GIFT OF 
 
 1r 
 
 DE WITT & SNELLIN 
 
THE 
 
 TREATMENT OF DISEASE 
 
 WITH THE TWELVE 
 
 TISSUE REMEDIES 
 
 BEING 
 A TREATISE ON BIOCHEMISTRY. 
 
 BY 
 
 WIVI. BO^RICKIK, M. D. 
 
 Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, in the Hahnemaun 
 
 Hospital College of San Francisco. Associate Author of 
 
 the Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schuessler, Etc. 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO, 
 ICKE; & RUNYON 
 
 i8 97 . 
 
"Disease is only an altered state of the 
 cellular system, caused by a lack of some 
 constituent part of the human organism at 
 the part affected." VIRCHOW. 
 
 " 1 need not remind you how great an 
 instrument of advancement the biochemic 
 system of medicine has proved in the hands 
 of this man of genius to whom its devel- 
 opment is due." HUXLEY. 
 
 " The work of W. H. Schussler, of Olden- 
 burg, on histology and cellular pathology is 
 a compact and valuable little medical sys- 
 tem of iriiifigral hygiene. According to him, 
 these fieU.-salts ,are architectonic in tissues, 
 and c'harged'With supporting the structures 
 of the living fluids. WILKINSON. 
 
PREKACB. 
 
 The new treatment of disease based upon 
 the physiological and chemical processes 
 going on in the living organism, first intro- 
 duced by Dr. W. H. Schuessler, of Ger- 
 many, and designated by him a biochemical 
 treatment of disease, has gained rapidly in 
 acceptance by leading physicians. More- 
 over, the medicines required the so-called 
 Twelve Tissue Remedies have been found 
 to be curative agents of the very highest 
 order for all forms of disease, and as the 
 indications for their use are simple, definite 
 and precise, they are especially adapted to 
 the needs of domestic medicine. They 
 meet all the requirements of remedies for 
 the household, being harmless, yet effective. 
 They enable every layman, without any 
 special medical knowledge, to do much in 
 preventing, curing and eradicating disease 
 tendencies. 260154 
 
IV 
 
 The author has availed himself of the 
 larger and complete work on the Twelve 
 Tissue Remedies by Drs. Boericke and 
 Dewey, to which he would call the atten- 
 tion of all interested in this new and sim- 
 ple method of curing disease. 
 
 WM. BOERICKE, M. D. 
 
 1812 Washington street. 
 San Francisco, December, 1896. 
 
THE THEORY 
 
 BIOCHEMICAL TREATMENT. 
 
 The body is made up of cells. Different 
 kinds of cells build up the different tissues 
 and organs of the body. The difference in 
 the cells is largely determined by the kind 
 of inorganic salts which enter into their 
 composition. If we burn the body, or any 
 part of it, we obtain the ashes. These are 
 the inorganic constituents of the body, the 
 salts of iron, magnesia, lime, etc., which 
 build up its tissues. Besides these inor- 
 ganic salts, the body is composed of water 
 arid organic substances in the proportion of 
 one-twentieth of inorganic salts to the re- 
 mainder of water and organic matter; but 
 the latter is inert and useless in the absence 
 of the inorganic cell-salts. These are the 
 real tissue builders, the architects of the 
 organism, and both the structure and vital- 
 ity of the body depend upon their proper 
 
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 quantity and distribution in every cell. 
 The biochemical treatment uses these inor- 
 ganic cell salts, when properly prepared 
 for assimilation, and they are the Tissue 
 Remedies, capable of curing every curable 
 disease and ameliorating most incurable 
 ones. 
 
 HEALTH AND DISEASE. 
 
 Health is the state of the body when all 
 the cells composing the various tissues are 
 in a normal condition, and they are kept in 
 this state when they each receive the requi^ 
 site quantity of the needful cell salt re- 
 quired for the upbuilding of the different 
 tissues. 
 
 Disease is an altered state of the cell 
 produced by some irregularity in the sup- 
 ply to the cells of one of the inorganic tis- 
 sue salts. Imperfect cell action results, 
 diseased tissues and organs follow, and all 
 the phenomena of disease are developed. 
 Now the cure consists in restoring the 
 normal cell growth, by furnishing a mini- 
 mal dose of that inorganic substance whose 
 
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 molecular motion is disturbed, which dis- 
 turbance cause the diseased action. To do 
 this successfully, it is necessary to know 
 what salts are needed for the upbuilding of 
 the different tissues and for their normal 
 action. This knowledge is derived from 
 physiological chemistry, and hence this 
 treatment of disease by supplying the 
 needed tissue salt is called the biochemical 
 treatment. 
 
 What is more rational, what is more nat- 
 ural, founded as it is on natural law, that 
 where there is a deficiency in one or more 
 of the component parts of the constituents 
 of an organism, that this deficiency will 
 produce a deranged or a diseased condition; 
 or, more logical, than by the supplying of 
 these lacking elements an equilibrium will 
 again be restored, and the organism re- 
 turned to its normal condition. 
 
 By giving a tissue remedy in such a dose 
 as can be assimilated by the growing cells, 
 the most wonderful and speedy restoration 
 to healthy function is brought about in 
 
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 every case of curable disease. All diseases 
 that are at all curable are so by means of 
 the tissue remedies properly prepared to 
 the needs of the organism. This is very 
 important, and on it depends the success of 
 the treatment, just as much as on the cor- 
 rect selection of the particular cell salt. It 
 seems reasonable that, to make the cell 
 salts immediately useful, they should be 
 prepared in the same delicate form in which 
 nature uses them, and that if they are ab- 
 sorbed by the microscopic corpuscles, they 
 must themselves be finer than the corpus- 
 cles. We know that the mineral or cell 
 salts are infinitesimally subdivided in the 
 different kinds of food we take, thus capa- 
 ble of assimilation by the cells. 
 
 THE DIFFERENT CELL-SALTS. 
 The cells of each tissue group receive 
 their own special and peculiar cell salt; for 
 instance, those entering into the promotion 
 of nerve cells are Magnesia, Potash, Soda 
 and Iron; of bone cells, Lime, Magnesia 
 
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 and Silica, etc., etc., which are, as a rule, 
 extracted by the body from the food we take. 
 There are twelve Tissue Remedies the 
 twelve inorganic salts found in the ashes of 
 the body, all essential to the proper growth 
 and development of every part of the body. 
 They are the 
 
 "Of Lime, Calcarea phosphorica. 
 Of Iron, Ferrum phosphoricum. 
 Phosphates^ Of Potash, Kali phosphoricum. 
 
 | Of Soda, Natrum phosphoricum. 
 
 l^Of Magnesia, Magnesia phosphorica. 
 Chlorides \ ^ Potash, Kali muriaticum, 
 
 ( Of Soda, Natrum muriaticum. 
 
 !0f Lime, Calcarea sulphurica. 
 Of Soda, Natrum sulphuricum. 
 Of Potash, Kali sulphuricum. 
 Fluoride of Lime, Calcarea fluorica; and 
 Silicic Oxide , pure flint or quartz, Silica. 
 
 Of these, those entering into the forma- 
 tion of nerve cells, and hence useful as rem- 
 edies in diseases of the nervous s} 7 stem, 
 are Magnesia phos, Kali phos., etc. ; of mus- 
 cle cells, the same and Kali mur. ; of lone 
 cells, Calcarea, Silicea, etc., etc. 
 
Preparations and Doses of the Tissue Remedies, 
 
 The best preparation of the Tissue Rem- 
 edies is the triturated form. The original 
 salts are triturated according to the homoeo- 
 pathic method with sugar of milk, one part 
 of the salt to nine of sugar of milk, for one 
 hour, which gives the first decimal tritura- 
 tion. The particles of this are still too 
 large to be readily assimilated by the cells, 
 and experience has taught that for general 
 use the sixth trituration, where each grain 
 contains the one-millionth part of a grain 
 of the cell-salt, to be the most desirable. 
 
 Of some remedies, like Oak. phos. and 
 Katimwr.) and in certain patients, lower 
 preparations are often more efficacious. 
 If favorable response is not evident from 
 the sixth ; substitute the third or second 
 trituration, or in more chronic affections, 
 the twelfth, or even thirtieth, may accom- 
 plish what the lower would not. 
 
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 The best method of administering the 
 selected remedy is to dissolve a powder of 
 a size to cover a nickel, or as much as will 
 lie on the point of a knife, in a tumbler 
 half full of water, and then give teaspoon- 
 ful doses every hcur or two, according to 
 the severity of the case. In acute pain 
 and very severe affections the remedy may 
 be given every ten or fifteen minutes 
 Sometimes it is advisable to give it in hot 
 water; this is especially true when pre- 
 scribing for neuralgia and colic. Two 
 remedies may be given advantageously in 
 alternation if both are called for. In 
 chronic diseases two or three doses daily 
 are sufficient. Or the powder may be taken 
 dry on the tongue; a powder the size of a 
 pea for a dose. 
 
 Use separate tumblers and spoons for 
 each medicine; never mix remedies or use 
 but one spoon for two or more remedies. 
 Mix all medicine fresh daily. Keep the 
 
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 tumblers covered with a dish or paper, in 
 order to prevent contamination of the pre- 
 paration. 
 
 Recently, compressed tablets made from 
 the tritnration have been introduced, and 
 form a convenient and accurate method for 
 taking the remedies. 
 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES WITH THE 
 TWELVE TISSUE REMEDIES. 
 
 ABSCESS. Is a circumscribed cavity con- 
 taining pus. It is a consequence of inflam- 
 mation of tissues following an injury, such 
 as a blow or presence of a foreign body. 
 The chief symptoms are swelling 7 heat, red- 
 ness, and throbbing pain, frequently with 
 shivering or rigors. 
 
 TREATMENT. Application of heat, poul- 
 tices of flax-seed or linseed. When the 
 abscess has opened, the wound should be 
 bathed with warm Aqueous Calendula, one 
 part to five, and afterwards a cloth with 
 some Calendula Cerate be applied. 
 
 REMEDIES. Ferrum phospJi^ every hour, 
 when there is much redness, pain and 
 throbbing in the parts. 
 
 Calc. sulpli. when matter has formed; 
 this will assist the maturing of the abscess 
 and in many cases render opening the 
 abscess unnecessary. 
 
Silica After the abscess breaks, this re- 
 medy should be used. It ripens the abscess 
 and promotes suppuration, rendering it 
 healthy. The best preparation of Silica for 
 this purpose is that prepared from the 
 Bamboo. Use the 6x trituration, a small 
 powder, size of a pea, every two hours. 
 
 ACIDITY. A symptom of certain types 
 of indigestion in which an abnormal quan- 
 tity of acid is secreted. Frequently asso- 
 ciated with heartburn, sour risings into the 
 mouth and sour taste. 
 
 TREATMENT. Avoid the free indulgence 
 of starchy foods, potatoes, mushes, pud- 
 dings, etc. 
 
 REMEDIES. Natrum pliosph. is the chief 
 remedy. It is best given in hot water, by 
 adding a powder of the 6x trituration, size 
 of a Lima bean, to a cup of hot water, and 
 sipping it before meals, or a small powder 
 may be given dry on the tongue every hour 
 until relieved. 
 
Calcar. phosph. may be given in the same 
 way, morning and night, as a constitutional 
 remedy to permanently cure the gastric 
 weakness giving rise to acidity. 
 
 ACNE. An eruption of pimples, usually 
 on the face and especially occurring at the 
 time of puberty. 
 
 TREATMENT. Look to diet, avoid fat and 
 rich food. Proper attention to bathing, 
 exercise and the bowels is necessary. If 
 there is any menstrual disorder, see to 
 that. 
 
 REMEDIES. Natrum mur. 12x trituration; 
 a dose night and morning should be given 
 to persons with bad, earthy complexion, 
 who are bloodless and inclined to be con- 
 stipated and generally depressed in body 
 and mind. 
 
 Kali mur. 6x three times a day, for pim- 
 ples on face and neck, especially after errors 
 in diet pimples filled with thick, white 
 matter. 
 
Calcar. phos. Especially during time of 
 puberty. Menses are apt to be rather too 
 early and too free in young girls; much 
 backache. Take a powder, size of a pea, 
 three times a day. 
 
 AMENORRHCEA. Suppression of menses 
 or their non-appearance at time of puberty. 
 
 TREATMENT. Nourishing food, plenty of 
 outdoor exercise, salt water baths. Avoid 
 too much school work and home study. 
 
 REMEDIES. Natrwn mur. 12x A small 
 powder night and morning, in chloroticand 
 anemic girls, w r ho are depressed mentally, 
 have a sallow complexion and inclined to 
 be constipated. 
 
 Calcar. phosph. 6x Same dose may be 
 given after Natrum mur. has been taken for 
 one month. 
 
 Kali phos. 6x may be given when, in 
 consequence of the menstrual disturbance, 
 bronchial and lung troubles appear, and 
 the patient is depressed, languid and weak. 
 
ANJEMIA. A condition of poor, watery 
 blood, or of bloodlessness, most frequent at 
 puberty and in young girls, characterized 
 by pallor of the face and absence of color 
 from the lips. It is a condition depending 
 on other causes, and constitutional treat- 
 ment alone will benefit. 
 
 TREATMENT. Avoid the excessive use of 
 iron. Good nourishing food, warm cloth- 
 ing and outdoor exercise are of much 
 benefit. 
 
 REMEDIES. Calcar. phosph. 3x, a powder 
 three times a day. This remedy acts by 
 supplying new blood-cells. Waxy appear- 
 ance of skin, headache, ringing in ears, 
 vertigo, cold extremities, tendency to pro- 
 fuse menstruation. 
 
 Ferrum pliosph. 3x follows the above as 
 soon as improvement of the general health 
 sets in. There is a lack of red blood in the 
 system, pale lips, blue rings under eyes, 
 tendency to cough, headaches. 
 
 Natrum mur. 12x, a powder three times 
 
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 a day is especially useful in young girls 
 with dirty complexion, who have frequent 
 palpitation, are blue and melancholy, have 
 bad dreams, constipation, backache and 
 symptoms of malaria such as chills, fever- 
 ish turns, perspiration, neuralgia, etc. 
 
 ANGINA PECTOKIS, or Breast-pang, is a 
 neuralgia around the heart, coming on 
 suddenly, impeding breathing and of most 
 painful character. May be dependent on 
 diseased condition of the nutritive vessels 
 of the heart itself. 
 
 REMEDIES. Magnesia phosph. 6x tritura- 
 tioE, a powder size of a lima bean to be 
 dissolved in a cup of hot water, and a 
 swallow to be taken every minute until 
 relieved. 
 
 Kali pliosph. 6x trit., a powder night and 
 morning may be given occasionally to ward 
 oft the attacks. 
 
 APPETITE, Loss of. TREATMENT. Avoid 
 the use of tonics, containing drugs and 
 
spirits. Plenty of fresh air and moderate 
 exercise and bathing in salt water should 
 be enjoyed. See that the bowels are in a 
 good condition. 
 
 REMEDIES. Kail phosph. Nervous weak- 
 ness, gone feeling, palpitation. 
 
 Calcar. phospJi., when there is much 
 flatulence, acidity. Especially useful after 
 any acute illness or when associated with 
 any drain on the system. 
 
 ASTHMA. Difficulty of breathing, with- 
 out fever, attended with a suffocative feeling, 
 constriction across the chest, with cough 
 and wheezing respiration. An attack is 
 usually brought on by a cold or error in 
 diet. Asthma is often caused by suppres- 
 sion of a skin disease or by enlarged lym- 
 phatic glands in throat, or nasal obstruction, 
 which ought to be removed or treated before 
 the Asthma can be cured. The treatment 
 is both for the acute attack and eradicative. 
 
 REMEDIES. Ferrum phos. and Magnesia 
 pJws.j in alternation every J and J hour, 
 
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 when there is much wheezing, nausea and 
 loose cough. 
 
 ERADICATIYE TREATMENT. Natrum sulph. 
 12x trituration, a dose night and morning, 
 especially for children who suffer with asth- 
 matic attacks after some skin disease, ecze- 
 ma, etc., who wheeze up at every change of 
 weather. Take for a few weeks, then sub- 
 stitute Calcar. phosph. 3x trituration, to be 
 given in the same way. By persevering for 
 a time with these constitutional remedies, 
 many cases of Asthma can be cured. 
 
 BACKACHE is a sj^mptom of many differ- 
 ent disorders, usually connected with uter- 
 ine troubles or chronic constipation, piles 
 or kidney complaints. These must be 
 treated before the backache will cease. 
 But there are some remedies specially use- 
 ful when tiie following conditions are 
 present. 
 
 REMEDIES. Calcar. phosph. 6x trituration, 
 a dose three times a day. Backache in 
 
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 small of back in the morning, numbness, 
 coldness and creeping sensation. Backache 
 in young people who grow rapidly and 
 after any exertion. 
 
 Natrum mur. 12x trituration, a powder 
 night and morning for backache, relieved 
 by lying on something hard. 
 
 Kalipliospli. if connected with loss of vital 
 fluids and nervous disturbances generally. 
 
 BARBER'S ITCH. Kali mur. 6x tritura- 
 tion, a dose three times daily alternated 
 with Calcar sulph. will cure rapidly. At 
 the same time, the beard should be cut off, 
 bathe parts with hot water to which some 
 carbolic acid solution has been added (10 
 drops to a cup), and afterwards apply some 
 carbolic cerate. 
 
 BILIOUSNESS. A condition character- 
 ized by headache, drowsiness, furred tongue, 
 loss of appetite, bitter taste and constipation. 
 
 TREATMENT. Persons subject to bilious- 
 ness should not eat too much meat, drink 
 
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 plenty of water, avoid coffee and high living 
 and take plenty of exercise. 
 
 REMEDIES. Natrum sulph. 6x trituration, 
 a powder every three hours ; coated tongue, 
 sallow skin, yellow eyeballs, soreness in 
 region of liver, flatulence. 
 
 Kali mur.j if caused by eating rich food. 
 
 Natrum pliosph., if the tongue is coated 
 with a bright yellow fur. 
 
 BOILS (See Abscess). Conical hard swell- 
 ings, attended with considerable inflamma- 
 tion, and acutely tender to pressure. They 
 slowly inflame, get larger, come to a head, 
 arid finally suppurate with a core in the 
 centre, which is discharged with the pur- 
 ulent matter, and all pain ceases. Derange- 
 ment of the system, from abuse of food and 
 torpidity of the circulation, often causes 
 boils. 
 
 ACCESSORY TREATMENT. Foment with hot 
 water, and then poultice with fresh linseed- 
 meal or bread and milk, applying linen rags 
 
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 soaked with Calendula lotion afterwards. 
 (For medical treatment, see. Abscess. The 
 diet should be in accordance with the con- 
 dition of the patient ; if of full habit and 
 living freely, a spare diet may be advisable; 
 but if, on the contrary, the system is a 
 little below par, a more generous regimen 
 should be adopted. 
 
 BRAIN-FAG. The result of overwork, 
 worry, anxiety, loss of sleep, too close ap- 
 plication to business, study, etc., character- 
 ized by impaired memory, dullness, nervous- 
 ness, sleeplessness, depressed spirits, lack of 
 appetite and strength. 
 
 REMEDIES.- Kaliphosph. 6x trituration, a 
 dose in the morning, and Silica I2x tritur- 
 ation, a dose at night, used persistently, 
 will be found the most effective remedies. 
 They will restore sleep, appetite, confidence, 
 and strength. It may be necessary to 
 follow with Calcar. phosph. 6x trituration, 
 a dose before every meal, especially if there 
 
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 is a good deal of general coldness, or a 
 tendency to night 'sweats. 
 
 BRONCHITIS. Inflammation of the 
 tubes which convey air to the lungs. There 
 is usually fever, constant and violent irri- 
 tation, cough, hoarseness, uneasiness of 
 breathing, oppressed and anxious wheezing, 
 whistling or rattling respiration. The 
 cough is generally dry at first, followed by 
 expectoration of frothy, thick or blood- 
 streaked mucus. If the smaller tubes are 
 attacked, the shortness of breath will be 
 especially severe. This is the form most 
 to be dreaded in children. One attack 
 predisposes to others, and gives rise to 
 chronic bronchitis. Here the cough is per- 
 sistent and loose, with much yellowish 
 expectoration. 
 
 . TREATMENT . A warm, equable tempera- 
 ture of about 70 degrees should be kept in 
 the room, and the patient put to bed. 
 Liquid diet: milk, gruel, stewed fruit may 
 
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 be given. In chronic bronchitis, a dry, 
 warm climate will prove very beneficial. 
 
 REMEDIES. Ferrum pliospli., 6x, tritura- 
 tion; a powder dissolved in water, and 
 teaspoonful doses every hour will modify 
 the attack very materially, and frequently 
 cure without any other medicine. It should 
 be continued twenty-four hours, and if the 
 cough then gets loose, pain and fever less, 
 Kali mur. may be alternated with it every 
 two hours. This treatment will generally 
 suffice. Kali sulph. may be substituted 
 when the cough gets very loose and there 
 is much rattling of mucus in the chest. A 
 tablet of the 6x may be given every two 
 hours. The chief remedies for chronic 
 bronchitis are Kali sulph., Calcar, phos., and 
 Silica. Take one remedy three times daily 
 for one week, then change to another. If 
 improvement shows itself continue the rem- 
 edy in a higher trituration, and not so 
 frequently. 
 
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 BUNIONS Inflammation and enlarge- 
 ment on the joint of the great or little toe, 
 
 MEDICINAL TREATMENT. Silicia is an effi- 
 cacious remedy. Dose Two tablets dry on 
 the tongue, once a day for a week, then 
 wait three days and repeat. 
 
 ACCESSORY TREATMENT. The application 
 of Arnica lotion (one teaspoonful of the 
 tincture to four or five tablespoonfuls of 
 water) by means of a linen bandage over 
 the part, especially if there is much inflam- 
 mation and pain. All pressure must be 
 avoided. An arnica bunion plaster may 
 be applied to the enlargement. In some 
 cases it may be necessary to paint the 
 bunion with Iodine. 
 
 BURNS AND SCALDS. TREATMENT. (1) 
 Cover the burn immediately with cotton 
 wool, to exclude the air; or, for the same 
 object (2), cover with linen rags, or cotton 
 wool saturated with olive oil; or (3) powder 
 the wound plentifully with flour, keeping 
 
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 it well covered by new applications if nec- 
 essary ; or (4) cover the whole with a plas- 
 ter of soap, made by scraping white curd 
 soap, and working it into a salve with tepid 
 water, arid spreading it upon linen or mus- 
 lin. Slight or superficial burns or scalds 
 may be relieved by holding the part to the 
 fire, or by applying spirits of turpentine, 
 brandy or spirits of w r ine to them. In 
 dressing burns, puncture the blisters and 
 remove the old skin, but expose the wound 
 as little as possible to the action of the air; 
 do not dress oftener than once a day, and 
 do not disturb the parts by washing them. 
 The exclusion of the air from the part 
 affected is of the utmost consequence, and 
 it is best to apply that dressing which can 
 be obtained the quickest. Carbolized vase- 
 line is an excellent application, and should 
 be substituted for plain olive oil when ob- 
 tainable. Internally, give Ferrum phospJi. 
 6x, trituration, a powder dissolved in water, 
 and teaspoonful doses every hour. 
 
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 CARBUNCLE. A constitutional disease 
 characterized by circumscribed inflamma- 
 tion of the tissue under the skin, leading 
 to ulceration and death of the tissue in- 
 volved. It generally comes from a de- 
 pressed state of health. It is usually situ- 
 ated on the back of the neck, or trunk. It 
 is distinguished from a boil by its larger 
 size, constitutional symptoms and sieve-like 
 opening. 
 
 TREATMENT. Keep up the strength of the 
 patient by nourishing food. Poultice with 
 flaxseed and dress with aqueous Calendula 
 lotion. When healing is commenced, apply 
 Calendula cerate. Internally, use treatment 
 recommended under "Abscess." Whatever 
 remedy is given should be alternated with 
 Kali pliosph. 6x tablets, one tablet every 
 two hours. 
 
 Carbuncle is a serious disease, and ought 
 to have the care of a physician. In his 
 absence, the above treatment will be found 
 the best. 
 
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 CANCER, or Malignant Tumor. Called 
 malignant because it tends to increase in- 
 definitely, to recur after removal, and to 
 invade other parts of the body. 
 
 TREATMENT Nothing is more certain 
 than that remedies can influence the devel- 
 opment, and sometime cure, these growths; 
 but it requires patience and the physician's 
 skill. The Tissue Remedies are frequently 
 of great use in the treatment of all forms 
 of tumors. Among those of undoubted 
 value are Oak. fluor., Silica, Oak. phosph. 
 and Kali sulpli. 
 
 Oak. fluor. Knots, kernels, etc., in the 
 breast; hardened glands; hard swelling 
 anywhere. Take one tablet of the 3d trit. 
 night and morning; after a week, take the 
 6th, and later, the 12th, in order to get the 
 full action of the drug. The other reme- 
 dies may be substituted and used intercur- 
 rently. 
 
 Kali phosph. For the pains of cancer, 
 and for the offensive discharges. 
 
