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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![If, notwithstanding this treatment, bad eflfects manifest themselves, a spoonful of ivi7ie or brandy, administered every two or three minutes, will be the most suitable remedy; and this should be continued till ^ the sufferings are relieved, and repeated as often as they are renewed. When the shooting pains are aggravated, and proceed from the wound towards the heart, and when the wound becomes bluish, mottled, and swollen, with vomiting, vertigo, and fainting, the best medicine is Ars. It should be administered in a dose of 3 globules (30th) in a teaspoonful of water, and, should the sufferings still con- tinue, the dose should be repeated at the end of half an hour; but when, on the contrary, the state remains the same, the medicine should not be repeated till the end of two or three hours; when there is an amelioration a new aggravation must be waited for, and the dose ought not to be repeated before its appearance. In cases in which Ars. exercises no influence, though repeated several times, recourse must be had to Bell Sen. also frequently proves efficacious. Against chronic affections arising from the bite of a serpent Pfcos.- ac. and mere, will generally be most beneficial. For the treatment of persons bitten by a mad dog, after the appli- cation of dry heat as directed above, see Chap. V., Hydrophobia. If morbid affections or ulcerations exhibit themselves in conse- quence of a bite from a rabid man or animal, hydro]jhobi7ie, adminis- tered in homoeopathic doses, will often render essential service. For wounds envenomed by the inti'oduction of animal substances in a state of putrefaction, or of pus from the ulcer of a diseased man or animal, Ars. is generally the best remedy. Lastly, as a Preventive against bad consequences, when obliged to touch morbid animal substances, envenomed wounds, or nlcers of men and animals under the influence of contagious diseases, the best method that can be pursued is the application oidry burning heat at a distance, as before described. To effect this purpose it will be sufl&cient to expose the hands for flve or ten minutes to the greatest heat that can be borne, and afterwards to wash them with soap. The use of Chlorine and Muriatic acid in such cases is well known. [Ophiotoxjcon—When there is vomiting after the bite; gan- grene of the bitten spot; ulcers around the bite; paralysis of the bitten limb; fainting turns ; physical and mental prostration after the bite; rigidity with consciousness; subsultus tendinum.—-Ed.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21060666_0762.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
