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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![In general tLe preference should be given to: AcoNiTUM—Principally for young people (and especially for young girls) who are of a plethoric Jiabit, and lead a sedentary life, or when there is excessive sensibility to the slightest pain, sleeplessness, with agitation and tossing, excitability of the organs of sight and of hear- ing, so as to render the least light or noise insupportable; redness of the cheeks, congestion in the head, palpitation of the heart, &c. Chamomilla—When there are : Grreat sensibility to pain, with tendency to faint from the slightest suffering; ineonsolableness, with tossing, cries, and tears ; irascibility and combativeness; alternate paleness and redness of the face, or heat and redness of one cheek, with coldness and paleness of the other, &c. China—When there are : Great weakness, with trembling, aver- sion to corporeal and intellectual labor ; over-excitability of the whole nervous system, with extreme susceptibility to currents of air; re- tarded sleep, or sleeplessness from a great concourse of ideas; dis- tressing dreams, which cause agitation, even after waking; tendency to perspire, and hypochondriacal humor. CoFFEA—When there are : Sleeplessness, moral excitability, vexa- tion, and ill-humor, or t-oo great gaiety and vivacity, excessive sen- sibilitr to the least pain. Nux-vomica—When there are: Irritability and extreme nervous excitement, too great susceptibility of all the organs, timidity, in- clination to remain lying down, repugnance to the open air and to movement, peevishness, passion, and obstinacy. Pulsatilla—Under the same circumstances as Nux-voni., but especially suitable in the case of females or persons of a mild and easy character. Magnes-arct.—When there are : Over-excitement, with trembling, agitation, and inquietude in the limbs, excessive distention of the abdomen, mental anxiety and uneasiness, and great nervous debility. *;j^* For the rest of the medicines cited see their pathogenesy, and for others which may also be employed see Sect, 2, Excitability. N61iralgla»—The best medicines are, in general: Aeon., am., ars., h)~y., cham., chin., cof., hep., ign., mere, n.-vom., puis., rhus, verat., and perhaps also: Caps., coloc, con., kal., niagn., tnez., phos., rv.ta,, sep„ spig., sta7in., staph., thuj., valer., verb.—Ammoniac. ? Chinin. ? \Elat., kal.-bi., rhus-r. Kalm., sab.—Ed.] If the sufferings have been produced by coffee, the medicines to be preferred are: Cham,., coff., ign., and n.-vom. Neuralgia caused by a Chill requires, especially: Aeon., coff., cham., chin., hep., mere, p)uls., rhus.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21060666_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
