An inquiry into the homoeopathic practice of medicine / by William Henderson.

Date:
1845
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Credit: An inquiry into the homoeopathic practice of medicine / by William Henderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    abandoned. I saw him, however, now and then for eight or ten days, until all trace of the dysentery had disappeared. Case XI.—A Labourer, aged 50. March 2d, 1844.—For four days past has had much purging of a bloody fluid, evacuated without pain. He has calls to stool generally several times in an hour, and rare- ly less than once every hour, ever since the disorder be- gan. He was ordered some acetate of lead and opium yesterday (the first time he was prescribed for), yet the stools continue as frequent as ever, and of the same cha- racter. Skin hot and dry. No tenderness or tumefaction of belly. Pulse 84 ; feeble. Tongue pretty clean. Looks exhausted. Antimon. Crud. 6, every three hours. Sd.—Has had six doses of the Ant. Has had only five stools since he got the first dose, this time yesterday. The evacuations have lost their sanguineous hue ; are of a chocolate brown, and less liquid. Skin hot and dry. Pulse 84. Tongue clammy and darkish. Cont. Ant. Crud. every four hours. Beef-tea and arrow- root. 4:th.—Four stools in the last twenty-four hours, and of a lighter brown colour—still thin. Skin cool. Pulse 84. Tongue dry. Arsenicum 18, every six hours. 5th.—Four stools ; pale brown, and more consistent. No pain. Cont. He continued to mend ; had Rhus, 12, for a few days, and all medicine omitted on the 10th ; the stools having been, after the 7th, yellow, feculent, and moderately con-