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 CATARRH, in ite various forms, is one of 
 the most common diseased conditions 
 known. It attacks all ages and classes, 
 and tends to run a chronic course, and 
 predisposes to serious diseases of the lungs 
 and other organs. The skin which lines 
 all the passages of the body nose, throat, 
 bronchial tubes, oesophagus, stomach, etc. 
 is called the mucous membrane. Countless 
 little glands come to the surface of this 
 skin, or membrane, and exude into the 
 passages a thin liquid called mucus, which 
 keeps the passages smooth and moist. Ca- 
 tarrh totally changes the condition of these 
 glands by enlarging and inflaming them 
 and by causing the death of many of their 
 cells. These dead cells are next expelled 
 from the mouth of the gland in a stream 
 upon the surface of the mucous membrane. 
 What had been, in health, a thin liquid 
 secreted from the blood, and containing 
 just the properties to keep the membrane 
 smooth and healthy, becomes now a thick 
 mass of dead matter. While this change 
 
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 in secretion is going on, another serious 
 evil is taking place, namely, the enlarge- 
 ment of the glands, which causes them to 
 crowd against one another, and to thicken 
 the mucous membrane, so that its normal 
 properties and conditions are changed to 
 those of disease. This process is what con- 
 stitutes catarrh, and it may occur in any 
 mucous membrane, but is most common in 
 the nasal tract, usually as result of repeated 
 colds in an organism predisposed thereto or 
 in children where the digestive organs or 
 the skin are otherwise unhealthy. The 
 symptoms besides the discharge, which is 
 usually thick and more or less offensive, are 
 dullness of the head pains in head, sense 
 of smell impaired, breath offensive, etc. 
 
 TREATMENT. Regulate the diet ; keep the 
 bowels open; insist upon maintaining a 
 healthy action of the skin by daily spong- 
 ing and friction; insist upon wool being 
 worn next the skin night and day, summer 
 and winter; insist upon well ventilated 
 
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 sleeping apartments open windows the 
 year round ; teach the patient to breathe 
 through the nose and to fully expand the 
 chest, and have him practice lung gymnas- 
 tics until he does this properly; and have 
 him live in the open air as much as possi- 
 ble. As a curative and prophylactic agent 
 in nasal catarrh, pure air is the best topical 
 application and also the best general tonic. 
 
 Kalimur. Dryness and stiffness of nose. 
 Hawking of mucus from the back part of 
 the throat. The most satisfactory remedy 
 to begin treatment. Take one tablet every 
 3 hours. After a week follow it with 
 
 Cakarea pliosph., which is especially 
 useful in chronic catarrhal conditions. Nose 
 seems swollen or is ulcerated. The patient 
 takes cold very readily. This remedy has 
 a decided tonic action on the mucous mem- 
 brane and may be used intercurrently with 
 other remedies that may be indicated. Take 
 one tablet after meals and at bedtime. 
 
 Natrum mur is the best remedy when 
 
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 the discharge is thin and watery. " Run- 
 ning colds 7 ' are frequent. Cold sores on 
 lips. Loss of smell and taste. Chronic 
 catarrhs in bloodless patients who have 
 much backache and headache. 
 
 Kali sulph. is the remedy when the secre- 
 tions are yellow, slimy. 
 
 Natrum sulph.. when there is profuse 
 secretion of greenish mucus. After influ- 
 enza, and when the patient is worse from 
 damp weather. 
 
 Silica may be required in very obstinate 
 cases, where the discharges are offensive or 
 where there is a painful chronic dryness of 
 the nose, or plugs in the nose or ulceration 
 of the mucous membrane. This may be 
 followed by Calcar. fluor. The dose of the 
 selected remedy may be a powder of the 6x 
 tritunition, the size of a pea, three times a 
 day, or one tablet. After the sixth has 
 been tried for a time, substitute the twelfth. 
 Same dose 
 
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 CATARRHAL FEVER is characterized by 
 slight fever followed by a profuse mucous 
 discharge from the head and chest, the head 
 feels stuffed, the nostrils are obstructed, 
 there is frequent sneezing, watering of the 
 eyes, and often sore throat and cough. 
 
 TREATMENT. The most effectual means of 
 relief is good nursing in a moderately warm 
 and equable temperature a warm bath, or 
 immersing the feet in hot water, and pro- 
 moting perspiration by a hot bed and warm 
 drinks. Animal food and stimulating 
 drinks must be abstained from. If there is 
 a liability to catch cold, do not at once 
 when coming from the cold air, endeavor 
 to get warm by approaching a hot fire, but 
 do so by degrees. Use plenty of cold 
 water daily over the chest, shoulders, throat 
 and neck, sponging freely for two or three 
 minutes, and applying a rough towel or 
 flesh brush afterwards until well warmed. 
 
 REMEDIES. Ferrum pJiosph. and Natrum 
 mur, one tablet of each every hour alter- 
 
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 nately. When improvement shows itself, 
 lengthen the interval between the doses. 
 
 Calcar pho&ph., one tablet three times 
 daily for the remaining debility. It will act 
 as a tonic. 
 
 CHANGE OF LIFE. With the disappear- 
 ance of the menses most women suffer 
 more or less with disturbances in the circu- 
 lation and in the nervous system. The 
 usual complaints are attacks of heat flashes, 
 perspiration, palpitation, nervousness, sink- 
 ing sensations, headaches, etc. Some of 
 these disturbances are inevitable, but can 
 be greatly benefited by proper treatment. 
 Avoid narcotics, stimulants, etc., for the 
 benefit derived from them is delusive and 
 only very temporary. 
 
 REMEDIES. Ferrum phosp. will benefit 
 the tendency to flashes of heat, sleepless- 
 ness, hot spells and cold feet, etc. 
 
 Kaliphos. the gone, sinking sensations, 
 the restlessness and nervousness; also sen- 
 sations of numbness. 
 
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 Magnes. phos. abnormal palpitations, 
 pains, etc. 
 
 Dose of the selected remedy One tab- 
 let three times a day, or oftener for more 
 acute attacks. 
 
 CHEST AFFECTIONS (See Bronchitis, Pleu- 
 risy, etc.) 
 
 For pains in chest the best general rem- 
 edy is Ferrum phos. 
 
 CHICKEN POX. A pustulous eruption 
 resembling smallpox, but much milder in 
 its character and shorter in the duration of 
 its stages. The fever is generally slight, 
 the eruption appears twenty-four hours 
 after the commencement of the disorder, 
 and disappears on the fourth day. The 
 symptoms appear about thirteen days after 
 exposure to the infection. 
 
 TREATMENT. Ferrumphos. and Kali mur. 
 are the only remedies required. It is not 
 necessary to give many doses, as the dis- 
 ease is mild and runs a short course. 
 
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 CIRCULATION, FEEBLE. A constant 
 feeling of chilliness; coldness of hands and 
 feet ; blue and cold skin wherever it is ex- 
 posed, such as face and hands. 
 
 TREATMENT. Plenty of exercise in the 
 open air, good, nourishing food, salt water 
 baths, massage, etc. 
 
 Ferrum phosp. and Cakarea phosp., one 
 in the morning arid the other at night, will 
 soon regulate matters, if there is no organic 
 heart trouble present. 
 
 COLD IN THE HEAD (Coryza.) Irrita- 
 tion and inflammation of the mucous mem- 
 brane of the nose and eyes. The head 
 feels stuffed and heavy, particularly over 
 the eyes and about the root of the nose, an 
 increased discharge issues from the nose, 
 causing soreness and excoriation, and there 
 is sneezing, watering of the eyes, sore 
 throat, etc. Cold in the head, or catarrh, 
 is generally a mild ailment, but if occur- 
 ring in aged persons, in those predisposed 
 to consumption or in those who are asth- 
 
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 matic or who have suffered from bronchitis, 
 pleurisy or pneumonia it may be very seri- 
 ous. A neglected cold is said to be the 
 cause of half of our diseases in the form 
 of bronchitis, quinsy, erysipelas, rheuma- 
 tism, neuralgia, inflammation of the lungs, 
 consumption, etc. 
 
 TREATMENT. See Catarrhal Fever and Ca- 
 tarrh. 
 
 COLDS OF INFANTS. Snuffles. Slight 
 febrile excitement, sneezing, obstruction 
 of the nose, wheezing and difficulty in 
 taking the breast, followed by discharge of 
 mucus from the nose with excoriation and 
 watering of the eyes. 
 
 ACCESSORY TREATMENT. A warm bath at 
 96 degrees before going to bed, or placing 
 the feet in warm water will generally re- 
 lieve; and if there is much stuffiness, the 
 bridge of the nose may be rubbed with a 
 little simple ointment or sweet oil. Child- 
 ren should not be accustomed to hot rooms, 
 but taken into the open air freely, care being 
 taken'that their feet are dry and warm. 
 
 REMEDIES. Same as " Catarrhal Fever.'' 
 
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 COLIC. Pain in bowels, usually due to 
 flatulence, indigestible food, drinking cold 
 water, worms or other intestinal irritation, 
 lead poisoning, etc. 
 
 There is usually no fever present. In 
 children there is with it much crying, 
 writhing of body, legs are drawn up to- 
 wards the stomach, rumbling in bowels and 
 the pain is relieved by firm pressure and 
 hot applications. 
 
 TREATMENT, Apply heat to abdomen and 
 be sure that the feet are dry and warm ; 
 give an injection of warm water if the 
 bowels have not moved. 
 
 REMEDIES. Magnesia phos. 3x trituration. 
 Flatulent Colic, forcing the patient to bend 
 double; in children the legs are drawn up. 
 Colicky babies when they cry half the time; 
 no interference with nutrition. 
 
 Dose. Take a powder size of a lima 
 bean and dissolve in a tea-cup of hot water 
 and let the patient sip it every few minutes 
 until relieved. 
 
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 Natrum phos. 6x. Colic with symptoms 
 of acidity, sour smelling stools, vomiting or 
 where worms are present. Give one tablet 
 every hour, and when the immediate symp- 
 toms are relieved, give one tablet three 
 times a day. 
 
 Natrum sulpli. Colic starting in right 
 groin. Flatulent complaints after confine- 
 ment or during menses. Bilious colic, with 
 bitter taste in the mouth. Lead colic. 
 
 CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN Due to 
 
 falls upon the head and injuries require 
 rest, application of hot water, though some- 
 times cold is more grateful. 
 
 REMEDIES. Natrum sulpli. 6xisof special 
 benefit for the chronic effects of falls upon 
 the head. Take a dose at bedtime. 
 
 CONSTIPATION. Costiveness. Stools less 
 
 frequent than natural, with hard excrement 
 and difficult evacuation, generally a mere 
 symptom characterizing a more general dis- 
 ease and frequently resulting from seden- 
 
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 tary habits, indigestible food, the use of 
 aperients, inaction of the liver, or weak- 
 ness of the bowels caused by a general de- 
 rangeraeut of the digestive organs. 
 
 TREATMENT. The bowels should be solici- 
 ted at a regular time every day, even if 
 there is no action; active exercise must be 
 taken in the open air, and daily friction 
 used over the stomach and bowels with the 
 hand or flesh brush. A cold bath, either 
 sitz or shower, or using cold water over 
 the abdomen, should be taken every morn- 
 ing, together with the employment of a 
 coarse towel or flesh glove. Avoid purga- 
 tives. 
 
 DIET. A change of diet will generally 
 prove beneficial, and care must be taken 
 not to eat too much at a meal, and to let 
 what is partaken of be simple, easy of di- 
 gestion, and consisting more of vegetable 
 than animal food brown bread, barley 
 bread, wholesome ripe fruit, baked pears or 
 apples j avoiding sotted, m^ats, cheese, rice, 
 
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 highly-seasoned dishes and the like. Cold 
 spring water should be freely partaken of 
 on rising in the morning, and between each 
 meal, but very little liquid should be taken 
 at meals. Pigs and dates are of benefit. 
 
 REMEDIES. Kali sulpli. Habitual consti- 
 pation with insipid, pappy taste and yellow 
 slimy coating on tongue. 
 
 Natrum mur. Dry stools, with torn, 
 bleeding, smarting feeling after stool. 
 Stools are hard, dry and difficult to pass. 
 Hemorrhoids, headache and backache ac- 
 companying. 
 
 Silica. Rectum seems to have lost the 
 power of expulsion, faeces recede after 
 having been partly expelled. Constipation 
 of poorly nourished children with pale, 
 earthy face. 
 
 Oakar phos. Costive, hard stools with 
 blood, specially in old people, associated 
 with mental depression, vertigo, headache. 
 
 DOSE. Of the selected remedy take one 
 tablet of the 6x three times a day. When 
 improvement shows itself, take it less often. 
 
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 CONSUMPTION OF THE LUNGS. Tuber- 
 culosis.- There is no question of the heredi- 
 tary character of this disease, even though 
 there is a germ as its immediate cause, 
 Probably both, the germ and the acquired 
 or hereditary weakness must be present in 
 order that this disease can develop. Per- 
 sons who have catarrhal conditions of the 
 respiratory organs present an inviting 
 field and should be careful about associa- 
 ting with consumptives in close relation- 
 ship or occupying beds and rooms recently 
 occupied by tuberculous patients. 
 
 SYMPTOMS. General debility, loss of flesh, 
 shortness of breath, cough, hoarseness, 
 fever, especially towards evening and night 
 sweats. Careful examination by a physi- 
 cian can only determine the diagnosis. 
 
 TREATMENT. So much can be done by 
 careful hygienic, dietetic and climatic 
 measures, that professional advice should 
 always be sought. Good nourishing, easily 
 digestible food, fresh air, avoidance of 
 
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 exposures to rapid changes in the weather, 
 warm clothing, all are essential. Cod- 
 Liver Oil, Maltine, Kumyss, Cream, fresh 
 butter are of benefit and should be pro- 
 vided. 
 
 REMEDIES. These must be selected ac- 
 cording to the general symptoms of the 
 patient, character of cough, state of stom- 
 ach, bowels, etc. Among the chief are: 
 
 Calcar phos. In the beginning, when 
 there is loss of flesh, hoarseness, suffocating 
 attacks, cough with soreness and dryness 
 of throat, dull aching in the chest, chronic 
 coughs and night sweats with cold extremi- 
 ties. 
 
 Calcar sulpli. When the expectoration 
 with the cough is bloody or greenish 
 yellow. 
 
 Silica. Nightly paroxysms of cough 
 with tickling in throat, emaciation, profuse 
 night sweats. Offensive foot sweats. Con- 
 stipation very marked. Much prostration, 
 patient is always cold. This remedy em- 
 
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 braces most of the symptoms that belong to 
 the phthisical dyscrasia, consequently it is 
 of great value for the constitutional condi- 
 tion in hereditary cases. 
 
 Dose of the selected remedy use the 6x 
 potency in tablets and take one three times 
 a day. After several weeks, take the 12th 
 potency in the same way. 
 
 Ferrum phosp. should be used intercur- 
 rently for colds in patients inclined to con- 
 sumption breathing short, oppressed, hur- 
 ried with heat and feverishness. Hoarse- 
 ness and cough, usually dry, sometimes 
 bleeding of nose or from lungs. Blood 
 bright red, frothy. 
 
 DOSE. Dissolve a powder of the 6th 
 trituration in half a glass of water and take 
 teaspoonful doses every hour. When im- 
 provement shows itself, lengthen the inter- 
 vals between the doses. 
 
 CONSUMPTION OF THE BOWELS require 
 similar remedies as above. Calc. phosph., 
 Silica and Mpttruin phos. being the chief. 
 
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 COUGH. This is a symptom of colds on 
 the chest, of inflammations of the chest 
 organs or chronic catarrhal conditions. See 
 Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Consumption, etc. 
 
 REMEDIES, Ferrum pliosp. Short, dry 
 cough after colds, sore feeling in chest, 
 feverishness. Of great value in the begin- 
 ing of any trouble with the respiratory 
 organs, especially in children. Will usually 
 cut short the attack. 
 
 Kali mur. Loud, noisy stomach cough; 
 croupy, hard cough; thick, whitish expec- 
 toration. 
 
 Kali sulph. Cough with yellow secre- 
 tion. Much rattling of mucus in chest. 
 Patient feels worse in warm room. 
 
 Magnes pJios.- Spasmodic and whooping 
 cough, worse at night. Dry cough in ner- 
 vous patients. 
 
 Calcar pJios. Suffocative cough, better 
 lying down. Cough with expectoration of 
 tough, stringy matter. 
 
 Natrum sulpli. Cough with sensation of 
 all-goneness in chest. Chest very sore. 
 Thick, yellowish mucus. 
 
 One tablet of 6th potency every 2 hours. 
 
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 CRAMPS.- Sometimes certain muscles, 
 especially of the calves and feet, are subject 
 to painful contractions which are called 
 cramps, coming on generally during sleep. 
 
 TREATMENT. Magnes pliosph. is the only 
 remedy necessary. Take one tablet of the 
 sixth potency at bedtime for a few nights. 
 
 CROUP. True croup is a very dangerous 
 disease and always beyond the sphere of 
 domestic treatment. Fortunately catarrhal 
 croup or false croup is by far the most fre- 
 quent form and yields very readily to 
 simple c hygienic and remedial measures. 
 Usually the attacks come on suddenly at 
 night, the child awakens with a hoarse, 
 barking cough, frightened, restless, more 
 or less feverish. After several hours, sleep 
 sets in and the next day the child may be 
 comparatively well. Frequently a similar 
 attack occurs the next night. The very 
 suddenness of the attack arid the violence 
 of the symptoms coming on after exposure 
 to cold or from some change in the weather 
 
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 speaks for the comparatively harmless 
 Oatarrhal Croup, whereas, a slow, insidious 
 development with marked hoarseness that 
 continues and grows worse with more or 
 less fever marks the onset of true croup 
 which is a violent inflammation of the lining 
 membrane of the wind-pipe, producing a 
 peculiar membranous secretion, interfering 
 with respiration. It is the presence of 
 this membrane that characterizes true 
 croup. It generally commences like a cold 
 with more persistent hoarseness succeeded 
 by fever, difficult breathing, wheezing, 
 whistling, barking and ringing or hoarse 
 cough. Croup rarely occurs after the age 
 of seven years, but is one of the most dan- 
 gerous diseases of children. The cold and 
 croupy cough may sometimes exist for a 
 day or two before a paroxysm or fit occurs; 
 or a child may go to bed apparently well 
 and have an attack of the complaint in its 
 worst form. Medical aid should be ob- 
 tained. Cold and damp atmospheres, sud- 
 den changes of temperature, wet feet, in- 
 
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 sufficient clothing, low and moist localities, 
 are the exciting causes of croup, and one 
 attack generally predisposes the patient to 
 subsequent ones. 
 
 TREATMENT. Put on a hot compress 
 around the throat, changing it frequently. 
 
 REMEDIES. The chief remedies for this 
 disease are Ferrum pliosph. and Kali mur^ 
 given alternately every half-hour. If the 
 symptoms do not improve after several 
 hours, substitute Cakarea phosph. and Cal- 
 carea fluor every hour. During convales- 
 cence, give Cakar. sulph. three times a day 
 until complete restoration of health. Use 
 the 6th trituration or tablets, dry on the 
 tongue. 
 
 CRYITO OF INFANTS. Crying, accom- 
 panied by restlessness, indicates unpleasant 
 sensations; crying with drawing up the 
 legs to the abdomen, points to colic ; crying 
 with crowding the fingers into the mouth, 
 indicates pain from teething; crying when 
 coughing, denotes pain in the chest, etc. 
 
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 TREATMENT. See that the child is com- 
 fortable in every way dry and warm 
 especially the feet and ahclomen. Toast 
 the feet by an open lire, if possible; loosen 
 all bands and see that no pins are pricking 
 any part. 
 
 REMEDIES. These should be selected ac- 
 cording to the most probable cause as men- 
 tioned above. In general use Calcar. 
 phosph.j 3x trituratiou, a powder to be dis- 
 solved in a cup of hot water and given to 
 the child in sips every few minutes, to be 
 followed, if necessary, by Magnes. phosph. 
 3x trituration, given in the same way. 
 During the teething period the occasional 
 use of Cakar. phospli. will prevent many 
 unpleasant restless and crying spells. 
 
 DEAFNESS FROM A COLD may frequent- 
 ly be greatly benefited by remedies. Use 
 Fvrrum pJiosp. 6x, one tablet, three times a 
 day, to be followed in a few days, if neces- 
 sary, by Kali mur., same dose and prepara- 
 tion. If it resists this treatment and there 
 
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 is no wax in the ear which ought to be re- 
 moved by gently syringing with warm 
 water, consult a physician. 
 
 DEBILITY is a term used to designate a 
 general state of bodily weakness which 
 may be due to many causes; long-continued 
 and strenuous work of any kind, night- 
 watching, after any acute illness, or in con- 
 sequence of some drain upon the system. 
 The treatment consists in supplying good 
 nourishing, easily digested food, plenty of 
 fresh air and sleep in well ventilated bed 
 chambers, avoidance of alcoholic stimulants 
 and of most advertised so-called tonics and 
 the judicious use of one of the following 
 remedies : 
 
 Kali pliospli. When the nervous system 
 suffers most as evidenced by nervousness, 
 sleeplessness, weakness from the least exer- 
 tion, bodily and mental. Patient is de- 
 pressed and in a sensitive state. One 
 tablet of the 3rd potency should be taken 
 in a cup of hot milk three times a day or 
 
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 oftener if there is also loss of appetite for 
 food generally. 
 
 Calcar. phosph. is often called for in 
 young chlorotic girls, near the age of pu- 
 berty, when they are very restless and ner- 
 vous. They want to go away from home, 
 and, when away, they want to come back 
 again; they suffer from headache when at 
 school ; they develop very slowly ; circula- 
 tion imperfect; ears and nose cold; con- 
 stant headaches from artificial light, from 
 atmospheric changes worse on top of the 
 head; debility following exhausting dis- 
 eases; menses apt to be too early, with 
 faint feeling in the stomach; a feeling of 
 soreness in the back. In anemia of young, 
 rapidly growing people, in women weak- 
 ened by rapid childbearing, prolonged 
 suckling, or excessive menstruation or leu- 
 corrhoea, it has wonderful restorative 
 power. Take one tablet of the third trit- 
 uration four times a day. 
 
 N^atrum mur. In anoBmic conditions, 
 where the blood is thin and watery ; chlor- 
 
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 osis, with habitual feeling of coldness in 
 back; skin is dirty, sallow; frequent pal- 
 pitation; delayed menses; constipation; 
 watery, smarting discharges between pe- 
 riods; terrible sadness, especially during 
 menstruation; backache relieved by lying 
 on something hard; the neck is much ema- 
 ciated, and emaciation continues even 
 while living well. Especially useful after 
 abuse of quinine; patient shows marked 
 aversion to bread longing for salt food. 
 Natrum mur. is especially the remedy for 
 malarial symptoms. It is best to give it in 
 tablets of the sixth and twelfth trituration, 
 a dose three times a day. 
 
 DENTITION. The dentition period of 
 children is usually characterized by more 
 or less disturbance in the mental, gastric or 
 other condition. Very frequently the 
 child is more fretful, restless and sleepless. 
 As a general remedy during the teething 
 period, a nutritive remedy, nothing is bet- 
 ter than the administration of Cakar phos., 
 
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 a powder three times a day. This can be 
 given in the milk or given dry on the 
 tongue or in a little water. 
 
 Ferrum phosph. is the remedy for fever- 
 ish turns. 
 
 Natrum rnur. when the child drolls very 
 much. 
 
 Magnes. pJws. if it twitches, and has a 
 dry spasmodic cough, also for colicky turns. 
 
 DOSE. Of the selected remedy, give a 
 small powder every two hours. 
 
 DIABETES is a constitutional wasting 
 disease frequently due to nervous states of 
 a depressing character, like worry, anxiety, 
 etc. It is characterized by great dryness 
 of mouth and throat, burning thirst for 
 large quantities of water and profuse urin- 
 ation, containing sugar. Skin is dry, often 
 accompanied with itching and eruption, 
 boils, etc. The treatment consists in regu- 
 lating the diet, and avoiding so far as 
 possible starchy food. 
 
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 REMEDIES. Kali phosph. especially after 
 depressing emotions, patient is weak, nerv- 
 ous and restless. Give one tablet of the 
 3x for one week three times daily, after 
 which substitute the 6th, and later the 
 12th potency. 
 
 Natrum mur. Great thirst, much wast- 
 ing, and constipation, are the special indi- 
 cations for this drug. 
 
 DOSE. Same as above. 
 
 DIARRIKE A Looseness of the Bowels. 
 
 A too frequent and copious discharge from 
 the bowels, frequently accompanied with 
 pain in the stomach, nausea or vomiting, 
 rumbling in the bowels, coldness, and, in 
 severe cases, with burning pains, violent 
 straining, extreme weakness, and even 
 fainting; sometimes lasting only a few 
 hours, and sometimes months or years, and 
 may be caused by bilious or gastric diffi- 
 culties, cold, impure air and food, mental 
 emotions, etc. 
 
TREATMENT. For an acute attack, the 
 best plan is to avoid all food for a few 
 hours; then take mutton broth with bar- 
 ley, or chicken broth and rice, boiled milk, 
 avoiding solid and irritating food of all 
 kinds, as fruit, vegetables, etc. Keep the 
 bowels and feet warm and dry. Rest in 
 bed, if possible. 
 
 REMEDIES. Ferrumphosph.jW&kery stools, 
 or undigested with colicky pain. 
 
