. 
may sometimes be necessary. But generally it 
will be cured by Ars. or Pod. and Lep. alternately. 
A patient who applied to me for a diarrhoea of 
two years standing, contracted in Panama, and 
who had paid over $500 to allopathic physicians 
without benefit, was cured with a small vial of 
Ars. When the disease has continued for a long 
time and the bowels much weakened, Hydr is a 
very effectual remedy, in doses of one-half drop 
or one drop. 43 
DYSENTERY. 
DYSENTERY. 
This consists in inflammation of the mucous 
membrane of the lower portion of the bowels, and. 
is distinguished by slimy and bloody evacuations 
with pain and tenesmus or straining, without dis- 
charging any of the natural contents of the 
bowels. 
Treatment.-The principal remedy is Merc. 
after each evacuation. If pain extends over the 
bowels, or griping, give Coloc. alternately with 
Merc. 
When this griping is alleviated, if there is no 
natural evacuation-only bloody mucus, or if 
there are passages of little hard balls, give Merc. 
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 occurs, give Ipecac with 
Merc., or if there is much thirst with the nausea,. 
Ars. till the sickness subsides. 
An injection of warm water several times a day> 
does a great deal of good. 
If, after a time, the evacuations are sometimes 
bilious, yellow, brown, or dark, give Pod. or China. 
In dysentery of long standing, Pod. and Lep.y 
alternately, are effectual remedies. 44 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
SEA SICKNESS. 
Treatment.-A dose of Nux., taken half an 
hour before going on board, will frequently pre- 
vent this for some time. When it is felt, Nux.. 
Ipecac. Ars., Puls., and Mac. are very effectual 
remedies. One agrees better with some persons, 
and another with others. Armed with these reme- 
dies one need not suffer much from sea sickness. 
In obstinate cases, Petroleum and Silicea are 
sometimes necessary, or Coeculus. 
COLIC-STOMACH ACHE. 
Treatment.-If this arises from indigestion or 
improper food, Nux. or Puls. If from cold drinks, 
ice cream, etc., ylrs. 
In bilious or wind colic with violent pain coming 
on in paroxysms, with disposition to bend forward, 
Coloc. in pretty large doses is a most prompt 
remedy, often curing the most violent colic almost 
instantaneously. If necessary, it may be repeated 
in a few minutes. 
If there is great restlessness and bilious vomiting 
or diarrhoea, Cham. GrPod. In flatulent colic, or 
•colic from wind, Coloc., Coeculus, or Cham. WORMS AND WORM DISEASES-PILES. 
45 
WORMS AND WORM DISEASES. 
Treatment.-Santonine, third trit., every night, 
or what is equally 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., Puls., Ip., or Pod. When fever 
attends worm symptoms, Aeon. 
Pumpkin seeds ground in a mortar to a pulp in 
doses of two or three ounces, fasting, and followed 
in a few hours by a full dose of castor oil. 
Tape Worm- 
Pin Worms. 
Will readily be removed by Merc, sol., a dose 
daily, and a daily injection of lime water. It can- 
not be made too strong if permitted to settle 
perfectly clear. 
PILES-HEMORRHOIDS. 
This disease consists in enlarged veins filled with 
blood either within the bowel or just outside of 
the opening, or both. The tumors thus formed, 
often become very painful, inflamed, 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 pro- 
duce temporary relief. If it produces any sickness, 46 
PRACTICAL HOM(EOPATHY. 
remove it at once. In the meantime give Aconite 
and Bell, half an hour apart. Continue this 
external and internal treatment till the violent 
pain and soreness are abated. 
The tumors should not be permitted to remain 
protruded externally, as it gives rise to great suf- 
fering and mischief. They should be oiled, and 
by careful pressure, returned entirely within the 
bowel, and secured there by a compress and 
bandage. 
As constipation always increases the difficulty, 
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 high-seasoned food, and by appropriate medi- 
cines. Nux. at night, and Pod. in the morning, 
will generally remove both the constipation and 
the tendency to piles. If not, Nux. one night, 
and Sulph. the next, continued for some time. I 
have cured cases of twenty years standing by this 
course. If there is burning, Ars. 
In bleeding piles, if the bleeding is at all pro- 
fuse, take Phos., and if not relieved in a few hours 
Hamamelis, one drop every hour, and if necessary, 
injections of a gill of water and ten drops of the 
Ham. 
Avoid physic in this disease. If necessary, it is 
infinitely better to use an occasional injection of 
water. Lep. is another excellent remedy in this 
disease, twice a day. CHOLERA MORBUS-ASIATIC CHOLERA. 
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CHOLERA MORBUS. 
This is characterized by an attack of vomiting 
and diarrhoea of bilious matter, with pain and 
cramp of the stomach and bowels. It is very dis- 
tressing 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 effect- 
ual. If the pain of the stomach and bowels is 
considerable, Coloc. may be alternated with Ipecac. 
This relieves the pain while Ipecac stops the vom- 
iting. If the patient has become much weakened, 
and the above does not promptly relieve, give 
Ars., and if the diarrhoea is at all obstinate, Hrs. 
and Verat. alternately. 
ASIATIC CHOLERA. 
In the commencement of the attack, a few 
doses of camphor, in doses of a drop, will often 
arrest it. If it doesnot, if vomiting is the most 
prominent symptom, Ipecac every ten or fifteen 
minutes is often effectual. 
But if there are copious rice-water evacuations 
by 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 48 
PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY. 
remedies generally required. If there are cramps, 
give Cuprum met. between the other doses. 
Thousands have been cured by these few reme- 
dies by the peasantry of Europe, while from half 
to two-thirds of all the cases were fatal under 
Allopathic treatment. It has everywhere been 
wonderfully successful. 
JAUNDICE 
Is marked by yellown-ess of the skin and eyes, 
with languor, weakness, loss of appetite, 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., 
Chin., Pod., Nux. Either of these may be 
taken separately, or any two of them alternately 
every three to six hours till an improvement com- 
mences, (which will seldom exceed a few days,) 
then less frequently. By these remedies the dis- 
ease is cured vastly quicker, and the system is left 
in a vastly better condition than under the old 
mercurial treatment. 
This is a disordered state of the liver, which 
may be inflamed, for which see page 49. INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. 
49 
INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER-HEPATITIS. 
This is known by pain just under the edges of 
the lower ribs 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 dis- 
charges of unnatural color from 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, G-els. 
is the most likely to "break up" the disease by 
copious perspiration. This remedy has the advan- 
tage of acting very quickly, so that if it fails, as 
it seldom does, not much time is lost. Two or 
three doses will determine whether the expected 
effect is to be 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 
disease is abated. If some soreness and pain 
4 50 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
remain, the remedies are Bell., Merc., Nur., China, 
Pod., and Bry. 
Bell, is preferable if there is restlessness, fullness 
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 symptoms and irregular, loose 
state of the bowels, or nausea. 
Nux. if there is considerable tenderness of the 
liver, thirst, red urine, ami constipation. 
China applies to almost all the above symp- 
toms, especially if there is considerable weakness. 
Either of these remedies may be given every three 
or four hours. 
BILIOUSNESS, 
This is not a scientific term, but one which most 
persons understand. It is like Jaundice, an affec- 
tion of the liver, and pretty closely related to it. 
One feels languid, dull, sleepy, especially after din- 
ner: he gets easily tired, his appetite gets impaired; 
often there is dull headache and tendency to con- 
stipation, and the complexion loses its freshness 
and becomes of a dirty appearance. People 
generally understand that these are bilious symp- DYSPEPSIA-INDIGESTION. 
51 
toms. 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 neces- 
sary remedy. A single dose will often remove all 
these unpleasant feelings in a few days. If not, 
continue it 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, fora short 
time, will save a fit of sickness and a doctor's bill. 
DYSPEPSIA-INDIGESTION. 
The symptoms of dyspepsia are very numerous. 
Feeling of a load in tlie stomach after meals, sour 
eructation, heartburn, pain of the stomach, throw- 
ing up the food, dullness and pain of the head, 
low spirits, nervous symptoms, etc. 
Treatment.-For the present relief from the 
effects of too hearty a meal, Nux. or Puls, every 
hour till relieved. For permanent effect-if there 
is constipation with the other symptoms-flux. 
before each meal, or for women, Puls. 
In ordinary cases either Nux., Puls., Phos., or 52 
Pod., before each meal will be appropriate. For 
heartburn, Nux. and Pod. alone, or in alternation 
with Phos. 
A regulated diet, the avoidance of stimulating 
drinks and tonic medicines, bitters, etc., of highly- 
seasoned food and physic, are indispensable. 
One need not expect to be cured of dyspepsia 
by drugging. 
In chronic cases, when the stomach has become 
very much weakened, the use of electricity will 
often expedite the cure in the most charming 
manner, and save months of treatment, or an 
entire failure. 
