The homopathic domestic physician / by Constantine Hering.

  • Hering, Constantine, 1800-1880.
Date:
1858
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The homopathic domestic physician / by Constantine Hering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

    78/450 (page 32)
    The same remedies will answer in affections of the stomach, produced by eating cold fruit, ice-cream and the like. Every body should be able to drink milk, and if it does not agree, it is an indication that there is something wrong about the stomach. If it produces a sour taste in the mouth or costiveness, give Nux vomica; if pains in the bowels and diarrhoea, Bryonia; and if there is rising and vomiting of phlegm, Sulphur; if it produces long-lasting nausea, Calcarea. Persons who feel indisposed after drinking malt liquors, will do well to refrain from them, at least from the stronger kinds, which sometimes owe their strength and bitterness to injurious drugs. But if the head should become too easily affected after drinking good beer, &c, take Rhus; if useless, take Belladonna. If the beer causes vomiting, take Ferrum; if nausea, Arsenicum; if colic, Colocynth. Whoever feels indisposed after drinking brandy, may congratulate himself: the best and most salutary advice we can give him is—to let it alone. CHAPTER Y. CONSEQUENCES OP SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, COFFEE, TEA, TOBACCO, ACIDS, &c. Intoxication. Habitual drunkenness is a ruin to individuals, a calamity to families, and a serious loss to a nation, it is therefore no wonder, that benevolent minds have proposed remedies to prevent such great evils ; neither is it astonishing that many who are as ignorant of history, as of the laws of life of man and nations, should run mad with a most fanatic opposition to alcohol, bundling up with it all kinds of malt liquors, and even the most noble of all the productions of nature, the wine. Ministers, as ignorant of the original language of the gospel, as of the most common laws of chemistry, told their flock, that the wine, mentioned in the New Testament, was only grape-juice, not fermented, and not intoxicating. They do not know that the word used there for drunkenness is derived from the word meaning fermented wine.* The history of the human race proves most clearly, and without a single exception, that there never was in any nation a popular development of science, literature and the fine arts, until after the introduction of the culture of the grape-vine, or (like in England or Sweden) after a facilitated importa- tion of wine. The latest chemical analyses have also proved, that wine contains combi- nations of phosphorus, which is a most important nourishment of the brain and upon which its highest development depends. * In the New Testament the word used for wine is oivo$, which means fer- mented wine; the word for unfermented grape-juice is yhsvxos; the word for drunkenness is owwtftj, signifying that the drunkenness is from fermented wine.