 Magnes. phosph., if the pains are especi- 
 ally severe. 
 
 Kali mur., when the stools are bloody or 
 contain much mucus, tongue coated white. 
 
 DOSE. Of the selected remedy a dose 
 should be given after every evacuation. 
 
 For chronic diarrhoea, the best remedies 
 are Calcar. phosph. and Natrum snlpli. 
 Take one tablet of the sixth potency alter- 
 nately night and morning and after every 
 evacuation. 
 
 DIPHTHERIA. A peculiar inflammation 
 of the mucous membrane of the throat, 
 
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 which is accompanied by the production of 
 a false membrane patches of grey or wash- 
 leather-like spots which deposit on the ton- 
 sils, and which are small at first, but grad- 
 ually increase and threaten suffocation. 
 The disease is attended with great prostra- 
 tion. It usually sets in with shivering and 
 great depression, dryness and tingling in 
 the throat, difficulty of swallowing, vomit- 
 ing, and sometimes headache. The tongue 
 is loaded, but there is no active fever. 
 
 REMEDIES Ferrum phosph. and Kali mur. 
 should be given in alternation every hour. 
 If there is vomiting of watery fluid, give 
 Natrum mur. instead. 
 
 Kali phosph. corresponds to symptoms of 
 blood poisoning, very offensive discharge 
 and breath, also, for the paralytic states, 
 resulting from diphtheria. A dose every 
 two hours. 
 
 If the larynx becomes involved, give at 
 once Oalcar. fluor. A dose every half hour. 
 
 Never fail to call in early, in every sus- 
 pected case of diphtheria, the best profes- 
 
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 sional advice you can obtain ; it is too seri- 
 ous a disease for domestic treatment. Blood 
 poisoning arid heart failure or croup setting 
 in, when help may be practically useless, 
 all of which might have been presented by 
 timely care of a physician. 
 
 DIZZINESS. When it occurs in nervous 
 subjects who, without having any active 
 symptoms of dyspepsia, do not well assimi- 
 late the nutritive portion of the food. 
 
 Cakar. phosph. 1 x. One tablet after 
 meals. 
 
 DISCHARGES from any mucous mem- 
 brane according to their characteristics re- 
 quire different remedies. 
 
 If fibrinous, stringy, gluey, Kali mur. 
 If watery, serous, Natrum mur. If thick, 
 Kali sulpli. If yellowish, Natrum plios. 
 
 It does not make any difference in the 
 selection of the remedy, whether the dis- 
 charge be from the nose, throat, ears or pel- 
 vic organs, it is the character of the dis- 
 charge which determines the remedy. 
 
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 DROPSY. Various dropsical affections 
 can be benefited by the Tissue remedies, 
 but when they are the results of organic 
 disease, usually heart and kidney, or liver 
 diseases, they are signs of deep-seated mis- 
 chief and of serious import. A physician 
 should invariably be consulted. The prin- 
 cipal remedies are Kali mur., Natrum mur. 
 and Kali sulph. 
 
 DYSENTERY Bloody-Flux. A disease of 
 the larger bowel, in which the stools are 
 frequent and often bloody, attended with 
 griping and straining, and, in the acute 
 form of the disease, with fever. There ex- 
 ists frequently an urgent desire to evacuate 
 the bowels, which are confined, accom- 
 panied with violent straining; and the 
 stools contain little or no ordinary matter, 
 but consist principally of pure mucus, 
 mucus mixed with blood, pure blood, or 
 greenish, bilious, brownish, or blackish, pu- 
 trid matters. Dysentery generally arises 
 from sudden exposure to cold, indigestible 
 
food, unripe fruit, or occurs in autumn 
 weather, in damp, unwholesome localities. 
 The treatment consists in rest, warmth 
 and careful regulation of the diet. Avoid 
 beef-tea, meats, vegetables. Boiled milk, 
 rice, mutton broth, milk toast, will be 
 found of most benefit. 
 
 REMEDIES. Kali mur. and Ferrum phosp. 
 taken in alternation every two hours will 
 generally suffice in mild cases. 
 
 Kali phos.j when the stools contain 
 mostly blood, are offensive and there is 
 falling of rectum. 
 
 EAR, DISEASES OF THE -Earache. Vio- 
 lent pains in the ear, even when there is 
 little or no perceptible inflammation, some- 
 times so intense as to cause delirium, fre- 
 quently the result of a chill, and often 
 existing in connection with toothache. 
 
 TREATMENT. -Apply heat and give Ferrum 
 phospli. A dose every five minutes until 
 relieved. 
 
Hamming in the Ears* Kali phosph. is 
 the chief remedy. 
 
 Discharge from the Ears. Kali mur. Sil- 
 ica and Oalcar. phosph. are the principal 
 remedies. Give a dose three times a day 
 of one for one week then substitute the 
 next, and so on. But in all chronic dis- 
 charges from the ears, it is well to consult 
 an aurist. 
 
 ECZEMA is a disease of the skin, very 
 frequent in early childhood. It is usually 
 accompanied by great itching. The treat- 
 ment includes, besides remedies, careful 
 regulation of the diet, avoiding over-feed- 
 ing especially, and avoidance of too fre- 
 quent washing of the parts. Instead of 
 pure water, use oatmeal or bran water, and 
 after bathing, apply freely corn starch. As 
 a rule, salves and medicated applications 
 are not advisable. 
 
 REMEDIES. Kali mur., Kali sulph., and 
 Natrum mur. are the chief remedies. Give 
 
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 one tablet of the sixth potency night and 
 morning for one week; then substitute the 
 twelfth potency, and if no improvement is 
 apparent after two or three weeks, use one 
 of the other remedies in the same way. 
 Remember it is an obstinate and chronic 
 affection, and needs time and much patience. 
 
 ERYSIPELAS St. Anthony's Fire. A su- 
 perficial shining redness, and inflammation 
 of the skin, which disappears under pres- 
 sure of the finger, but returns as soon as 
 the pressure is removed. There is gener- 
 ally fever, and a burning heat and tingling 
 rather than acute pain. It frequently fol- 
 lows injuries; blisters often form on the 
 inflamed surface (vesicular erysipelas), and 
 
 it sometimes assumes a severe and danger- 
 ous form. 
 
 The more common exciting causes of 
 erysipelas are debility and loss of resisting 
 power from disease, abuse of stimulants, 
 undue exposure to cold, disordered stom- 
 ach, wounds, etc. 
 
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 TREATMENT. Avoid all applications ex- 
 cept flour, cornstarch ; or, when procurable, 
 ripe cranberries. Honey sometimes is also 
 very efficient. 
 
 Ferrum pJiosph. and Kali mur. are the 
 principal remedies. Give hourly doses al- 
 ternately until the disease is checked. 
 Kali sulph. should be given instead, if blis- 
 ters form. Kali pJiosph. may be alternated 
 with it, if there is much nervous disturb- 
 ance, weakness, restlessness, etc. A dose 
 may be given every hour until improve- 
 ment shows itself. 
 
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 EYE, DISEASES OF. Many forms of sim- 
 ple inflammation of the external eye may 
 be successfully treated with the tissue 
 remedies; but, as a rule, all eye troubles 
 should be intrusted to the care of a special- 
 ist. Ferrum phospfi. is the remedy for in- 
 flammation of any part of the eye, burning 
 sensation, red and inflamed look, cannot 
 bear light, sensation as if sand were under 
 the lids, letters blur while reading. 
 
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 Kali mur. Affections with discharge of 
 mucus, ulcers of cornea. 
 
 Natrum mur. Muscular asthenopia, neu- 
 ralgic pains around eye, with much water- 
 ing of eyes; granulated lids. 
 
 Silica Styes, kernels and indurations 
 of the lids; scrophulous ophthalmia. 
 
 The selected remedy should not be given 
 lower than the sixth potency. For chronic 
 affections the twelfth is better. Give a 
 dose night and morning. 
 
 FEVER Simple or Inflammatory. Shi ver- 
 
 ing, sickness, and pains in the back, fol- 
 lowed by hot, dry skin, thirst, headache, 
 short breathing, quick, full pulse, J loss of 
 appetite, and scanty urine. Simple fever 
 is mostly a slight and transient disorder 
 when occurring alone, but when fever ac- 
 companies eruptive or inflammatory dis- 
 eases, it becomes more serious. 
 
 TREATMENT. In the treatment of fever, 
 the room in which the patient is, should 
 be cool, airy, and well ventilated, and kept 
 
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 at an even temperature of about sixty de- 
 grees. The covering to the bed should in 
 general be light, but suited to the feelings 
 of the patient; the linen should be often 
 changed, and the patient may be frequently 
 sponged down with tepid water. The diet 
 must be light, easy of digestion, and un- 
 stimulating barley-water, thin gruel, or 
 arrowroot, toast-water or water to allay the 
 thirst ; ice-water or ice may be held in the 
 mouth, and fruits stewed or in most cases 
 also fresh may be allowed. Lemonade is 
 also grateful. Unfermented grape juice 
 and Kumyss are admirable foods in all 
 cases where fever is present. 
 
 Ferrum plios. is the only remedy re- 
 quired. Dissolve a powder of the third 
 trituration in half a glass of water and give 
 teaspoonf ul doses every hour until relief is 
 obtained, then less frequently. 
 
 Kali 2>hos. For nervous fevers, quick 
 irregular pulse, with nervous excitement 
 and much weakness mouth dry, blisters 
 around mouth, with tendency to delirium. 
 A dose of the 6th every hour. 
 
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 FLATULENCY Wind in the Stomach or 
 Bowels. SYMPTOMS. Fullness in the abdo- 
 men; rumbling in the bowels; severe pain; 
 accumulation or copious discharge of wind, 
 a symptom of indigestion. 
 
 Maqnes ^Aos. and Calcar phos. are the 
 principal remedies. Take Magnes phosph., 
 one tablet of the third potency after meals, 
 and repeat every half hour until better; 
 take Calc. phosph. night and morning as a 
 constitutional remedy. 
 
 GASTRIC DISTURBANCES. Acute gas- 
 tric catarrh, usually caused by errors in 
 diet, cold, mental states, specially anger, 
 etc. The chief symptoms are loss of appe- 
 tite, pain in the pit of the stomach, bloat- 
 ness, coated tongue, bad taste, nausea and 
 vomiting. 
 
 REMEDIES Kali mur., if due to errors in 
 diet, especially fat food. 
 
 Natrum sulph., if assorted with liver 
 symptoms, jaundiced skin, pain in right 
 side, flatulence, diarrhoea, 
 
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 DOSE. Take a dose every two hours. 
 
 See Indigestion. 
 
 GLANDS Glandular Affections. No class 
 of diseases are more strikingly benefited 
 by the tissue remedies as acute and espe- 
 cially chronic inflammations of the various 
 glands throughout the body. There is 
 usually a scrophulous taint at the bottom 
 to account for the readiness with which, 
 from apparently slight causes, the glands 
 will grow painful and swell. The treat- 
 ment of chronic cases requires patience 
 and riot too frequent change of remedies. 
 Kali mur. is the chief remedy for all acute 
 swellings. Calcar. pliosph. for more chronic 
 cases. Commence with the second tritura- 
 tion. Give three doses daily for one week; 
 then give the third, sixth and twelfth po- 
 tency in the same way. jSilica for suppu- 
 rating glands, 
 
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 GOUT (Arthritis) Pains in the joints, 
 with inflammatory or chronic cold swelling, 
 and symptoms of deranged digestion. Pains 
 are generally severe, and the inflammation 
 mostly attacks the smaller joints, particu- 
 larly the first joint of the great toe, which 
 becomes red, hot and swollen. It some- 
 times suddenly changes from one location 
 to another and returns at intervals, vari- 
 ous joints or parts becoming affected after 
 repeated attacks. Gout is mostly a heredi- 
 tary disease, coming on without any evi- 
 dent external cause, generally preceded by 
 disorder of the digestive organs, and ac- 
 companied by a plethoric state of the sys- 
 tem. 
 
 REMEDIES. The chief remedy is Natrum 
 sulph.j 6 x a dose three times a day. For 
 acute attacks, Ferrum phos. every two 
 hours. If the stomach is involved give 
 Natrum phosph. every two hours. 
 
 ACCESSORY TREATMENT. The diet must be 
 very spare during the acute symptoms, as 
 
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 thin gruel, bread and milk, light bread 
 puddings, barley water, arrowroot and the 
 like, oranges, roasted apples, grapes, etc. 
 Keep the affected part in such a moder- 
 ately cool state as to be comfortable to the 
 patient, without being so warm as to aggra- 
 vate the severity of the attack, or so cold 
 as to check the insensible perspiration. 
 External applications are generally of little 
 use in a fit of gout; those which are warm 
 doing no good, and those which are cold 
 having a tendency to suddenly check the 
 inflammation, and thereby produce harm. 
 jKumyss and unfermented grape juice may 
 be used freely. Friction with the flesh- 
 brush during convalescence is beneficial, 
 and the limbs and affected parts should be 
 regularly sponged with cold salt water 
 every morning, and well wiped and rubbed 
 afterwards. The diet, during convalescence, 
 should consist of a little digestible animal 
 food once a day, with eggs, bread, etc., but 
 no wines or spirits. 
 
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 GRAVEL. Whenever there is a sandy 
 sediment in the urine care should be taken 
 to change the diet, avoiding too rich food 
 and drinking plenty of pure water. 
 
 The chief remedy is Natrum sulpli., a 
 tablet three times a day; but if there is 
 much acidity at the same time take Natrum 
 pliospli. instead. 
 
 GUMS, SCURVY OF THE-Canker of the 
 Mouth. Offensive smell in the mouth with 
 a glutinous bloody discharge from the gums, 
 which are hot, red, soft, spongy, very sensi- 
 tive, retracted from the teeth and subse- 
 quently ulcerated along their margins. 
 
 TREATMENT. Avoid food that tends to 
 produce acidity, such as sweets, rich food, 
 etc. 
 
 Kali mur., 3x trituration. Dissolve a 
 powder about the size of a lima bean in 
 half a glass of water and take teaspoonful 
 doses every two hours. Natrum mur. may 
 be taken after Kali mur. if the symptoms 
 do not improve very rapidly. 
 
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 HAEMORRHAGE. The remedies adapted 
 to haemorrhages may be used for bleeding 
 from any orifice of the body. The ten- 
 dency to ready bleeding is sometimes met 
 with in persons predisposed thereto, in 
 such even slight wounds bleed freely, pro- 
 fusely and for a long time. This tendency 
 may be overcome by the continuous consti- 
 tutional treatment of Kali pJiosph. and 
 Oalcar. fluor., using each remedy occa- 
 sionally. 
 
 Treatment of Acute Hemorrhages. Ferrum 
 phosph. generally suffices, especially in chil- 
 dren that grow rapidly. Blood is bright 
 red. 
 
 Kali mur. when the blood is dark, black, 
 clotted or tough; vomiting of such blood. 
 
 Kali phosph. in weak, delicate people, in 
 the aged, and where the blood is blackish, 
 thin, like coffee grounds. 
 
 Of the selected remedy a dose may be 
 given every five to fifteen minutes until 
 relief is obtained. 
 
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 HAIR. Falling out of the hair is a fre- 
 quent sequel to fevers, but here the loss is 
 only temporary, and can be stayed by tak- 
 ing Calcar. pliosph. three times a day. 
 For the loss and thinning of hair not thus 
 connected faithful brushing is a good tonic 
 procedure. Too frequent washing is not 
 to be advised. An occasional dose of Gal- 
 car, fluor. and Silica will be found benefi- 
 cial. 
 
 HEADACHE. Pain in the head, either 
 all over the head or in a particular spot, 
 arising from various causes, as cold, rheu- 
 matism, congestion, indigestion, nervous 
 affections, constipation, mental emotions, 
 stimulants, fatigue, eye strain, growth in 
 nose, etc. 
 
 Catarrhal Headache, (From a cold.) 
 
 SYMPTOMS. The headache is oppressive, 
 frequently better in the morning, worse in 
 the evening, the eyes are full of tears, 
 sneezing, dry heat in the nose, some cough, 
 etc. 
 
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 TREATMENT. Ferrum phosph. will gener- 
 ally be all that is needed. Take a dose 
 every half hour. 
 
 Congestive Headache. (From determina- 
 tion of blood to the head.) 
 
 SYMPTOMS. Fulness and heaviness of the 
 head, accompanied with giddiness, particu- 
 larly on stooping, throbbing and heat, the 
 beating of the arteries on the neck being 
 visible, vomiting as the pain increases; the 
 pain worse on shaking, moving the head, 
 lying down or stooping, sometimes better 
 when standing. 
 
 Principal remedy is Ferrum phosph. 
 
 Nervous Headache, Neuralgic pains in the 
 head. (Megrim.) 
 
 SYMPTOMS. The attacks are frequently 
 periodical, the pain is of a tearing, throb- 
 bing or hard-aching character, and is often 
 felt on one side of the head only or in a 
 circumscribed spot. The painful part feels 
 sore to pressure; light, noise and mental 
 
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 agitation are intolerable, and the headache 
 is often attended with severe retching or 
 vomiting of bile and mucus. 
 
 TREATMENT. Kali phosph. and Ferrum 
 phosph. alternately every half hour during 
 the attacks. Between the attacks take 
 Natrum mur. for one week, then Silica for 
 one week, and so on alternately for a time. 
 The attacks will grow less frequent and 
 severe. 
 
 HEAD SYMPTOMS OF THE CHIEF TIS- 
 SUE REMEDIES. Consult these in pre- 
 scribing for the different kinds of headache. 
 
 Ferrum phosph. Headache from cold, 
 sun exposure; throbbing pain; cold relieves 
 the pain; headache with red face and eyes; 
 rttsh of blood to head; worse from any 
 motion, noise, jar, combing hair, and at 
 menstrual period. 
 
 Calcar. phosph. Headaches of school 
 children, especially at about the time of 
 puberty; head feels cold, bruised, worse 
 from any exposure; much dizziness; ill- 
 
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 humor; want of disposition to do anything; 
 forgetful, dull. 
 
 Kali pliosph. Headache of students and 
 those worn out by fatigue old people, and 
 after mental emotions; pain made worse 
 by noise, which irritates; sleeplessness, 
 weariness, yawning; pain sometimes re- 
 lieved by eating; menstrual headache with 
 hunger; tongue coated brownish with foul 
 breath; pain in back of head and across 
 eyes. 
 
 Magnesia phosph. Spasmodic pain; very 
 severe neuralgic headache ; shooting pains, 
 with sparks before eyes; headache due to 
 eye troubles; better from warmth. 
 
 Natrum mur. Headache with constipa- 
 tion, with vomiting, with watering of eyes, 
 and with drowsiness; after loss of animal 
 fluids; profuse discharges, night sweats, etc. 
 Here follow with Cakar. phosph. Chronic 
 and sick headaches ; headaches before and 
 during menses, especially in school girls 
 who stud}^ hard, are run down; anemia; 
 headache commences in the morning, in- 
 
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 creases towards noon, and gets better in 
 evening. 
 
 Natrum sulpli. Bilious headache with 
 bitter taste; bilious diarrhoea; colicky pain, 
 etc. Also for pain in back part of head, at 
 the base of the brain; must go to bed in a 
 darkened room; cannot tolerate noise. 
 
 Silica. Headaches from nerve exhaus- 
 tion; after excessive mental strain; nerv- 
 ous, sensitive patients; weakly persons, fine 
 skin, pale face, lax muscles; imperfectly 
 nourished. These respond quickly to this 
 remedy. 
 
 Consult, also, the Index of Symptoms. 
 
 HEART, PALPITATION OF THE. Palpi- 
 tation or pulsation of the heart felt dis- 
 tinctly and predominantly, sometimes even 
 heard, or so strong as to shake the patient 
 or the bed on which he may be lying, and 
 which may arise from nervous debility, 
 hysteria, severe bodily suffering or violent 
 emotions, constipation, indigestion, torpid 
 liver, weakness from loss of blood or other 
 
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 discharges, a gouty condition, excessive 
 bodily exercise, disease or excitable condi- 
 tion of the heart, etc. 
 
 Palpitation from Debility. TREATMENT. 
 Ferrum pliospli. is the most suitable rem- 
 edy. If coming on after acute illness, sub- 
 stitute Cakar. phosph. 
 
 HEART TISSUE REMEDIES. -- Ca kar. 
 phosph.' Weak heart; sharp pain around 
 the heart; palpitation with anxiety, fol- 
 lowed by trembling weakness. 
 
 Ferrum phosph . First stage of all acute, 
 inflammatory diseases involving the heart; 
 pulse rapid and full; regulates the circula- 
 tion. 
 
 Kali phosph. Intermittent action of the 
 heart; ill-effects of mental emotions, palpi- 
 tation, pain, etc. ; palpitation from slightest 
 cause; physical or mental exertion. 
 
 Magnes. phosph. Shooting pain around 
 heart with spasmodic attacks of palpitation. 
 
 Natrum mur. Watery condition of the 
 blood, shown by anemia, dropsical swell- 
 
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 ing, ready flushing, and palpitation; con- 
 striction around heart; fluttering and in- 
 termittent pulse. 
 
 HEARTBURN. Heartburn and water- 
 brash are prominent symptoms of indiges- 
 tion, produced by acridity of the secretions. 
 Heartburn consists in a sensation of heat 
 or burning, which extends from the stom- 
 ach to the throat; and waterbrash, in the 
 vomiting or regurgitation of a watery, sour, 
 or bitter fluid. 
 
 TREATMENT. Avoid all articles of food 
 that you know from experience to disagree 
 with you. 
 
 Natrum phosph. is the principal remedy. 
 Take one tablet of the sixth potency after 
 eating. If there is much flatulence take 
 Calcar. pliosph. in the same way. 
 
 HICCOUGH Hiccup. TREATMENT. Hold- 
 ing the breath is the most simple, and in 
 many cases the most effective way of stop- 
 ping hiccough, or drinking a draught of 
 
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 cold water. When it occurs in infants they 
 may be placed to the breast. If subject 
 to this little trouble, attention should be 
 paid to diet, care being taken not to eat 
 too quickly, nor too much at a time. 
 
 Magnes. ptiosph. is the only remedy re- 
 quired. 
 
 HOARSENESS. Rough and indistinct 
 voice and cough, sometimes accompanied 
 by pain, asthma, and rattling in the throat. 
 It frequently results from a chill, and often 
 accompanies measles, croup, influenza, etc. 
 
 TREATMENT.---Use plenty of cold water, 
 or cold salt water, and cold sponging, with 
 vigorous friction afterwards. The diek 
 should be plain and simple; take but little 
 meat, and avoid stimulants; keep the feet 
 warm, and do not exert the voice. 
 
 Drink warm milk and seltzer during an 
 acute attack and take Ferrum pliospli. and 
 Kali mur. alternately every hour. In very 
 obstinate cases take Calcar. sulph*, one 
 tablet every two hours. 
 
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 HYSTERIA is a condition of nervous 
 weakness, where the patient is emotional, 
 and in which self-control is largely lost; 
 laughing and crying alternate with each 
 other; all sorts of abnormalities of sensa- 
 tions take place; any disease may be simu- 
 lated ; feeling of a lump in the throat ; pain 
 as of a nail in the head, are very common 
 sensations. The hysterical patient is usu- 
 ally of a very highly nervous organization 
 and very unstably balanced. 
 
 TREATMENT is medicinal to some extent, 
 but mainly moral and hygienic. Do not 
 show too much sympathy with the patient 
 and her innumerable aches and pains; en- 
 courage self control, self f orgetf ulness ; en- 
 courage her to take interest in others, to 
 have a mission of some kind. Discourage 
 reading aimless and trashy literature. 
 Avoid excitement of all kinds, late hours, 
 stimulants, tea and coffee, rich food, etc. 
 Build up the general system by simple but 
 nourishing food, aided by urifermented 
 
Grape Juice, Malted Milk, Maltine, Kumyss, 
 etc. Regular exercise in open air, judi- 
 cious use of bicycle riding, driving, swim- 
 ming, walking with a cheery companion, all 
 tend to restore the lost stability of the 
 nerves. 
 
 Kali pliospli. Nervous attacks from in- 
 tense emotions feeling of a ball rising in 
 throat ; hysterical fits of laughing and cry- 
 ing ; hysterical yawning and spasms ; gen- 
 eral nervousness. 
 
 Nutrum mur tj when associated with de- 
 laying menses, patient is greatly depressed, 
 sad and weak. All the symptoms are 
 relieved when perspiring freely. 
 
 Calcar. phosph., as a constitutional tonic, 
 may be given twice a day in the food. 
 
 INDIGESTION. Derangement of the Stom- 
 ach. Indigestion includes all those almost 
 indefinable and inexpressible states or con- 
 ditions of disease arising from or depend- 
 ent upon slow or difficult digestion or 
 weakness of the stomach. These may be 
 
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 either acute or chronic ; they may either 
 arise from having partaken of indigestible, 
 unwholesome, heavy, fat, sour or flatulent 
 food, or from over-eating, etc., or they may 
 become chronic from a long continuance of 
 exciting causes calculated to impair the di- 
 gestion as too much study, too little ex- 
 ercise, long-continued indulgence in warm 
 drinks, stimulants, purgatives, patent medi- 
 cines, etc. 
 