Those of sedentary habits must abandon con- 
finement, and take free exercise in the open air, 
daily. 
Daily bathing with cool water, rubbing the sur- 
face well, especially over the stomach and bowels, 
is of great service. 
In soreness of the stomach, heartburn, rising 
of sour fluid into the throat, and gulphing of wind, 
there is no remedy so effectual as Robinia. 
PRACTICAL IIOMCEOPATHY. COLDS. 
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COLDS. 
Cold in the Head-Coryza, and Cold affecting the 
Bronchia-Bronchitis -Bronchial Catarrh- 
Cold on the Lungs. 
Treatment.-If a cold affecting any of these 
parts comes on with a chill, or with soreness or 
rawness of the throat, windpipe, or bronchiae, 
extending into the chest: or fever-Gf-eh. 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 Puls. The patient with a 
cold at all severe should go to bed and keep quiet 
and warm till better. Medicine produces a vastly 
better 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 stoppage 
of the nose, Nux. is the remedy every two or 
three hours till relieved. 
If there is profuse, watery, or acrid discharge 
from the nose, Kali hyd. is perhaps the best remedy, 
but Ars. and Merc, are effectual. 
If there is a rough, raw, sore feeling of the 
throat or chest, with tightness, oppressed breath- 
ing and painful cough, Grels. is the remedy till these 
symptoms subside. Kali hyd. and Phos. are good 54 
remedies. When only a loose, painless cough 
remains, Bry., Merc., or Puls, will soon complete 
the cure. Abstain from food as in fever till the 
cold is relieved. If there is deep soreness of the 
chest and fever, Ac.. Bry., and Phos.,or Tart, stib., 
are the best remedies. 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
INFLUENZA 
Is only an aggravated form of the above affection, 
prevailing periodically and epidemically. 
Treatment.-Similar to the above-(dels, is 
the first remedy. If the symptoms are severe, 
Ar». and Mere. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS- 
PNEUMONIA. 
This is distinguished from the preceding affec- 
tion of the bronchiae by the following symptoms : 
It usually comes on with a chill, followed by 
high fever, a full, strong, quick pulse, short, diffi- 
cult 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 sometimes changeable in its location 
for hours before it settles in one fixed place. There 
is cough from the first. The expectoration is, at 
first, white and viscid, or sticky and tough ; at a 
later period it is reddish or rust colored. If there 55 
was doubt before, as to the nature of the disease, 
there need be no longer, after this reddish expec- 
toration appears, for this is a sure sign of 
inflammation of the lungs. 
Treatment.-In the first chilly stage of the 
disease, as in most other inflammatory diseases, 
Gels, is capable of breaking up the disease. If 
the disease has become established, the remedies 
are Aeon., Bry.. Phos., Tart., mASuI. I believe 
Bry. to be the nearest 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 excessive, if there is 
great weakness, bloody expectoration, or burning 
in the lungs. Tart, 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. 
PLEURISY. 
This consists of inflammation of the pleura or 
covering membrane of the lungs. It has many of 
the general symptoms of Pneumonia, but the pain 
in the side is sharp, acute, stitching, instead of 
dull. It is impossible to take a full breath on 56 
PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY. 
account of this sharp pain. The pulse is sharper 
and smaller-there is less expectoration, and it is 
not bloody, unless it be some small streaks of 
blood. Not unfrequently the two diseases are 
combined, constituting what is called pleuro- 
pneumonia. 
The Treatment does not differ from that of 
Pneumonia. 
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 urgency. If there 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. 
ASTHMA. 
Confirmed asthma is a difficult disease to cure. 
The principal remedies are Ars. and Ip. Either 
of these may be given during a paroxysm every 
hour, till relieved. In nervous or hysterical 
women, Aeon., Bell., or Ambra, sometimes give 
relief. Distressing paroxysms are sometimes 
promptly relieved by sufficient doses of Lobelia to 
produce nausea. Gels. sometimes affords very C 0 L G H. 
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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 permanently relieved 
on moving to the West. Horses affected with 
the Heaves-a similar disease-so as to be ren- 
dered 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 eventually cured by electricity. Persons who 
have not been able to lie down for weeks, are 
sometimes able to do so from a single applica- 
tion. Cases which have resisted all other means, 
are sometimes cured by Asafoetida in two or three 
grain doses. 
COUGH. 
This sometimes exists without obvious inflam- 
mation. If not of a consumptive character, Bry., 
Phos., Puls., Balsam cop., Mac. or Arum maybe 
taken two or three times a day. 
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. 58 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS- 
NEPHRITIS. 
Tins usually comes on like most inflammatory 
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 consti 
pated. The pain often extends down to the groin 
and neck of the bladder. 
Treatment.-Grefs, as in other inflammatory 
diseases, in the early stage, is the remedy, contin- 
ued as long as it gives relief. This, if commenced 
early, will "break it up" by perspiration. 
If this has been neglected, or if the disease has 
continued for some time, and Gfels. fails of produc- 
ing 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. 
If there are shooting, tearing, or cutting pains, 
with very scanty urine, which 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, mak- 
ing a free use of the warm hip-baths ; that is, sit- 59 
ting in a tub of quite warm water, deep enough to 
come up over the hips. 
INFLAMMATIONS 
INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER- 
CYSTITIS. 
This comes on with the same general symptoms 
as the last disease, with pain in the bladder, con- 
stant desire to pass urine, which is very scanty at 
each discharge, often bloody, and passed with ter- 
rible pain, often with nausea and vomiting. There 
is a feeling of weight in the region of the bladder, 
and tenderness to pressure. 
Treatment.-The treatment is nearly the same 
as that of Nephritis. If not soon relieved by 
Grels. give Aeon. every hour till the fever is some- 
what abated, and the most distressing symptoms 
somewhat moderated, then Canth., every two or 
three hours. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. 
This disease is characterized by pain of the- 
head, rolling the head from side to side, dilated or 
contracted pupils, throbbing of the arteries of the 
neck and temples, delirium, drowsiness or stupor. 
There is fever, with quick pulse. It is very apt 
to end in convulsions, when fatal. 60 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
Treatment-The chief remedies are Aeon. 
Bell., and Bry. Give the two first, alternately, 
■every two hours, till the fever and other symp- 
toms are somewhat abated; then Bell, and Bry., 
every three hours. Persevere in this treatment 
even though the improvement may not be very 
perceptible. Do not irritate and torment 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 applications in 
this disease. Cloths 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 brain, Helle- 
borus, Merc., and Apis. are necessary. HEADACHE. 
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HEADACHE. 
Headache arises from a great variety of causes,, 
and is attended by such a variety of complaints 
and constitutional conditions, that it is difficult to 
prescribe, except for individual cases. Each case 
is a study by itself. We can only give some gen- 
eral directions, which will, however, be found to 
apply to a great number of individual cases. 
1st. It is often produced by indigestion or dis- 
ordered 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 Puls. 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 essentially 
nervous disease, and is generally called nervous 
headache. In these cases, Mac., Puls., and Sepia^. 
are frequently efficient remedies, and when re- 
lieved, an occasional dose of one or the other of 
these will prevent its recurrence. 
If connected with female weakness, or accom- 
panying monthly disorders, the last three remedies 
are specially applicable. 
If connected with a hysterical state, Mac. or 62 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. 
Cocculus. If produced by grief, Ignatia. Either 
may be taken every hour or two till relief is 
obtained. A dose of Mac., Sep., or Puls., daily, 
will often do much to prevent these attacks. But a 
remedy of extraordinary power, and which will 
cure a large proportion of -what are called nervous 
and sick headaches, than perhaps, any other, is 
Atropine. It is most applicable to those cases that 
are not caused by disordered stomach or other 
affection, but depends on 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 increases 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 ner- 
nous headaches, which have resisted all other 
treatment. 
Those cases which come on with dizziness as the 
first symptoms, will be almost uniformly cured in 
this early stage by Nux. 
In many cases of obstinate headaches, which 
resist all remedies, electricity, properly applied, 
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. HEADACHE-INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
63 
I have effected many permanent cures of 
extremely obstinate cases by this means. 
I have not given directions for the use of this 
powerful agent, because I have been long con- 
vinced, from many examples, that it cannot be 
profitably or even safely used by the public, at 
least without some experience, and special per- 
sonal instructions. Nor is it a safe agent in 
Allopathic hands. It is a most beautiful and 
beneficent Homoeopathic remedy, and to be either 
useful or safe must be used on Homoeopathic prin- 
ciples and in corresponding doses. I have never 
had the opportunity of observing its use in Allo- 
pathic hands, when it was not, like other powerful 
remedies, in the same hands, as often productive 
of injury as benefit, and sometimes very serious 
injury. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES- 
OPHTHALMIA. 
