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

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Homoeopathic domestic medicine / by J. Laurie ; arranged as a pratical work for students ; containing a glossary of medical terms. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    CONTENTS. PAGE Preface to the American Edition iii Preface to the 6th Edition 1 Tabular Index of the Medicines, their abbreviations, synonymes and antidotes 9 PART I.—Introduction. The Method of Investigating the Condition of the Patient, and of Dis- tinguishing between the State of Health and of Disease . . 13 General Investigation of the Patient 13 The Constitution and its Varieties 14 Investigation of Disease 22 Diet and Regimen 36 Clothing and Habits 38 Administration and Repetition of the Medicines 39 Remarks and Regulations respecting Internal Medicines and Doses . 41 Indispensable Rules for the Preservation and Management of the Medicines, Antidotes, <fec 42 Remarks and Regulations respecting External Remedies and Appli- cations 43 Remarks and Regulations respecting the Bath 48 List of Medicines adapted to particular temperaments, &c. ... 51 beneficially after the previous employment of others . 53 Synopsis of the Rules for Diet under Homoeopathic Treatment . . 55 Aliments allowed 55 Aliments prohibited 56 PART II.— On the Symptoms, Character, Distinction and Treatment of Diseases. FEVERS. General consideration of Fever 57 Causes, Treatment and Diet to be observed 6*7 General Treatment in Fever and Diet 59 Simple or Ephemeral Fever 60 Inflammatory Fever, Synochal Fever ....... 64 Nervous Fever. Slow Fever 65 Accessory Treatment, Preservative Remedies, Ac, in Typhus . . 67 Putrid Fever, Pestilential Fever, or Malignant Typhus ... 80 Contagious Typhus, Camp Fever, Jail Fever, Petechial Fever . . 82 Intermittent Fevers, Ague 83 Gastric Fever. Bilious Fever 93 Yellow Fever 106 Eruptive Fevers . 114 Scarlet Fever 114 Scarlet Rash 123 Measles 127 Small-pox 213 Chicken-pock 139 Miliary Fever 140 Nettle-rash, Hives, Urticaria 144 DISEASES OR ORGANS CONNECTED WITH THE DIGESTIVE STSTEM. Toothache 146 Sore Throat, or Quinsy, Aphthous Sore Throat 152