The homoeopathist, or, Domestic physician / by C. Hering.

  • Hering, Constantine, 1800-1880.
Date:
1835-38
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Credit: The homoeopathist, or, Domestic physician / by C. Hering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — &2 — stronger; look under Poison. Not much can be done to relieve the tedious effects of laudanum which every one who has used it, must feel sooner or later. The best remedy, however, is No. 1 from time to time, and sometimes No. 7, which ought to operate a whole week or longer; sometimes also Nos. 13 or 5. Peruvian bark, or sulphate of quinine, is a medicine which, next to opium and mercury, most frequently ruins health, and occasions incurable disease. And should a person escape death, yet the effects of bark will trouble him for years. It is more difficult to expel Peruvian bark from the system than mercury; and he who pretends that this can be done by cathartics, is utterly ignorant of physic. It pervades the blood and all the fluids, and cannot be expelled by any cathartic; by which, on the contrary, still more fluids are lost. To relieve the patient from its consequences, will therefore require patience, and may gradually be ac- complished by the following means. The principal in most cases is No. 25, once or twice every day, until an improvement takes place. In cases of lumbago, rheumatism, pain and great irritability in every part of the body, the pain increasing when the sufferer is talk- ing, in motion or hears any loud noise, give No. 15; when the body is cold, with cold sweat, indigestion or diarrhoea, give No. 6; in consumptive cough let the patient drink an infusion of Iceland moss; in jaundice