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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![Arsenic, Tartar-emetic and other drugs belonging to the tsanie series. In spasmodic and racking cough, having a catarrhal origin, with irritation of the lining membrane of the air-passages, we have de- rived benefit from the use of this drug. We have never depended upon it either m acute bronchitis or acute pneumonia, although in pulAionary congestion, its employment would seem justified upon homoeopathic principles. Some of the pathogenetic sym]Dtoms of this drug point to acute congestion of pulmonary parenchyma. One of Dr. Henry's symptoms reads: Short, paroxysmal j)ain m the superior part of the right lung; on taking a long breath, it sticks from above downwards; this pain in the lungs is one of the most prominent symptoms. In spasm of the glottis, Gelseminum has been used with some benefit by some homoeopathic physicians. We have cured the most threatening cases of this disease with Aconite, but should not hesitate to employ both drugs in alternation, giving a much larger dose of the Gelseminum than the Aconite. In fever Gelseminum commends itself to the attention of homoeo- pathic practitioners. In the common catarrhal, or even rheumatic fever, we have always got along very satisfactorily with Aconite, Chamomilla, Mercurius-vivus, using in the more deep-seated cases a few doses of Belladonna, &c. Gelseminum has proved a most acceptable addition to this group of remedies, especially when the fever-type approximated to the remittent type. In the infantile remittent fever, which Schoenlein describes as acute scrofula, Gelse- minum is a very efficient curative agent. It must not be expected, however, that such a fever can be cured as if by magic. In infan- tile remittents the fever depends upon an acute irritation of the me- senteric ganglia, on which account, Schoenlein likewise denommates such a pathological condition acute ganglionitis?'' If there is much stupor, dry heat of the skin, especially of the abdomen, flushed face, dilatation of the pupils. Belladonna may be required. Iodine and Aconite are useful agents in this disease. Let us like- wise be thankful for the powerful aid of Gelseminum. We would suggest, however, that in some of the fine cures reported as cures of infantile remittent fever, the fever really was an acute attack of irritative fever of the remittent type, but where no ganglionic con- gestion stood in the way of a comparatively rapid cure. In cerebrospinal meningitis we commend Gelseminum as a re- liably useful curative agent. In the third volume of the Proceed- ings of the N.-Y. State Homceopathic Medical Society, Dr. S. Searle,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21060654_1252.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