Treatment.-If this is acute, with deep redness, 
and severe pain, give Aeon. and Bell, alternately 
every two or three hours till the pain is abated, 
and as long as it does good. At the same time, 
drop into the eyes, and apply over them, every 
two or three hours, a wash of ten drops of Aeon, 
tinct. to a gill of soft water, applied as hot as can 
be borne. All applications to inflamed eyes, as 
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PRACTICAL HOM(EOPATHY. 
or hot. Cold applications, though they may give- 
momentary relief, as in burns, produce permanent 
reaction in the opposite direction, and do great 
mischief. 
After the violence of the disease is abated, if 
there is a sore or bruised feeling of the lids, when 
touched, with sticking together at night, give 
Hepar sul. every four to six hours. 
If the lids itch badly, with burning, Nux. in the 
same way. 
In old and obstinate cases, Ars. and Sulph. are 
required; only one at a time, three times a day; 
or, if the lids are thickened or ulcerated, Merc, in 
the same way. After the pain is abated, if red- 
ness and fullness remain, apply Ham., a teaspoonfull 
to a half pint of water. 
STYE. 
Puls., Hepar., or, what is generally more cer- 
tain, Apis mel. three times a day. Not unfrequently 
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 disap- 
peared: 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. 
CHILBLAINS-STINGS OF BEES, ETC. 
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CHILBLAINS. 
An application of Arn. tinct., a teaspoonfull 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 parts become 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 oi* four hours till 
an improvement begins. 
STINGS OF INSECTS, BEES. WASPS, ETC. 
Ledum taken internally, and applied externally 
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 informa- 
tion that a fresh onion applied to the part, is a 
quick and effectual remedy. If applied imme- 
diately, it relieves in a few minutes; if later, it of 
course takes longer. A fresh piece should be 
applied every ten or fifteen minutes. Am. carl. 66 
applied to the part, and taken internally often pro- 
duces the same result. Perhaps the onion is 
effectual from the ammonia it contains.- Apis, is 
also a good remedy. 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. 
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 any of its 
forms that can be most easily produced: as alcohol, 
so much diluted as to render it tolerable, rum 
whisky, gin, or brandy. It should be taken in, 
large doses, every fifteen or twenty minutes till 
the symptoms begin to abate, or the patient feels 
its effect. At the same time the part bitten 
should be kept wet with the same. It is surpris- 
ing how large a quantity will be sometimes borne 
in these cases. A quart or two of strong brandy 
has been taken in an honr or two, without any 
other 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 neutralize the poison, and the excess 
only produces the ordinary effects. BURNS AND SCALDS. 
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MECHANICAL INJURIES, BLOWS, FALLS, 
BURNS, SPRAINS, ETC. 
Arnica is the great remedy in these accidents. 
It should be taken internally in pellets, and the 
parts injured rubbed frequently, or kept wet with 
Arn. tinct., a teaspoonfull 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 externally the same 
as Arn. 
It acts like magic in allaying pain and prevent- 
ing inflammation. The edges of the cut or torn 
wounds should, of course, be brought as near 
together as possible, and kept there. 
FATIGUE, 
When the muscles become fatigued by long 
walking, or excessive labor, or over exertion, a few 
doses, or even a single dose of Arn., Rhus, or Grels. 
affords great relief. If particular muscles or limbs 
are sore and lame, rub them with the Am. wash. 
BURNS AND SCALDS. 
Apply, as quickly as possible, alcohol, whisky, 
rum, brandy, spirits of turpentine, or soft soap, 
and keep it on, and the part thoroughly protected 68 
from the air till the pain subsides. Nothing is bet- 
ter than soft soap, and this is generally at hand. I 
have seen this applied from my early boyhood, and 
have never seen anything do better. Cold water, 
though it feels comfortable for the moment, is a 
very bad application. The above treatment cures 
burns in half the time. If there is fever, give 
Aeon. 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
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 chill, loss of appetite, depression of 
spirits, fever, and prostration. 
It more commonly appears on the back, or the 
neck. It is attended with great destruction of the 
flesh, which mortifies and falls out, leaving a large 
cavity which is very slow in healing. At the close, 
the patient is as much reduced as after a long 
fever. 
Treatment.-Give, in the beginning, Ammon, 
carb, three grains in a gill of water, teaspoonfull 
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 
oes on, and openings appear in it, and the pain MAGLIGNANT PUSTULE. 
69 
is not abated, stop this, and give Ars. every two 
or three hours. At the same time, apply caustic 
potash, powdered, in and around the openings, so 
that, as it dissolves, it will run into the openings, 
and penetrate as deep as possible into the heart of 
the tumor. 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 successful than that ordinarily practiced. 
The application of the caustic speedily changes 
and relieves the terrible burning pain of the car- 
buncle, and the 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. 
Tins affection is of frequent occurrence during 
some seasons, though its name is not generally 
known. It was, for a long time, not distinguished 
from the carbuncle, which it considerably resem- 
bles, though essentially different. It is much 
smaller, and is generally located on the extremities. 
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 elevation like 
a small boil, with the appearance of a little hole 
in the tip. It is painful and burning. The inflam- 
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If it occurs on the toe, for example-the whole 
top of the foot becomes rapidly red and swollen. 
If it goes on, it soon has several openings in it 
like a carbuncle, and ends in suppuration, and de- 
struction of the substance, leaving a large opening. 
It is attended with 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 subdued. Since using this 
remedy, we have not found occasion for any other. 
FELON-WHITLOW. 
Apply, as early as possible, strong Nitric acid 
over the whole inflamed surface. If the applica- 
tion is painful, apply over it a warm poultice till 
the pain subsides. If not soon cured, lance it to 
the bottom. 
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. DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
71 
DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
Amenorrhoea-Absence of the Monthly Turns. 
When a stoppage or suppression occurs in young 
girls, Puls, three times a day, Cauloph., or Mac., 
the two last alternately. If the menses do not 
make their appearance at the usual age, do 
nothing, unless the health suffers. In no case 
give what are called "forcing 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 the patient into bed, give one or 
two doses of Grels., put the feet in hot water, apply 
hot, wet cloths to the louver part of the abdomen, 
or use, if convenient, the warm sitz bath. If not 
soon relieved, give Puls. 
If the suppression is produced by a fright, give 
one or more doses of Aeon., then Puls. 
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 Leucorrhoea or Whites, instead of 
the regular menses, Cauloph., Mac., Puls., 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 72 
heart, etc., the remedies are Calc, carb., Ferrum, 
Puls., 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. 
PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY. 
If the flow is profuse, with pain and sickness 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, hysterical 
symptoms, difficulty of breathing, and especially 
if the discharge is black, Coe. 
For present relief, Gels. in five-drop doses is very 
effectual. 
But Cauloph., Mac., and Puls., 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 Caul- 
oph. one day, and Mac. the next, will generally 
prevent these painful recurrences, and effect a per- 
manent cure. But there are obstinate cases of 
this painful difficulty, depending on particular 
causes, which cannot be prescribed for without 
personal attention. 
Dysmenorrhcea-Painful Menstruation. DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
73 
Profuse 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 all urgent, a drop of 
the tincture may be given every half hour, and if 
at all alarming, injections into the womb with a 
female syringe, if at hand, if not, with any other, 
of a teaspoonfull 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, habit- 
ually, too frequent and too profuse menstruation, 
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, Cal. carl), one night, 
and Sulph. the next. This will seldom fail to 
bring about an improvement; but if the state is 
not entirely corrected, repeat the same during 
the next interval. This has cured many cases 
of long standing in one, two, or three months, 
which had been treated for years without benefit. 
The worst cases of flowing after delivery, are 
speedily checked by copious injections of cold 
water with Hamamelis or Am., and drop doses of 
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PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
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. 
Prolapsus Uteri, or Falling! of the Womb. 
This is a very frequent and a very troublesome 
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., Cal. 
carb., Nux., and Pod. 
Homoeopathic physicians have been strongly 
opposed to the use of mechanical supports, such 
as the numerous forms of pessaries and uterine sup- 
porters ; and with good reason. Those hitherto 
in use have been very objectionable, 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 treat- 
ment, 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 
padded abdominal supporter, to which a small 
ring pessary is attached by a silver wire stem. 
They are kept by Douglas & Perrine, Milwaukee, 
C. S. Halsey, Chicago, and other Pharmacists, DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
75 
We strongly recommend them in cases not readily 
cured by other means. 
Leucorrhoea-'White s. 
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 other diseased conditions,, 
which require the personal attention of the phy- 
sician ; 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 domestic 
practice are Caul., Mac., Pod., and Puls. In 
most cases, the two first are sufficient. One may be 
taken every morning, and the other every eve- 
ning, in a dose of one or two grains. Hundreds 
of cases will be cured by these two remedies. 
