New homoeopathic pharmacopoeia & posology, or the mode of preparing homoeopathic medicines, and the administration of doses / compiled and translated from the German works of Buchner and Gruner, and the French work of Jahr, with original contributions by Charles J. Hempel.

  • Hempel, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1811-1879.
Date:
1850
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Credit: New homoeopathic pharmacopoeia & posology, or the mode of preparing homoeopathic medicines, and the administration of doses / compiled and translated from the German works of Buchner and Gruner, and the French work of Jahr, with original contributions by Charles J. Hempel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We dissolve a few globules, say five or six, in ten tablespoonfuls of filtered water, and of this solution we take one tablespoonful, and mix it with a bottleful of filtered water, which should, at the same time, contain a tablespoonful of the best brandy, and a little pulver- ized charcoal, the brandy being intended to preserve the water from decomposition, and the charcoal to carry down whatever foul particles might have form- ed in the liquid. This mixture requires, of course, to be shaken once or twice a day, and should be allowed to settle before it is used. Although the magnitude and repetition of the dose are foreign to this article, yet we will state, in this place, that a tablespoonful of such a solution should, according to Hahnemann's directions, be taken once a day, either in the morning before breakfast, or two or three hours after supper. Lastly, we will mention another mode which has been resorted to by some, in order not only to dilute the original preparation as much as possible, but at the same time to develop to a greater extent its inherent curative properties. This mode consists in dissolving a drop of the lower preparation, either tincture or trituration, in a tumblerful of water, mix it well by turning the solution a number of times from one tumbler into another, and then take a tablespoonful of this solution, and mix it with an- other tumblerful of water as before. Of this second solution we may again take a tablespoonful, and mix it with a third tumblerful of water, and so on, through any number of tumblers. The last solution is then administered in tablespoonful doses. In our own practice we seldom go higher than the second solution, from which we derive all the advantages we desire. We would admonish the homoeopathic student not to imitate the ridiculous practices which have crept into the homoeopathic school, such as placing a few pellets of the homoeopathic medicine into the hands