The clinical guide, or, pocket-repertory for the treatment of acute and chronic diseases / by G.H.G. Jahr ; translated by Charles J. Hempel ... enriched by the addition of the new remedies, by Samuel Lilienthal.

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1869
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    one really indicated. But in the contrary case these aggrava- tions and new symptoms appear later, i. e. after the expira- tion of the periods intimated in former paragraphs. They are then more strongly fixed in their manifestations, increase rather during their course and the whole state of the patient is for the worse. There is then no time for waiting, but without delay, a remedy more suitable to the present state has to be employed. § 14. However difficult the selection of the right remedy may appear to the beginner at the start, yet that difficulty is small in comparison with the question of the dose and the repetition of the remedy,—a question about which the best physicians of our school have not as yet reached a definite conclusion. One advises only strong tinctures, or at the utmost the very lowest dilutions,—every two or three hours —a drop or a grain; others use, according to circumstances, the different dilutions, in drops or in pills, dry or dissolved in water, either in a single dose or repeated every one, two, three, up to twenty-four hours. Others, again, ascend far above the thirtieth up to the very highest dilutions, (even to the hundred thousandth,) and ascribe to them their safe and speedy cures. It is useless, to descant here on the different theories, by which these successes are explained, may it suf- fice to say, that cures can be made with any dilution, pro- vided that the doses are neither too often repeated nor too seldom. § 15, We do not mean to say, that the degree of dilution is of no moment whatever, for if we take fresh venereal ulcers as an example, we find the higher dilution of Mercury to have no effect whatever: whereas, the first, second or or third trituration of Mercury, one-half grain morning and evening, will eradicate the disease in at least ten days. But such cases are entirely too solitary to build upon them any theory whatever. In other familiar instances, e. g. Cannabis in Gonorrhoea, Veratrum in Cholera, Spongia in Croup and other remedies, in thousands of different cases, we have evi- dence that the same remedial power is effective, in whatever dilution the remedy may be given, as I can affirm from large experience. § 16. In spite of all the efforts m.ade to find out the differ- ent modes of action between the high and low dilutions, this labor has so far been in vain, and nobody can prove with certainty, whether the former or the latter of these are stronger or weaker. Indeed, it is problematical, if repeated