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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    If complicated with menstrual derangements. If tliey are tlie real cause of the melancholia, the symptoms point to Puls.^ Sulph.^ Sepia^ Coccul.^ Yerat. alb. and Stram., which will be found sufficient in almost all cases; however I have had cases of suppression, when the menstrual flow was generally very profuse and the suppression was followed by an extreme excitement almost bordering on mental derangement and attended with an almost insane moaning and lamenting, where Pliosph, effected a most marvelous and rapid improvement. After suppression of erysipelas of the face, what Bry. and Cupr. are capable of effecting in such cases, cannot be accomplished by any other remedy, not even by Bellad., Hyosc. and Laches. I have treated a case of chronic dementia of six months' standing, conse- quent upon suppression of facial erysipelas, where paroxysms of rage occurred every now and then, and where Cuprum effected an improvement, after which the cure was completed by means of Bellad. and Stram., which had no effect before the Cuprum was administered. After sunstroke and getting overheated. In such cases I depend- ed formerly upon Bellad. and Bry.; but since I have become acquainted with Glonoin, I resort to this remedy in the first place, even for subsequent consequences of such accidents; so far this remedy has effected in my hands, in every case, at least a percep- tible beginning of an improvement with more promptitude than either Bellad. or B^y. After concussion of the brain. In cases where such an accident was at a later period succeeded by mental derangement, neither Arnica nor Bry. has had the least effect in the cases which I have had to treat; on the contrary, I have in several cases obtained excellent results from Cicuta and Calc.^ after which Phosph.^ Zinc.^ Bellad.^ Rhus and Cupr. completed the cure. During pregnancy and coniinement. Chief remedies in such cases are: Plat.^ Bell, Verat alb., Aeon, [also Oelseriiinum. li.]; not one of these remedies, if it had been selected in accordance with the symptoms, has ever failed me; only in particular cases I have had to resort to Puis, or Sulph., in order to cover the whole group , of symptoms. Notwithstanding the very respectable recommenda- tions of other practitioners I have never yet employed Zincum in such cases, for the reason that I have never yet found it indicated, and moreover have been able to get along without it. In spite of