 TREATMENT. Look to the diet. Avoid 
 whatever you know from experience to 
 disagree with you, but do not encourage 
 any dietetic theories. Remember what is 
 good for one patient is not necessarily 
 adapted to another, even when suffering- 
 with similar symptoms. Every adult ought 
 to know himself better than any one else 
 what kind of food is most likely to agree 
 with him. Usually a mixed diet of simple 
 nourishing food, eaten slowly and well mas- 
 ticated and at regular intervals is better 
 than restriction to some one or two arti- 
 
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 cles. Sometimes a glass of pure California 
 claret with the principal meal will be of 
 groat benefit; especially is this true in the 
 weak and debilitated, aged and after acute 
 illness, and in total loss of appetite. When 
 coffee cannot be taken try the Homoeo- 
 pathic Coffee, which possesses a good deal 
 of the flavor and taste of true coffee with- 
 out any deleterious effects. 
 
 REMEDIES.- Ferrum phosph.> Pit of the 
 stomach is tender to touch; vomiting; pain 
 after eating; flatulence; loss of appetite; 
 disgust for milk; cannot take meat; cannot 
 bear tight clothing; thirst for cold water; 
 desire for stimulants. 
 
 Kali mur. Tongue coated; complaints 
 from rich and fatty food; bitter taste; liver 
 sluggish, with pain in right side under 
 shoulder. 
 
 Kali pliospli. Hungry soon after eating; 
 gone feeling in stomach; pain in left side; 
 weakness of heart ; constant pain in a small 
 spot in stomach; great nervous depression. 
 
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 Kali sulpli. Yellow-coated tongue; sen- 
 sation as of a load and fulne&s at the pit of 
 the stomach; pain in stomach; waterbrash. 
 
 Magnes. phosph. Cramp in stomach ; 
 constriction; hiccough; marked regurgita- 
 tion after eating; craves sugar; gastralgia. 
 
 Natrum mur.- Stomachache with much 
 waterbrash; offensive breath; bowels con- 
 stipated; loss of desire for smoking; very 
 thirsty; sour taste; aversion to bread; red 
 spots on pit of stomach. 
 
 Natrum phosph. Great acidity; sour 
 risings; moist, creamy coating of the 
 tongue; stomach troubles from presence 
 of worms; heartburn; vomiting of dark, 
 coffee-ground fluid. 
 
 Natrum sulpli. Biliousness; bitter taste 
 in mouth; vomiting of bitter fluid; heart- 
 burn ; copious formation of gas, which gets 
 incarcerated in intestines. 
 
 Oak. pliosph. A course of this remedy 
 is useful in all chronic cases of indigestion; 
 pain after eating; craving for bacon, ham, 
 salted and smoked meats ; pain relieved by 
 
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 eating and raising wind; almost an infalli- 
 ble remedy for excessive accumulation of 
 gas in the stomach. 
 
 Calc. pfwsph.) Ix trituration, a powder 
 given in water half an hour after eating, is 
 efficacious in non-assirnilation of food. 
 
 Calc. sulph. Desire for fruit, tea, claret 
 and green vegetables. 
 
 Silica. Chronic dyspepsia, with much 
 chilliness; extreme hunger; disgust for 
 warm food, and intolerance of alcoholic 
 stimulants. 
 
 INFLAMMATIONS are of so serious a 
 character as to require the immediate at- 
 tendance of an experienced physician. The 
 symptoms are heat, pain, swelling, redness, 
 increased pulse, restlessness, etc. The first 
 stage of all inflammations, when there is 
 fever, heat, etc., is met by the administra- 
 tion of Ferrum pliospli., 6x. Dissolve a 
 powder size of a lima bean in a tumbler 
 half full of water and give teaspoonful 
 doses every hour. Later, after a day per- 
 
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 haps, it may be well to alternate with it 
 Kali jnur., 6x, given in the same way. 
 (See separate diseases.) 
 
 INFLUENZA- Grippe. Influenza differs 
 from a common cold principally in there 
 being oppressed respiration and great pros- 
 tration of strength. It is frequently an 
 epidemic. Its sudden onset, with great 
 weakness, pains in limbs, back and joints, 
 headache and fever, characterize the attack. 
 The treatment consists of rest in bed, 
 nourishing food, egg-nog, sherry and egg, 
 broths, etc. 
 
 Natrum sulpli. is the principal remedy 
 throughout the course of the disease and 
 for many of the after effects. 
 
 Cak. pJiosph. and Kali plwspli. may be 
 given during convalescence and for the re- 
 maining debility. A dose may be taken 
 four times a day first one, then the other. 
 
 INTERMITTENT FEVER. A paroxysmal 
 disease, usually consisting of chills } fever 
 
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 and sweat, coming on in one, two or more 
 days' interval, caused by malarial germs, 
 occurring in marshy places, damp, low- 
 lying neighborhoods, and associated with a 
 good deal of headache, backache, liver and 
 spleen disturbance. There may be much 
 irregularity in the different stages, one or 
 two being absent entirely, or the whole 
 condition may assume a masked form as ob- 
 stinate neuralgias, gastric disturbances, etc. 
 
 TREATMENT. As a rule, the services of a 
 physician will be required to select a cura- 
 tive remedy and superintend the general 
 treatment, but the tissue remedies fre- 
 quently cure the most obstinate cases. 
 Chief among them is Natrum sulpli. In 
 the absence of any special symptoms, this 
 will be found the best general remedy. It 
 is especially called for when there are bil- 
 ious symptoms, yellow complexion, bronze- 
 colored coating of tongue, bilious bloody 
 stools. 
 
 Natrum mur. Chill is apt to return in 
 morning . about 10 o'clock; great thirst; 
 
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 headache; backache; fever blisters; neu- 
 ralgia of head and face. 
 
 In order to prescribe successfully for 
 this obstinate disease, the conditions be- 
 tween the attacks of chills and fever should 
 be noted, they indicate the curative rem- 
 edy more likely than the character of the 
 different stages, although these, too, must 
 be included in our estimate of the case. 
 
 JAUNDICE. Jaundice is characterized 
 by yellowness of the whites of the eyes 
 and the skin, whitish or clay-colored stools, 
 and saffron-colored urine. It is attended 
 with more or less derangement of the di- 
 gestive functions. Jaundice is caused by 
 gallstones, disease of the liver, super-abun- 
 dance of bile, improper food, cold, or sud- 
 den emotions, etc. 
 
 The treatment must include careful at- 
 tention to diet, avoiding meat, coffee. 
 Fruit, gruel, lemonade are useful and 
 grateful to the patient. 
 
 Natrum sulph. is the chief remedy. Take 
 
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 a dose every four hours. Kali mur.-, if 
 caused by cold and the tongue is coated 
 whitish. 
 
 KIDNEYS. The kidneys are liable to 
 various forms of disease, and are especially 
 to be attacked after middle age and in men 
 whose mode of life involves high living, 
 much exertion and worry, indifferent at- 
 tention to exercise, etc. These forms of 
 kidney disease are all serious and need the 
 careful attention of the physician. A com- 
 mon form is congestion of the kidney, due 
 to chill, the symptoms of which are sup- 
 pression of urine, pain in back, swelling 
 around eyes, and dropsical conditions else- 
 where. The treatment for this is to put 
 the patient to bed, apply heat or give hot 
 bath; light diet milk is the best. 
 
 REMEDIES. Ferrum pliosph. may be given, 
 a dose every two hours until improvement 
 sets in. r 
 
 Kali mur. for the dropsical symptoms. 
 
 Natrum mur. Brick-dust sediment; 
 
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 bloody urine. One of the best remedies 
 alone, or in conjunction with others, in 
 Bright' s disease. 
 
 Natrum sulph. aids in throwing off gravel 
 by increasing the secretion of urine. Of 
 the selected remedy take a dose three times 
 a day. 
 
 KNEE, SWELLING OF, may be due to 
 
 rheumatism or disease of the joint. Any 
 trouble around the knee-joint should be 
 examined by a physician. 
 
 Kali mur. and Calcar. phospJi. often act 
 kindly in these affections. 
 
 LEGS, CRAMP IN THE. Sudden contrac- 
 tion of the muscles of the calves of the legs, 
 frequently occurring at night. 
 
 The principal remedy for this condition 
 is Magnes. phospJi^ a dose every quarter of 
 an hour for a few doses. Follow with 
 Calcar. phosph., a dose night and morning, 
 
 LEUCORRH(EA Whites. CAUSES. Cold 
 and moisture, frequent excitement result- 
 
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 ing in debility, inactivity of the body, re- 
 laxing pleasures, late hours, stimulating 
 diet, imprudence in dress, inattention to 
 the bowels, disease of ovaries and wornb> 
 etc. 
 
 In order to treat this affection success- 
 fully, the whole daily life of the patient 
 must be regulated. Everything tending to 
 local congestion avoided, simple but nour- 
 ishing food taken, sufficient exercise, but 
 not too much. Be careful about going up 
 and down stairs, bicycle riding, etc. Local 
 cleanliness, but not necessarily syringing, 
 is a requisite to the cure. 
 
 Oakar. pliospli. is the chief remedy, 
 either alone or as an intercurrent remedy; 
 it acts as a constitutional tonic and is 
 especially useful for young girls. The pa- 
 tient takes cold easily and the discharge is 
 like albuminous mucus. There may be 
 local irritation, itching, etc., of the parts. 
 
 Natrum mur. The discharge is watery, 
 irritating, smarting. There may be back- 
 
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 ache, headache and evidences of impover- 
 ished blood. 
 
 Kali sulph. Discharge yellow, greenish 
 and thick. 
 
 Silica. Leucorrhoea takes the place of 
 menses; patient is cold, very sensitive and 
 constipated. Of the selected remedy take 
 a dose three times a day between the men- 
 strual periods; take one remedy for three 
 weeks, then another if indicated, or substi- 
 tute Calcar. phosph. 
 
 LIPS. The lips are subject to become 
 sore, cracked, dry, scaly or swollen, or are 
 the seat of a herpetic eruption u cold sores." 
 
 The best treatment consists in the appli- 
 cation of cold cream and the internal use 
 of Kali mur. for cold sores, blisters. 
 
 Natrum mur. for cracks in the corners of 
 the mouth, or center of lip; sore lips from 
 cold ; swelling of upper lip a dose every 
 three hours. 
 
 LIVER AFFECTIONS are characterized 
 by pain in right side, under right shoulder- 
 
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 blade, soreness, bilious symptoms, constipa- 
 tion or loose yellowish stools, etc. 
 
 See Gastric Derangements. 
 
 The principal liver tissue remedies are 
 the following: 
 
 Natrum sulph. Pain in region of liver; 
 morning diarrhoea; rumbling in bowels; 
 jaundice; bitter taste. 
 
 Natrum mur. Jaundice, with drowsi- 
 ness, thirst, headache. 
 
 Kali mur. Tongue coated white, from 
 errors in diet, rich, greasy food ; cold food, 
 chilling stomach. 
 
 LUMBAGO. Rheumatic pains in the 
 loins. 
 
 The treatment consists in application of 
 warmth, friction, porous plaster, and the 
 administration of Ferrum phosph., a dose 
 every hour until relieved. 
 
 LUNGS; The various diseases of the 
 lungs require careful hygienic, dietetic and 
 medicinal treatment. The latter may be 
 
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 found almost wholly in the use of the tis- 
 sue remedies, for just in the treatment of 
 acute and chronic lung diseases they have 
 won their greatest laurels. (See Consump- 
 tion, Pneumonia, Pleurisy, etc.) 
 
 
 LUNGS, BLEEDING FROM, is always 
 alarming, but not so immediately danger- 
 ous as is commonly feared ; but it is usu- 
 ally one of the accidents of consumption; 
 it demands prompt attention. 
 
 The treatment should consist in rest; pa- 
 tient's head and chest must be well sup- 
 ported with pillows. Application of cold; 
 drinks and food of the simplest kind; ice; 
 the room must be well aired and cool. 
 
 The principal remedy required is Ferrum 
 pliosph. Dissolve a powder of the sixth 
 trituration in a tumbler of cold water and 
 give patient teaspoonful doses every quar- 
 ter of an hour for several doses, then less 
 often. Follow with Cakar. phosph. as a 
 constitutional tonic, a dose three times 
 a day. 
 
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 MEASLES. An infectious fever attended 
 with an eruption of a purple rash, consist- 
 ing of slightly elevated minute dots dis- 
 posed in irregular circular forms or cres- 
 cents, preceded by catarrhal symptoms 
 about the eyes, nose, and bronchia, for 
 about four or five days, and accompanied 
 by inflammatory fever. For the three or 
 four days before the appearance of the 
 eruption, symptoms of a cold, sneezing, 
 and feverishness, drowsiness, oppression, 
 nausea or vomiting, and a hoarse or ring- 
 ing, loud cough are present. The ^erup- 
 tion appears on the fourth or fifth day, and 
 disappears on the eighth or ninth; it rarely 
 attacks the same person a second time, arid 
 frequently prevails as an epidemic. Mea- 
 sles may be simple or complicated, malig- 
 nant and dangerous. 
 
 ACCESSORY TREATMENT. The room in 
 which the patient is should be airy, dark- 
 enedj moderately warm, and perfectly free 
 from draughts, much care being taken that 
 the patient does not catch cold, both during 
 
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 the eruption and for some time afterwards. 
 He may be sponged down frequently with 
 tepid water. The diet should be at first 
 light, afterwards more nourishing; all ani- 
 mal food should be avoided, and all drinks 
 should be given tepid, so as not to chill. 
 Protect the eyes from too strong light. 
 The danger of measles is more in the after 
 effects, especially bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. 
 The principal remedy is Ferrum phosph., 
 which may be given every two hours, so 
 long as the eruption is not out perfectly, or 
 so long as the cough is troublesome. It 
 may be followed by or alternated with 
 Kali mur., if the tongue is coated, the cough 
 hoarse, glands swollen, more or less deaf- 
 ness. During convalescence give Cakar. 
 phosph., a dose every three hours until per- 
 fect health is restored. 
 
 MEMORY-DEFICIENT is a symptom of 
 advancing age, or it may be temporary in 
 nerve exhaustion, after acute illness, over- 
 taxed brain. 
 
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 The treatment consists in cessation from 
 mental labor and the administration of 
 Kali pliospli., a dose three times a day. 
 
 MENSTRUAL DISORDERS. The first ap- 
 pearance of the menstrual flow usually 
 shows itself about the fourteenth year, but 
 it may appear later, frequently earlier. The 
 mother should apprise the daughter before- 
 hand of its character and meaning. So far 
 as possible, the girl, before puberty, should 
 have an outdoor life and there need be no 
 difference in the physical education of the 
 sexes until then. The late appearance of 
 the menses need cause no alarm if the gen- 
 eral health does not suffer. Sometimes the 
 poor state of the general health is the cause 
 of their non-appearance. Avoidance of too 
 close application to study ; early hours, reg- 
 ular habits, simple food, plenty out-of-door 
 exercise, judicious use of the bicycle; avoid- 
 ance of stimulants, coffee, tea, etc. ; all 
 kinds of excitements and repression of 
 every hysterical tendency; wholesome lit- 
 
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 erature, and companionship, and wise super- 
 vision by the mother of everything pertain- 
 ing to the daily life of the girl. These are 
 the conditions for healthy development, 
 and vigorous and happy maidenhood, and 
 the best possible preparation for her des- 
 tined future life as wife and mother. 
 
 ' When the general health is below par, 
 give good nourishing food, sea bathing, and 
 see that the girl is not tired out by the con- 
 stant going up and down stairs and march- 
 ing, so common in our public schools. Do 
 not let her do any home work, but see that 
 she retires very early and is allowed to 
 sleep in the morning. It is poor policy in 
 these cases not to permit the child to finish 
 her morning sleep. Better sacrifice the 
 schooling until her health is better. For 
 these cases, a course of Calcar. pJiosph. in 
 various potencies, and continued for quite 
 a while, will yield wonderful results. 
 
 There are usually premonitory symp- 
 toms before the menses appear, such as 
 headache, languor, backache, pain in 
 
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 breasts, etc. Usually these pass away very 
 soon. When the flow is established great 
 care must be taken to prevent either cessa- 
 tion from cold, especially cold, wet feet, or 
 an excess of the flow from too stimulating 
 food, late hours, excitements. Warm cloth- 
 ing, especially warm stockings and thick 
 soled shoes are of much importance in es- 
 tablishing the regular order of the mens- 
 trual periods. 
 
 Scanty, Absent, Deficient or Checked Mens- 
 truation. When suppressed from cold, a 
 chill or sudden emotion, a hot foot-bath, 
 hot drinks and rest in bed will restore the 
 flow. If there is headache, flushing of face, 
 pains, etc., give Ferrum pliospli. a powder 
 dissolved in half a cup of hot water every 
 hour until relieved. 
 
 Galcar phospJi. is the best remedy for 
 scanty menses. Give a dose night and 
 morning between the periods. 
 
 Painful Menstruation. More or less pain 
 at the period is very common in young un- 
 
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 married women, but judicious medication 
 and attention to the general health will re- 
 lieve the most cases unless due to organic 
 trouble. Avoid all local treatment, but use 
 the remedies, together with rest during the 
 period, warm applications, hot stimulating 
 drinks, etc 
 
 Magnesia phosph. is the principal remedy 
 and should be taken in hot water every 
 quarter of an hour until relieved. Between 
 the periods take Calcar. phosph. and Kali 
 phosph. , one in the morning and the other 
 at night. 
 
 Menstruation, Profuse or Too Frequent. 
 
 CAUSES. Stimulating diet, abuse of stimu- 
 lants, warm baths, fatigue, compression of 
 the body, sudden emotions, violent exer- 
 cise, a weakening mode of life, long sick- 
 ness, excessive nursing of infants at the 
 
 breast, etc. 
 
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 ^ Ferrum phosph. is the principal remedy 
 to regulate the flow. Take a dose every 
 two hours or oftener, if very profuse. In 
 
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 the interval between the periods, take it 
 night and morning. 
 
 Calcar. fluor. when the system is gener- 
 ally relaxed. It should be taken between 
 the periods as above. 
 
 Kali mur.j if the color of the flow is dark, 
 thick and coagulated. 
 
 Kali phosph.j if flow is bright red and 
 offensive. 
 
 Natrum mur., if pale and watery. Patient 
 has much headache, backache and is ane- 
 mic. Begin with the sixth trituration for 
 the acute symptoms during the menses, 
 taking a dose every two hours. Between 
 the periods, take a dose of the twelfth 
 trituration night and morning. 
 
 MILK. Lactation is a natural physiolo- 
 gical process and every mother should 
 suckle, if possible, both for her own sake 
 and her child's. There is a very close bond 
 of sympathy and connection between the 
 breasts and uterine organs, and orderly 
 healthy readjustment of the system after 
 
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 labor is greatly furthered by nursing the 
 baby. If the flow of milk is rather scanty 
 or too watery, give plenty of nourishing, 
 liquid food, cocoa, milk, oatmeal, maltine, 
 together with a powder size of a lima bean 
 of Cakarea pliosph., 2nd trituration, given 
 with the food. If the flow of rnilk is too 
 profuse, substitute Calcar flitorica 6x, given 
 in the same way, and restrict the use of 
 much fluid. The same treatment is to be 
 used in order to dry up the milk. Besides, 
 the breasts should be covered with cotton 
 batting and bandaged snugly. 
 
 MOUTH. Nursing sore mouth, aphthous 
 sore mouth, consist in the formation of lit- 
 tle vesicles on mucous membrane of the 
 
 mouth, gums and tongue. 
 
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 REMEDIES. Kali mur. and Natrum mur. 
 are the chief remedies. Dissolve a small 
 powder of each in a glass half-full of water 
 and give spoonful doses every two hours 
 alternately. 
 
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 MUMPS. Inflammation and swelling of 
 the glands under the ears, which some- 
 times extends to the throat and is conspic- 
 uous externally. It generally increases till 
 the fourth day, and then gradually sub- 
 sides; and is evidently contagious, and 
 often epidemic. It often follows measles 
 or scarlet fever, or is the effect of cold or 
 damp. 
 
 TREATMENT. The patient should keep in 
 the house, and avoid exposure to cold and 
 damp; the glands should be fomented with 
 warm water, the face tied up with a hand- 
 kerchief or piece of flannel, and kept mod- 
 erately warm, and the diet should be mild 
 and light. If the patient take cold, there 
 is danger of a painful swelling of the testi- 
 cles. 
 
 REMEDIES. Ferrum phosph. should be 
 given so long as there are any feverish symp- 
 toms, a dose every hour. Usually, how- 
 ever, there are none, when Kali mur., a 
 dose every three hours, will be all that is 
 
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 required. If the swelling should persist, 
 give a few doses of Cakar. fluor. 
 
 NECK, STIFF. Usually the result of cold 
 or rheumatism. 
 
 TREATMENT. See under " Rheumatism." 
 Rub the neck with camphorated oil, wrap 
 two or three folds of flannel or worsted 
 round it, and avoid exposure to cold, 
 draughts of air, or wet. Take Ferrum 
 phosph. every two hours. 
 
 NETTLERASH. An eruption resembling 
 that produced by the stinging of nettles, 
 attended with itching, burning, or stinging 
 pain. The rash often appears instantane- 
 ously, disappears in the warmth and re- 
 appears in the cold, and seldom stays many 
 hours in the same place, and may be caused 
 by mechanical irritation, cold, or acidity 
 and other disorders of the stomach. Usu- 
 ally it can be traced to some special article 
 of diet, shell-fish and strawberries being 
 especially frequently the cause. 
 
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 The treatment consists in avoiding these 
 irritating foods, keeping the bowels in good 
 condition, bathing the parts with oatmeal 
 water, and taking Natrum mur. and Kali 
 mur. in alternation every two hours. 
 
 NERVOUSNESS consists in a state of exci- 
 tability and abnormal impressionability. It 
 is usually a chronic condition, fostered by 
 indulgent foolish parents, irregularity of 
 diet, especially highly seasoned food, over- 
 work, late hours, stimulants, especially 
 coffee and tea, etc. When excessive, it be- 
 comes hysteria and requires the same treat- 
 ment, which must be mental and moral, 
 with a view to exercising greater self con- 
 trol. Change of air, freedom from respon- 
 sibility, good nourishing food, salt water 
 baths, bicycling are all conducive to bring 
 about a change for the better. 
 
 Kali pJiosph. and Oalcarea phosph. are the 
 principal remedies and should be given as 
 nerve food remedies right along for some 
 time. Begin with the 6x trituration, tak- 
 
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 ing three doses a day of one for one week, 
 then change to the other. If the patient is 
 chilly and very sensitive and rather of in- 
 tellectual turn of mind, give Silica 6 tritu- 
 ration, a small powder night and morning. 
 After one week, change to the 12th tritura- 
 tion and take the same way. 
 
 NEURALGIA may be caused by changes in 
 the weather, colds, b anemic states of the 
 blood, injuries, etc. The pains come and go, 
 are burning or stitching, often associated 
 with cramps in the muscles, twitching, red- 
 ness and swelling of face. 
 
 REMEDIES. Ferrum phosph. should be 
 given when the face is hot and red and the 
 pains increased on moving the head. 
 
 Kali phosph. suits pale, irritable persons 
 and when pains are accompanied with much 
 weakness. 
 
 Natrum mur. Pains that return at a 
 certain time each day or are attended with 
 flow of tears. Constipation is a frequent 
 symptom with Natrum mur. 
 
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 Magnes. pliospli. Pains that come and 
 go very suddenly and are always made 
 better by the application of warmth. 
 
 Kali sulpli. For pains that shift a good 
 deal, and when they are better in cool open 
 air, but worse towards evening. 
 
 Calcar.phospli. Pains that are associated 
 with numbness and coldness, and always 
 worse at night and every change of weather. 
 
 DOSE. Of the selected remedy, dissolve 
 a powder in hot water and take a sip every 
 few minutes until relieved. For more 
 chronic conditions, take a dose every two 
 hours. 
 
 NIGHTMARE. Oppression felt during 
 sleep, great anxiety, excitement, frightful 
 dreams or fancies, and slight fever; often 
 caused by fatigue, late suppers, or indi- 
 gestible food. 
 
 TREATMENT. Let the supper be light; 
 avoid fatigue and heavy bed clothing. Take 
 a dose of Kali pliospli. before retiring. 
 
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 NOSE, Bleeding from the. TREATMENT 
 Immerse the face in the coldest water, and 
 dash cold water, or vinegar and water, up 
 the nostrils, or apply ice or ice-water to 
 the root of the nose, or apply cold cloths 
 or metal to the nape of the neck or back. 
 Keep the head as much elevated as possi- 
 ble, and let the diet be spare and simple in 
 character. As bleeding from the nose often 
 relieves congestion, the treatment should 
 be adapted to the urgency of the symptoms, 
 which, if slight, need not be much inter- 
 fered with. Persons subject to nose-bleed- 
 ing should lead a temperate life, with mod- 
 crate and regular exercise, a nourishing 
 diet, avoiding stimulants, and should make 
 a free use of cold water. 
 
 The principal remedy is Ferrum phos. 
 Dissolve a powder in a cup of cold water, 
 and take a swallow every few minutes 
 until relieved. 
 
