Organon of the specific healing art / By Gottlieb Ludwig Rau, M.D. Translated from the German, with an essay on the present internal condition of the homoeopathic school, by C.J. Hempel. M.D.

  • Gottlieb Martin Wilhelm Ludwig Rau
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1847
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Credit: Organon of the specific healing art / By Gottlieb Ludwig Rau, M.D. Translated from the German, with an essay on the present internal condition of the homoeopathic school, by C.J. Hempel. M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    classes there is a prejudice that patients ought not 1o be washed, and. yet cleanliness is of the utmost importance. It depends upon circumstances whether the patient ought to be washed with cold or warm water. Fresh air is likewise necessary ; it may be let into the sick-room by caréfully opening the win- dow, or by means of ventilators. Fumigations of any kind are to be interdicted. Wherever circumstances permit, the patient ought to be kept in a high and spacious room, the linen ought to be fre- quently changed, and quiet, with careful nursing, ought never to be wanting. : Section 113. In chronic diseases there is less occasion for a strict’ diet. However the rules should be precise and adapted to the con- dition of the patient. The followiug general rules will be found sufficient. ° nt 7 1. Alter the patient’s mode of life as little as possible, par- ticularly in relation to things to which the patient had been accustomed for years past. Generally such things have ceased to be hurtful. Most patients find it particularly difficult to do without coffee, for which it is difficult to find a substitute, par- ticularly in persons inclining to costiveness. This is generally relieved by coffee, and becomes very troublesome when the use of coffee is stopped. Pure milk does not agree with many people. Chocolate without spice, which is generally substi- tuted for coffee, is apt to occasion bloatedness, a feeling of full- ness, and constipation ; moreover it becomes soon disagreeable. Coffee made of parched rye, corn, or barley, is too unsavory _.for dainty palates, and not sufficiently stimulating for spoiled stomachs. A mixture of corn-coffee and chocolate without spice is not very unpleasant. Many patients content them- selves with a little broth in the place of coffee. In many cases the use of coffee may be continued, but it ought to be taken a little weaker than ordinarily. The same may be said of brandy and wine; they ought to be perfectly pure, without any admixture of caroway, aroma or sulphur. A little pure weak hop-beer may be allowed if the patient be used to it. 'T’ea has many medicinal properties, and can only be allowed with certain restrictions. Green or black tea ma be used indiscriminately. Mulder has shown that both kinds of tea are of the same plant, and that the difference in color arises from the fact that the drying of the darker tea is carried on more precipitately. yh |
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