Pod. is specially appropriate where bearing down 
and Leucorrhoea come on after confinement-a 
grain three times a day. 
If Leucorrhoea accompanies suppression of the 
menses, Puls, is the efficient remedy, three or four 
times daily. 
When the discharge is acrid or irritating, or 
there is internal smarting, or burning, injections 76 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
of the Hydrastis wash, as prepared for scarlet 
fever, is often extremely useful. 
If the discharge is like jelly, or if it produces 
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 Homoeopathic treat- 
ment 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 
relief, but soon loses its influence, and another 
will be equally prompt. The patient may have a 
choice of the following: 
Mac., in a majority of cases, is a sufficient rem- 
edy. If not, Ipecac, Arsenicum, Nur., Puls., 
Sepia, Pod., Tart., 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, ac- 
cording to necessity. A dose of Mac. at night, or 
Ipecac, etc., will often prevent the usual sickness 
in the morning. 
Cor-finement-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 pre- 
vent after pains. Many who have always had tedious and difficult labors, have quick and easy 
ones, after this preparation. A grain of one may 
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. 
DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
77 
Irregular and Ineffectual Labor Pains. 
Caul., one grain every quarter or half hour till 
the pain becomes regular, which will generally be 
after one or two doses. Bell, and Nux. are often 
effectual remedies. In tedious labors, from a rigid 
and unyielding state of the parts, Grets., in doses 
of three drops, acts like a charm. 
After Pains. 
Caul, is the potent remedy, unless there is exces- 
sive flowing notwithstanding its use, when injec- 
tions of cold water, with tinct. of Hamam., are 
required. 
Inflammation and Swelling of the Breasts, 
Early in the attack, if it comes on with a chill, 
a few doses of Grets., as in fever, by producing per- 
spiration, dissipate 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 breasts covered with a cloth wrung out of warm 
water. 78 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. 
But if the case has been neglected, or badly 
treated, till suppuration 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 discharge has con- 
tinued for some time, Calc, carb., Silicea, or Sulph., 
may be required. 
Sore Nipples. 
Apply, frequently, a wash of Hydrastis-ten 
drops to a tablespoonfull of water. Or, if the nip- 
ple is raw, Calend. Arnica oil is a good remedy. 
Under the ordinary treatment, this is a most 
severe and protracted disease. The old school 
have never learned to cure it. The following direc- 
tions will enable a husband to treat his wife for 
this serious affection, with vastly greater success, 
and cure her in one quarter of the time that is 
required by Allopathic treatment, in the hands of 
the most skillful physicians. 
It generally makes its attacks within one or two 
weeks after confinement, like most other inflam- 
matory 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. Though hot and inflamed, it is not 
Milk-Leg. DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
79 
red, but a very marked white. The feeling is 
hard and elastic. The disease consists of inflam- 
mation 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 return to its natural state and size 
for a long time, often for years-sometimes never. 
Treatment.-As soon as this affection is ascer- 
tained, give Hamamelis tinct., ten drops in a tum- 
bler of water-teaspoonfull doses every two or 
three hours. 
Rub the limb faithfully with a wash of the same 
-two spoonfulls to a gill of water, applied as 
warm as possible. When the pain and tenderness 
are considerably abated, give the remedy less fre- 
quently, 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 treatment less and less vigorously 
till the soreness and pain have entirely disap- 
peared, and rub the limb with the wash daily, till 
the swelling subsides. If, after this, any consid- 
erable weakness is felt, give Nux. at night, and 
Ars. in the morning. Under this treatment, this 
formidable and dreaded disease will be compar- 
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PRACTICAL HOMtEOPATHY. 
treatment. When it follows the old routine, its 
management is very difficult. 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS. 
Never give physic after confinement. It is pro- 
ductive of infinite mischief. If the bowels are not 
movedin two or three days, give Nux. at night, 
and Bry. in the morning. If delayed four or five 
days, give injections 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 confine- 
ment, 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 Calendula tinct. 
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 w'et 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, put a wet bandage 
around her, instead of a dry one, covered with a 
flannel or cotton one, dry. Keep the room thor- 
oughly aired and cool. Repeat the washing daily. 
Be no more afraid of water and air than before 
confinement . Under this treatment, a woman will 
be as well and as strong at the end of four or five DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
81 
days, as in two or three weeks, under the old 
abominable, physicking, confining, and heating 
treatment. 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 air- 
phobia. They relate cases 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 of both air and 
water, to which she has previously been accus- 
tomed, 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 con- 
traction of the womb, and thus insures the patient 
against an unnecessary or dangerous loss of blood, 
by flowing. 82 
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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 quantity that it excites the womb to con- 
tract, in order to expel it, just as it contracted to 
expel the child, and afterbirth. The pains come 
■on just as often as there is a sufficient accumula- 
tion of coagulated blood to render them necessary 
to remove it, and no oftener. But if the womb is 
made to contract vigorously at first, by a cool 
water injection, no such accumulation 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 remains open, so that 
blood flows into it, in large quantities, causing 
repeated efforts to expel it, and each effort pro- 
duces an after pain. A few injections of cool 
water, or cold, if necessary, immediately, by giv- 
ing the tone to the weakened organ, produces the 
same prompt contraction that took place sponta- DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
83 
neously in early labors, and of course the same 
freedom from after pains. I have witnessed 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 practiced 
it, and hundreds of other physicians, witnessing 
its safety and success, have adopted it, and all arc 
delighted with it. I have received 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 abstain 
from all stimulating drinks, and have only light, 
unstimulating food, till after the milk is fully 
established. If the after pains require it, give 
Caul. By this course, the milk fever, on the sec- 
ond or third day, so common within my recollec- 
tion, with often a broken breast in its train, will 
be avoided. A woman, with a good physician and 84 
a good nurse, should have neither milk fever nor a 
O 7 
broken breast. 
PRACTICAL HOM(EOPATHY. 
Nursing Sore Month. 
This is a sore mouth mostly affecting nursing 
women, but sometimes coming on some weeks 
before confinement. Under the old treatment, it 
is a very troublesome and often an incorrigible 
disease. If it continues for some time, it fre- 
quently extends along the mucous membrane of 
the stomach and bowels, producing intolerance of 
food, and an obstinate diarrhoea, under which the 
patient is rapidly 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 tumbler 
of water, a teaspoonfull 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 Nu.r. every night, and Ars. every morn- 
ing. 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. 
Hydrastis, is, in many cases, an invaluable 
remedy, every three to six hours. It may be 
made of the strength of six or eight drops to a 
tumbler of water, and taken in teaspoonfull 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 treatment is 
not successful after a reasonable trial, Pod. and 
Leptand. are invaluable. One may be taken at a 
time, or the two alternated, every three to six 
hours-two or three grains, in half a tumbler of 
water, and teaspoonfull doses. 
There is not one case of nursing sore mouth 
in a hundred that will not be cured by this treat- 
ment, and in a much shorter time than it is usually 
done under medical supervision. 
In a few obstinate cases, in diseased constitu- 
tions, it may be necessary to take Sulph, two 
doses daily, for a few days, or Sul. and Calc. carb. 
A weak solution of Carbolic acid as a wash for 
the mouth is excellent. 
DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
85 
Nervousness. 
Many women, as well as some men, in bad 
health, have a train of symptoms well known as 
nervous. These symptoms generally depend upon 
a diseased or disordered state of 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 ner- 
vous sensations may often be greatly alleviated 
by palliative remedies. One of the most generally 86 
useful is Ambra grisea. In almost any condition 
attended with nervous restlessness, and sleepless- 
ness, if not in acute fever, or inflammation, an 
occasional dose of Ambra will allay the irritability, 
aud procure sleep, without any of the disagreeable 
consequences of opiates. 
Coffea, Aeon., Bell., Cham., Ig., Nur., and 
Puls., often allay nervous irritability. 
PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY. 
DISEASES OF CHILDREN. 
Sore Months of Infants. 
Touch the mouth all over the sore surface, not 
rub it, with a wash of Hydras., of the strength of 
ten drops to a tablespoonfull of water, three or 
four times a day. The child will swallow a suffi- 
cient quantity for a dose each time it is used. 
Merc., Nux., Cham, and Sulph. acid, are also effec- 
tual remedies. Either of them may be given 
three or four times a day. 
Stoppage of the Nose-"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 pellets very fine 
with a little sugar, and blow a few grains up the 
nostrils through a quill. Sambucus is a good 
remedy. DISEASES OF CHILDREN. 
87 
Crying. 
When infants cry, it is always for some good 
reason. Endeavor carefully to ascertain the cause. 
