Diabetes mellitus: its history, chemistry, anatomy, pathology, physiology, and treatment : Illustrated with woodcuts, and cases successfully treated / By William Morgan, M.D.

  • Morgan, William.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Diabetes mellitus: its history, chemistry, anatomy, pathology, physiology, and treatment : Illustrated with woodcuts, and cases successfully treated / By William Morgan, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    mother tincture 0 to the 3rd'', or 6 dilution, as being the most useful and efficacious, and is moreover in accordance with the views of the majority and more advanced sections of Homoeopathic practitioners in this country and America. They constitute the ordinary potencies prescribed by the writer for many years, and have proved eminently successful in his hands. Mode of Administration. We have observed that there are four modes of preparing the medicines:—viz., Tinctures, Triturations, medicated Pilules and Globules; there is also more than one mode of administering these remedies. I. Tinctures.—The dose of these preparations is, as a rule, one drop administered at stated intervals. In acute diseases, and in those severe and dangerous com- plaints which rapidly run their headlong course to a fatal termination—as, for instance, croup, cholera, acute atrophy of the liver, &c.—it may be necessary, at the commencement of the treatment, to repeat the dose at intervals of every ten, twenty, or thirty minutes, until a favourable impression is made on the symptoms, when the interval between the doses should be lengthened as the patient improves. For this purpose it were well to mix thoroughly twelve drops of the selected tincture in twelve table-spoonfuls of water, and administered accordingly. In chronic diseases, there should be an interval between the repetition of the dose of from twelve to twenty-four hours; and according to the strict rules of Hahnemann, to as many days or weeks. This prolonged action of one dose of a medicine has been much doubted. I have but little faith in it myself, and generally advise that the medicine should be repeated once a day, or night and morning. Triturations.—These preparations may be taken dry on the tongue, or in solution; one grain, or as much as