Therapeutics can become a science : essay LIV / by William Sharp.

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1889
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    Tinct. Ignat. 1, night and morning for twelve days. April 20. Consultation.—He has been very much better; no bleeding; and the prolapsus is more easily returned. The constipation continues. Tinct. Ignat. 1. a dose at night; and for the constipa- tion, Sulphur 1, a dose in the morning, each for a week. He was cured with this and went to Benrhydding to recruit his strength. The dose must not be forgotten. It is the first centesimal dilution. Ignatia can often relieve distress of mind, so far as that can be reached through the body. Lycopodium, (Lycopodium clavatum). The sporules or grains of Club-moss, when triturated, burst and discharge a little oil; minute quantities of this can, at least sometimes, counteract the morbid process of suppuration. They cured the following severe case of abscess in the kidney. Case.—May, 1858. An old lady; very ill, with abscess in the right kidney; I did not think she could recover. In consequence she was taken up to London, and was seen there by Dr. Bence Jones, who gave in writing the same diagnosis, and said he anticipated a fatal result. The patient was then brought back to me. The quantity of pus discharged every day along with the urine could not be measured, but it was very great indeed. After trying a few remedies without benefit, on July 19th I gave her the second trituration of Lycopodium, about half a grain for a dose, night and morning. In August there was “ a fierce aggravationthe medicine was stopped; and at the beginning of September the urine was clear, and the patient was well. She remained well through 1859 and 1860, and never had a return of the abscess. I have seen Lycopodium cure boils, and even a car- buncle in a very old gentleman. Sambucus, (Sambucus nigra). The Elder has hitherto been thought meanly of as a medicine. In minute doses it can save life, as I have seen more than once. A tincture made of the fresh inner bark of the young branches, taken when flowers
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