It may be an uncomfortable state of the dress. It 
may be chafed, and the sore parts are rendered 
painful by being suffered to remain wet. ft 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 
Hydras, as for sore mouth: or Calendula. If not 
soon better, give Sulph. twice a day. If it pro- 
ceeds 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 Aeon. 
and Bell, every two hours, till the fever subsides 
then Bell, alone. If this fails, after a few doses, 
give Cham, and Puls. If the crying arises from 
colic, give Cham., Coloe., 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 mischievous 
notion, that a child must have food within a 
few hours after birth. If this were so, an All- 
wise Creator, who makes all necessary 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 88 
before that time. For at least thirty-six hours 
it should not be fed at all, unless the mother fur- 
nishes food before. A teaspoonfull of water occa- 
sionally is the only thing it should swallow. 
Above all, avoid medicine of every description, 
even catnip or saffron tea. Some seem to suppose 
that every child is both sick and starving as soon 
as it draws its first breath, and it must be out- 
raged by unnatural food, and more unnatural 
medicine. Nine-tenths of all the fits, the vomit- 
ing, the colic, and the crying, in young children, 
are produced by this abominable and unnatural 
treatment. Dr. Dewes, 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 delayed 
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 percep- 
tible taste of pure, white sugar ; the proportion 
being three parts of water to one of cream. 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. 
Scald Head-Milk Crasts. 
(Wlien sores first come upon a child's head, dis- 
charging a fluid, and forming scabs, /thus. is the 
first remedy, three times a day, for at least a week 
or two, and longer, if the disease is improving. 
If it fails to effect a cure, Sulphur three times a 
day; if the eruption is dry, and scurfy. Ars. DISEASES OF CHILDREN. 
89 
Wash the head clean, daily, with soap and water. 
In a majority of cases, however, Dulcamara, three 
times a day, is the only necessary remedy. 
Itch, 
"Whether in Children, or Adults, 
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 two. If it fails after 
this length of time, or is not improving, give 
Merc. cor. three times a day for a week, and then 
the first remedies, as before. Drying up the dis- 
ease suddenly by external applications, is a danger- 
ous practice, often producing 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,) thoroughly rubbed into 
the sores at the same time that Sulphur, in Hom- 
oeopathic doses, is taken internally, three times a 
day 
Croton is a valuable remedy in a variety of 
eruptions attended by troublesome itching, and so 
is Lobelia, in those eruptions that resemble the 
itch in appearance. 90 
PRA< TWAL HOMCEOPATHY. 
"Summer Complaints." 
There are two distinct diseases that go by this 
name, viz.: Cholera Infantum and Diarrhoea. The 
most obvious distinction between them is, that the 
first is attended with vomiting, and the latter is 
not. 
This is a very prevalent and very fatal disease 
in this country, especially in cities. It chiefly 
affects children between the ages of three months 
and three years. It sometimes comes on with 
vomiting and 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 progress, and fatal 
in two or three days. At other times it is of long 
continuance, and reduces the little sufferer to a 
skeleton. It is attended with considerable fever, 
coated or red tongue, quick pulse, a good deal of 
pain and suffering, great restlessness, and rapid 
failure of strength. The child sleeps with the 
eyes partly open. The evacuations are frequent, 
and exceedingly various in appearance, being yel- 
low, brown, or green-often grass-green, or mixed, 
and sometimes the color often changing, scarcely 
any two successive evacuations being alike. In 
this disease, there is always inflammation of the 
mucous membrane of the stomach, or bowels, or 
Cholera Infantum- both, and inflammation or congestion of the liver. 
Vomiting or diarrhoea will predominate according 
as the stomach or bowels are most affected. If 
the disease goes on for some time, the brain is 
apt to become sympathetically affected, and under 
the Allopathic treatment of opiates, hopelessly 
diseased. 
Treatment.-In the early state of the 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 water, 
teaspoonfull doses. If there is great restless- 
ness, Cham., alternated with either of the above 
remedies. 
If the evacuations are yellow, brown, or dark. 
Pod. is an effectual remedy; two grains in half a 
tumbler of water, a teaspoonfull, same as other 
remedies. When the evacuations are green, Agari- 
cus is the best remedy, ox* Cham., Merc. sol. or Pod. 
If the patient is much reduced, and the vomiting 
and diarrhoea continue, Ars. and Verat. 
In many obstinate and protracted cases, when 
there is reason to believe that the bowels are 
ulcerated, Hydras, will save the patient. 
Pod., in alternation with eithex* of the above two 
remedies, is also applicable in the same case. 
DISEASES OF CHILDREN. 
91 92 
PRACTICAL HOM (EOP ATHY. 
Di ar rli re a 
Occurring in hot weather, or from indigestion, is 
usually quickly arrested by Ipccpc or Nur., orboth 
alternated. If the evacuations are thin and 
watery, Ars. alone, or with Verat. 
If they are green, Ayancus, Cham., 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 Diar- 
rhoea. AV hen cases are almost cured, the least 
imprudence in diet will cause a relapse, which may 
be fatal. Dtdc. is sufficient in a great many cases 
of Diarrhoea, especially in damp weather. 
Ineontinncnce of Urine--We ting the Bed. 
The principal remedies are Apis. met., Canth., 
and Pod. One of them may be given three or four 
times a day. Phos. acid is often effectual. 
Convu'sions-Spasms--!it . 
These are frequently produced by indigestible 
food, or excess, as from raisins, nuts, pastry, etc. 
In these cases, if it can be done, get down a suffi 
cient quantity of warm water to produce vomiting. Whether this is effected or not, give Nur., two or 
three doses every two or three hours. 
If for worms, give Santonins or Cina., as 
directed under that head. If from a nervous con- 
dition, without the above obvious causes, Bell., 
Cham., Amb., Nur., or Ignatia. 
During the fit put the child in a cold bath, and 
apply a cloth wet in cold water to the head, then 
wrap in warm flannels, and get the patient warm 
as soon as possible. 
DISEASES OF CHILDREN. 
93 
Weakness of the L<inihs""SIowness in Learning to 
Walls. 
Calc, carb., two or three pellets every day, for a 
week, then Sulph., in the same way. After stop- 
ping a week, if necessary, repeat it. An improve- 
ment will soon be. apparent. 
Croap, 
There are two forms of croup, differing widely 
in their nature, and requiring an entirely different 
treatment. 
Spasmodic or False Croup, is much the more 
common. It comes on suddenly, almost always in 
the night; with noisy, wheezing, difficult breath- 
ing, sometimes threatening suffocation, sometimes 
with and sometimes without fever. This form of 
croup is usually quickly cured by Aeon. and 
Spong la. 
Membranous Croup, much the more dangerous, 94 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
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 breath- 
ing, with croupy, ringing sound, and other alarm- 
ing symptoms, gradually increase, till suffocation 
is imminent. In this form Kali bi., Hepar. 
Spongia, Tartar, and Sulphuric acid are the reme- 
dies to be depended upon. Aeon. may be occasion- 
ally given, to diminish fever, but can do nothing 
to prevent oi' remove the false membrane that 
is threatening to fill up the air passages, and pro- 
duce suffocation. Kali bi. is perhaps the most 
important. It may be alternated with Hepar, or 
Spongia. If it does not succeed, Sulph. acid is the 
next most reliable. This should be put in water, 
and made strong enough to taste slightly acid, and 
given every hour. Desperate cases are sometimes 
cured by it. This is not in the medicine chest, but 
can be had of any druggist. 
At the beginning, put a cloth wrung out of cold 
water over the throat and chest, and cover it well 
with a flannel, renewed every hour. 
"Whooping Cough, 
Is relieved by a great number of remedies, as Cof- 
fea, Tart., Cup., Bell., Nur., Capsicum. Drosera, 
Mephitis, etc. 
A teaspoonfull now and then of good hot coffee, 
well sweetened, often affords great relief. DISEASES OF CHILDREN. 
95 
Tart., if the breathing is bad ; excessive, hard 
cough, with vomiting. 
O' o 
Drosera, violent cough with nose bleed. 
Arnica, if there is soreness of the lungs, making 
the cough painful. 
Bromide of Ammonium has recently proved a 
very effectual remedy. 
Jt ailing or Portrusion of the Bowels. 
Nux. and Ignatia are the best remedies, but 
only one at a time, three or four times a day; 
or Acs cuius. 
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 Grels. are effective reme- 
dies while there is a feverish state, repeated as 
often as required. If there is no fever, Ambra, 
or Coffea. 
When there is dullness, and stupor, Grels. is the 
best remedy. 
Teething. Materia Medica. 
Characteristic Indications of Many of the More 
Frequently Required Drugs. 
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 sleeplessness, 
with tossing from side to side. Starting in sleep. 
Congestion of all the organs, external and inter- 
nal, 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. 
Agaric us. Itching, burning, and redness of the 
lingers and toes, and other parts, as from frost-bite. 
Dizziness and headache, as from intoxication. 
