Domestic homoeopathy, or Rules for the domestic treatment of the maladies of infants, children, and adults : and for the conduct and the treatment during pregnancy, confinement, and suckling / by John Epps.

  • Epps, John, 1805-1869.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Domestic homoeopathy, or Rules for the domestic treatment of the maladies of infants, children, and adults : and for the conduct and the treatment during pregnancy, confinement, and suckling / by John Epps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DOMESTIC HOMOEOPATHY. INTRODUCTION. It seems proper, as introductory to this little treatise, to make a few remarks upon The rides for administering the medicines. There are three methods of administering homoe- opathic remedies; first, by smelling; second, by put- ting globule or globules of the medicine upon the tongue; and the third, by taking the medicine dis- solved in water. For persons very susceptible, smelling the medi- cine is deemed sufficient: for persons less suscepti- ble, the medicine is placed upon the tongue: and for others, the medicine is given in solution : which 'last is the form most frequently employed. Generally speaking, solution in water is to be pre- ferred. Filtered rain water, or what is better, pure, distilled water,* constitutes the best vehicle. When * By pure distilled water is meant water ohtained by the distil- lation of water: not water that is distilled over in the preparation of essential oils. Any person can make a liille disiilleJ water by putting some water in a retort, and then having connected this re- tort hy its neck with a receiver; the receiver being kept cold by the dropping of cold water, the steam, produced by the application of a lighted spirit lamp to the retort, will be condensed m the re- ceiver.