 NOISES IN THE HEAD may be due to 
 
 recent catarrh of the eustachian tube, an 
 
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 extension from an ordinary cold, or as a 
 result of too large doses of quinine, etc. 
 
 If from a cold, take Ferrum plios.] if 
 after quinine, take Natrum mur. a dose 
 every three hours. 
 
 OVARIES. Pain in region of groin in 
 females about the time of menses is a com- 
 mon symptom, and is usually connected 
 with other menstrual disturbances. Rest, 
 application of heat, and attention to the 
 bowels, are necessary. Internally, give 
 Kali 2)hos. arid Magnes. phos., alternating 
 every hour. Between the periods, take 
 Calcar. pJios. night and morning. 
 
 PARALYTIC SYMPTOMS. Numbness and 
 lameness; rheumatic paralysis; loss of sen- 
 sation or motion in a part, may be relieved 
 by the use of Kali mur., if due to rheu- 
 matism; later, Calcar. plwspli., a dose night 
 and morning. 
 
 Silica is the remedy, if the condition is 
 due to the suppression of foot-sweat, which 
 
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 has frequently caused paralytic conditions 
 and cured only by giving a remedy restor- 
 ing the accustomed sweat, 
 
 PERSPIRATION abnormal, when due to 
 weakness, as after acute illness or general 
 run-down conditions of the body, will be 
 lessened by sponging the body with vine- 
 gar and water, or cologne spirits and water, 
 and taking at the same time Cakar.phosph., 
 third trituration, a powder every three 
 hours. 
 
 PHARYNGITIS. Redness, pain and swell- 
 ing of the mucous membrane of the mouth 
 and throat. 
 
 REMEDIES. Ferrum pJiosph., if the parts 
 are dry, hot with painful swallowing; a 
 dose every hour. 
 
 Kali mur., if the tongue be coated white 
 and parts swollen. 
 
 Natrum pliosph., if the tongue be coated 
 with a yellowish deposit. 
 
 The chronic form of pharyngitis is often 
 due to smoking, which must be stopped. A 
 
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 course of Kali mur., a dose of the third 
 trituration three times a day, will often 
 work wonders. 
 
 PILES. (Haemorrhoids). Small tumors or 
 lumps formed by a distention or relaxation 
 of the veins of the rectum. They may be 
 external, or so far within the rectum as to 
 be imperceptible, and they may or may not 
 bleed. Sensation of weight, pain in the 
 back, loins and thighs, straining during 
 stool, and constipation, frequently accom- 
 pany them. Piles are frequently caused 
 by excessive fatigue, obstinate costiveness, 
 the abuse of purgatives, sedentary habits, 
 stimulating food or drinks, or by a constitu- 
 tional or hereditary tendency. 
 
 TREATMENT. The pain and irritation often 
 present are much relieved by the free ap- 
 plication of cold water either by bathing or 
 immersion. Aesculas Cerate spread on lint 
 and kept constantly to the parts is some- 
 times beneficial. When the inflammation 
 is great, rest and the horizontal position 
 
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 should be observed, with a mild vegetable 
 diet. Everything heating, stimulating, and 
 constipating, must be avoided in the gene- 
 ral diet, all highly-seasoned food and the 
 like. Individuals subject to piles should 
 bathe in the sea as often as convenient, or 
 in salt water baths. During an attack, in- 
 jections of cold water may be used daily; 
 suitable exercises should be taken, and 
 every endeavor made to keep the bowels 
 regular. 
 
 In the treatment of piles, attention 
 must be paid to disturbances in the func- 
 tions of the liver, the digestive organs and 
 the bowels, otherwise a cure cannot be 
 achieved. 
 
 Ferrum phosph. Inflamed and bleeding 
 piles, must be used before the tumors are 
 hardened. Take a dose every hour and 
 bathe with Hamamelis extract. 
 
 Calcai fluor. is the chief remedy for the 
 permanent cure. It is useful for blind 
 piles, frequently with backache arid consti- 
 pation, etc. After an acute attack, it is the 
 
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 remedy for the remaining tumors. Take 
 one tablet every three hours. Use the 6th 
 potency, later the 1-lith or 30th. 
 
 Magnes. phosph. is the remedy, when the 
 piles are exceedingly tender and painful. 
 It may be used in alternation with other 
 indicated remedies, but should be given 
 dissolved in hot water, a dose every hour. 
 
 PIMPLES (Acne). An eruption frequently 
 seen in the young, especially about the 
 time of puberty and whenever the digest- 
 ive tract is impaired. It consists of dis- 
 tinct pustules not unlike very minute boils, 
 seated on a hard inflamed base, which sup- 
 purate imperfectly, leaving behind them 
 small, hard, red tumors, which are slow in 
 disappearing. They generally appear on 
 the face, forehead, and chin, and are ex- 
 cited by too much animal food, spices, 
 stimulants, etc. 
 
 The treatment consists in encouraging 
 healthy elimination through skin and 
 bowels. Eat fruit, vegetables, and drink 
 
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 plenty of fresh water. Thorough washing 
 with soap and water the affected part, then 
 powder with corn-starch, will prove bene- 
 ficial. 
 
 The chief remedy is Kali mur. followed 
 by Calcar. sulph. Take a dose three times 
 a day. 
 
 PLEURISY, FALSE.-Rheumatic Pleurisy. 
 Stitch in the Side. (Pleurodynia.) A rheu- 
 matic affection of the muscles covering arid 
 passing between the ribs, which produces 
 an acute pain in the side increased on in- 
 spiration. It is distinguished fronu true 
 pleurisy by being attended with little or no 
 fever, and by the increase of pain which 
 always takes place on movement of the 
 chest or any exertion causing the contrac- 
 tion of the inflamed muscles. 
 
 The treatment consists in the application 
 of heat arid administration of Ferrum 
 pliospli. in hourly doses until relieved. 
 
 PLEURISY. The true form is an inflam- 
 mation of the Pleura, the membrane lining 
 
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 the lungs and chest, and Is a very painful 
 and serious affection. It is accompanied 
 by fever, short breathing, with a stitching 
 pain in some part of the chest. Greatly 
 aggravated by breathing and motion. 
 
 TREATMENT. The patient's room must be 
 kept quiet, moderately warm, but well ven- 
 tilated. Perfect rest should be observed. 
 All kinds of animal food and heating fluids 
 should be avoided, and the diet should con- 
 sist of farinaceous articles, barley water, 
 arrowroot, thin gruel, light vegetables, 
 milk, etc. ; returning during convalescence 
 to beef-tea, chicken-broth, etc. A wet 
 bandage may be applied over the painful 
 part with advantage, or if the pain is 
 severe, hot linseed meal poultices, hot 
 fomentations, etc. During recovery, care 
 must be taken to guard against catching 
 cold. 
 
 The principal remedy at first is Ferrum 
 phosph., a dose dissolved in water should be 
 taken every half hour. This may be followed 
 
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 by Kali mur., a dose in alternation with Per- 
 rum every hour. Pleurisy is often complica- 
 ted with inflammation of the lungs them- 
 selves, giving 
 
 PLEURO PNEUMONIA, a very serious 
 and very dangerous disease which should 
 always receive the attention of a physician. 
 There is high fever, great oppression of the 
 chest, painful breathing, cough and marked 
 weakness. It is a disease especially danger- 
 ous in the very young arid the aged and 
 in constitutions run down by excess or 
 other causes. The action of the heart must 
 be watched as death usually occurs from 
 heart failure. Stimulants are indicated in 
 this disease. Among the Tissue Remedies, 
 Ferrum phosph.. Kali phos. and Kali mur. 
 are those most frequently indicated. The 
 remedies must be given frequently, every 
 hour at least, supplemented by absolute 
 rest, easily assimilated food, milk, broths, 
 etc. The application of poultices may 
 prove of much comfort, but should be done 
 
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 very carefully without disturbing the pa- 
 tient much or exposing him in any way, 
 otherwise they are a delusion. 
 
 RED GUM. Infant Rash. Pimples occur- 
 ring upon the face, chest, and hands of 
 young infants, with redness of the sur- 
 rounding skin, often dependent upon 
 teething. 
 
 Bathe the child in bran or oatmeal 
 water, and after thorough drying with a 
 soft towel, powder freely with corn-starch. 
 Give a dose of Ferrum phosph. night and 
 morning. If the child is teething, give 
 Calcar. phosph. , third trituration, a powder 
 in his food or on the tongue three times a 
 day. 
 
 RHEUMATISM. Pains in the fibrous, 
 muscular, or membraneous parts of the 
 body, generally attended with rigidity of 
 the part affected and aggravation of the 
 pains on motion, and characterized by sen- 
 sibility to atmospheric changes. Shivering 
 
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 and a sensation of cold sometimes precede 
 an acute attack (acute rheumatism), fever 
 is present, aching, tearing, or shooting 
 pains with stiffness are experienced in the 
 parts affected, especially in the joints, and 
 in most cases there is more or less disorder 
 of the digestive functions. In chronic 
 rheumatism the symptoms are similar, but 
 less urgent and more tedious. Rheumat- 
 ism is sometimes local, or wanders from 
 one part to another in a most capricious 
 manner, or even attacks internal organs; is 
 sometimes attended with swelling, heat, 
 and redness, and sometimes without such 
 symptoms, sometimes relieved by motion, 
 and sometimes by rest; sometimes by hot 
 and sometimes by cold applications. Rheu- 
 matism affecting the loins is called lumba- 
 go; the hips, sciatica; and the chest, false 
 pleurisy. 
 
 TREATMENT. Keep the parts warm and 
 dry; flannel underwear is essential. See 
 that the bowels are kept in good condition ; 
 avoid too much meat; drink milk. 
 
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 The first remedy in this painful affection 
 is Ferrum pliospli- It should be given 
 every hour until improvement shows itself. 
 If the joints are swollen, alternate with it 
 Kali mur. every two hours. For very vio- 
 lent pains, Magnesia pliospli. is to be used, 
 a dose every hour, stopping the other rem- 
 edies meanwhile. 
 
 Calcar. phosph. is the remedy when every 
 change of weather brings back rheumatic 
 pains. Take a tablet of the sixth potency 
 three times a day for some time. It fre- 
 quently hardens the system against taking 
 cold. 
 
 RINGWORM. This is a contagious dis- 
 ease caused by a vegetable parasite, and is 
 very common in children, but almost un- 
 known in adults. The parasite is a fungus 
 which attacks the hairs, burrowing into the 
 roots and producing circular patches having 
 a slightly raised and scurfy surface, the 
 hairs on which are dry, brittle, lustreless, 
 and broken off close to the scalp. Some- 
 
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 times there is a small pustule at the root of 
 each hair, which discharges a mucous fluid. 
 
 The treatment consists in the application 
 of Carbolated Vaseline and the internal 
 administration of Kali mur.. a dose three 
 times a day. 
 
 RICKETS (Rachitis) is an important dis- 
 eased condition in children, by which the 
 bones are illy nourished and become mal- 
 formed in consequence. The bones are 
 softer, owing to a lack of deposit of the 
 earthy constituents. It always begins du- 
 ring the first dentition. The usual symp- 
 toms are nightly restlessness, sweating 
 about the head, inability to walk or weak 
 legs, large wrists, weak spine, large open 
 fontanelles the bones of the head do not 
 close. There is great tendency to all kinds 
 of catarrhal complications, muscular debil- 
 ity and nervous symptoms. The teeth are 
 cut late, sometimes a year may pass before 
 the first teeth are through. 
 
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 The treatment of a rickety child requires 
 careful attention to details. The diet must 
 be regulated; sugar and starchy food must 
 be curtailed; Mellin's food, fresh cow's 
 milk, broths, plenty of fresh air; sunlight 
 and cleanliness must be found in the nur- 
 sery; warm clothing, combination flannels, 
 warm shoes and stockings are all very nec- 
 essary; massage, salt water baths, inunction 
 of oil are useful aids. A course of the Tis- 
 sue Remedies will accomplish excellent 
 results. 
 
 Calcar. phos. is the principal remedy. 
 The bones are soft; child is emaciated, 
 sweats profusely, is weak and cold ; may 
 have diarrhoea, sallow, earthy complexion, 
 etc. It is best to give it continuously in 
 the food, beginning with tablets of the first 
 or second trituratiori and putting one in all 
 its food; later, give the third and sixth 
 potency about three times a day. This 
 remedy may be given in alternation with 
 any other that may be indicated. 
 
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 Natrum mur. Especially when the neck 
 is very thin and the thighs, also, are much 
 emaciated. 
 
 Silica. Head large, rest of body greatly 
 wasted away; abdomen swollen, hot; ankles 
 weak; offensive diarrhoea; child very ner- 
 vous, sensitive, irritable, cold tendency to 
 boils; child feels better when wrapped up 
 very warmly. 
 
 Natrum phospli. This remedy is espe- 
 cially useful for poorly nourished children, 
 when there is much acidity, sour-smelling 
 stools, perspiration, etc. ; stools often clay- 
 colored. A dose of the selected remedy 
 should be given four times a day and per- 
 severed with for w^eeks, or until marked 
 improvement shows itself. 
 
 SCARLET FEVER (Scarlatina). A pecu- 
 liar scarlet rash upon the skin, with fever 
 and sore throat. It is infectious and con- 
 tagious; usually commencing with fever, 
 pains in the throat, and vomiting. On the 
 first or second day, or sometimes a little 
 
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 later, a scarlet redness of the skin appears, 
 in large, smooth glassy spots, first on the 
 throat and then on the face and neck, from 
 whence it spreads over the whole body, 
 and usually continues until the fifth or 
 sixth day. The redness disappears on 
 slight pressure, but as quickly returns 
 when the finger is removed. The fever is 
 often accompanied with an affection of the 
 kidneys, more frequently with severe dis- 
 ease of the throat and neck, or of some 
 internal organ, and is often followed by 
 dropsy. It generally occurs only once dur- 
 ing life. It comes out within a week of 
 exposure to the infection. 
 
 The patient with scarlet fever must be 
 separated. It is contagious from the initial 
 sore throat until the last branny scales have 
 been removed. Six weeks quarantine is 
 not unusual. 
 
 The treatment must always be superin- 
 tended by a physician. It is a dangerous 
 disease, though epidemics differ greatly in 
 intensity. The most careful attention to 
 
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 nursing and diet are absolutely necessary 
 to ensure recovery. Remedies play but a 
 minor role in the treatment. For the sim- 
 ple forms, nothing outside of the hourly 
 administration of Ferrum plios. is required. 
 This can alwa3 7 s be relied upon until the 
 physician can be called in to take full 
 charge of the case. For the severer types 
 Kali mur.j Kali pJws. and Calc. pJios. are 
 required. 
 
 SCIATICA. A most painful neuralgic 
 affection of the large nerve supplying the 
 leg, often very obstinate and dependent 
 frequently upon constitutional defects. In 
 the treatment, great attention must be paid 
 to the condition of the bowels, as a loaded 
 colon alone suffices to greatly aggravate the 
 pain, also to the condition of the foot ap- 
 parel, sometimes heavy shoes or boots, and 
 warm stockings going far to cure an attack. 
 
 Kali plios. Pain down back of thigh to 
 knee, great restlessness, moving about 
 gently gives some relief for a time. 
 
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 Natrum sulpJi.In gouty patients, pain 
 in hip-joint, worse moving about or raising 
 from a seat. 
 
 Natrum mur. Chronic cases. Pains 
 better by heat, worse right side, hip and 
 knee; hamstrings feel contracted. 
 
 Magnes plios. When the pains are very 
 severe. Given in hot water, it will often 
 mitigate them. 
 
 A dose of the selected remedy may be 
 given hourly or oftener, if pains are severe; 
 when less acute, a dose four times a day 
 will prove sufficient. For very obstinate 
 cases Calc. Phos. and Silica may be tried. 
 
 ST. TITUS DANCE (Chorea.) A disease of 
 the nervous system characterized by twitch- 
 ings and involuntary movements of certain 
 groups of muscles, especially of the face. 
 The disease is often associated with rheu- 
 matism, anemia, worms and as a result of 
 mere imitation. 
 
 REMEDIES. Magnes pliosph. and Calcar 
 pliosph. are the principal remedies. For the 
 
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 acute attacks, give a dose of Calcar phos. 
 morning and night, and Magnes plws. every 
 two hours during the day. When improve- 
 ment sets in, give one dose of each daily, 
 one in the morning and the other at night. 
 
 SHINGLES. An eruption of vesicles in 
 small distinct clusters, with red margins 
 which spread around the body like a girdle 
 or belt, most commonly at the waist, and 
 is attended with heat and itching and often 
 with acute pain of a neuralgic character, 
 vesicles do not burst but change color and 
 dry up. In its chronic form it is obstinate 
 and difficult of cure. 
 
 TREATMENT. Powder the parts with corn 
 starch after applying a little vaseline and 
 take Kali mur. and Natrum mur. in alter- 
 nation, a dose every two hours. If the 
 pain is severe substitute Kali pliospli, a dose 
 every hour. 
 
 SLEEPLESSNESS (Insomnia) is an early 
 symptom of an exhausted condition of the 
 
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 nervous system and should be treated by 
 looking to the general health. Avoid men- 
 tal work, especially in the evening; stimu- 
 lants, especially coffee, but see that the 
 patient does not go to bed hungry. Often 
 a cup of beef-tea or hot milk at bedtime 
 will ensure a good night's rest. See that 
 the feet are warm when retiring; if neces- 
 sary, put a hot water bag in the bed. 
 
 The best general remedy is Kali phos. 
 It may be taken with advantage in hot 
 milk on retiring for the night. 
 
 Silica may be taken during the day, if 
 the patient is nervous and excitable and 
 chilly. A dose three times a day. 
 
 SMALL-POX (Yariola). Small-pox com- 
 mences with fever, accompanied with nau- 
 sea and vomiting, severe pains in the back 
 and loins, bad smell from the mouth, and 
 frequently with tenderness of the abdomen 
 on pressure. On the fourth day the erup- 
 tion makes its appearance, first on the face 
 and hairy scalp, then on the neck, and 
 
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 afterwards over the whole body. At first, 
 the eruption has the form of small, red, 
 hard, and pointed elevations, which increase 
 and enlarge during the next three days, 
 forming into small vesicles on the top of 
 each pimple, depressed in the centre, hav- 
 ing an inflamed base, and being filled with 
 a clear fluid. On the eighth or ninth da}' 
 the eruption is at its height, after which 
 time the pustules commence to dry up and 
 scab in the order in which they make their 
 appearance. The pustules sometimes run 
 into each other, and form large, continuous, 
 suppurating surfaces. The eruption on the 
 skin passes through the stages of pimple, 
 vesicle, pustule, scab, and leaves marks on 
 the site of exudation. The disease gener- 
 ally exhausts the susceptibility of the con- 
 stitution to another attack and is highly 
 contagious. 
 
 TREATMENT. The patient's room should 
 be cool, thoroughly ventilated, and dark- 
 ened; some antiseptic should be used free- 
 ly, either on cloth dipped in the solutions 
 
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 or in the form of spray. Cool, fresh air 
 should be admitted several times a day, and 
 the patient should lie on a mattress and be 
 lightly covered. The linen should be fre- 
 quently changed, and the free use of cool- 
 ing drinks allowed. The diet during the 
 feverish symptoms should be spare and 
 light barley-water, thin gruel, etc. ; and 
 if there is no diarrhoea, roasted apples, 
 stewed primes, and the like. When conva- 
 lescence sets in, beef-tea and chicken-broth 
 should be given. Toast-water and oatmeal- 
 water may be used as beverages which, 
 with the diet, should be more cold than 
 warm. To allay irritation and prevent pit- 
 ting, the pustules should be painted with 
 glycerine or starch. 
 
 PREVENTIVE TREATMENT. Vaccination is 
 the only effectual preventive against small- 
 pox, or if it does not prevent, it will cer- 
 tainly modify its course. 
 
 Kali mur. is the principal remedy; it 
 controls the formation of pustules* 
 
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 Kali sulph. may be given to promote the 
 formation of healthy skin and the falling 
 off of the crusts. Use the 3rd trit unit ion, 
 a dose every three hours. 
 
 SORE THROAT. An inflammatory con- 
 dition of the back part of the mouth, 
 (throat, palate, and tonsils), with difficulty 
 of swallowing, impeded respiration, and 
 more or less fever. It may differ greatly in 
 intensity, from the slightest irritation in 
 the throat, which vanishes quickly, to 
 cases of great severity ending in abscess and 
 suppuration, and obstructing respiration to 
 an alarming extent. See Tonsilitis. 
 
 TREATMENT. Use a wet compress around 
 the throat; gargle with claret and water 
 and take Ferrum plws., a dose every half 
 hour, if the throat is red, inflamed, painful; 
 burning in throat. Useful for the sore 
 throats of singers and those who use 
 the voice much. Tendency to evening 
 hoarseness. 
 
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 Kali mur. When tonsils swell. Ulcera- 
 ted sore throat. Granular pharyngitis. 
 Tough mucus in throat. 
 
 Natrum mur. Sore throat of smokers 
 and after nitrate of silver treatment. Throat 
 feels constricted with stitches. Chronic 
 sore throat with feeling of a plug or lump 
 and great drjness. 
 
 Calcara fluor. Relaxed sore throat, 
 uvula too long, tickling in throat. Hawk- 
 ing of mucus early in the morning. Burn- 
 ing in throat. 
 
 Of the selected remedy, take a dose 
 every hour in acute cases, for more chronic 
 types, a dose three times a day. 
 
 SPASMS are usually met with in domes- 
 tic practice in children, who are of a 
 nervous organization, and have been sub- 
 jected to errors in diet. The first thing 
 to do is to get rid of the offending cause, 
 hence an injection or even vomiting may 
 be resorted to. A hot bath is always indi- 
 cated. After these things have been at- 
 
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 tended to, give Magnes. phos. dissolved in 
 hot water every few minutes for a few 
 doses. This may be followed by Calcar. 
 phos., especially if the Mag. phos. fails to 
 give entire relief. Gale phos. is especially 
 indicated in convulsions from teething 
 without fever. Fits during development 
 in childhood. In anemic, pale patients, 
 cramps and convulsive movements of all 
 kinds. 
 
 A dose three times a day beginning 
 with the third trituration, and after some 
 time substituting the sixth and higher. 
 
 SPINAL IRRITATION is shown by back- 
 ache, weakness, painful spine, headache, 
 impaired digestion, etc., frequently found 
 in hysterical subjects. A course of the 
 Tissue Remedies, together with attention 
 to the general health, massage, salt water 
 baths, will be of great benefit. The chief 
 remedies are 
 
 Natrum mur., especially when the pa- 
 tient is easily fatigued, weakness from the 
 
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 slightest exertion, restless, pain in back 
 and head, spine very sensitive. Salty 
 taste and repugnance to food; vision be- 
 comes dim after reading; skin dry and 
 harsh, mouth dry; feet heavy; back feels 
 broken ; bladder weak, dribbling of urine. 
 
 Silica. Spinal irritation of children de- 
 pending on worms. Nape of neck stiff 
 burning in back. Patient very sensitive to 
 every impression, feels better from warmth 
 in general. 
 
 Kali phos. may be given in alternation 
 with either of these remedies as a general 
 nerve food. A powder may be taken three 
 times a day, half an hour before eating. 
 
 TEETHING. Dentition. There is no 
 doubt that the teething process does pre- 
 dispose the child to various disturbances; 
 it renders it more sensitive and open to all 
 sorts of impressions and morbid influences. 
 There is more or less restlessness, sleepless- 
 ness, fever, bowel disturbance and skin 
 irritation. Look to the general physical 
 
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 comfort of the child, warm clothing, suffi- 
 cient but not too much bed clothing, reg- 
 ular bathing, good air, sunny room, daily 
 exercise in the open air, if the weather 
 permits, etc. Suitable food, of which 
 mother's milk is the best of course, is of 
 paramount importance. In the absence of 
 mother's milk, cow's milk modified by the 
 addition of barley-water is one of the best 
 substitutes. When the teeth begin to ap- 
 pear, a crust of bread and broth may be 
 given in addition, though milk should be 
 the principal article of diet for the first 
 four years. There is nothing more certain 
 than the favorable influence of some of the 
 Tissue Remedies in regulating this import- 
 ant time in the child's life. Among them 
 none is of greater and wider influence than 
 Calcar. plios. If the teeth are rather late 
 in erupting, it should be given to hasten 
 development. It is the remedy for all 
 troublesome ailments during dentition; es- 
 pecially useful in flabby, emaciated chil- 
 dren who are apt to have loose bowels and 
 
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 suffer from stomach troubles. Give a pow- 
 der of the third trituration in the food 
 three times a day. It may be advantage- 
 ously followed by 
 
 Calcar. fluor., which also greatly facili- 
 tates dentition; indicated when there is 
 vomiting and spasms, incessant crying, etc. 
 
 Magnes.phos. In convulsive cases, much 
 twitching of muscles or complete spasms; 
 colic and loose bowels call for it. Should 
 be given after every stool and during spas- 
 modic symptoms every few minutes. 
 
 THRUSH. Sore-mouth. (Aphthoe). A dis- 
 ease of infants, and also one of which is 
 peculiar to the last stage of chronic disea- 
 ses, consisting of white, spongy and sloughy 
 ulcers, resembling loose skin on the tongue, 
 palate, throat ; and sometimes, when severe, 
 extending throughout the intestinal canal; 
 often caused by want of cleanliness, or bad, 
 or unsuitable food. 
 
