A lecture on some minor superiorities of the homoeopathic treatment.

  • Ludlam, R. (Reuben), 1831-1899.
Date:
1862
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    STOMATITIS IMATERNA, BY E. LUDLAM, M. D., CHICAGO, ILL. This is one of the most interesting, as well as vexatious, dfseases with which we are acquainted. It is interesting because of its limited history and prevalence, its peculiar pa- thology, its mortality under the dominant practice, and the imperfect development of its homoeopathic therapeutics ; vexatious, because of its multiplied forms and complications, and its intractable nature, if not modified and remedied by appropriate means. Hence the desire, in the following report, to add, if possible, something in the line of perfecting its pathological detail, and likewise of pointing out the precise indications for such particular remedies as may promise relief for the same. I. Nature.—Regarding the essential nature of this malady, various opinions have been and are still entertained by the profession at large. The most plausible of these we appre- hend is that which refers its phenomena to a scorbutic cachexia. It has been convenient for the majority of medi- cal men to attribute its origin to miasmatic influences; to a diminution of the red corpuscles of the blood; to scrofula ; to menstrual irregularities, antecedent to conception ; to a depraved and insufficient nourishment, and the like; but the