Hull's Jahr : a new manual of homoeopathic practice.
- George Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr
- Date:
- 1870
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hull's Jahr : a new manual of homoeopathic practice. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![Dropsical affections, caused by Repercussion of Exanthemata, have been cured cbiefly by: Ars., dig., hell., rhus, and sidjjh. Those resulting from intermittent fevers by : Ars., dulc, fer., mer., sol.-nig., and sulph.—[Also: Apocynum.—Ed.] Those arising from Debilitating losses by : Chin., fer., mere and stdph. Those of persons addicted to drinking Spirituous liquors by Ars., chin., hell., led., rhus, and sulph. And those caused by Abuse of Mercury have yielded chiefly to Chin., dulc, hell., and sulph. Of the medicines commonly employed against this disease : [Apocynum-cannab.—Is an important remedy for dropsy, which W6 introduced to the attention of homoeopathists in 1835. It has proved a specific, especially for ascites, or abdominal dropsy, after the inor- dinate use of Quinine in intermittent fevers; in a case of general anasarca, or dropsical swelling of the cellular system, succeeding scarlet fever ; and in one case of extensive swelling, especially in the abdomen, attended with griping pain in the same, in a consumptive patient.—Ed.] Arsenicum—May be used against anasarca, hydrothorax, ascites, and oedema of the feet, and especially when they are accompanied by an earthy, or pale, and greenish color of the skin, chiefly iti the face; excessive weakness and general prostration of strength ; dryness and redness of the tongue ; much thirst; asthmatic sufferings, with fits of suffocation when lying on the back, coldness of the extremities, lacerating pains in the back, loins, and extremities. [Asa-fcet.—Ascites and general anasarca from disorganization of the abdominal organs.—N. & T. Ed.] Bryonia—Against anasarca and adema of the feet, with increase of the swelling by day, diminution at night. Camphora—Against anasarca, with red urine, which deposits % thick sediment. Cantharides—Against dropsical affections, depending on atony of the urinary organs, and accompanied by strangury, tenesmus of th cervix-vesicae, pains in the limbs, chronic coryza, &c. China—Against anasarca and ascites, also in aged women. This medicine is especially suitable when there are organic injuries of the liver or spleen, although Arsenic and fer. are also adapted to such cases. Convolvulus—Against cedematous swellings of all kinds, and also against other dropsical affections, with constipation, abdominal suffer- ings, and debility.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21060666_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
