Homoeopathic domestic medicine / by J. Laurie ; arranged as a practical work for students, containing a glossary of medical terms.

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
1850
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    ASIATIC CHOLERA. This disease generally commences with vertigo, headache, and singing in the ears, a sensation of flatulence in the stomach, griping pains, and a feeling of weight and oppression in the region of the heart. In some, but not all cases of Asiatic Cholera, we find the lips, nails, and sometimes the whole skin of a blue colour, but in almost every instance the frame loses its power of genera- ting heat; the pulse and pulsation of the heart are almost unfelt, circulation of the blood becomes stagnant. Patients who have escaped through the second stage are fre- quently carried off by a typhoid fever in the third. When the premonitory symptoms of this disease, as above noted, exhibit themselves, its complete development is fre- quently prevented, by the administration of the saturated so- lution of Camphor, one part of Camphor to twenty of spirits of wine. Administration. One or two drops of the above every five minutes in a teaspoonful of cold water, until a cessation or amelioration of the symptoms take place, when the inter- vals between the repetition of the dose may be lengthened to every two, then every four or six hours. In many cases also we may succeed in checking the disease at its commencement by Tpec. and Nux v., or the remedies already mentioned under Sporadic Cholera, p. 150, adminis- tering, however, more frequently, say every hour at first. But when Cholera sets in in all its frightful forms, we should have immediate recourse to Veratrum. Administration. A few globules of the third in a tea- spoonful of water every quarter of an hour : should no im- provement set in after several doses, and the cramps change to spasms and convulsions, with spasmodic constriction of the chest, which obstructs respiration, Cuprum must be had re- course to in the same manner as described for Veratrum. Arsenicum should be alternated with Vera'rum, when an intense burning sensation is experienced in the stomach and bowels, with extreme prostration of strength, great thirst, etc. (Vid. Indications, page 150.) Carbo vegetabilis may often be given with advantage