A short domestic treatise on the homoeopathic treatment of the diseases of females and children / by Walter Williamson.

  • Williamson, Walter, 1811-1870.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A short domestic treatise on the homoeopathic treatment of the diseases of females and children / by Walter Williamson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    palpitation of the heart; soreness of the breasts; loss of ap- petite, with desire for acids; and, aversion to exercise. The unpleasant sensations frequently change from one place to another, or are felt on but one side of the body at a time. She feels better during exercise, and in the open air; gene- rally worse in the evening and before midnight, and is fati- gued in the morning. Give the medicine at four o'clock in the afternoon for two days in succession, and if better, wait as long as the improvement continues; but if the symptoms return, and the menses do not appear, repeat the Puis, once more. This medicine is particularly adapted to young ladies of a mild character. Sep., if in addition to many of the above symptoms there should be a yellow streak across the nose and on the cheeks in the form of a saddle. It should be given at night, twice in succession. Sulph., if neither of the above remedies should answer the purpose, and there be a sensation of heat in the interior of the brain; great religious depression; emaciation; want of appetite, with sickness after eating; vertigo; palpitation of the heart, and shortness of breath on going up-stairs; worse when standing; to be given at night, as above directed for the other remedies. Veratr., if there be cold hands and feet, with a tendency to diarrhoea. CHLOROSIS OR GREEN SICKNESS. On account of the very common occurrence of this dis- ease about the period of puberty in females, and the uniform attendance of suppressed or vitiated menstruation consequent upon it, the affection itself is frequently looked upon as the result of such derangement. This state of the system how- ever* has been witnessed in females of mature age, and even sometimes in males having a lymphatic temperament and delicate constitution.