Consumption : its nature, prevention, and homeopathic treatment / (with illustrations of homeopathic practice).

  • Hitchman, William
Date:
1859
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Credit: Consumption : its nature, prevention, and homeopathic treatment / (with illustrations of homeopathic practice). 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.

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    Decoction of barley. Take of pearl barley, two ounces; water, five pints; first wash away any extraneous substances that may adhere to the barley; then having poured on it half a pint of water, boil for a few minutes. This water being thrown away, let the remainder be added boiling, then boil down to two pints, and strain. In habitual consti- pation, or protracted torpidity of the bowels, add to these two pints, two ounces of sliced figs; half an ounce of sliced liquorice root; two ounces of best raisins (stoned); water, a pint; and boil down to two pints, then strain. The preparation of barley-water is generally intrusted to nurses, charwomen, and servants, who know nothing and care less than that (if possible) about the domestic management of a sick chamber; but the lady of the household ought not, I conceive, to be unacquainted with the best manner of making it, as her directions may not unfrequently be necessary. It is an elegant and useful demulcent in cases of hectic fever, consump- tion generally, and in strangury, given as a drink ad libitum. Conclusion. From a careful study of the symptoms, causes, mor- bid anatomy, and histology, or microscopical examination of the nature of consumption, I may venture to reassure the reader of this irresistible conclusion that it is pri- marily a disease of the nervous system. A derangement, par excellence, of the nerve-globules ; the fons et origo of nervous power causing—firstly, indigestion, and conse-
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