 TREATMENT. Liquid and cool food alone 
 must be given. Keep the mouth scrupu- 
 
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 lously clean with a solution of Boracic acid, 
 or Listerine. 
 
 Kali mur. and Natrum pliospli. are the 
 remedies which may be given alternately 
 every hour dissolved in water. 
 
 TONGUE. The appearance of the tongue 
 gives very valuable indications for the use 
 of the Tissue Remedies. Sometimes it 
 alone, when very marked, may lead to the 
 right remedy. The most marked appear- 
 ances characteristic of each remedy are the 
 following: 
 
 Kali mur. Tongue swollen; coating 
 white, grayish, shining. 
 
 Kali plios. Tongue excessively dry, 
 brown. Edges red and sore. 
 
 Kali sulph. Coating yellow, slimy with 
 insipid, pappy taste. 
 
 Natrum mur. Clean, moist tongue, sen- 
 sation of a hair on tongue. Feels dry, but 
 is not. Small bubbles of frothy saliva 
 cover the sides and tips. 
 
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 Natrum pkos. Coating at the base moist, 
 creamy or golden yellow. 
 
 Calcar fluor. Cracked appearance of 
 tongue. 
 
 TONSILITIS (Quinsy). Inflammation and 
 swelling of the tonsils, at times going on to 
 formation of pus. Usually the result of 
 cold. There seems to be a special predis- 
 position to it in certain persons, which can 
 only be eradicated by constitutional treat- 
 ment. 
 
 REMEDIES. Kali mur. is the principal 
 remedy. Give a dose every hour. 
 
 Calcar. sulpli. If pus forms, it may then 
 be alternated with the former. 
 
 Besides the remedies, ice is very grate- 
 ful. Ice-cream will be found a good food. 
 
 TONSILS, ENLARGED. A very common 
 affection of childhood, often interfering 
 with breathing with mouth closed. Before 
 resorting to cutting, which is so popular 
 nowadays, a course of internal medication 
 
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 should be given a chance to cure radically. 
 Frequently a few weeks' treatment will 
 accomplish the result. 
 
 The principal remedy is Calcar. pJws. 
 Chronic swelling of the tonsils, causing 
 pain on opening mouth, difficulty in swal- 
 lowing and deafness, husky voice. Give 
 the 2x trituration, one tablet four* times a 
 day for two weeks; then substitute the 3x, 
 and later the 6th given in the same way. 
 
 TOOTHACHE. --Pain in one or more 
 teeth, which varies extremely in degree, 
 duration, and character, frequently extend- 
 ing to the face, ears, neck, and head, and 
 often resulting from pregnancy, decayed 
 teeth, extremes or sudden changes of tem- 
 perature, cold, rheumatism, indigestion, 
 or from hot or cold, sweet or sour articles 
 of food or drink, etc. 
 
 REMEDIES. Ferrum phospJi., when there 
 is heat and redness in the cheek and when 
 pain is relieved by cold drinks. 
 
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 Natrum mur.. when the pain is associated 
 with profuse flow of tears or of saliva. 
 
 Magnes. plios., when the pains are re- 
 lieved by the application of heat and warm 
 drinks. 
 
 Silica^ when the pains seem to be deep 
 in the jaw. 
 
 Cakar. fluor., when gum boil forms or 
 other hard swelling. 
 
 DOSE. A powder of the selected remedy 
 should be given every half or quarter of an 
 hour. When improvement sets in, not so 
 often. 
 
 TUMORS. Nothing proves the efficiency 
 of constitutional treatment by means of the 
 Tissue Remedies more than the disappear- 
 ance of growths and tumors after a course of 
 this treatment. Not all yield ; probably none 
 in the latter stages of their development, 
 but many in the earlier stages; and it is 
 certain that surgical measures should not 
 be decided upon until a few months treat- 
 ment have been tried. The indications for 
 
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 the following remedies are based on the 
 experience of many physicians and cannot 
 be gainsaid. 
 
 Kali pJios.,, has been found of much use in 
 cancer, for the pain, offensive discharge and 
 debility. 
 
 Kali sulpli., in Epithelioma, cancer on 
 the skin near a mucous lining, with dis- 
 charge of thin, mattery secretion, 
 
 Calcar. phos. Cysts of all sorts require 
 this remedy. Goitre, weeping sinew, house- 
 maid's knee, etc., all yield to this drug. 
 
 Cak.fluor. Hard tumors. Knots, ker- 
 nels ; hardened glands in the breast. Indu- 
 rated lumps. 
 
 Silica. Enlarged glands; swellings, 
 lumps that are hard but threaten to sup- 
 purate. 
 
 The selected remedy should be taken 
 persistently for several weeks, two or 
 three times a day and in varying potencies. 
 
 ULCERS. Here, too, the administration 
 of internal remedies does more than all lo- 
 
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 cal measures ever accomplished. These are 
 riot to be neglected, but healthy action is 
 greatly furthered by the concomitant use 
 of the Tissue Remedies. The chief one is 
 Silica. Always indicated in suppurative 
 processes, glandular swellings with suppu- 
 ration. Ulcers of the lowar limbs; spongy, 
 easily bleeding ulcers; sluggish ulcers, in 
 hard worked and ill-fed persons. Ulcera- 
 tion following abrasion of the skin over HIP 
 shin-bone. 
 
 Begin with the third trituration dissolved 
 in water and take a dose three or four 
 times daily. Then gradually substitute 
 the sixth and later the twelfth trituration. 
 
 URINARY TROUBLES. Disturbance in 
 the normal action of the urinary apparatus, 
 met with in domestic practice, shows itself 
 more frequently as incontinence, or too fre- 
 quent, sometimes too scant arid more or less 
 painful urination. The causes may be va- 
 rious: colds, errors in diet, rectal troubles; 
 and, in women, displacements of the womb 
 
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 are frequent causes. Any pronounced and 
 persistent change should receive the atten- 
 tion of a physician. The urinary symp- 
 toms of the following remedies are well do- 
 fined, and whenever present will often yield 
 to the corresponding remedy: 
 
 Ferrum phos. One of the best remedies 
 for wetting of the bqd in children and in- 
 continence of urine, when every cough 
 causes the urine to spurt. Inflammation of 
 the bladder; irresistible urging to urinate, 
 aggravated by standing, with smarting and 
 pain. 
 
 Kaliplu>&. Wetting of the bed in older 
 children. Incontinence in old people; 
 scalding, bloody urine; itching of urethra. 
 
 Maqnes ^>/ios. Spasmodic retention of 
 urine. Gravel. 
 
 Natrum plios. Chief remedy in catarrh 
 of thu bladder. Much mucus in urine; 
 frequent urination; diabetes. 
 
 Natrum sulph. Sandy deposit, gravel, 
 brick-dust sediment. Especially useful in 
 
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 gouty patients. This remedy is advanta- 
 geously followed by 
 
 Galcar phos. Tendency to stone in the 
 bladder; flocculent sediment. 
 
 Natrum mur. Cutting in urethra, and 
 after urinating; much and frequent urine; 
 involuntary, after coughing, when walking, 
 etc., etc. 
 
 VACCINATION. Should any ill effects 
 show themselves after vaccination, Kali 
 mur. and Silica will neutralize them; a dose 
 of one in the morning and the other at 
 night. 
 
 VAKICOSE VEINS. Enlarged veins, more 
 especially in the legs, and occurring fre- 
 quently during pregnancy. They are dis- 
 colored, knotty, and sometimes become 
 very painful, and may burst, if neglected. 
 
 Ferrum phos. is a powerful vein remedy. 
 Varicose veins in young persons; throbbing 
 in the parts. 
 
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 Calcar. fluor. is the chief remedy for all 
 forms of varicose veins. Sharp, piercing 
 pains, burning soreness, even ulceration of 
 the veins. Use the sixth trituration, three 
 times a day. Sometimes a local applica- 
 tion of a solution of the 2d trituration, in 
 water, will be of much benefit. 
 
 VERTIGO is a symptom of various dis- 
 eased conditions; may be caused by gastric 
 disorders as well as disturbed states of the 
 circulation. 
 
 REMEDIES. If due to congestion of the 
 brain, shown by hot head, full pulse, etc., 
 give Ferrum phosph., a dose every two 
 hours. If due to anemic condition, give 
 Calcar. phos., a dose three times a day. If 
 due to gastric disorders, consult the rem- 
 edies there indicated. 
 
 Kali plios. in the aged; vertigo worse 
 rising or looking up; nervous causes; run- 
 down states of the system. 
 
 Natrum sulph., with biliousness and bit- 
 ter taste; excess of bile. 
 
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 VOICE, LOSS OF. Usually from cold or 
 over use of voice. Rest, warm drinks, and 
 Ferrum pJws. every hour, usually soon re- 
 store the voice. 
 
 VOMITING. BILIOUS VOMITING. See un- 
 der "Bilious Attacks.' 1 
 
 THE VOMITING OF BLOOD. This symptom, 
 if it be not a symptom of consumption, 
 may arise from a weakness brought on by 
 some exceptional cause, such as straining, 
 a blow on the stomach, overheating, etc. 
 Spitting or coughing up of blood may pre- 
 sent itself in various degrees of severity, 
 and may or may not be a dangerous symp- 
 tom, sometimes arising from the ulcerative 
 process in consumptom; but at other times 
 it may be constitutional, caused by exter- 
 nal circumstances, such as quick running, 
 violent exercise, lifting, etc. Care should 
 be taken to examine whether the blood 
 coughed or hawked up is from the lungs 
 or stomach, or merely from the nose, or 
 back part of the mouth or throat. Call a 
 
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 physician to determine this. Give cold 
 drinks and dissolve a powder of Ferrum 
 phos., third trituration, in a glass of ice- 
 water and give teaspoonful doses every five 
 minutes until better, then every hour. 
 
 VOMITING is a frequent symptom in 
 children from errors in diet or at the be- 
 ginning of acute diseases, notably brain 
 troubles; in adults it indicates diseases of 
 the stomach or kidneys, most commonly an 
 excess of bile, so-called biliousness. 
 
 In order to treat it successfully, the 
 whole patient must be taken into considera- 
 tion and the underlying complaint treated, 
 but the symptom is very marked in the 
 following remedies. 
 
 Silica. Child vomits as soon as it nur- 
 ses. Morning vomiting with chilliness. 
 
 Ferrum phos. Vomiting of food with 
 sour fluids, soon after eating; vomiting of 
 blood, bright red. 
 
 Kali mur. Vomiting of thick, white 
 phlegm. 
 
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 Natrum mur. Vomiting of sour fluid, 
 not food; curdled masses: dark substance, 
 like eoffee-gro.mds; of watery, stringy 
 transparent mucus. 
 
 Natrum ^9/ios. Vomiting of sour fluid 
 curdy masses with yellow coating of 
 tongue. 
 
 Natrum sulpli. Bilious vomiting with 
 bitter taste. Morning sickness, constant 
 nausea. 
 
 Oakar. phos. Vomiting after cold water 
 and ice-cream. Infants vomit often and 
 easily and want to nurse all the time. 
 Vomiting with teething troubles. 
 
 WRITER'S CRAMP is a functional ner- 
 vous trouble characterized by spasmodic, 
 tremulous, inco-ordinate or paralytic distur- 
 bance when the act of writing is attempted. 
 It is associated with some pain and fatigue. 
 It is a type of other cramps incident upon 
 certain occupations, Uke telegraphers, mu- 
 sicians, etc., who use one set of muscles 
 continuously and without sufficient rest. 
 
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 The treatment consists in rest largely, 
 massage and the administration of Natrum 
 plios. and Magnes. i^lios. A dose of one in 
 the morning and the other at night for 
 some weeks. If necessary, these may be 
 followed by Calcar. plios., especially where 
 there is cramplike pain in fingers and wrists, 
 
 WHOOPING COUGH. A convulsive cough, 
 accompanied with a shrill whoop, and re- 
 turning in fits which are frequently termi- 
 nated by vomiting of food and mucus. The 
 disease commences with cough, hoarseness, 
 and other symptoms of a common cold; and 
 in the second or third week, the cough pe- 
 culiar to this disorder makes its rppear- 
 aiice. The paroxysms usually occur every 
 two or three hours, and are often worse 
 during the night, or every other day. 
 Between the paroxysms, with the excep- 
 tion of being weak, the patient shows no 
 apparent symptoms of disease. 
 
 1. The Catarrhal Stage. SYMPTOMS. Those 
 of an ordinary cold sneezing, watery dis- 
 
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 charge from the nose, watery eyes, hoarse- 
 ness, dry cough, headache, oppression at the 
 chest, feverish nights, etc., lasting for two 
 or three w r eeks, 
 
 2. The Convulsive, or Whooping Stage. 
 
 SYMPTOMS. Violent paroxysms of cough of 
 a convulsive and suffocative character, and 
 distinguished by a peculiar whoop. The 
 face and neck are sometimes swollen and 
 livid, the e^yes protruded and full of tears. 
 The duration of the paroxysms varies from 
 one to five minutes, at the termination of 
 which there is often vomiting or expecto- 
 ration of food or ropy mucus. This stage 
 lasts from five to six weeks. 
 
 TREATMENT, The diet must be nourish- 
 ing and the strength of the patient well 
 kept up. Plenty of fresh air arid regular 
 exercise should be enjoined. Linseed tea, 
 or gum-arabic water will be found useful to 
 allay the irritability of the throat. All 
 sources of irritation and excitement should 
 be excluded from the invalid. 
 
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 Magnes pJios. is the principal remedy. It 
 should be given steadily, and will soon 
 greatly modify the disease. Dissolve a 
 powder of the third trituration in a glass 
 of water, and give teaspoonful doses every 
 two hours and after every coughing spell. 
 
 Calcar pJios. may be needed in weakly 
 constitutions, or in teething-children, and 
 in obstinate cases with emaciation. 
 
 WORMS, THREAD. Small worms resem- 
 bling ends of white cotton or thread, affect- 
 ing the last portion of the bowel, arid espe- 
 cially the rectum, causing great irritation, 
 especially at night, nervous derangement, 
 difficulty in making water, paleness of the 
 face ; picking of the nose, variation of the 
 appetite, etc. They may often be seen in 
 the child's stool, or crawling on the child's 
 person, 
 
 TREATMENT. Look to the diet; avoid too 
 much starchy and amylacious food, mushes, 
 etc. v >It may be necessary to give an occa- 
 sional injection of salt and water, one tea- 
 
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 spoonful to a quart of water, and afterwards 
 apply a little vaseline to the rectum. Keep 
 the parts immaculately clean. 
 
 Natrum pJws. is the principal remedy for 
 all kinds of worms round, long or thread 
 worms. There may be pain in the bowels, 
 restless sleep, picking at nose, acidity, 
 itching of rectum, grinding of teeth, etc. ; 
 all symptoms more or less present with this 
 trouble. This remedy probably acts by de- 
 stroying the excess of lactic acid, which 
 seems to be necessary for the life of these 
 worms. Give one tablet of the third po- 
 tency night and morning. 
 
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 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 CALCAREA FLUORICA (Fluoride of Lime). 
 
 This salt is found in the surface of the 
 bones and in the enamel of the teeth ; also 
 in the elastic fibres and skin. A disturb- 
 ance of the equilibrium of the molecules of 
 this salt, according to the theory of Bio- 
 chemistry, causes a relaxed condition and a 
 dilatation, interfering with Absorption and 
 hence favoring hardening and swelling of 
 the tissues. Enlarged veins, *piles, swollen 
 and hardened glands, tumors/ uterine dis- 
 placements, are conditions resulting from 
 such a cause. 
 
 SPECIAL SYMPTOMS CALLING FOR THE USE OF 
 CALCAR. FLUOR. Head: Lumps on head; 
 hard swellings; nasal troubles; stuffy cold; 
 bad odor with thick, lumpy discharge, 
 which is hard to detach, going back into 
 throat. 
 
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 Mouth and Throat: Gumboil with hard 
 swelling on the jaw; cold sores; throat 
 troubles, tickling from enlarged soft palate. 
 
 Stomach and Bowels: Hiccough and 
 vomiting; constipation and piles, swollen 
 and hard ; bleeding piles; itching of rectum; 
 internal piles, with backache : displacement 
 of the womb, indicated by dragging pains; 
 falling of womb; profuse menstruation. 
 
 Respiratory Organs: The chief remedy 
 in croup; dry, hoarse cough; tickling and 
 cough, with lumps of thick mucus. 
 
 Extremities and Skin: Enlarged veins; 
 chief remedy for varicose veins anywhere ; 
 blood tumors; gouty enlargements; crack- 
 ing in joints; weeping sinew; inflammation 
 of knee-joint; hardened glands; knots and 
 kernels, and tumors anywhere. 
 
 CORRESPONDING HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 Fluoric acid, Aurum and Silica. 
 
 For hard swellings: Baryta jod.^ Calcar. 
 jod. 
 
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 For offensive catarrh: Aurum and Kali 
 bich. 
 
 PREPARATION AND DOSE. The best pre- 
 paration for ordinary use is the sixth trit- 
 uration, of which a small powder size of a 
 bean may be taken dry on the tongue, three 
 times a day; or one tablet of the same 
 strength may be used instead. After one 
 week's use of the sixth, it is often advisa- 
 ble, in chronic cases, to substitute the 
 twelfth potency, used in a similar manner. 
 
 CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA ( Phosphate of 
 Lime,), This salt gives solidity co the 
 bones. It is absolutely essential to the 
 proper growth and nutrition of the body 
 and supplies the first basis for the new 
 tissues. An insufficient supply of Calcarea 
 phos. results in defective nutrition, imper- 
 fect growth and decay. It is of greatest 
 importance during dentition, in young, 
 rapidly growing children, at puberty, in 
 old age and especially after acute diseases, 
 
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 drains on the system and in inherited weak- 
 ness and disease tendencies, especially 
 scrofulous and tuberculous manifestations. 
 
 SPECIAL SYMPTOMS CALLING FOR THE USE OF 
 CALC. PHOS.- Head-. Peevish and fretful 
 state; impaired memory; vertigo, cold feel- 
 ing in head; headache, about puberty; 
 in infants, bones of head do not close; 
 scalp sore, itches, feels cold. 
 
 Eyes and Ears: Scrofulous inflammation 
 of eyes with spots on cornea; eye-troubles 
 in school children and at the time of pu- 
 berty; cannot use eyes by gas light; twitch- 
 ing of lids; bones around ear aches; ear 
 feels cold. 
 
 Face: Pimples; complexion sallow, 
 greasy ; face-ache. 
 
 Mouth and Throat : Bad taste ; teeth 
 develop slowly; difficult teething; glands 
 swollen; chronic enlargement of tonsils; 
 relaxed sore throat; sore throat with pain 
 on swallowing; constant hawking. 
 
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 Stomach; Flatulence and heartburn; 
 infant wants to nurse all time ; pains after 
 eating; craving for salted and smoked meat. 
 
 Abdomen : Stool is watery, offensive, 
 noisy; summer complaint; pain in rectum; 
 fistula. 
 
 Urinary and Sexual: Wetting of the bed ; 
 incontinence in old people ; diabetes ; gravel ; 
 uterine displacements, with rheumatic pains; 
 menses too early and too profuse. After pro- 
 longed nursing, leucorrhoea, etc., it acts as 
 a constitutional tonic. 
 
 Respiratory: Soreness of chest; cough 
 of consumptives; palpitation. 
 
 Extremities: Rheumatism; numb, cold 
 limbs; sore, aching, worse any change of 
 weather; languor, trembling and twitching: 
 anemia and chlorosis; rickets; flabby, ema- 
 ciated, sickly, ailing, backward children; 
 polypi; irregularity in development; lum- 
 bago, after the use of Ferrum phos; house- 
 maid's knee; bow-legs in children and 
 swelling of the joints. 
 
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 CORRESPONDING HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 China, Ruta and Symphytum. 
 
 As a remedy for the aged, Baryta is often 
 more valuable. 
 
 In children, Calcar. carb. is to be pre- 
 ferred, when they are fair, plump, sweat 
 much, with cold, damp feet much of the 
 time. 
 
 PREPARATION AND DOSE. For infants, the 
 best preparation is the third trituration, of 
 which one-quarter of a teaspoonf ul may be 
 dissolved in the milk twice a day, and given 
 thus with the food. This may be continued 
 throughout the teething period. For all 
 ordinary purposes, tablets of the third or 
 sixth potency, given three times a day, will 
 be found effective. For old patients, the 
 twelfth potency is best. 
 
 CALCAREA SULPHTJRICA (Gypsum). - 
 
 This salt is contained in the connective tis- 
 sue and it stands in close relation to sup- 
 purations. It cures at that stage, when 
 
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 suppuration continues too long. The pres- 
 ence of pus with a vent is the general indi- 
 cation. 
 
 SPECIAL INDICATIONS. Head: Scald head 
 of children; pimples and pustules on face; 
 cold in head with thick discharge; edges of 
 nostrils sore. 
 
 Respiratory: Cough with hectic fever; 
 obstinate hoarseness; bronchitis; consump- 
 tion; catarrh with thick, lumpy, pus-like 
 secretions; cough with herpetic eruptions. 
 
 Extremities: Backache; burning itching 
 of soles; herpetic eruptions all over; boils; 
 carbuncles; chilblains; abscesses; to shorten 
 the suppurative process; felons, ulcers, with 
 excessive granulations. 
 
 CORRESPONDING HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 Hepar and Silica. 
 
 Calcar sulph. resembles Ilepar, but acts 
 deeper and more intensely, and is often 
 useful after Hepar has ceased to act. Silica 
 is preferable in glands that suppurate. 
 
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 PREPARATION AND DOSE. Tablets of the 
 third potency every two hours in acute, 
 and three times a day in chronic, diseases. 
 
 FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM (Phosphate of 
 
 Iron). Iron is found in the red blood cor- 
 puscles most abundantly, but is contained 
 also in every cell. A disturbance of the 
 equilibrium of the iron molecules in the 
 muscular fibres causes a relaxed condition, 
 favoring congestion and haemorrhage. Iron 
 restores the tone, equalizes the circulation, 
 and abates the fever. All ailments of a 
 congestive nature, especially in children 
 who are dull and listless, failing appetite, 
 lose weight, etc. 
 
 Head and Face: Rush of blood to head ; 
 throbbing headaches; head sore to touch, 
 with eyes bloodshot, red, inflamed; florid 
 complexion; hot, red face; face-ache, with 
 flushed face, cheek sore and hot; cold ap- 
 plications are grateful; gums hot; teething 
 troubles, with feverislmess. 
 
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 Nose and Ears: First stage of all colds; 
 bleeding from nose; noises in ears; earache; 
 deafness. 
 
 Throat: Throat dry, red, inflamed, pain- 
 ful; first stage of diphtheria and ulcerated 
 throat. 
 
 Gastric symptoms: Thirst; vomiting of 
 food and blood; undigested stools; haemor- 
 rhoids arid dysentery. 
 
 Urinary symptoms, etc.: Wetting of the 
 bed ; frequeiri urination ; menses too early, 
 and frequent, and profuse; menstrual colic, 
 
 Respiratory symptoms: First remedy for 
 colds on the chest, especially in children. 
 Painful cough with fever; soreness of chest; 
 cough with emission of urine; cough with 
 bloody expectoration; bronchitis, pleurisy 
 and pneumonia in the first stage; croup; 
 loss of voice; hoarseness; huskiness after 
 talking or singing; whooping-cough with 
 vomiting; palpitation. 
 
 Back and Extremities: Stiff neck; lum- 
 bago; rheumatic pains anywhere, that are 
 
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 worse moving and better from warmth; 
 acute articular rheumatism. 
 
 CORRESPONDING HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 Aconite and Gelsernium: 
 
 Aconite has more restlessness, tossing 
 about and greater fever. 
 
 Gelsem., more drowsiness and languor. 
 
 In anemic conditions, China and Calcar. 
 phos. 
 
 In respiratory troubles, Bryonia and 
 Tartar emetic follow often. 
 
 PREPARATION AND DOSE. The best pre- 
 paration for acute conditions, in the begin- 
 ning of all acute diseases, is the third trit- 
 uration, of which a powder size of a bean 
 should be dissolved in a tumbler half full 
 of pure cold water, a teaspoonful of which 
 may be taken every quarter, half or hour, 
 according to the severity of the symptoms. 
 When improvement sets in, the interval 
 between the doses may be lengthened. 
 When the conditions are not very acute, 
 tablets of the sixth potency may be taken 
 every two hours. 
 
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 KALI MURIATICUM (Chloride of Potash). 
 
 This salt is found in the blood, nerve cells 
 and muscles. It stands in a chemical 
 relation to fibrin and corresponds to the 
 second stage of all inflammations. Croup- 
 ous and diphtheritic membranes, lymphatic 
 enlargements, discharges and expectora- 
 tions of thick, whitish matter. The prin- 
 cipal indications for the drug are such dis- 
 charges and white, greyish coating of the 
 tongue. The efficacy of this remedy is de- 
 monstrated in chronic catarrhal conditions, 
 croup, diphtheria, dysentery, pneumonia. 
 In alternation with Ferr. pJios. in coughs, 
 deafness from catarrh of the eustachian 
 tubes, skin eruptions with small vesicles 
 containing yellowish secretions, ulcerations 
 with swellings and white exudations; in 
 leucorrhoea with characteristic discharge, 
 etc. Symptoms in general are worse from 
 motion; the gastric and abdominal being 
 worse after taking pastry, rich and fatty 
 foods. 
 
