Homoeopathy simplified; or, domestic practice made easy : containing explicit directions for the treatment of disease, the management of accidents, and the preservation of health / by John A. Tarbell.

Tarbell, John A. (John Adams), 1810-1864

Date:: 1890

Credit: Homoeopathy simplified; or, domestic practice made easy : containing explicit directions for the treatment of disease, the management of accidents, and the preservation of health / by John A. Tarbell. 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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$It recjuires much experience, with no little discrimi- nation, to acquire all the information that the pulse is capable of affording ; and it would not be of much practical use here to refer to the many varieties of puls3 supposed to be characteristic of certain morbid states, as there are many \Qry fanciful and quite un- necessary distinctions. The state of the respiration is another condition of consequence in the formation of a correct diagnosis, — a technicaKterm signifying the opinion obtained of the nature of a disease by an examination of symp toms. The act of inspiring and expiring air occurs, during health, about fifteen times in a minute. This action of tlie lungs is increased when any obstruction exists to the free entrance of air, whether in the organ itself, or in the ];assago leading thereto. A portion of the lungs may not be capable of free expansion on account of inflammation or its consequences, — tuber- cci>i.r and other morbid products, — or there maybe tX' giea'. an amount present in tlie lungs to be acted upon. In iniiammation of the lungs, or of the lining membrane, called ''pleura, respiration is greatly ac- celerated, sometimes amounting to sixty in a minute. An unnaturally slow respiration is observed in cases where the heart's action is diminished, in a state of iinconsciousness from poisoning and other causes, and in ihc hypochondriac. When respiration becomes la- borious, ther^ h no pause between the acts of inspiring and ej.piiiin^- air, as is the case in health, and all the uiusclos that can be made to assist respiration, as in$