Chronic diseases and their remedies, or, Pathogenetic practice of medicine : embracing chemico-pathology and the symptoms and treatment of chronic diseases by pathogenetic remedies : designed for the use of patients / by E.W. Tucker.

  • Tucker, E. W.
Date:
1860
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    with other remedies, and even then continue them for a time longer. They assist the action of other remedies. Directions.—Dose, one pill two or three times a day, according to the case. When given with other medicines the dose will be stated on the bill of directions. Dose, in neuralgia, epilepsy, and continued pain, one pill three times a day, omitting them when the pain is relieved. The dose of No. 29, that is put up in vials, is from 6 to 10 drops two or three times a day, before meals, in a wine- glass full of sweetened water. NUMBER 30. LiTHONTRiPTic Compound. Urinary calculi, or gravel as it is commonly called, has, under previous modes of treatment, proved very intracta- ble. I have fully investigated the treatment of these afiections and have combined, in the Lithoutriptic Com- pound, agents which not only dissolve the smaller calculus, but is intended to fill that important indication of prevent- ing its formation. The two indications in the treatment of gravelly dis- eases are met by this remedy. By its primary actions upon the digestive organs, it produces such changes in the chyle and blood as to prevent or remove the tendency to the formation of gravel or calculus in the hepatic ducts or gall bladder, as well as in the kidneys, and urinary bladder. And secondly, by reason of its diuretic proper- ties, it is brought in contact freely with those concretions,