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 Head symptoms: ' Sick headache; dand- 
 ruff and eruptions on scalp; chronic dis- 
 charge from ears; deafness and earache; 
 noises in ears; stuffy colds; thrush, canker 
 and rawness of mouth ; tongue coated gray- 
 ish, white and slimy. 
 
 Throat: It is useful in most cases of 
 diphtheria and specific for diphtheritic sore 
 throat; pharyngitis, tonsilitis; chronic sore 
 throat with deafness. 
 
 Gastric Symptoms: Dyspepisa with a 
 whitish gray tongue after rich food; vomi- 
 ting of white mucus; jaundice, sluggish 
 action of liver; constipation with furred 
 tongue; abdomen tender; diarrhoea after 
 fatty food; piles, especially bleeding, dysen- 
 tery. 
 
 Urinary and Sexual Organs: Inflamma- 
 tion of bladder; dark colored urine, with 
 sandy deposit; Urethritis, menses too late, 
 leucorrhoea, thick and bland; ulceration of 
 womb; morning sickness, and inflammation 
 of the breast. 
 
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 Respiratory Organs: Loss of voice; asth- 
 ma, cough, with thick, whitish expectora- 
 tion, croup, pleurisy and pneumonia after 
 Ferrum phos. 
 
 Back and Extremities: Rheumatism with 
 swelling around joints; rheumatic pains felt 
 only during motion, or at night in bed; 
 epilepsy. 
 
 Skin: Abscesses, boils, carbuncles, acne, 
 eczema, burns, cold sores, pimples, pustules, 
 warts, etc., all require a course of Kali mur., 
 chief remedy in glandula swellings, old 
 spasmodic conditions. 
 
 PREPARATION AND DOSE. This remedy acts 
 better in the lower potencies, from 2x to Gx. 
 In diphtheria and kindred affections it 
 should be given ten to fifteen grains in one- 
 half glass water every hour. Locally it 
 should be applied on lint dressing. 
 
 CORRESPONDING HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 Bryonia, Mercurius and Sulphur. Like 
 Sulphur, it is a deep acting remedy with 
 eradicating tendencies, useful as an inter- 
 
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 current medicine in the treatment of 
 chronic diseases. 
 
 KALI PHOSPHORICUM (Phosphate of Pot- 
 
 ash). This salt is a constituent of all ani- 
 mal fluids and tissues, notably of the brain 
 nerves, muscles and blood. It is an anti 
 septic and hinders the decay of tissues: 
 Nervous conditions known as neurasthenic, 
 is the field in which this salt has become 
 pre-eminent. The results of a want of 
 nerve power, as prostration, exertion, loss 
 of mental vigor, depression, brain-fag, 
 softening of the brain, and when there is 
 rapid decomposition of the blood. It is 
 curative in septic hemorrhages, scorbutic 
 gangrene, stomatitis, offensive carrion-like 
 diarrhoea or dysentery, adynamic or typ- 
 hoid conditions, incontinence of urine, 
 urticaria, predisposition to epistaxisin child- 
 ren, dizziness and vertigo from nervous 
 exhaustion; tongue coated as if spread with 
 dark liquid mustard. Many symptoms are 
 aggravated by noise ; by rising from a sit- 
 
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 ting position; by exertion, physical and 
 mental; pains worse in cold air; ameliorated 
 by gentle motion, eating, excitement, any- 
 thing in fact that will relieve the mind and 
 aid in restoring the lacking nerve force. 
 Typhoid and gastric fever, malignant con- 
 ditions. 
 
 Head 8ymptorns: Nervous dread, anx- 
 iety and fear; brain-fag; depressed spirits; 
 general irritability; impaired memory; dul- 
 ness, want of energy, hysteria, nervousness 
 and weakness; headaches of students and 
 those worn out; very sensitive to noise and 
 other impressions; confused feeling here 
 follow with Calc fluor., second trituration. 
 
 Gastric: Tongue dry ; feels as if it would 
 cleave to roof of mouth ; coated dark brown ; 
 edges sore and red; bleeding of gums; 
 hungry feeling; all gone sensation; con- 
 stant pain in pit of stomach; ^j^ulence; 
 diarrhoea, rectum sore, bowel prolapsed; 
 stools dark brown, bloody, offensive. 
 
 Back and Extremities: Paralytic condi- 
 tions; burning of feet, fidgety feeling, 
 
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 numbness and weakness; Neuralgic pains 
 anywhere with depression ; weakness, scia- 
 tica; cold aggravates all pains. 
 
 Respiratory Organs: Short breath, hoarse- 
 ness, faintness; intermittent and irregular 
 pulse, palpitation. 
 
 Urinary Organs: In wetting of the bed 
 of children, this remedy is often effective 
 when other remedies fail. Frequent uri- 
 nation in old people; diabetes with nervous 
 weakness; Bright's disease. Menses prema- 
 lure and profuse, black and offensive; dull 
 headache with menses, very tired and 
 sleepy, legs ache; pain in ovaries and across 
 lower part of back; yellow leucorrhoea. 
 
 PREPARATION AND DOSE. The lower po- 
 tencies seem to work best. Either the 
 third and sixth, or even the second tritu- 
 ration will answer all purposes. For acute 
 Conditions, take a powder, size of a lima 
 bean and dissolve in half a tumbler of 
 water, 'and take teaspoonful doses every 
 hour. For more chronic conditions, take one 
 
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 tablet of the third potency four times a 
 day. 
 
 CORRESPONDING HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 Rhus and Phosphorus, Pulsatilla and Igna- 
 tia. The nearest analogue is Rhus, for the 
 symptoms depending on blood changes, 
 while Phosphorus is more like it in the 
 nervous diseases. As a nerve sedative, 
 Kali phos. corresponds with Ignatia and 
 Coffea. In menstrual headaches Gelsemium 
 Pulsatilla and Cirnicifuga. 
 
 KALI SULPHURICUM (Sulphate of Potash). 
 
 The skin and mucus membrane is largely 
 under the influence of this salt. It is 
 especially called for in the late stages of all 
 inflammations. In profuse desquamation. 
 In all conditions accompanied by a yellow 
 mucous discharge or caused by suppression 
 of eruptions or discharge. When the pa- 
 tient is worse towards evening and better 
 in the open air. 
 
 Head: Dizziness arid headache, worse in 
 warm room and in the evening; dandruff 
 
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 and scaldhead; eruptions on scalp; colds, 
 with yellow, slimy matter; old catarrhs, 
 nose obstructed lost smell; offensive dis- 
 charge. 
 
 Gastric Symptoms: Burning thirst; cat- 
 arrh of stomach with yellow, slimy coated 
 tongue; pressure as of a load in stomach; 
 dread of hot drinks; yellow, slimy diarrhoea, 
 with colic; habitual constipation. 
 
 Urinary and Sexual: Slimy, yellow or 
 greenish discharge from urethra or from 
 vagina. 
 
 Respiratory Organs: Bronchial asthma 
 and catarrh, worse in warm season; cough 
 worse in the evening; great rattling in the 
 chest; rattling of mucus with cough; suffo- 
 cative feeling in hot atmosphere; desire for 
 cool air. 
 
 Extremities : Rheumatic pains in back 
 and extremities, shifting, wandering, set- 
 tling in one place, then in another. 
 
 Skin: Inactive skin; chafing of skin; 
 scaly tetters; ivy-poison; nettle rash; burn- 
 
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 ing, itching eruptions; diseased nails; ery- 
 sipelas; eczema and cancerous growth; 
 polypi. 
 
 PREPARATION AND DOSE. When used ex- 
 ternally for dandruff and skin, use the first 
 trituration dissolved in water, one tea- 
 spoonful to one pint. Internally, tablets of 
 the sixth every three hours will meet most 
 conditions. 
 
 CORRESPONDING HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 Pulsatilla is the nearest analogue. Kali 
 sulph. often follows very advantageously 
 Kali mur. and Pulsatilla. 
 
 MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA (Phosphate of 
 
 Magnesia).- -This salt is a constituent of 
 muscles and nerves. It causes contraction 
 in muscular fibres and hence its use in 
 cramps, convulsions and other nervous dis- 
 turbances. Pains anywhere that are re- 
 lieved by warmth and pressure. It is the 
 great antispasmodic remedy. 
 
 Head: Pain in head always relieved by 
 warm applications; neuralgia with chilli- 
 
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 ness after mental labor; neuralgia around 
 eyes, worse on right side; earache worse 
 from cold air or caused by washing in cold 
 water; faceache, worse touch, cold wind, 
 washing, better by application of heat; 
 convulsive twitching of facial muscles or 
 eyelids; toothache; complaints of teething 
 children, especially spasmodic symptoms. 
 
 Gastric Symptoms: Hiccough, heartburn, 
 gastralgia, flatulent dyspepsia; flatulent colic 
 relieved by warmth and pressure ; abdomen 
 bloated; watery diarrhoea with cramps; 
 constipation of infants, with spasmodic pain 
 at every attempt at stool with much gas. 
 
 Female Symptoms: Menstrual colic; pain 
 precedes flow; intermittent; ovarian neu- 
 ralgia; membranous discharge with menses; 
 menses too early, dark, fibrous. 
 
 Respiratory Organs: Whooping cough, 
 best remedy; any spasmodic cough, worse 
 at night and on lying down; oppression of 
 chest; constriction of chest and throat; 
 .angina pectoris; nervous palpitation. 
 
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 Back and Extremities: Neuralgic pains; 
 intercostal neuralgia: tingling sensations; 
 feet very tender; cramps in calves; neural- 
 gia in limbs with muscular contractions; 
 languid and exhausted feeling; chorea; bad 
 effects from stimulants. 
 
 PREPARATION AND DOSE. This remedy 
 acts best when given in hot water. Dissolve 
 a powder of the third trituration in a cup 
 of hot water and drink while warm. In 
 severe pain it may be advisable to use the 
 first or second trituration in the same way. 
 For colic in infants, the thirtieth potency 
 given in hot water acts best. 
 
 CORRESPONDING HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 The most striking resemblance of its action 
 is to Colocynthis which may be used with it 
 in colic and neuralgic affections. In spas- 
 modic symptoms, Belladonna is similar. In 
 female complaints, it is very similar to 
 Puhatilla and Oimicifuga 
 
 NATRUM MURIATICUM (Chloride of Sodi- 
 um or Common Salt). This is a constituent 
 
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 of every liquid and solid of the body. It 
 regulates the degree of moisture within the 
 cells. Wherever we find a hypersecretion 
 of the watery elements of the body, with 
 simultaneous want of activity in some 
 other portion of the mucous membranes, 
 you will find Natrum mur. the remedy. It 
 acts upon the lymphatic system, the blood, 
 liver, spleen, and upon the mucous lining 
 of the alimentary canal. Natrum mur. is 
 indicated in headache, toothache, faceache, 
 stomachache, etc., where there is either 
 salivation or hypersecretion of tears, or 
 vomiting of water and mucus; also catar- 
 rhal affections of mucous membranes, with 
 secretion of transparent, watery, frothy 
 mucus; also small watery blisters, breaking 
 and leaving a thin crust; diarrhoea, trans- 
 parent, glossy, slimy stools; conjunctivitis 
 with discharge of tears and clear mucus; 
 tongue clear, slimy, small bubbles of frothy 
 saliva on sides; leucorrhoea, watery, smart- 
 ing or clear, starch-like discharge, etc., etc. 
 
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 Head: Very depressed in spirit, hypo- 
 chondriacal mood with constipation, and 
 brain-fag; hammering headache worse in 
 morning; sick headache with constipation; 
 muscles of neck feel weak; itching erup- 
 tion on margin of hair at the nape of neck ; 
 inflamed. eyelids; neuralgia around eyes; 
 impaired vision; old nasal catarrh; loss of 
 smell and taste; sallow complexion; cold 
 sores on lips. 
 
 Gastric symptoms : Waterbrash ; raven- 
 ous hunger, violent thirst; aversion to 
 bread; heartburn; offensive breath; con- 
 stipation, smarting after stool; piles and 
 fissures. 
 
 Urinary: Frequent urination; catarrh of 
 bladder; burning and soreness in vagina 
 after urinating; very melancholic about the 
 time of menses; prolapse and smarting leu- 
 corrhoea. 
 
 Back and Extremities: Backache better 
 by lying on something hard; pain in hip; 
 weakness of legs; cracking of joints. 
 
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 PREPARATION AND DOSE. General experi- 
 ence has taught that the best results are 
 obtained when given in the higher poten- 
 cies, 30x to 200, although some advocate 
 the 3x and 6x potencies. For general use, 
 it is best to begirt with the sixth potency, 
 and if, improvement does not soon show 
 itself, give the thirtieth, a dose night and 
 morning. Locally for stings and as a gar- 
 gle, the crude salt or first trituration may 
 be used. 
 
 CORRESPONDING HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 Sepia arid Sulphur. These frequently are 
 of service after Natrum mur. For the ill- 
 effects of excessive use of salt in food, give 
 
 Phosphorus 30. 
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 NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM (Phosphate of 
 
 soda)- This salt is found in the blood, mus- 
 cles and nerve cells and in the inter-cellu- 
 lar fluids. Through its presence, condi- 
 tions arising from excess of lactic acid are 
 prevented. It serves to emulsify fatty 
 acids and is therefore a remedy for all dys- 
 
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 peptic conditions traceable to fats. This 
 is the remedy in all cases where there is an 
 excess of acidity. Acts also upon the bow- 
 els, glands, lungs and abdominal organs. It 
 cures sour belchings arid rising of fluids; 
 sour vomiting; greenish, sour-smelling 
 diarrhoea, colic, spasms, fever from acidity 
 of the stomach in children; ague with 
 characteristic coating of tongue; eyes dis- 
 charging a yellow creamy matter; gastric 
 derangements with acidity and flatulence; 
 indigestion, intestinal worms, etc. A cha- 
 racteristic indication is a moist, thick, gold- 
 en-yellow coating on the tongue and palate. 
 
 Head: Giddiness, with gastric derange- 
 ments; sick headaches with sour vomiting. 
 
 Gastric: Yellow, creamy coating at the 
 back part of roof of mouth and on tongue; 
 grinding of teeth. Acidity, sour risings; 
 pain after food; nausea and vomiting; 
 flatulence, colic with acidity; stomach-ache 
 from presence of worms; itching of rectum. 
 
 Respiratory. A useful intercurrent rem- 
 edy in catarrhal troubles associated with 
 
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 acidity. Pain in chest from pressure and 
 breathing; consumption; palpitation, pulse 
 felt in different parts of body. 
 
 Back and Extremities ; Weak feeling; 
 legs give way while walking; pain in 
 knees and ankles; aching wrists. 
 
 PREPARATION OF DOSE.- The best general 
 preparation are tablets of the sixth tritura- 
 tion. For children, pellets of the thirtieth 
 potency have been found very efficacious. 
 
 CORRESPONDING HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 Calcar. carb. and Rheum, especially for 
 children where there is much acid condi- 
 tion of stomach and bowels. 
 
 NATRUM SULPHURICUM (Glauber's Salt). 
 
 This salt does not appear in the cells, 
 only in the inter-cellular fluids. It aids 
 and regulates the excretion of superfluous 
 water. Gastric bilious conditions, dropsy, 
 liver diseases, results of living in damp, low 
 dwellings or regions, uric acid diathesis, 
 all are benefited by this remedy. The 
 
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 chief characteristic symptom is the appear- 
 ance of the tongue dirty, greenish brown. 
 
 Head : Sick headache with bilious diar- 
 rhoea; violent pain at base of brain; mental 
 troubles arising from injuries to the head. 
 
 Gastric: Bitter taste; mouth * full of 
 slime, thick and tenacious, must hawk it 
 up; tongue coated dirty, brownish, vomi- 
 ting of bile ; flatulent colic, diarrhoea, stools 
 dark, bilious, worse in morning, particu- 
 larly after wet weather; great size of the 
 foscal mass; aching in region of liver. 
 
 Urinary. Chief remedy in diabetes; 
 sandy deposit in urine like brick-dust in 
 the water. 
 
 Respiratory. Asthma, worse in damp 
 weather, cough with thick, ropy expectora- 
 tion; bronchial catarrh; cough worse in 
 early morning; difficult breathing; asthma 
 in children from suppression of skin 
 troubles. 
 
 Back and Extremities: Soreness up and 
 down spine and back; drawing back of 
 
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 neck; pain under nails; sciatica; gout; 
 twitching during sleep; intermittent fever 
 in all its stages; dropsy. 
 
 PREPARATION AND DOSE. Use the third 
 trituration in tablets, one every three hours^ 
 
 CORRESPONDING HOMCEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 Thuja and Sulphur.- In the cough, Bryo- 
 nia, but this is indicated rather earlier in 
 chest affections than Natrum sulph.\ and 
 hence the latter often follows it advan- 
 tageously. 
 
 SILICA (Pure Quartz).' This salt, though 
 very abundantly found in the vegetable 
 kingdom, is found only in the connective 
 tissue to any extent. It acts prominently 
 upon the bones, glands, skin, and is espe- 
 cially suited to the imperfectly nourished 
 constitutions. It is the remedy for ail- 
 ments attended with pus-formation. It 
 ripens abscesses and promotes suppuration. 
 Especially indicated in sensitive patients^ 
 who are always chilly. 
 
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 Head; Oversensitive, irritable - vertigo ; 
 headache coming up from nape of neck, 
 worse on right side, worse from noise, exer- 
 tion, light, study ; better from warmth ; styes. 
 
 Gastric: Child vomits as soon as it 
 nurses; chronic dyspepsia; disgust for 
 meat and warm food; very hungry; large 
 abdomen; paralytic condition of bowels; 
 patient is cold all the time; menses are 
 associated with icy coldness and constipa- 
 tion, and fetid foot-sweat. 
 
 Respiratory: Cough of sickly children, 
 with night-sweats; hoarseness; tickling 
 cough; cough and sore throat, with expec- 
 toration of little granules; smelling badly; 
 deep-seated pain in chest; much pus -like 
 expectoration; chronic heart disease. 
 
 Back and Extremities: Spinal irritation; 
 soreness between shoulders; hip-joint dis- 
 ease; whitlow, felon; nails crippled and 
 brittle; habitual fetid perspiration of the 
 feet or axillae; ingrowing toe-nails; pains 
 in feet; weak ankles; skin heals with diffi- 
 
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 eulty, and suppurates easily; skin very sen- 
 sitive; all sorts of eruptions and ulcerations; 
 enlarged suppurating glands; patient feels 
 better in warm room, and by heat generally. 
 
 PREPARATION AND DOSE. In scrofulous 
 and glandular affections, use tablet of the 
 third trituration every four hours. In sup- 
 purations, the sixth and twelfth tritura- 
 tions are the best. Dissolve in water, and 
 take a dose every two hours. For chronic 
 affections, the thirtieth night and morning. 
 A very excellent preparation is the Silica 
 obtained from the bamboo; it seems to act 
 more quickly, and is especially indicated 
 in acute diseases. Here use Bamboo Silica 
 6x, a dose every two hours. 
 
 CORRESPONDING HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES. 
 Mercurius and Pulsatilla, Picric acid. In 
 suppuration, Calcar. sulph. is better adapted 
 to checking it and healing, promoting 
 healthy granulation. It follows Silica. 
 Silica often follows very advantageously, 
 Pulsatilla and Calcarea. 
 
REPERTORY OR INDEX 
 
 To the Chief Symptoms of the 
 
 TWELVE TISSUE REMEDIES. 
 
 flental States. 
 
 Ambitionless, Natr. phos. 
 
 Angry, Nat. mur. 
 
 Apprehensive, .Kali phos. 
 
 Anxiety, Gale, phos., Kali phos. 
 
 Brainfag, Kali phos., Silica. 
 
 Changeable mood, Calc. sulph. 
 
 Confused feeling, Calc.fluor. 
 
 Crying mood, Kali phos. 
 
 Depressed mood, Natr. mur. 
 
 Despairs getting well, Natr. sulph. 
 
 Despondency, Kali phos. 
 
 Difficult thought, Silica. 
 
 Dread, nervous, Kali phos. 
 
 Fear of falling, Kali sulph. 
 
 Fear of financial ruin, Calc.fluor. 
 
 Forgetful, Calc. p/ios. 
 
 Fretful, Kali phos. 
 
 Hallucinations, Kali phos., Natr. phos. 
 
 Indifference, Fernmi phos. 
 
 Indecision, Calc. fluor. 
 
 Insanity, Ferr. phos., Kali phos. 
 
 Melancholia, Kali phos., Natr. sulph. 
 
 Night terrors, Kali phos. 
 
 Over-sensitive, Silica, Kali. phos. 
 
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 "Passionate outbursts, Nat. mur. 
 Sadness, Nat. mur. 
 Screaming, Kali phos. 
 Sighing, Nat. mur. 
 Slow comprehension, Calc. plios. 
 Suicidal tendency, Nat. sulph. 
 Whining, Rail phos. 
 
 Head. 
 
 Bald spots, Kali sulph. 
 Brain-fag, Silica, Kali phos. 
 Burning on top, Nat. Sulph. 
 Cold feeling, Calc. phos. 
 Congestive headache, Ferr. phos 
 Dandruff, Kali sulph. , Nat. mur. 
 Effects of injuries to, Nat. sulph, 
 Falling out of hair, Kali sulph. 
 Fontanelles unclosed, Calc. plios. 
 Headache, menstrual, Nat. mur. 
 " sick, Nat. sulph. 
 
 congestive, Ferr. phos. 
 Lumps on scalp, Silica. 
 Soreness to touch, Ferr. phos. 
 Sunstroke, Nat. mur. 
 Sweat on head, Calc. phos., Silica. 
 Throbbing, Ferr. phos. 
 Vertigo, old age, Calc. phos. 
 
 " with bile, Nat. sulph. 
 Yellow crusts on scalp, Calc. sulph 
 
 Eyes. 
 
 Agglutination of lids, Nat. phos. 
 Asthenopia, Nat. mur. 
 Black spots before, Kali phos. 
 Blisters on, Nat. mur. 
 
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 Blood shot, Nat. pJws. 
 Burning of lids, Nat. sulph. 
 Conjunctivitis, Ferr. phos., Nat, plios, 
 Dull vision, Nat. phos. 
 Eye-ball, sore, Ferr. phos. 
 Eyelids, granular, Nat. mur. 
 Pupils contracted, Magms. phos. 
 Redness, Ferr. phos. Nat. mur.' 
 Styes, Silica . 
 
 Ears. 
 
 Aching around, Calc. phos. 
 Buzzing in, Kali phos. 
 Catarrh, Kali mur. 
 Deafness, Ferr. phos., Kali. muf. 
 Discharge from, Kali phos, Silica. 
 Earache, Ferr. phos. , Magnes. phos, 
 Noises in, Ferr. phos., Kali phos. 
 Kinging, as of bells, Nat. sulph< 
 
 Nose. 
 
 Bleeding, Ferr. phos. 
 Catarrh, Kali mur. 
 
 " old, chronic, Nat. mur., Silica. 
 Colds, Ferr. phos. 
 
 " stuffy, Kali sulph., NaL mitr, 
 Crusts, Kali mur., Silica. 
 Discharge, acrid, Silica. 
 
 ' clear, Nat. mur. 
 
 1 fetid, Kali phos. 
 
 1 greenish, Kali sulph. 
 
 thick, Calc. fluor., Kali sulph. 
 
 * yellow, Nat. phos 
 Dry coryza, Calc.fluor., Kali mur. 
 Hay-fever, Nat. mur., Silica. 
 
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 Influenza, Nat. sulph. 
 
 Loss of smell, Nat mur. 
 
 Nostrils, sore, Calc. phos. 
 
 Odor, offensive, Kaliphos^ Calc fluor. 
 
 Pimples on nose, Nat. mur. 
 
 Posterior nares, dry, Not. mur. 
 
 11 " hawking from, Kali phos. 
 
 Predisposition to take cold, Gale. phos. 
 Running colds, Nat. mur. 
 Sneezing, Kali phos., Silica. 
 
 Face. 
 
 Acne, Calc. sulph., Kali mur. 
 
 Blotched, Nat. phos. 
 
 Cold sores, Nat. mur., Calc. fluor. 
 
 Eruptions, Calc. sulph., Kali sulph* 
 
 Greasy, Calc. phos. 
 
 Jaundiced, Nat. sulph. 
 
 Pale, Nat. mur., Calc. phos. 
 
 Red, Ferr. phos. 
 
 Sallow, Nat. sulph. 
 
 Face-ache, Magnes. phos,, Ferr. phos. 
 
 Hot, Ferr. phos. 
 
 Yellowish, Nat. sulph. 
 
 flouth. 
 
 Aphtha), Kali mur. 
 
 Breath, offensive, Kali phos., Nat. mur. 
 
 Cold-sores, Nat. mur., Calc. fluor. 
 
 Drooling, Nat. mur. 
 
 Gumboil, Kali mur. 
 
 Gums, spongy, Kali phos. 
 
 Lips, crack, Nat. mur. 
 
