Homoeopathy; its principle, theory, and practice ... / Published under the superintendence of the English Homoeopathic Association.
- Sampson, Marmaduke B. (Marmaduke Blake), -1876
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Homoeopathy; its principle, theory, and practice ... / Published under the superintendence of the English Homoeopathic Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![minister bitters, tonics, anti-spasmodics, and anta¬ cids. The whole of these remedies are either useless or EXTREMELY PERNICIOUS. DYSENTERY. In consequence of partial success, the use of mercury has been indiscriminately transferred to every form of this disease. But if we reason from the pathological process in which the disease con¬ sists, in our choice of remedial measures, mercury will be the last to which we should have recourse. DELIRIUM TREMENS. Some physicians maintain that the employment of spirituous or vinous stimulants are indispensable to the recovery of the patient. The whole of the American practitioners, with scarcely any exception, whatever be their differences in other respects, concur in condemning the use of these agents. HYDROCEPHALUS.—[WATER OF THE BRAIN.] This disease first attracted attention by being almost incurable. Blisters have long been recommended and employed, but their effect is ambiguous. Caustics are liable to similar objec¬ tions. When physicians looked more to the effects than the intimate pathological nature of this disease the exhibition of diuretic medicines was believed to be not only appropriate but absolutely necessary. They were very rarely, however, attended with sue-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29287431_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
