Elements of homopathic practice of physic : an appendix to Dr. A.G. Hull's Laurie's "Homopathic domestic medicine."

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Elements of homopathic practice of physic : an appendix to Dr. A.G. Hull's Laurie's "Homopathic domestic medicine.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    The editor recommends laymen who make use of this book, to resort to lower dilutions in the treatment of* acute attacks of dis- ease in preference to those set down in the text. For example : where Aconite, Belladonna, or Chamomilla of the 24th or 30th attenuation, are prescribed by Dr. Laurie, the editor would put one drop of the tincture of either of these remedies in a tumbler full of water and give a tablespoonful at a time ; but in chronic maladies the editor earnestly recommends the doses set forth in the text. The editor considers the tinctures, and the first, second and third, dilutions, when used in water, as nearly of the same medical power; perhaps, however, it is best to put two or three drops of these dilutions to the tumbler of water when they are applied in the place of the tinctures. When the triturations are contained in a medi- cine chest,—^instead of the higher dilutions, which are preferred to them,—one grain of any of them can be dissolved in a tumbler of water, and used as above indicated. In general, it may be best to repeat the doses of these solutions at the same intervals of time as are prescribed in the work; but the editor respectfully suggests, that in very severe cases of acute diseases, as in convulsions, or rapidly exhausting diarrhoea, or hemorrhage, it is proper to make the intervals much shorter than the author prescribes. It is quite probable that the water solutions can be repeated at shorter intervals, cceteris paribus, than the pel- lets or powders ; and for this reason physicians often dissolve the pellets themselves in water, and repeat the spoonful doses twice or thrice as frequently as they would give them dry.