 Salivation, Nat. mur., Kali phos. 
 
 Twitching, Magnes. phos. 
 
 Ulcers in, Kali mur. 
 
174 
 
 Tongue and Taste. 
 
 Acrid taste, Nat. phos. 
 
 Bitter taste, Nat. sulph. 
 
 Blisters on tongue, Nat. mur. 
 
 Brown tongue, Kali phos., Nat. sulph. 
 
 Creamy tongue, Nat. phos. 
 
 Frothy tongue, Nat. mur. 
 
 Slimy tongue, Kali sulph. 
 
 Cracked tongue, Calc. fluor. 
 
 Dry tongue, Kali phos. 
 
 Flabby tongue, Calc. sulph. 
 
 Loss of taste, Nat. mur. 
 
 Mapped tongue, Nat. mur. 
 
 Numb tongue, Gale. phos. 
 
 Sour taste, Calc. sulph. 
 
 Ulcers on tongue, Silica, Kali mur. 
 
 Teeth and Gums. 
 
 Complaints during teething, Calc. phos. 
 Convulsions during teething, Mag. phos. 
 Decay of teeth, Calc. phos. 
 Dental fistula, Silica. 
 Drooling, Nat. mur. 
 Enamel, deficient, Calc.fluor. 
 Grinding of teeth, Nat, phos. 
 Gums, bleed easily, Nat. mur. 
 
 " inflamed, Calc. phos. 
 
 " sensitive, Nat. mur. 
 Gumboil, Kali mur. 
 
 " hard, swollen, Calc.fluor. 
 " suppurating, Calc. sulph. 
 Looseness of teeth, Calc. fluor. 
 
 Throat. 
 
 Burning, Ferr.phos. 
 
 Choking sensation, Magnes. phos. 
 
175 
 
 Chronic sore, Nat. mur., Kali mur. 
 
 Dryness, Nat. mur. 
 
 Clergyman's, Cole. phos. 
 
 Constriction, Magnes. phos. 
 
 Croup and Diphtheria, Ferr. phos.. Kali mur. 
 
 Dry throat, Ferr. phos. 
 
 Feeling of lump, Nat. sulph. 
 
 Follicular pharyngitis, Kali mur., Nat. mur. 
 
 Glands, swollen, Kali mur. 
 
 " suppurating, Silica. 
 Goitre, Calc.fluor. 
 Mumps, Kali mur., Nat. mur. 
 Posterior nares dropping, Nat, phos. 
 Relaxed sore throat, Gale. phos. 
 
 11 uvula, Nat. mur. 
 Ulcerated sore throat, Kali mur. 
 Uvula, elongated, Nat. mur. 
 
 Gastric Symptoms. 
 
 Acids, sensitive to, Magnes. phos. 
 Acidity, Nat. phos. 
 
 Appetite, loss of, Kali mur., Gale. phos. 
 Aversion to bread, Nat. mur. 
 
 " *' hot drinks, Kali sulph. 
 " " meat, Ferr. jrfios., Silica. 
 " " milk, Ferr.phvs. 
 " " warm food, Silica. 
 Biliousness, Nat. sulph. 
 Burning in stomach, Kali sulph. 
 Desire for bacon, Gale. phos. 
 " " bitter things, Nat. mur* 
 " " claret, Gale, sulph. 
 " fruit, Gale, sulph. 
 11 " ham, Gale. phos. 
 Desire for salted food, Gale. phos. 
 
176 
 
 Desire for stimulants, Ferr. phos. 
 
 *' " sugar, Magnes. phos. 
 Empty, gone feeling, Kali phos. 
 Eructations, bitter, Kali phos. 
 " sour, Nat. phos. 
 
 t( burning, Magnes. phos. 
 " gaseous, Kali phos. , Gale. phos. 
 
 greasy, Ferr. phos. 
 Excessive hunger, Silica. 
 Faintness at stomach, Kali sulph. 
 Flatulence, Calc. phos. 
 
 '* with palpitation, Kali phos. 
 " " sluggish liver, Nat. sulph. 
 
 " acidity, Nat. phos. , Calc. phos * 
 teastritis, Ferr. phos. 
 Gastralgia, Magnes. phos. 
 Heartburn, Nat. mur., Silica. 
 Hiccough, Magnes. phos., Calc. fiuor. 
 Hunger, excessive, Silica, Kali phos, 
 Nausea, Kali sulph., Ferr. phos. 
 Nausea and vomiting, Magnes phos. 
 Nausea and vertigo, Calc. sulph. 
 Pain after food, Nat. phos., Calc. phos* 
 Pain at pit of stomach, Kali phos. 
 Regurgitation, Magnes. phos. 
 Thirst, burning, Kali sulph. 
 Vomiting acid, Nat. phos. 
 
 11 after cold water, Calc. phos. 
 
 " before breakfast, Ferr. phos. 
 
 V bile, Nat. sulph. 
 
 V blood, Ferr. phos. 
 
 V coffee-grounds, Nat. mur. 
 
 " after nursing, Silica. 
 
 4< infantile, Calc. phos. 
 
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 Vomiting mucus, Nat. mur. 
 Waterbrash, Nat.phos., Kaliphos. 
 
 Abdomen and Stool. 
 
 Abdomen feels cold, Kali sulph. 
 " swollen, Kaliphos. 
 " sunken, Calc. phos. 
 " tender, Kali mur. 
 " tympanitic, Kali sulph. 
 Anus, fissures, Silica. 
 " fistula, Calc. phos. 
 " eruption around, Nat. mur. 
 " abscesses around, Calc. sulph. 
 " prolapse, Calc. sulph., Kaliphos. 
 11 warts, Nat. sulph. 
 Burning pain, Nat. mur. 
 Colic, Magnes. plios. 
 " lead, Nat. sulph. 
 11 infantile, Calc. pJios. 
 Congestion of liver, Nat. sulph. 
 Constipation, alternating with diarrhoea, Nat. mur. 
 " with furred tongue, Kali m,ur. 
 
 " habitual, Kali sulph. 
 
 11 infantile, Magnes. phos. 
 
 *' in aged, Ca'c. phos. 
 
 Cramps, Magnes. plws. 
 Diarrhoea, from fatty food, Kali mur. 
 " in wet weather, Nat. sulph. 
 
 " from fruit, Calc. phos. 
 
 " bilious, Nat. sulph. 
 
 " from chill, Ferr. phos. 
 
 11 from fright, Rali phos. 
 
 '* foul, putrid, Kaliphos. 
 
 " green, Nat.phos. 
 
 '* involuntary, Nat. mur. 
 
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 Diarrhoea^ painless, Kali phos. 
 " slimy, Kali sulph. 
 
 undigested, Ferr. phos. 
 watery, Nat. mur., Magnes. phos* 
 *' white stools, Nat. phos. 
 
 yellow stools, Kali sulph. 
 Dysentery, Ferr. phos., Kali mur. 
 Gallstones, Calc. phos. 
 
 " colic, Magnes. phos. 
 
 Haemorrhoids, Ferr. phos., Calc.fluor. 
 Itching of anus, Nat. phos. 
 Jaundice, Kali mur., Nat. sulph. 
 Liver, torpid, Kali mur. 
 " congested, Nat. sulph. 
 " painful, Calc. sulph. 
 " soreness, Nat. sulph. 
 Marasmus, Calc. phos. 
 Rectum, stitches in, Nat. mur. 
 
 " prolapse of, Calc. sulph. , Kali phos. 
 Worms, Nat. phos. 
 
 " thread, Ferr. phos., Nat. phos. 
 
 Urinary Symptoms. 
 
 Bladder, catarrh of, Kali mur., Nat. mur. 
 Bleeding from urethra, Kaliplios. 
 Bright's disease, Calc. phos., Kali phos. 
 Burning after urinating, Nat. mur.< 
 Burning during urinating, Nat. sulph. 
 Diabetes, Nat. phos., Ferr. phos. 
 Gravel, Calc. phos., Nat. sulph. 
 Incontinence, Calc. phos. 
 
 " while coughing, Nat. mur, 
 
 Increased urine, Calc. phos. 
 Kidneys, inflamed, Kali mur. 
 Retention of urine, Magnes phos. 
 
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 Stone in bladder, Calc. phos. 
 
 Suppression, Ferr. phos. 
 
 Urine, brick-dust sediment, Nat. sulpli. 
 
 " copious, Calc. phos. 
 
 11 dark color, Kali mur., Nat. sulph. 
 
 " pungent, Calc.fluor. 
 
 " gravel, Calc. phos., Silica. 
 
 " with bile, Nat. sulph. 
 
 " mucus, Silica. 
 
 " sand, Nat. sulph. 
 
 " yellow, Kali phos. 
 Wetting the bed, Ferr. phos., Calc. phos. 
 
 Female Symptoms. 
 
 Backache with menses, Calc. phos. 
 Bearing- down pains, Ferr. phos., Calc.fluor. 
 Burning in uterus, Nat. mur. 
 Displacements, Calc.fluor. 
 Dragging sensation, Calc. fluor. 
 Dysmenorrhcea, Magms.plios. 
 
 " as a preventive, Cole. phos. 
 
 " membranous, Magnes. phos. 
 
 ^Hysterical symptoms, Kali phos. 
 Icy coldness at menses, Silica. 
 Itching, external, Nat. mur. 
 Leucorrhcea, acid, Nat. phos. 
 
 " acrid, Silica. 
 
 " mucous, Calc. phos* 
 
 " creamy, Nat. phos. 
 
 " greenish, Kali sulph. 
 
 11 irritating, -Nctf. mur. 
 
 " itching, Silica. 
 
 " milky, Kali mur. 
 
 " profuse, Silica. 
 
 11 slimy, Kali sulph. 
 
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 Leucorrhcea, smarting, Nat. mur. 
 
 " thick, Kali mur. 
 
 " watery, Nat. mur. 
 
 " yellow, Kali sulph. 
 Menses, acrid, Nat. phos. 
 
 " with nose bleed, Nat. sulph. 
 
 11 with pain, Magnes. phos. 
 
 '* with sadness, Nat. mur. 
 
 " black, Kali mur. 
 
 " bright red, Ferr. phos. 
 
 1 ' clotted, Kali mur. 
 
 " copious, Nat. mur. 
 
 " corrosive, Nat. sulph. 
 
 " delayed, Nat. mur. 
 
 " every two weeks, Calc. phos. 
 
 " every three weeks, Ferr. phos. 
 
 " excessive, Kali mur. t Calc. phos. 
 
 " irregular, Kali phos. 
 
 " pale, Nat. phos. 
 
 " premature, Kali phos. 
 
 " stringy, Magnes. phos. 
 
 " strong odor, Kali phos. 
 
 " suppressed, Calc. phos., Nat. mur. 
 
 " frequent, Kali mur. 
 
 " long-lasting, Calc. sulph. 
 
 " profuse, Nat. sulph., Ferr. phos. 
 
 " scanty, Kali phos., Nat. mur. 
 
 " with coldness, Silica. 
 
 ' ' with constipation, Nat. sulph. 
 
 " with weakness, Calc. sulph. 
 
 " with headache, Kali sulph. 
 
 " with melancholy, JVaJ. mter. 
 
 " with morning diarrhoea, Nat. sulph. 
 
 " with rheumatic pains, Calc. phos. 
 
 11 with excitement, Nat.ph os. 
 
 ** with twitchings, Calc. sulph. 
 
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 Ovarian neuralgia, Kali phos., Magnes. phos. 
 
 Prolapse, Calc.fluor. 
 
 Sensitive parts, Silica. 
 
 Sterility, Silica, Nat. phos. 
 
 Ulcerations, Kali mur., Silica. 
 
 Uterine displacements, Nat. phos. 
 
 After-pains, Kaliphos., Mag. phos. 
 Burning in breasts, Gale. phos. 
 Knots in breasts, Calc.fluor. 
 Enlarged breasts, Gale. phos. 
 Morning sickness, Ferr. phos. 
 Nipples crack, Silica. 
 
 Respiratory Organs. 
 
 Asthma, Kali sulph., Nat. sulph. 
 Breathing oppressed, Ferr. phos. 
 Bronchitis, Ferr. phos., Kali mur. 
 chronic, Nat. mur. 
 yellow expectoration, Kali sulph. 
 Burning in chest, Ferr. phos. 
 Chest, construction, Magnes. phos. 
 " rattling of mucus, Kali sulph. 
 " soreness, Nat. sulph., Calc. phos. 
 Congestion of lungs, Ferr. phos. 
 Cough, acute, Ferr. phos. 
 
 in the evening, Kali sulph. 
 barking, Kali mur. 
 chronic, Calc. phos., Silica. 
 convulsive, Magnes. phos. 
 croupy, Kali mur. 
 " dry, Ferr. phos. 
 " .hacking, Calc.fluor. 
 " hard, Ferr. phos. 
 " 1 oose rattling, Kali sulph. 
 
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 Cough, loud and noisy, Kali mur. 
 nervous, Magms. phos. 
 ou lying down, Magnes. phos., Calc.fluor. 
 " short, Ferr. phos. 
 
 spasmodic, Magnes. phos. 
 suffocative, Calc. phos. 
 " tickling, Ferr. phos. 
 
 whooping, Magms. phos. 
 Croup, Ferr. phos., Calc. suiph. 
 Croupy hoarseness, Kali suiph. 
 Expectoration, clear, Nat. mur. 
 copious, Silica. 
 ' frothy, Nat. mur. 
 
 greenish, Nat. suiph. 
 f loose, Kali suiph. 
 
 lumpy, Calc. fluor. 
 ' mucous, Calc. phos. 
 
 f offensive, Silica. 
 
 4 profuse, Kali suiph. 
 
 ropy, Nat. suiph. 
 1 salty, Kali phos. 
 
 slimy, Kali suiph. 
 1 thick, Nat. suiph. > Silica. 
 
 ' watery, Nat. mur. 
 
 ' yellowish, Calc. fluor., Kali phos. 
 
 Hay fever, Kali, phos., Nat. mur. 
 Hectic fever, Calc. phos., Silica. 
 Heat in chest, Ferr. phos. 
 Hoarseness, Ferr. phos., Kali mur. 
 Larynx, painful, Ferr. phos. 
 Night sweats, Silica, Calc. phos, 
 Pain in chest, Nat. phos. 
 
 Pleurisy, > Ferr. phos., Kali mur.; later Kali suiph. 
 Pneumonia,) Calc. suiph. 
 
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 Heart. 
 
 Aneurism, Calc.fluor. 
 
 Angina pectoris, Magnes. phos., Kali phos. 
 
 Blood vessels enlarged, Calc.fluor. 
 
 Chronic heart disease, Silica. 
 
 Circulation sluggish, Kali phos. 
 
 Hypertrophy, Nat. mur. 
 
 Palpitation, Ferr. phos., Magnes. phos. 
 
 with sleeplessness, Kali phos. 
 Pulse felt all over, Nat. mur. 
 
 " full around, Ferr. phos. 
 
 " intermittent, Nat. mur., Kali phos. 
 
 " irregular, Kali phos. 
 
 " rapid, Nat. mur. 
 
 Back and Extremities. 
 
 Aching of limbs, Cole. phos. 
 
 " between shoulders, Kali phos. 
 Ankles pain, Silica. 
 
 " weak, Nat. phos t 
 Arms heavy, Silica. 
 
 11 tired, Nat. phos. 
 Back cold, Nat. mur. 
 
 " crick in, Ferr. phos. 
 
 *' pain in, Gale, fluor. 
 
 " soreness in, Nat. Sulph. 
 Backache worse evenings, Kali sulph. 
 " mornings, Gale. phos. 
 " better lying on it, Nat. mur. 
 Bow-legs, Calc. phos. 
 Bunions, Kali mur. 
 Burning of feet, Calc. sulph. 
 Calves, cramps, Calc. phos., Magnes. phos. 
 Chilblains, Kali mur. 
 Coldness of limbs, Calc. phos. 
 
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 Coccyx painful, Silica. 
 Cracking of joints, Oak. fiuor. 
 Crick in back, Ferr. phos. 
 
 " " neck, Nat, phos. 
 Feet tender, Silica. 
 
 " swollen, Kali mur. 
 Fidgety feet, Kali phos. 
 Finger joints enlarge, Calc. fluor. 
 Ganglion, Calc.fluor. 
 Glanda swollen, Kali mur. 
 
 " hardened, Calc.fluor 
 Goitre, Nat. mur., Calc.fluor. 
 Gout, Ferr. phos., Nat. sulph. 
 
 " chronic, Nat. phos. 
 
 " rheumatic, Calc. phos. 
 Hamstrings sore, Nat. phos. 
 Hands fall asleep, Calc. phos. 
 
 " get stiff, Nat. phos. 
 
 11 hot in palms, Ferr. phos. 
 
 " tremble, Nat. sulph. 
 Hang nails, Nai. mur., Silica. 
 Hips painful, .Kali phos. 
 Housemaid's knee, Calc. phos., Silica. 
 Inflamed joints, Ferr. phos., Kali mur* 
 Ingrowing toe-nails, Silica. 
 Itching of limbs, Kali phos. 
 Knees painful, Nat. phos. 
 Limbs fall asleep, Nat. mur. 
 Lumbago, Calc.fluor. 
 Muscular weakness, Kali phos. 
 Nails crippled, Silica. 
 
 " pain at roots, Calc. phos. 
 Neck emaciated, Nat. mur. 
 
 " stiff, Ferr. phos. 
 
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 Numbness, Calc.phos., Kali phos. 
 Oedema, Nat. mur. 
 Oversensitive spine, Silica. 
 Pain in back, Calc. phos., Ferr. phos. 
 
 " " shin bones, Calc.phos. 
 
 " "shoulders, Ferr. phos. 
 
 " go to heart, Nat. phos. 
 
 " through feet, Silica. 
 Paralytic lameness, Kali phos. 
 Rheumatic fever, Ferr. phos., Kali mur. 
 
 11 " chronic, Calc.phos., Nat. phos. 
 
 " " muscular, Ferr. phos. 
 
 Sciatica, Magnesphos., Kali phos. 
 Shifting pains, Kali sulph. 
 Shooting pains, Calc'. phos. 
 Slowness to walk. Calc. phos. 
 Soles burn and itch, Calc. sulph. 
 Soreness between shoulders, Silica. 
 Stumbles easily, Kali phos. 
 Tired feeling, Calc. ftuor. 
 Weakness in general, Nat. mur. 
 Wrists ache, Nat. phos. 
 
 Nervous Symptoms. 
 
 Alcoholism, Magnes. phos. 
 Ball sensation, Kali phos. 
 Chorea, Magnes. phos., Nat. mur. 
 Contortions, Magnes. phos. 
 Convulsions, Calc. phos., Magnes. phos. 
 Crawling sensation, Calc. phos. 
 Creeping paralysis, Kali phos. 
 Debility, Calc. phos. 
 Depression, Kali phos., Nat. mur. 
 Epilepsy, Kali mur. , Silica. 
 Exhaustion, Kali phos., Calc.phos. 
 
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 Fears, Kaliphos. 
 Gait unsteady, Nat. phos. 
 Hiccough, Magnes. phos. 
 Hysteria, Kali phos., Silica. 
 Infantile paralysis, Kaliphos. 
 Nervousness, Kali phos. 
 Neuralgia, congestive, Ferr. phos. 
 
 intercostal, Nat. phos. 
 
 obstinate, Silica. 
 Night terrors, Kali phos. 
 Squinting, from worms, Nat. phos. 
 Trembling, Nat. phos., Cole. phos. 
 Twitchings, Magnes. phos. 
 Writer's cramp, C ale. phos. 
 
 Sleep and Dreams. 
 
 Awakes screaming, Kaliphos. 
 Cry out in sleep, Calc. phos. 
 Dreams anxious, Nat. mur. 
 
 " lascivious, l&diphos. 
 
 " vivid, Kali sulph. 
 Drowsiness, Nat. .sulph. 
 
 " in old people, Calc. phos. 
 Insomnia, Nat. mur., Kali phos. 
 
 Febrile Symptoms. 
 
 Ague, Nat. sulph. 
 
 Bilious fever, Nat. phos., Nat. sulph. 
 
 Brain fever, Kaliphos, 
 
 Chilliness, Silica., Calc. phos. 
 
 Chill in morning, Nat. mur* 
 
 Cold sweat, Kali sulph. 
 
 Feet cold, Nat. plios. 
 
 Gastric fever, Kali sulph. 
 
 Hay fever, Silica. 
 
187 
 
 Hectic fever, Calc. sulplt. 
 Intermittent fever, Nat. mur. 
 Scarlet fever, Ferr. phos. 
 Typhoid fever, Kali phos. 
 Yellow fever, Nat. sulph. 
 Night sweats, Calc. phos., Silica. 
 Perspiration about head, Silica. 
 
 cold, Kali sulph. 
 " profuse, Kali phos* 
 
 sour, Nat. phos. 
 Skin. 
 
 Abscess, Silica, Calc. sulph. 
 Acne, Kali mur. 
 Barber s itch, Magnes. phos.. 
 Boils, Calc. sulph. 
 Bunions, Kali mur. 
 Chaps, Calc. Huor. 
 Chilblains, Kali phos., Silica. 
 Chronic skin disease, Nat. mur. 
 Coppery spots, Silica. 
 Cracks on skin, Calc. fluor. 
 
 ' ' between toes, Nat. mur. 
 Dandruff, Kali sulph. 
 Eczema, Nat. mur., Kali sulph. 
 Erysipelas, Kali mur., Ferr. phos. 
 Fissures, Calc. Huor. 
 Freckles, Calc. phos. 
 Hair falls out, Nat. mur., Silica. 
 Hives, Nat. phos., Kali phos. 
 Insect bites, Nat. mur. 
 Irritating secretions, Kali phos. 
 Itching, Calc. phos., Kali phos. 
 Ivy poison, Kali sulph. 
 Jaundiced skin, Nat. sulph. 
 
188 
 
 Lupus, Calc. phos., Kali mur. 
 Measles, Ferr. phos., Kali mur. 
 Nodes, Silica, Calc.fluor. 
 Pimples, Kali mur., Calc. sulph. 
 Shingles, Nat. mur., Kali mur. 
 Small pox, Kali phos., Calc. sulph. 
 Wrinkled skin, Kali phos. 
 
 Tissues. 
 
 Anaemia, Calc. phos., Nat. mur. 
 
 ** of infants, Silica. 
 Atrophy, Calc. phos. 
 Boils, Silica, Calc. sulph. 
 Bone diseases, Calc. phos., Silica. 
 Bruises, Kali mur. 
 Burns, Kali mur., Calc. sulph. 
 Cancer, Calc. phos., Kali phos. 
 Carbuncles, Silica, Calc. sulph. 
 Debility, Kali phos. 
 Dropsy, Kali mur., Nat. sulph. 
 Emaciation, Nat. mur., Calc. phos. 
 Felons, Calc. sulph. 
 Glands, Kali mur., Silica. 
 Growths, Calc.jluor. 
 Hasmorrhages, Ferr. phos., Kali mur. 
 Inflammations, Ferr. phos. 
 
 second stage, Kali mur+ 
 Injuries, Ferr. phos. 
 Marasmus, Gale. phos. 
 Offensive discharges, Kali phos, 
 Polypi, Calc. phos., Kali sulph. 
 Proud flesh, Silica. 
 Scalds, Kali mur. 
 
 Secretions, albuminous, Calc. phos. 
 greenish, Kali sulph. 
 
189 
 
 Secretions, honey-colored, Nat. phos. 
 " offensive, Kali phos. 
 
 watery, Nat. inur. 
 Sprains, Ferr. phos. 
 Suppuration, Silica, Calc. sulph. 
 Vaccination, after, Kali mur., Silica. 
 Varicose veins, Calc.fluor. 
 Wasting diseases, Kali phos. 
 
190 
 
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191 
 
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194 
 
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 Nervous Dread and Gloomy Fancies, Irritability and Impa- 
 tience, Hysteria, Vertigo, Headaches, Backaches, Neuralgia, 
 Sleeplessness, Paralytic and Spasmodic Conditions. 
 
 Women It is an efficient remedy for many of the 
 Special Ailments of Females, especially when despondent or 
 accompanied by Nervous Disturbances. It will regulate the 
 Menstrual Function, especially when painful, and tone up 
 the system after Child-birth, Miscarriages, Long continued 
 Leucorrhoea or Profuse Menstruation. It is the remedy for 
 Hysteria in all its forms, " Nervous Attacks," and for most 
 of the disturbances incident to Change. of Life. 
 
 OLD AGE finds in 
 
 Schuessler's Nerve Salt 
 
 a wonderful aid to overcome many of the disturbances inci- 
 dent at this time Sleeplessness, Failure of Strength, Mental 
 Depression, Paralysis of any part of the body, Laming Paius, 
 Incontinence of Urine, Loss of all Appetite, Hallucinations 
 and Illusions of the Senses, Impaired Memory, and iirst 
 stages of Softening of the Brain. 
 
 SCHUESSLKR'S NERVE SALT 
 
 IS PREPARED ONLY BY 
 
 BOERICKE & RUNYON 
 
 Homoeopathic Pharmacy 
 234 Sutter Street San Francisco, Cal. 
 
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 OAKLAND 1225 Broadway NEW YORK 497 Fifth Avenue 
 
 PORTLAND, OR. 808 Washington Street 
 
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