Pah fid sensitiveness of the scalp. 98 
Chapping of the upper lip. Palpitation of the 
heart when standing. Profuse sweat on the chest 
at night. 
Ambra. Nervousness, with great irritability of 
temper. 
Great languor in the morning, in bed. Drowsi- 
ness 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 carb. Boils and pustules OU 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, which is very dark red. or black, 
with foetid breath. 
Obstinate nursing sore mouth. 
Violent, acrid leucorrhoca, causing soreness. 
Watery, burning leucorrhoca. 
Apis. Chronic headache, in nervous subjects 
which is moderated by pressure. 
Inflammation of the peritoneum, or outer coat 
PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY. of the intestines, chacacterized by burning, inter- 
nal soreness, and external tenderness, even on 
slight pressure. Abdomen full, swollen, tender. 
Dropsy, especially after scarlet fever. Dropsy 
of the abdomen, and brain. 
Nettle rash, and other itching, stinging, prick- 
ing, and burning eruptions. Stye. 
Arum Tryphyllum. Colds, with irritation of the 
eyes, nose, and throat. Nose stopped or discharg- 
ing 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 remainder 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. Kapid sinking of strength; feels 
stronger on lying down, but weak on standing. 
Fainting fits. Great emaciation of children. 
General dropsy. Dropsy after scarlet fever. 
Intermittent fever, with violent chills, increased 
by drinking, and in the open air; the heat, dry, 
and burning, followed by scanty or cold, clammy 
sweats. 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
99 100 
Religious melancholy. Violent periodical head- 
ache, 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 foetid breath. 
Violent vomiting of yellow-green mucus and 
bile; of brownish or blackish substances. During 
the vomiting, violent pain in the stomach. Vomit- 
ing and diarrhoea, cholera morbus, Asiatic cholera. 
Pain of the abdomen, with vomiting and diar- 
rhoea. Violent diarrhoea, with colic, vomiting and 
great weakness. Piles, burning, and painful. 
Colds, with watery discharges from the nose; 
sneezing, or dryness of the nose; scraping of the 
throat, with soreness; hoarseness; short, hacking 
cough, with soreness of the chest; sense of suffoca- 
tion, and anxious, short breathing. 
Asthma. Palpitation of the heart, with a feeling 
of smothered suffocation. 
Dropsy of the chest. 
Ulcers, with burning pain. 
Scaly eruptions, as dry salt rheum. Blue spots. 
Black blisters, burning and painful. Putrid ulcers, 
with foetid discharge. Proud flesh. 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. MATERIA MEDICA. 
101 
Atropine. Much the same as Bell., but more 
efficacious in many nervous affections, especially 
nervous headache, coming on suddenly. 
Belladonna. Spasms of the limbs, with delir- 
ium. Convulsions. 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, sing- 
ing, talking, laughing, crying, quarreling, raging, 
biting. 
Dizziness, and intoxicated feeling. 
Headache, as if the brain was stunned. Feel- 
ing of great weight and heaviness of the brain. 
Pressive headache in the forehead, preventing 
opening of the eyes, increased by motion. Throb- 
bing headache. Feeling of swashing in the brain. 
Heat and redness of the face, with violent head- 
ache; 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. 102 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
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, and followed 
by discharge of mucous leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea, 
with colic. Inflammation, and painful swelling of 
the breasts. Erysipelas of the breasts. 
Hoarseness, noise, and rattling of the bronchial 
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 uncovers, 
he feels cold. 
Delirium at night. Somnambulism. Nightmare. 
Chilliness and shuddering, followed by dry heat, 
then sweat. Sour sweat. 
Headache, which does not begin when waking, 
but when opening and moving the eyes. 
The blood rushes to the head, and the head feels 
compressed from temple to temple. Violent head- 
ache, the head feeling very heavy. Headache 
when stooping, as if all the contents 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. MATERIA MEDICA. 
103 
Dryness of the mouth; tongue coated white or 
yellow. 
Dry, sore throat, with hoarseness. Sticking 
sensation in the throat, when swallowing, turning 
the head, or touching the throat. 
Pain, and sensation of swelling in the region of 
the stomach. 
Tightness, burning, or stinging, in the region of 
the liver, when touching it, when coughing, or 
taking a deep 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 sweating. 
Dry cough. Vomiting of food, when coughing. 
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 expectoration. 
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 pleth- 
oric, scrofulous, or rickety constitution, who have 
a tendency to cold in the head, sore eyes, or diar- 
rhoea; tedious and difficult teething; weak limbs. 104 
PRACTICAL HOMCEOPATHY. 
and slowness in learning to walk. Also, to pleth- 
oric or feeble women, who menstruate too fre- 
quently 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 the hands 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 apprehensive. 
Great inclination to weep. Changeable mood. 
The head is easily affected by mental labor. 
Headache every morning, on waking. Pain of 
one side of the head. Pain and pressure in the 
top of the head. Pain in the back part of 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. MATERIA MEDICA. 
105 
Obstinate constipation, in feeble constitutions. 
Diarrhoea in scrofulous or consumptive persons. 
Too frequent and profuse menstruation. During 
menstruation, rush of blood to the head, heat in 
the head, and painful pressure in the top of the 
head; or toothache. After menstruation, milk- 
like or burning and itching leucorrhoea. 
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Bearing down in the lower part of the back. 
Sweat of the knees, and of the feet. Burning 
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 is broken or cut. It prevents inflammation, 
and greatly hastens the healing. Also, in old 
suppurating wounds, and in suppurating, inflamed, 
and painful ulcers and sores. 
Camphor. Coldness and chilliness. Cold sweat. 
Small, weak pulse. Pale face. Spasms of the 
muscles of the mouth, and frothing. Dim vision. 
Cholera, with cramps; coldness, anguish, and 
burning, and pain 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 Sat. Opacity of the cornea. Specks 
on the cornea. 106 
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. Dis- 
charges of mucus. 
Cantharis. Erysipelas, with burning and blis- 
ters. Heat and burning in the stomach ami abdo- 
men. Pains in the kidneys, and along the passage 
from the kidneys to the bladder. Extreme pain, 
burning and difficulty in urinating. Violent pain, 
heat, and burning in the bladder, and difficult and 
painful urination. Constant and urgent desire to 
urinate, passing a few drops at a time, with great 
pain. Urine bloody. Entire suppression of urine. 
The urine passes involuntarily. Wetting the bed, 
in children. 
CabroVeg. is adapted to the following symp- 
toms in persons weak and debiliated. Rheumatic, 
drawing pains in the limbs, and the whole body, 
and great weakness, after the pains. The limbs 
go to sleep, feel bruised, and the joints weak, 
Burning of the skin in different parts. Nettle 
rash. Great disposition to sweat. Morning and 
night sweats, with weakness. 
Peevish, irritable, and whining mood. 
Aching on the top and back of the head, with 
pain when the hair is touched. Beating headache. 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. MATERIA MEDICA. 
107 
Buzzing in the ear. Falling out of the hair, after 
sickness. 
Black, flying spots before the eyes. 
The complexion becomes very yellow or very 
pale. After eating or drinking, fullness of the 
abdomen, and headache. 
Diarrhoea, with burning, smarting, and aching 
in the rectum. Wind colic. 
Burning in the soles, or profuse sweat of the 
feet. 
Cauiophyiium. 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, wrangling pains. 
After pains. 
Painful m enstruation. 
Taken for some weeks before confinement, it 
renders laboi* more easy. 
Rheumatism of the small joints, feet, hands, 
legs, and arms. 
Chamomiiia. Convulsions of children. Weep- 
ing, moaning, and starting in sleep. 
Great thirst, and dry, red tongue. 
Chilliness in the open air, or when uncovered. 
Night or morning sweat, without sleep. 
Tendency to weep, and start. Crying on 108 
PRACTICAL HOMCKOPATHY. 
account of a very trifling, and often imaginary 
offense. Peevish; is unable to stop talking about 
old vexations. 
Excessive sensitiveness to odors. 
Headache, as if it would burst, on walking. The 
head feels bruised. 
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. Dis- 
charges of white or green mucus, with colic. 
Yellow, corrosive leucorrhoea, or acrid and 
watery. Pressing down, like labor pains. 
Before menstruation, cutting colic; abdominal 
spasms, and drawing in the thighs. 
Cramps in the calves. 
China. Weakness and other affections, attend- 
ing the loss of blood, and other fluids. 
Excessive sensibility of the nervous system, 
with great weakness. 
Languor, and exhausted state of body and mind. 
Easy sweating. 
Headache, pressive, tearing, or throbbing, in- 
creased 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. 
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. 
Hunger, with nausea. Fullness after eating. 
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 
discharge of clots of black blood. 
Gina. Bronchial catarrh, and cough, remaining 
after measles. 
Convulsions and contortions of the limbs. 
