Homœopathy : explained and illustrated / by T. Battye.

  • Battye, Thomas.
Date:
1854
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    had been under the necessity of taking aperients every day, which, of course greatly impaired his digestion. I was for some weeks most completely puzzled, and ready to give up the case in despair. My patient was* determined I should persevere, however, on my assuring him that the constipation arose, I beheved, entirely from loss of tone in the intestine, consequent on his taking so many and so powerful drastic purgatives. In a short time after this, the bowels began to act with perfect regularity; the general health at once showed symptoms of unmistakeable improvement; the countenance, previously sallow and unhealthy-looking, soon assumed a healthy colour, and presently he was perfectly cured. HYSTEEIA. I was called to a young lady labouring under this disease, and found her senseless and convulsed in the right arm and leg ; she had been in this state, with very slight intermission, for several hours. She was presently restored, and her health thoroughly re-established, / WATER IN THE BRAIN. The case I am about to allude to, had the attention of two eminent allopathists, who pronounced it utterly hopeless. It was a child about 4 years of age. In a few days, by the treatment adopted, it was greatly relieved ; and in little more than three weeks the child was moving about as usual, — quite well of this generally considered hopeless- complaint. AFFECTIONS OF THE EYE AND EYELIDS. I have had several opportunities of witnessing the power of homoeo¬ pathic remedies over diseases of both the eye and eyelid, when other means had signally failed ;—one, a severe case of scrofulous ophthalmia, of long-standing, which terminated in an ulcer of considerable size, on the conjunctiva, and so near the cornea, that I much feared the vision being permanently impaired; but by the plans I adopted a complete< cure was effected. STRANGURY. During my attendance upon a lady for some chronic ailment, she was most suddenly attacked with the above complaint. On enquiry I found that if ever she had a blister applied she was sure of an attack of this kind. It was at once evident what drug to administer. In one hour my patient was completely relieved, whereas, heretofore, her attacks had lasted generally well nigh two days. CROUP. A disease so dreaded by all mothers, is almost always amenable te the mild means resorted to in homoeopathy ; no leeches, nor anything that can weaken the affected part, are used; thus relapses are much less frequent, and the physical powers of the patient not at all wasted. A child, about 8 months old, which had been for a day or two labour¬ ing under an ordinary cold, was most suddenly attacked with all the symptoms of this alarming disease ; the crowing inspiration being pre¬ sent, and hourly increasing. I at once employed such remedies as I thought were homoeopathic to the symptoms, and with the best