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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![severe, and such catarrhal symptoms as frontal headache, soreness of the larynx, colicky jDains. These effects of the drug show that if physicians of other schools have employed this drug in gonor- rhoea, and have cured this disease with it, the probability is, that these cures were effected by virtue of the homoeopathicity of the d]-ug-action to the natural malady. This drug has likewise been used with apparent advantage in scrofulous affections of the bones. Professor Hale, in his New Re- medies, mentions a case of cure of enlargement of the tibia, and enlargements in various other parts of the body resembling nodes, upon the olecranon process, upon the head, and one in particular upon the forehead, of the size of an %gg. The patient was a little girl. An infusion of Stiliingia root was used, four drachms of the fresh root to one pound of water, simmered till one-third was dis- sipated. This quantity was drunk in the twenty-four hours in such doses as not to nauseate the stomach in any degree. After having continued the medicine for several months she was so much im- proved as to be able to move about with the aid of a stick, have the free use of her limbs, and the swellings, particularly those on the forehead, considerably reduced. It seems all but certain that this case was not a case of unmixed scrofula; most likely the scrofulous and syphiUtic taints were mixed up together in this case. The Iodide of Mercury and the Hydrio- date of Potash ought to have rendered good service in this case. Our provings likewise show that in catarrhal irritation of the eyes, and of the laryngo-tracheal mucous membrane, with soreness, cough, oppression, &c., this drug will act beneficially. TAMARACK. The gum of Tamarack has been found effectual in drojDsy, espe- cially that of pregnant females. Dr. Chamberlain hasrtreated with it four cases successfully. We give it in teaspoonful doses. He has also found a decoction of the leaves useful. It usually relieves in th)-ee or four days by causing profuse urination. THLASPI BURSA PASTORIS. (Shepherd's Purse.) This drug has been used in metrorrhagia, for which see British Journal of Homoeopathy, Vol. III., page 63. It is also recom- mended for renal affections in the second volume of the North American Journal of Homceopathy, page 185. 1269](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21060654_1277.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
