Therapeutic guide : the most important results of more than forty years' practice, with personal observations regarding the truly-reliable and practically-verified curative indications in actual cases of disease / by G.H.G. Jahr ; translated, with notes and new remedies, by Charles J. Hempel.

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Therapeutic guide : the most important results of more than forty years' practice, with personal observations regarding the truly-reliable and practically-verified curative indications in actual cases of disease / by G.H.G. Jahr ; translated, with notes and new remedies, by Charles J. Hempel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CONTENTS. Chapter Page Prefatory Remarks by the Editor, .... 3 Preface, ... 11 I. Mental and PsycMcal Derangements, ... 29 A. Forms of Melancholia, ..... 35 I. General Melancholy—2. Hypochondriac Mental Derangement—3. Religious Melancholy—4. Suicidal Melancholia—5. Erotic Melancholia—G. Home- sickness. B. Mania and Monomania, ..... 37 1. Rage—2. Monomania—3. Nymphomania and Satyriasis—i. Delirium tre- mens, mania-a-portu. C. Dementia of various kinds, .... 39 1. Fixed Ideas Generally—2. Visions and Hallucinations—3. Fear of Thieves —4. Hysteric Derangements—5. Various Detached Symptomatic Indica- tions. D. Indication of a few External Causes, . . . 41 II. Morbid Phenomena in the Brain 46 1. Vertigo, . 46 2. Apoplexy, . . . . . , '. 49 3. Inflammation of the Brain. Meningitis, Encephalitis, 55 Meningitis of Children—Remarks on a few remedies. 4. Hydrocephalus, ...... 59 5. Softening of the Brain. Eamollissement, . . .61 III. Headache, .64 1. Symptomatic Headache, ..... 64 2. Catarrhal Headache—3. Congestive Headache—4. Gastric Headache—5. Rheumatic Headache—6. Arthritic Headache. 2. Idiopathic Headache, ...... 68 1. Tru#Megrim—2. Neuralgic Headache—3. Nervous Headache. Falling out of the Hair, ..... V4 IV. Ophthalmic Affections, 75 1. Simple Ophthalmia, . ..... 75 2. Conjunctivitis—3. Inflammation of the Sclerotica—i. Inilammation of the Cornea—5. Inflammation of the whole eye—6. Ophthalmia of new-born infants—7. Chronic Ophthalmia. 2. Specific Forms of Ophthalmia, .... 78 1. Catarrhal Ophthalmia—2. Rheumatic Ophthalmia—3. Arthritic Ophthalmia —4. Scrofulous Ophthalmia—5. Gonorrhoea! Ophthalmia. 3. A few G-eneral Indications, ..... 79 1, According to the condition of the parts—2. According to the sensations—3. Pressure when separating the lids—4. Profuse Lachrymation—5. Styes, Ophthalmic Affections of Various Kinds, . . 81 1. Hypopion (purulent eye)—2. Sanguineous Effusions in the eye—3. Lippi- tudo, chronic lachrymation without fistula—4. Fistula Lachrymalis—5. Spasmodic closing of the lids—6. Aff'ections of the Cornea—7. Staphyloma of the Cornea—8. Cataract—9. Glaucoma—10. Disposition to Squint. 5. Defects of Vision, ...... 83 1. Amblyopia, weakness of the optic nerve, retina—2. Hemeralopia—8. Diplopia—4. Near-sightedness—5. Photophobia—6. Amaurosis.