Homoeopathic domestic medicine / by J. Laurie ; arranged as a pratical work for students ; containing a glossary of medical terms.

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
1853
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    appears during menstruation; certain kinds of food also provoke it in some idiosyncrasies; for example, lobsters, oysters, or other shell-fish. TREATMENT. The principal remedies in the treat- ment of the ordinary forms of erysipelas are Aconite, Bella- donna, Bryonia, Ptdsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Arsenicum, and Lachesis. Aconite, only in case there be much fever or hot dry skin at the commencement, or even during the course of the disease, if required. D0S©i Dissolve six globules in three table-spoonfuls of water, and give a tea-spoonful of the solution every three hours, until the pulse becomes diminished in force and frequency, and the skin moist, &c., when another remedy should be administered, in accordance with the distinctive features of the affection. Belladonna, chiefly in Erysipelas phlegmonodes, but also in mdematodes and erraticum, when the redness expands in rays, and an acute shooting pain, with heat and tingling, is experienced in the affected part, which is aggravated by movement. Facial erysipelas, with burning heat, exces- sive swelling, so that the eyes are almost closed, violent headache, thirst, dry, hot skin, restlessness, disturbed sleep, delirium. In such instances, Belladonna is generally alone sufficient to effect a cure; but sometimes it will be found necessary to have recourse to Lachesis or Rhus toxicodendron, after, or in alternation with Belladonna, according to the peculiar symp- toms, or group of symptoms, present. DOSd It singly, of a solution of six globules to two table-spoonfuls of water, give a tea-spoonful every three hours, until amelioration or change, when the intervals should be extended to six hours, until the symptoms are wholly overcome, or assume distinctive features indicative of another remedy. In cases, however, in which the symptoms possess and retain a very benign aspect from the onset, a dose of three globules in a tea-spoonful of water, repeated after the lapse of twelve hours, will usually suffice to subdue all traces of the affection. But in those cases, of occasional occurrence, in which the symptoms being severe, are but little moderated within three hours after the fourth dose of Bella- donna, consider the subjoined remedies. If in alternation with Lachesis or Rhus a similar solution of each medicine, administered by