G.H.G. Jahr's Manual of homoeopathic medicine / translated from the German by authority of the North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art ; with an introduction and some additions by C. Hering.

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1838
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    oilier influences have neutralized its effect, or whether the changes produced by the remedy have through negligence been overlooked &c. In such cases, the magnitude of the doses cannot affect the question, as the repetition of the same minute doses has a far more powerful effect, than the so called large ones. Should the remedy have been correctly chosen, it may be well to repeat it once, however it would be preferable to change the medicine; but on this point no specific in- structions can be given. Sometimes there is in patients a repellency to certain medicines, a dose of no amount can avail. The new practitioner will pursue the wiser course, by selecting another remedy which is nearly similar to the former, and then alternate with both. 4. Should an amelioration occur, within the ordinary time, then no farther steps should be taken while the improvement continues. This important rule new Homoeopathists find it difficult to follow. The more sudden the improve- ment, the sooner a relapse may return. Should the same symptoms recur as at first, before the amendment began, then repeat the same remedy. But if other symptoms arise, other remedies must be selected, and a special reference to the new symptoms must be had in the selection. 5. If the repetition of a remedy be without effect, as in the foregoing rule, then must another remedy be sought for. 6. If a part of the symptoms disappear after a remedy, and another part after a second remedy and then the primitive symptoms recur, both remedies may in such cases be given in turns, untd a change of symptoms require a change of remedy; or until a general improvement takes place, which must quietly be waited for, as long as possible. 7. Should there be an exacerbation after a medicine, it refers either to symp- toms already in the system and now aroused, or they are new ones. In the one case, the denominated homoeopathic exasperation requires that nothing be done, as it generally happens, particularly in chronic affections, that it is the forerunner of a cure. 8. But where the exacerbation admits of no delay; if other violent pains ac- company it; then an antidote should be applied, for which the following act the mildest in the crude state: camphora, spir. aeth. nitr.; vinegar, coffee without milk or sugar; wine in drops &c. The application of the antidotes will be found annexed to each remedy. 9. In those cases where a correct choice has been made, especially where sudden exasperation occurs, then the repetition of the remedy is preferable to the antidote, still this treatment, requires considerable practical skill. The same lemedy may likewise be repeated, when after abating the violent symptoms by