The rejected cases; with a letter to Thomas Wakley on the scientific character of homepathy / by John Epps.

  • Epps, John, 1805-1869.
Date:
1845
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Credit: The rejected cases; with a letter to Thomas Wakley on the scientific character of homepathy / by John Epps. 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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    SYMPTOMS. {Continued.) 21. Fainted. 22. Pain in head. 23. Pain at back of head: kept her awake two nights. 24. Wandered much in her sleep. 25. General heat. 25a. Heat in forehead. 22. Frontal headache, still heavy. 25. No preternatural heat of skin. From a perusal of this columnar view^ and a general review of the symptoms of the two cases, there can not be the slightest hesitation in recognising that the case of Mrs. Waite was by far the worse. Both have their disease removed. By what means ? REMEDIES. Mrs. Waite. July 15. Aconite, 3 globules. Arsenic, 4 globules. Veratrum, 3 globules, in case of fainting. July 16. fyecacuanha, 4 globules China, 3 globules. July 17. Aconite, 4 globules. Nux vomica, 4 globules. July 18. Opium, 3 globules. July 20. Aconite, 4 globules. Pulsatilla, 4 globules. Pulsatilla poultice. July 22. Cocculus, 4 globules. July 23. Aconite, 1 globule. Nux vomica, 1 globule. July 24. Opiu?n, 1 globule. July 25. Opium, 1 globule. John Sinclair Hart. Aug. 25. To be cupped to twelve ounces. Five grains of blue pill twice a-day. Half an ounce of cas- tor-oil occasionally. Aug. 3]. His mouth becoming sore from the pills, they were ordered to be omitted. Sept. 3. Half an ounce of cas^or- oil directly. Sept. 4. Ten minims of the tinc- ture of the sesqui-chlo- ride of iron, three times a-day in an ounce and a half of camphor mix- ture.