Homœopathy : explained and illustrated / by T. Battye.

  • Battye, Thomas.
Date:
1854
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    at that tirhe ; I have had medical advice for about six months, and am rapidly sinking; my spirits are so depressed too, that life is almost a burthen to me. On examination, I found there was not the slightest appearance of piles; but on further investigation, the mischief became apparent: high up, within the rectum, there was a rupture of a vessel which poured out its contents at every evacuation. Without any application whatever, in ten days, this gentleman was perfectly well. FLATULENCY OF INFANTS. I have before adverted to the value of these remedies for children; their effect on suffering infancy is indeed astonishing. In some cases since I came here, I have tested the value of them. A lady, residing not far from Oxford, wrote to me to say that an infant she then had, was suffering dreadfully from flatulency and relaxed bowels; the symp¬ toms resembling exactly those of one of her children I had been called in to see,—about eighteen months ago. In each of these cases her own medical man had been in attendance for weeks, without effecting any improvement. In 12 hours, in each case, these little sufferers were completely relieved ; and have never had a return of their complaint. GOUT. Mr. Vaughan, baker, Worcester-street, sent for me to see him : his statement was that he had been confined to his room, and chiefly to his sofa, for more than two months; and he was likely enough to remain so for two months more. Colchicum, the sheet anchor of the old school for these cases, had been administered freely without any good accruing. I gave him homceopathic medicines, and omitted to call the following day; but, on the morning of the day after, I found him among his workmen. After the first two minute doses, he told me, the pain entirely left him. With the exception of the weakness which must inevitably ensue after so long suffering, he is perfectly well, and has been so for some time. TUMOUR OF THE EYELID. Mrs. S. who is housekeeper to a gentleman not many miles from Oxford, was advised to consult me in this case : I found, on examina¬ tion, a hard and painful tumour on the upper eyelid, which had been in existence for a long time. The friction arising from it, on the eye itself, kept the eye in a constant state of most painful irritation, and caused her almost continual headache. She had had her own medical man in attendance some time, and had sought the best advice Oxford could afford her, in vain. In a short time the tumour disappeared ; the irritation of the eye ceased;—and when I last saw her, she was perfectly weU. VIOLENT SPRAIN. A few days ago, a young man of the name of Hanks, not many doors from my own house, was brought to me, suffering mosb acutely from the effects of a fall from a ladder. There was no fracture, although he had fallen from a considerable height; but his left hand and wrist E