C. Hering's Domestic physician : revised, with additions from the author's manuscript of the seventh German edition ; containing also a tabular index of the medicines and the diseases in which they are used.

  • Hering, Constantine, 1800-1880.
Date:
1851, ©1850
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Credit: C. Hering's Domestic physician : revised, with additions from the author's manuscript of the seventh German edition ; containing also a tabular index of the medicines and the diseases in which they are used. 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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    and all such as are empirical, but every description of domestic medieines, as all manner of herb teas, syrups, medicated poultices and irritating or medicinal substances applied to the skin. Blood-letting by the lancet, or by leeches and cups, and laxative injections, except those of cold or lukewarm water, are likewise forbidden. The cure is disturbed by cold or hot baths, especially baths im- pregnated with herbs, sulphur, and other medicaments. Linen, cotton, silk or leather, worn next the skin, is preferable to woolens, excepting for persons much exposed to the weather or for little children. The patient should, if possible, use moderate exercise in the open air for an hour or more daily; and his chamber should be well ven- tilated every day. Recovery is frequently dependent on a good moral regimen. Labour, which gives the mind the proper direction to usefulness, while it exercises the body, should be daily used in chronic diseases as far as the strength will allow of it. Homoeopathic medicines should not be taken too soon after eat- ing ; and for about half an hour after taking them the patient had better abstain from eating or the use of tobacco, and, if possible, from much mental or bodily exertion. The medicines are to be kept in a dry and not too warm place, free from odours.