The homoeopathic domestic medicine / by Joseph Laurie.

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
1851
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    the subjoined indications should more especially prevail, proceed with the next medicine, or con- sider, also, Bryonia and Lachesis. Mercurius will often serve to complete the cure, in cases in which the more active inflammatory symptoms have yielded to the action of Belladonna ; but more particularly when the following symptoms remain : loaded tongue, nausea or vomiting, with continued tenderness of the belly; thirst, sometimes with aversion to drinks when offered; cloudy or milk-like mrine ; no motions, or diarrhoea with excessive straining, the stools generally consisting merely of a httle slime, sometimes mixed with blood. Dose.—One globule in a teaspoonful of water, repeated at intervals of six hom's, untd decided amelioration or change. Consider also the following medicines. I Bryonia should, however, be preferably selected to follow—after the previous employ. 1 ment of Belladonna for twenty-four hours, at the stated intervals,—when, on the other hand, the head continues hot and heavy, the pulse quick, the tongue foul (yellowish- brown), or very dry, particularly at the tip, and other symptoms of stomachic derange- ment are prominent, together with a tumid and painful state of the belly, constipation, or alternate diarrhoea and costiveness; headache, thirst, excessive restlessness, quick, laborious respiration, and dehrium, particularly at night, with drowsiness during the day. Dose.—Of a solution of six globules to three table-spoonfuls of water, give a teaspoonful every four hours, duiing the remissions, or even, also, dui'ing the paroxysms, until decided amelioration or change. Lachesis may be advantageously employed, after the previous administration either of Bellado'fina or of Mercurius, and when notwithstanding such treatment extending, at the stated intervals, over a period of twenty-four hours, the signs of intestinal irritation or inflammation continue with but little abatement. Or, again, it may be employed in preference to either of the last-named medicines, when the tenderness and distension are more marked at one particular spot (the most trivial pressure there being intoleral)le) than over the entire belly, when the stools are of a very pale colour, and when the fever is highest at night. Dose.—As dii'ected for Bryonia. CiNA is particularly indicated when all the symptoms of invermination or worms accompany the fever,—such as burning and picking at the nose, starting and screaming during sleep, dilated pupils, colic, diarrhoea,—or loose, bilious, or white papesent stools, sometimes containing worms. Dose.—Two globules in a teaspoonful of water, morning and evening, untU amehoration or change. Sulphur may be given with advantage to complete the cure, in many cases, after the pre\ious employment of any of the foregoing medicines. It is, however, when the attack is characterised by the following features, that this remedy is more directly called for:— feverish heat, especially towards evening, but also in the morning, or during the day; flushes, alternately with paleness of the face ; dryness of the skin ; hurried and laborious breathing; palpitation of the heart; nocturnal perspiration ; languor and great weakness, particularly in the inferior extremities ; tense, tumid, and painful belly; whitish urine ; dry, hard, or loose and sHmy motions. Dose.—If indicated during the premonitory and active stages, respectively, give one globule in a tea- spoonful of water, repeated at intervals of six lioiirs, until decided amelioration or cliange. If to complete the cure, give two globules in a dessert-spoonful of water, every morning for a week (unless important change should sooner occur-). Very unfavorable, Mismanaged, or Protracted Cases. The medicines above enumerated are those which are generally of the greatest service for the treatment of Infantile Remittent Fever, under ordinary or not specially unfavor- able circumstances, when they will materially tend to facilitate recovery, and prevent the disease from assuming an obstinate character. When, however, the malady occurs in children of relaxed and feeble habits, or of a decidedly scrofulous constitution, it becomes, especially if neglected, and not checked at the commencement of its course, a most intractable and frequently fatal disease, from the proneness which it then has to become complicated, and to terminate in one or other of the serious forms alluded to at the commencement. Incases, therefore, in which either of the unfavorable circumstances of constitution, &c., or the previous neglect or