Homopathy simplified; or, Domestic practice made easy : Containing explicit directions for the treatment of disease, the management of accidents, and the preservation of health / By John A. Tarbell.

  • Tarbell, John A. (John Adams), 1810-1864
Date:
1868
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Homopathy simplified; or, Domestic practice made easy : Containing explicit directions for the treatment of disease, the management of accidents, and the preservation of health / By John A. Tarbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

    77/392 (page 63)
    Under all circumstances, the following medicines are the most frequently applicable : — 1. COLOCYNTH. Extremely acute, cramp-like, cutting pain, with tense abdomen, and great restlessness. 2. ]srux VOMICA. Pressing and burning pain, attended with nausea or vomiting. Eeference: — PULSATILLA; BELLADONNA. Dose. — Six globules are to be dissolved in six spoon- fuls of water, and one spoonful given every fifteen min- utes, the interval between the doses being lengthened to an hour or more, as the pain decreases. (See article on Enteritis, if the pain is aggravated by external pressure.) Fomentations, by cloths dipped in warm water, and covered with a woollen bandage, applied over the seat of the pain, and renewed, so that the warmth may be unmitigated and constant, .will conduce to relief, in all cases that are not attended by excessive tenderness to pressure. HEARTBURN. WATER BRASH. (Pyrosis.*) By the above term is signified a sensation of acrid heat in the region of the stomach, affecting also the throat; and the word is wholly inapplicable as referring to the heart for its seat. It arises from some irritating cause in the stomach, as spices, and aromatics, strong