Humphreys' Homeopathic mentor or Family adviser : in the use of specific homeopathic medicine / by F. Humphreys.
- Frederick Humphreys
- Date:
- 1872
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Credit: Humphreys' Homeopathic mentor or Family adviser : in the use of specific homeopathic medicine / by F. Humphreys. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![beneath the ear; the fever is very high, and surface liot and dry, and often discharge of hot excoriating mucus from the nose. In the MALIGNANT form, the most violent symptoms are manifested about the head, and it sometimes terminates in fatal congestion before the eruption has fully made its ap- pearance ; in milder cases there is constant vomiting, vio- lent pain in the head, stupor with half-closed eyes, ])a.\e imperfect eruption in spots or of brick-dust color, and after these excoriating discharge from the nose. In the milder forms the eruption should begin to grow pale and disappear in three or four days, and the fever and sore throat abate, and the child be well in a week. But the other varieties are uncertain, and may require ten or four- teen days, or even longer for a cure. You may recognize the scarlet fever from other diseases by the vomiting, the sore throat, the high fever, and the subsequent eruption. Treatment.—As a preventive, when scarlet fever pre- vails in the neighborhood, give the children each morning and night one of the Fever Pills No. One. So soon as the vomiting or fever has declared itself, com- mence with the Fever Specific No. One, dissolved in water, twelve pellets in as many teaspoonsful of water, of which give a spoonful every hour. Continue this from day to day, preparing new medicine daily, except when the patient is quietly sleeping at the time for giving the medi- cine, then give it after the patient awakes. For the vomiting, if severe or frequent, interpose two pellets of Specific No. Six, and repeat it two or three times in alternation with the No. One, until the vomiting is relieved. After two or three days it will be best to alternate Spe- cific No. Fourteen with No. One, prepared in like man- 5](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21131314_0073.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
