The homœopathic guide, for family use : carefully abridged from the Homœopathic domestic medicine / by Dr. Laurie.

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
[1894?]
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Credit: The homœopathic guide, for family use : carefully abridged from the Homœopathic domestic medicine / by Dr. Laurie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    comparatively small dose, and it at once begins to take effect. We do not require to put one ingredient into a bottle for feverishness, one for acidity, one for the appetite, one for lowness of spirits, and one for headache, a dose of the mixture every three hours ; we can manage to control the whole by one medicine, as the action and sphere of all we employ are thoroughly known and recorded. Baths and Hydropathic Measures. Temperature of baths :— Hot bath ... ... 98° to 112° Warm bath ... ... 92° to 98° Tepid bath ... ... 85° to 92° A thermometer should always be used ; the hand itself is not to be depended upon. The Hot Bath Is useful in collapse, in quickening the breathing, and restoring circulation and warmth. It should not be prolonged after these objects are accomplished. The Warm Bath Has much the same uses, but is less violent, and longer in effecting its purpose. It causes languor and relaxation of the muscles generally, and induces sleep.