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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 514 of 653for this gastric irritability than its rather mild pathogenesis wlead us to expect, particularly in the cases of women and childreMustard plasters to the epigastrium, and cold enemata were alsoased as palliatives for the nausea and vomiting. Very hot fomentations frequently diminished the excruciating pains in the bowelWhen diarrhoea or dysenteric symptoms supervened, MercuriuSyPhosphorus or Colocynth relieved them readily. Cantharides scarceever failed to remove strangury, and restore the venal secretionsconjunction with Arsenic. Nuz vomica was frequently employed asan adjuvant in persons much addicted to alcoholic liquors. Chamomilla, Sabina or Secale generally caused the symptoms of threatenabortion to disappear. When the strong characteristics of yellowfever gradually subsided, leaving the system prostrated and torpiHhus and Bryonia were used with good effect. Belladonna^ Cojfeaand Hyoscyamus were sometimes indicated at night for nervoussleeplessness. Millefolium was used in one case of abundant hemorrhage from the mouth, and whether it was a coincidence or a cure,it was almost immediately checked. Some of our ultra-IIahnemannian brethren may find fault with us for using such low dilutions, repeating them so frequently, and sometimes employing threremedies in quick succession. But the malignity and rapidity ofthe disease, the diversity and frequent incongruity of the sympto612 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.their Protean forms and treacherous character, warranted ns inactive and decisive measures. Homoeopathic aggravation, undersuch circumstances, is very little to he apprehended, foreshadowias it does a curative result. A resort to the higher dilutions, 612th or 80th after the lower had failed, was attended, in somecases, with the happiest effect."If the above remedies proved inefficacious, if the patient sank,if the vomiting became worse, with brownish stains in the matterejected, or any of those various hues which indicated hemorrhagefrom the gastric mucous membrane, Nitrate of Silver was the remedconjoined with Arsenicum and Lachesis. We made a first and secondcentesimal trituration, and as the latter did just as well as themer, perhaps better, I infer that the action, like that of Arseniwas not topically stimulant, but dynamic Indeed, what stimulus,in the allopathic sense of the word, can the one ten-thousandth oa grain of Nitrate of Silver^ dissolved in half a tumbler of wateadministered in teaspoonful doses, give to the whole gastric mucomembrane ? A much more curative one, I venture to say, than thesame remedy would have made in larger doses. As it was, themedicine frequently aggravated ; and one patient complained bitterly of the nausea it produced. In this case, all the dangeroussymptoms were arrested by Lachesis. One negro woman lived aweek after black vomit had set in, apparently, but not permanentlrallied by Nitrate of Silvery Carbo vegetabUis and Hydrocyanic ac" Strict attention was paid to diet ; a point of vast importancein managing the diseases of the blood-making apparatus. Arrowroot, rice-water and black tea with a little sugar and milk in itwere the standard articles for the first stage. During the secondstage, the canine hunger was sometimes distressing; but besidesthe above nutriment, we seldom permitted anything but a teaspoonful of pure cream at regular intervals. Ice was allowed, inhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt