Therapeutic methods : an outline of principles observed in the art of healing / by Jabez P. Dake.

  • Dake, J. P. (Jabez Philander), 1827-1894.
Date:
1886
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    And, before passing from the proofs furnished by Asiatic cholera, it is well to consider the fact, that the three leading remedies for that disease pointed out by similia, are coming into use among medical men who deny the universality of that principle. Camphor is an ingredient in nearly every mixture prescribed in the ordinary practice, and in every nos- trum employed with any success in the treatment of cholera, throughout the world. Cuprum, in the metallic state, very finely commi- nuted, or in some of its salts, is coming more and more into favor. So much has it been approved, of late, by leading allopathists in France, The London Lancet has facetiously mentioned it as their cupric saviour. And veratrum album, the third member of the trinity of remedies named by Hahnemann, before he had seen a case of Asiatic cholera, is receiving the endorsement of allopathic writers. Privy-Councillor Dr. von Blodau, of Sondershausen, has discovered veratrin to be an excellent remedy for some phases of cholera! He says,— Having frequently administered strong doses of veratrin, as a remedy against cramps in the calves of the legs during sleep, and always with success, I concluded that, as it possessed a stimulating influence on the spinal-nervous system, it might restrain the danger of threatening symptoms in cholera. Yellow-Fever. — The destructive epidemics of yel- low-fever, which have visited portions of the United States, especially those occurring since the year 1850, have afforded opportunity for statistics of decided value. No systematic effort, however, was made for