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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![COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. 31 COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. (Stone-root.) Compare with—Aconite, jEscuIus, Caulophyllum, Aloes, Hydrastis, Sulphur. We prepare both a tincture and trituration of the root, and likewise obtain and use a resinoid Collinsonia. This drug was first brought prominently to the notice of the homoeopathic profession by Drs. Dunham and Fowler, of New- York. It has been successfully used for hmmorrhoids, constipa- tion and dysmenorrhcBa. A number of interesting cases are re- ported by Dr. Fowler and others in the Noeth A]meeican Jotj:^aTu OP HoMCEOPATHT, where constipation and dysmenorrhoea, or con* stipation and haemorrhoids, or constipation and a variety of con- sensual symptoms, such as headache, cough, dyspepsia, &c., jdelded to the use of Collinsonia in a reasonably short period of time, and permanently. Dr. Fowler used a decoction of the root, taking a handful of the chopped root in a quart of water, boiled down to a pint. Of this preparation the patient took a wineglassful three tunes a day. Triturations of the CoUinsonin, and the tincture and its attenua- tions, have been used with equal success by homoBopathic practi- tioners. Dr. Fowler's first acquaintance with the drug was procured in the following manner, (see North Ameeican Journal of Homceo- PATHT, vol. YI., page 50): Some two years since, writes the Doctor, I remarked to a friend and patient that I was honored with a number of cases of obstinate haemorrhoids, and that I really ' wished that I possessed some means of curing them, without dan- ger of entaihng some more serious disorder. My friend replied that he could tell me of a remedy, and remarked that two or three years ago he was an absolute martyi*, in fact crippled Avith haemor- rhoids. The remedy was CoUiusonia, and the patient was cured by the above-mentioned decoction, in two weeks. In another case varicocele disappeared altogether with the ob- stinate constipation for which the remedy was taken. Dr. SneUing reports a case, where a distressing pruritus vulvae, dysmenorrhcea and symptoms of prolapsus uteri, in the case of an unmarried lady, aged 85 years, were quietly and completely re- moved, in about a fortnight, by the use of Collinsonia, triturated in the proportion of one to four, of which the patient took three doses a day of three grains each. Dr. Burt has furnished a proving of this drug, the reading of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21060654_1239.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