Epileptic convulsions, without loss of conscious- 
ness. 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 round 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. 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
109 110 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. 
Various complaints, arising from worms. 
N. B.-Cina takes the place of Santonine in 
former editions of this work. 
Copious, frequent urination. Turbid urine. 
Wetting the bed in children. 
Tickling low down in the throat, producing 
cough. Before coughing, the child raises itself 
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 coagu- 
lated blood. 
Coffea. Great nervousness. Sleeplessness, 
owing to agitation of body and mind. 
Frequent yawning. 
Sensitive to cold, and aversion to open air. 
Pain in 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. 
Diarrhoea, during teething. 111 
Crampy sensation in the calves and feet. 
Colecynth. Spasmodic pain of the stomach, 
extending into the throat, with nausea. Sharp 
griping in the abdomen. Griping about the umbil- 
icus, like cutting or squeezing; worse on moving, 
and relieved on bending forward. Feeling as if 
the intestines were squeezed between stones, and 
would burst. 
Wind colic. Bilious colic. 
Diarrhoea, and straining at stool. Dysentery. 
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 rash- 
like vesicles. Itching, followed by painful burning. 
Itch. 
Burning inflammation of the mouth, lips, and 
throat as if burnt. 
Great flatulence of the bowels. 
Fullness, pressure, and burning in the stomach 
and bowels. Piercing and cutting in the bowels. 
Numerous liquid stools, with straining. Violent 
purging. 
The urine looks dark and fiery, with greasy par- 
ticles floating on the top, and producing burning- 
in passing. 
MATBRIA MEDICA. 112 
Cuprum met. Cramps and convulsions. Deep 
sleep with jerking of the limbs. 
Convulsive laughter. Craziness, with merry 
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 dry- 
ness in the throat, with cough and hoarseness. 
Pain below7 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 nettle- 
rash. Eruptions forming crusts over the body. 
Slimy diarrhoea, from a cold. 
Urine thick and white, or reddish and burning. 
Red or white sediment in the urine. 
Difficult and painful urination. Catarrh of the 
bladder, and discharge of mucus with the urine. 
Cough, with expectoration of tough mucus, with 
stitches in the chest. 
Ge's?mmum. Irritability. Dull, stupid, in- 
toxicated feeling of the head. 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. MATERIA MEDICA. 
113 
Dull, stupefying, pressive headache. Dizziness. 
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 of the nose. Influenza. Measles. 
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. Foetid and sour sweat. 
Itching of the hairy scalp. Scabs on the head. 
Moist eruptions on the top of the head, painful to 
the touch. Scurfy spots on the head. Falling off 
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. 114 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. 
Ulcerated corners of the mouth. 
Eruption on the chin. 
Profuse leucorrhoea, mucous or thin. 
The toe and linger 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. 
Hcpar. Fine stinging, burning, itching. Nettle 
rash. 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 foetid pus from the cars. 
Eruptions about the mouth. Itching pimples 
on the chin. 
Looseness of the teeth-the gums bleed easily. 
Smartin" roughness and rawness of the throat. 
Stinging and stiches in the throat-sometimes 
extending to the ears. 
Cough, from scraping and roughness of throat. 
Foetid sweats in the arm pits. 
Perhaps the best remedy for felon ; chilblains. 
Hydrastis. Old ulcers. Small pox. Running 
from the ear. Cancer. MATERIA MEDICA. 
115 
Swelling of the eyelids, with discharge of pus, 
and sticking together of the eyelids. [External 
and internal use.) 
Obstinate catarrh, [used internally, and snuffed.) 
Canker of the mouth. Nursing sore mouth. 
Ulcerated throat, [as a gargle.) Diphtheria. 
Dyspepsia, with weakness of the stomach. 
Chronic, mucous diarrhoea. Obstinate consti- 
pation. 
Ignatia. Jerks in the limbs, when going to sleep. 
Restless sleep, with nightmare. Moaning in 
sleep. Snoring. Excessive convulsive yawning. 
Anxious desire to do things in haste-hurried- 
ness. 
Impatience-intolerance of contradiction, or 
noise. 
Still, serious melancholy. Brooding to himself. 
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 swallowing. 
Sensation when swallowing as if one swallowed 
over a lump. Stinging sore 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 the least 
noise. 116 
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 mucus; 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. 
Foetid 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 bronchical tubes. 
Suffocative cough. Cough from tickling in the 
throat and through the chest. 
Bleeding from the lungs. 
Spasmodic asthma. 
Kali b'chrom. Lxcessive weakness, and small 
pulse. Soreness of the nose, with watery dis- 
charge, and sneezing. Stoppage and ulceration of 
the nose. 
Loss of smell. 
Tongue smooth, red, and cracked. 
Scraping of the throat. Throat sore, red, 
swelled, painful, and finally ulcerated. 
PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY. MATERIA MEDICA. 
117 
Important in diptheria, ulcerated throat, and 
membranous croup. 
Tickling in the throat, causing cough. 
Loud wheezing cough, with retching and expec- 
toration of tough mucus. Chronic loud cough. 
Loud wheezing and rattling in the chest. 
Difficult breathing, with expectoration of white 
mucus as tough as pitch. 
Kali hydriodicum. Profuse, dry eruption on 
the face, on the shoulders, and over the whole 
body. 
Catarrh fever. 
Burning in the eyes, with secretions of yellow' 
mucus. Burning and redness of the lids, and 
itching. 
Redness and swelling of the 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 
chest, and oppressed breathing. 
Influenza, with sneezing; headache and drowsi- 
ness. 
Irritation of the throat, with dry cough, followed 
by copious greenish expectoration. 118 
Leptaudrin. Bilious headache, with coated 
tongue, bitter taste, and low spirits. 
Dull aching in the region of the liver, extending 
to the back. Jaundice, with light, clay-colored 
stools. Stool followed by a feeling of weakness of 
the bowels and rectum. Stools hard, black, and 
lumpy, then soft and mushy. 
Great rumbling and distress in the lower bowels, 
with profuse,- black, foetid stools. 
Mucus, bloody stools. 
Macros in. Nervous, rheumatic, and menstrual 
headache. 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. 
Mercurius- Inflammation of the eyes, with 
itching, burning, swelling, and redness. Scurf 
round the eyes. Running of water and pus from 
the eyes, and sticking together of the lids. Ulcers 
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. 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. Swelling and ulceration of the gums. Sore 
mouth ; canker ; salivation. Swelling of the 
tongue. 
Sore throat. Pain when swallowing. Ulcers in 
the throat. Diptheria. 
In flammation and pain inthe liver. Jaundice. 
Colic, and diarrhoea; pain worse by walking, and 
chilliness. Inflammation of the bowels. 
Diarrhoea, with chilliness, and urging at stool. 
Mucus stools. Stools of sulphur color, or white- 
gray. Dark, green, mucus stools-burning. 
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 dys- 
entery. In other cases, Merc. sol. is preferred for 
women and children, and Merc. cor. for men. 
Merc, iodatus is preferable to either in diptheria, 
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. Convulsions and spasms. 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
119 120 
Bending the Imad and body backwards. St. Vitus' 
dance. 
Chilblains, itching, and burning. 
Great chilliness: sometimes with hot head and 
face, and headache. 
Burning, internal heat, and thirst. 
Starting, on going to sleep. Horrid dreams. 
Sour night sweat. Morning sweat. 
Great sensitiveness to all external impressions. 
Noise, talk, strong odors, and bright light, are 
intolerable. 
Headache from stormy weather, wine, or coffee; 
from thinking; piles, from sedentary habits. Head- 
ache, with nausea. Headache on one side. 
Stoppage of the nose. 
Earthy, yellowish complexion. 
Cankered mouth. Sour taste. Milk sours. 
Putrid taste. Hunger, but aversion to food. 
After a meal, sick feeling, as if he had over- 
loaded the stomach; low spirits; chilly; hot face; 
dull headache; sleepiness and nausea. 
Hiccough; bitter or sour erutcation; heartburn. 
Pressure in the stomach, as from a stone. 
Fullness and throbbing in the liver. Jaundice. 
Constipation from sedentary habits. 
Mucus diarrhoea. After stool, burning and 
smarting in the rectum. Piles, burning and 
pricking. 
Painful discharge of thick urine; burning and 
pricking. 
PRACTICAL IIOMtEOPATHY Internal swelling of the vagina, like prolapsus. 
The menses appear too early. During the 
menses, nausea; chilliness; fainting, and headache. 
Yellow leucorrhoea. 
Nausea and vomiting, during pregnancy. 
Symptoms of miscarriage. False labor pains. 
Colds, with headache; heat in the face; chilli- 
ness, 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 itching in the rectum. 
Colds, with roughness of the throat and wind- 
pipe. 
Violent cold, with hoarseness, cough, and fever. 
Expectoration of tough or reddish mucus. 
