The homœopathic domestic physician / by Constantine Hering.

  • Hering, Constantine, 1800-1880. Homöopathischer Hausarzt. English
Date:
1858
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Credit: The homœopathic domestic physician / by Constantine Hering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    all mariner of herb teas, syrups, medicated poultices and irritating or medicinal substances applied to the skin. Blood-letting by the lancet, or by leeches and cups, and laxative injections, except of those of cold or lukewarm water, are likewise forbidden. Hot baths are to be strictly avoided, especially baths impregnated with herbs, sulphur, and other medicaments. Tepid or cold sponging baths, or rubbing with a wet towel, may be used, by most patients daily. For other employments of cold water the ad vice of an expe- rienced physician must be souglit. Linen, cotton, silk or leather, worn next the skin is preferable to fiannels, excepting for persons much exposed to the weather, or for little children. The patient should, if possible, use moderate exercise, in the open air for an hour or more daily; and his chamber should be well venti- lated every day. Rooms, papered with yellow paper, or stained or painted yellow, and yellow transparent window-shades or curtains should be avoided, the best color for the walls of a sick room is a light rose-color, particu- larly alternate stripes of white and light rose-color. The transparent window-shades should be of a grayish or light blue tint. Physical labor, which gives the mind the proper direction to use- fulness, while it exercises the body, should be daily used in chronic dis- eases as far as the strength will allow of it. Homceopathic medicines should not be taken too soon after eating ; and for about an hour after taking them the patient had better abstain from eating or the use of tobacco, and, if possible, from much mental or bodily exertion.
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