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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    the higher attenuations of Sulphur, but there are likewise cases that require the use of massive doses of Sulphur, and even the application of the sulphur- ointment. A chancre may have often yielded to the 30th attenuation of Mercury : but it is now an univer- sally admitted fact, that the lower preparations of Mercury are much more reliable in the treatment of the various forms of syphilis than the higher. The lower attenuations are likewise preferable in all chronic diseases that threaten to terminate in the destruction or disorganization of organs, extensive suppurations, ulcerations, congestions, &c. Even in purely nervous diseases, hysteria, hypochondria, mania, &c, it may sometimes be necessary to resort to the lower attenuations. It is not only proper, but useful and frequently even necessary to com- mence the treatment of these diseases with the middle or higher attenuations ; but if the same me- dicine should have to be used for a long time in suc- cession, it may become necessary to use the lower preparations, though it may sometimes be of advan- tage to the patient that the use of the higher prepa- rations of the same substance should occasionally be resumed. In some cases it is useful to use the lower and higher attenuations of the same remedy in alter- nation. We are unable to assign any positive reasons for this mode of administration, except that we have observed beneficial effects to arise from it in many cases. In chronic eruptions, not syphilitic, the middle or higher attenuations may be resorted to first, to be afterwards followed by the lower, if necessary. In a case of phagedenic ulcers of the forehead and face, which broke out shortly after vaccination and had probably been caused by impure matter, a complete cure was effected in three days by two pellets of the 800th potency of Arsenic. The cure would probably have been effected just as well by the first tritura- tion ; but inasmuch as it is important that we should ascertain as nearly as possible the limit beyond