Inflammation of the lungs. 
Phrsphoiic acid. Pains in the bones, and 
weakness of the young, who are growing rapidly. 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
121 122 
Profuse morning sweat. 
Scurfs on the nose, and large pimples on the 
face. 
Diarrhoea, with rumbling and pain. Watery 
diarrhoea, or white-gray. Passages of undigested 
food. 
Milky urine. 
Podophyiiin. Pain in the bowels, followed by 
diarrhoea. 
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, 
mucus stools, smelling like carrion. 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 . Prolapsus 
uteri. 
Pulsatilla. Restless sleep, with dry, burning 
heat. Disposed to w'eep, or cough. Gloomy; 
peevish; sullen; chilly. 
Headache deep in the orbits, when moving the 
eyes. 
Headache; as if from intoxication, or watching, 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. or as if from overloading the stomach, or from fat 
meat. 
Redness and swelling of the edges of the eye- 
lids. Stye. 
Earache. Hardness of hearing. Discharge 
from the ears. 
Green, foetid 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. Eructations 
tasting of the food; or sour, bitter, or bilious. 
Urging to stool, as if diarrhoea would set in. 
Suppressed menses, with nausea and vomiting. 
Before the menses, chilliness; stretching; yawn- 
ing, and heaviness of the abdomen. 
During the menses, pain of the stomach; pres- 
sure in the abdomen and back; chilliness, and pale 
face. 
The blood is thick, black, and clotty. 
Leucorrhoca; burning; or thin and acrid; or 
milky, or thick, and mucous. Swelling of the 
breasts, and excessive secretions of milk, when 
weaning. 
Cough, with difficult expectoration of yellow 
mucus, or bitter. Cough, with putrid expectora- 
tion, and hectic fever. 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
123 124 
Rhus tex. 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, 
Great sensitiveness to the open air. 
Burning, itching eruption of vesicles. 
Nettle rash. Shingles. Erysipelas, with blis- 
ters. Swelling of glands. 
Evening fever, with diarrhoea. 
Inflammation of the eyelid. Glueing of the eyes 
together. Red, hard stye on the lids. 
Milk crusts. 
Parched, red, dry tongue. 
Diarrhoea. Red and yellow stools, mixed with 
mucus, jelly-like, and fluid. Stools mixed with 
blood. 
Sepia is an important remedy for females. Ring- 
worm . 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. 
PRACTICAL IIOM(EOPATHY. Dizziness, only when walking. 
Morning headache, with nausea . Beating head- 
ache, in the evening. Headache, as if the head 
would burst, and the eyes fall out. 
Pain of 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 eating. 
Morning nausea. 
Vomiting, during pregnancy. 
Exhausting diarrhoea; green or sour, in children, 
or of putrid, sourish, foetid smell. 
Slimy diarrhoea, with distended abdomen. 
Itching and stinging in the rectum. 
Prolapsus of the uterus and vagina. 
Before the menses, colic and faintness; shudder- 
ing, and acrid leucorrhoea, producing soreness. 
During the menses, exhaustion, toothache, pains 
in the limbs, spasms in the abdomen, and pressing 
downward. 
Leucorrhoea, with stitches in the uterus, or with 
itching in the vagina. Bloody mucus; yellowish, 
watery, or mucus leucorrhoea. 
Discharge of a greenish, red fluid, during preg- 
nancy. 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
125 126 
PRACTICAL HOMOEOPATHY. 
Leucorrhoea like milk, only in the daytime, 
producing soreness. 
During pregnancy-toothache, nausea, and vom- 
iting, and stinging in the breasts. 
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. Foetid smell of the feet. 
Spongia. Stinging in the throat. Hoarseness, 
cough, and running at the nose. Scraping and 
burning in 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. 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 coughing or 
sneezing. Pain in the top of the head, as if the 
eyes would be pressed down. Scald head, or foetid and moist 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 
stool, mixed with mucus, and with burning pain in 
the rectum. Scalding, hot stool. 
Burning in the vagina, and itching in the exter- 
nal parts. 
The menstrual blood is thick, black, and acrid. 
Burning, painful leucorrhoea, producing soreness. 
Dry cough, only when in the open air. 
Dry night cough. Coughing up greenish lumps. 
Painful cracked hands. Thick, red chilblains 
on the fingers and toes. Cramps in the soles. 
Tartar stth. Violent itching, and suppurating 
rash. 
Round, large, burning, painful pustules, sur- 
rounded by a red circle. Boil-like pustules, with 
violent painful itching. Pustules containing a 
bloody or blackish fluid. Small pox. 
Devers, with restlessness; yawning and stretch- 
ing; chilliness alternating with heat; great heat 
and thirst. Muttering delirium. Headache, and 
palpitation of the heart. Dullness; drowsy and 
weary feeling. 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
127 128 
The eyeballs feel bruised and sore. Influenza. 
Dryness of the lips and mouth, lied tongue, 
covered with raised, red points. 
Sore throat, with burning heat of throat. 
Loathing of food; nausea. Vomiting, and diar- 
rhoea. 
Feeble voice. Loss of voice. Cough, and 
sneezing. 
Short and difficult breathing. Inflammation of 
the lungs, with continued dry, or loose, rattling 
cough; cannot breathe lying down. 
Velvety feeling of the chest. 
Vera-*.rum. Blue skin in cholera. Coldness of 
the body. Cold sweats. Sour sweat. Sweat, 
with burning skin. 
Headache, with nausea; vomiting, and paleface. 
Chilly on the top of the head. 
Cold sweat on the forehead. 
Cold, disfigured face, as of 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 shuddering 
or goose skin. 
Great nausea, with thirst. Vomiting of bile, of 
food, and of mucus, with great weakness. 
PRACTICAL HOMOSOPATHY. MATERIA MEDIC A. 
129 
Black vomit. Cholera. Cholera morbus. Cold- 
ness or burning of the stomach. 
Violent diarrhoea, with chilliness. Extreme 
weakness during the stools. 
Scant, burning, yellow, turbid, or dark-red 
urine. 
Cramps of the calves. Icy cold feet. I N DEX. 
PAGE. 
After Pains 77 
Asthma 56 
Bilious Fever 23 
Biliousness 50 
Bites of Snakes, Spiders, etc... 66 
Bleeding of the Lungs 56 
Bruises 67 
Bronchitis 53 
Burns and Scalds . 67 
Carbuncle 68 
Catarrh 53 
Chilblains 65 
Childbed ; 30 
Cholera 47 
Cholera Morbus 47 
Cholera Infantu m 90 
Cold in the Head 53 
Colds 53 
Colic 44 
Confinement . 76 
Constipation 41 
Convulsions 92 
Corns 61 
Cough 57 
Croup 93 
Crying of Infants 87 
Diet 21 
Diptheria 32 
Diarrhoea 42 
Diarrhoea of Infants 92 
Diseases of Children 86 
Diseases of Women 71 
Dose 21 
Dysentery 43 
Dysmenorrhcea 72 
Dyspepsia 51 
Erysipelas 35 
Falling of Bowels 95 
Fatigue .... 67 
Felon 70 
PAGE 
Fevers 23 
Fits 92 
Indigestion 51 
Inflammation- 
Of the Bladder 59 
Of the Bowels 40 
Of the Brain 59 
Of the Breasts 77 
Of the Eyes 63 
Of the Kidneys 58 
Of the Liver 49 
Of the Stomach 39 
Of the Tongue 38 
Of the Tonsils 39 
Influenza 54 
Intermittent Fever 28 
Introduction 7 
Itch 89 
Jaundice 48 
Headache 61 
Leucorrhoea .. 75 
List of Remedies 19 
Malignant Pustule 69 
Materica Medica . ... 97 
Measles 35 
Mechanical Injuries 67 
Menses Obstructed 71 
Menses Profuse 73 
Menstruation Painful 73 
Milk Crust 88 
Milk Leg 78 
Neuralgia ... 37 
Nervousness 85 
Nursing Sore Mouth 8S 
Pleurisy 55 
Pneumonia 54 
Preface 3 
Piles 45 
131 132 
INDEX. 
PAGE. 
Prolapsus Uteri 74 
Remittent Fever 23 
Rheumatism 36 
Scald Head 88 
Scarlatina-Malignant 31 
Scarlet Fever 29 
Sea Sickness 44 
Small Pox 34 
Snuffles 86 
Sore Mouth of Infants ... ..86 
Sore' Nipples 78 
Sore Throat 39 
Spasms 92 
Sprains... 57 
HAGE. 
Stings of Insects 65 
Stomach Ache 44 
Stye 64 
Summer Complaints 90 
Tape Worm 45 
Teething 95 
Vomiting of Pregnancy 76 
Weakness of the Limbs 93 
Wetting the Bed 92 
Whitlow 70 
Whooping Cough 94 
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