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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    Ignatia is indicated when with heat of some parts of the body there is coldness, chill, and shuddering of others, also where the heat is only external. Its best characteristic is, when the chills are easily relieved by external warmth, and at- tended with thirst. Administration, -§- at the same potency and in the same manner as Pulsatilla. Carbo vegetabilis, in constitutions with a peculiar morbid tendency, will be found a most useful remedy. It is parti- cularly indicated when thirst is present only during the shiv- ering ; and there are rheumatic pains in the teeth or limbs before or during the attack, nausea, giddiness, redness of the face during the hot fit. Administration. ^a2fl may be dissolved in a little water, and given morning and evening during the apyrexia. When the hot-fit continues long without perspiration super- vening, and the intermittent threatens to change into a remit- tent or inflammatory fever, we must have immediate recourse to Aconite, of which we may give %1, and if no relief follows in three or four hours, add six globules of the third potency to an ounce of water, and administer a dessert-spoonful every hour until perspiration sets in, or the pulse is reduced. Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, and Lachesis, are three of the most important remedies against intermittent fevers which return every year. The preceding are the medicines that have been found use- ful in ordinary cases of this affection ; but as the disease is frequently found complicated with other complaints, it has only been found practicable to give a general statement of the course to be pursued when met with in its more simple forms, and merely to allude to the others—there being scarcely a disease known that may not assume the intermittent type, as there is scarcely a proved medicine that does not also partake of the same character. All the author has endeavoured to do, in the preceding pages, is to give a clear idea of the treat- ment of ague, commonly so called, as frequently met with ; as he feels it would be vain to attempt to enter upon the ma- ny various forms and appearances which this malady presents.