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

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Homoeopathic domestic medicine / by J. Laurie ; arranged as a practical work for students, containing a glossary of medical terms. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The homoeopathic regimen consists merely of the avoid- ance of medicinal and indigestible substances during treat- ment, both as calculated to interfere with the actions of the medicines and the proper functions of the alimentary system. Consequently, among liquids the articles generally proscribed are green tea or strong black tea, coffee, malt liquors, wine, spirits, and stimulants of every description; lemonade, or other acid or alkaline drinks, and natural or artificial mineral waters; cocoa, unspiced chocolate, toast, rice, or barley wa- ter, oatmeal gruel sweetened with a little sugar, or raspberry or strawberry syrup, if desired, whey, milk and water, or pure milk not too recent from the cow, boiled milk, and in some instances buttermilk, or in fact any non-medicinal bev- erage, is allowable.* In animal food, pork, young meats—such as veal, lamb, &c.; and among poultry, ducks and geese—had better be avoided, particularly when derangement of the digestive function exists. Beef, mutton, venison, and most descrip- tions of game, if not too long kept (high), pigeons, larks, rabbits are allowable at discretion. (Vide Synopsis.) Ham, and neat's tongues, under certain restrictions. Fish is a wholesome article of diet, and may in most cases be partaken of without scruple, with the exception of the oleaginous species, such as eels, salmon, &c, or shell fish, as oysters, lobsters, &c. Eggs, raw, or soft boiled; butter, if free from rancid or unusual taste; cream, plain unseasoned custards, and curds. Stimulating soups and made dishes are so evidently op- posed to homoeopathic regimen, as scarcely to require fur- ther notice. Beef-tea, veal, or chicken broth, &c, thickened with rice, maccaroni, or sago, and seasoned merely with a little salt, are of course allowable. * The idiosyncrasies in some individuals in respect of diet are very re- markable ; as for example, some cannot take the smallest quantity of milk without serious inconvenience; others throw out a rash after partaking of fish ; and, again, others loathe the very sight of animal food. These pe- culiarities should not only be attended to in prescribing a suitable course of regimen, but should also be taken into account in the selection of the remedies.