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AN EPITOME OF THE Homoeopathic Healing Art,

CONTAINING THE NEW DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE PRESENT TIME;

DESIGNED

FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES, FOR TRAVELERS ON THEIR JOURNEY,

AND AS A POCKET COMPANION FOR THE PHYSICIAN.

BY B. L. HILL, M. D.,

CLEVELAND, OHIO: JOHN HALL, 72 SUPERIOR STREET.

CHICAGO, ILL. HALSEY & KING, 162 CLARK STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court in and for the Northern District of Ohio.

PINKERTON & NEVINS' Print, Cleveland, O.

TABLE OF REMEDIES.

In this table I have affixed to the remedies figures designating the dilutions or the attenuations, at which, under ordinary circumstances, I would advise their use. The strongest, or mother tinctures, marked with an apha , the dilutions or triturations to be of the decimal degrees of attenuation, are marked 1, 2, 3, &c., to designate that they are to be used at 1-10th, 1-100th, 1-1000th, &c., the strength of the pure drugs.

The list for a full FAMILY CASE contains all the remedies recommended in this book for diseases that may be safely trusted to unprofessional hands.

The TRAVELER'S CASE needs only such medicines as are prescribed for the diseases which he would be most liable to contract on his journey; though I have put in the principal ones used in domestic practice, so that the Case will do for family use.

The CHOLERA CASE is only supplied with such remedies as are particularly applicable to that disease; useful, however, for many other complaints.

TRAVELER'S CASE.

CHOLERA CASE.

FULL FAMILY CASE.

Tr. is used for tincture, Tt. trituration, P. pellets.

REMEDIES. |CONTRACTIONS. | 1 Aconitum. |Aconite Tr 0 1 p 3 2 Althaea. | 3 Apis mellifica. |Apis mel. 0 p 2 3 4 Arsenicum. |Arsenicum 0 p 3 5 Arnica. |Arnica, 0 p 3 6 Arum triphyllum. |Arum triphyllum, 0 tt 2 7 Belladonna. |Bell. tr 1 p 4 8 Baptisia tinctoria. |Baptisia, tr 0 2 9 Bryonia. |Bryonia, tr p 3 10 Carbo. Vegetabilis. |Carbo. Veg. tr p 4 11 Cantharides. |Cantharides, tr 0 p 3 12 Colocynthis. |Colocynth, tr or p 3 13 China Sulphuricum. |China Sul. tt 1 14 Chamomilla. |Chamomilla tr or p 3 15 Copaiva. |Copaiva tr 1 p 2 16 Cauloph. Thalictroides.|Caulophyllum tr 1 17 Cuprum. |Cuprum, p 3 18 Cuprum Aceticum. | 19 Cornus Sericea. |Cornus sericea, tr 0 p 2 20 Conium maculatum. |Conium mac. tr 0 p 3 21 Coffea. |Coffea p 4 22 Eryngium Aquaticum. |Eryngium Aquaticum 2 23 Eupatorium aromaticum |Eupatorium aro. tr 0 p 2 24 Hepar Sulphur. | 25 Hydrastus Canadensis. |Hydrastin tr 0 p 2 26 Hamamelis Virginica. |Hamamelis Vir. tr 0 p 3 27 Ipecacuanha. |Ipecac tr 0 p 2 3 28 Laurocerasus. |Laurocerasus p 3 29 Mercurius solubilis. |Merc. tr 3 30 Mercurius corrosivus. |Mercurius cor. tt 2 p 3 31 Macrotys Racemosa. |Macrotin, tr 2 32 Nux Vomica. |Nux p 3 33 Opium. |Opium p 3 34 Phosphorus. |Phosphorus, tr 2 p 3 35 Phosphoric acid. |Phos. acid, tr 2 p 3 36 Podophyllum peltatum. |Podophyllin, tt 1 p 3 37 Pulsatilla. |Pulsatilla 3 38 Rhus Toxicodendron. |Rhus Tox. p 3 39 Secale cornutum. |Secale, tr 1 p 3 40 Santonine. |Santonine, tr 1 41 Spongia. |Spongia, p 4 42 Tartar Emetic. |Tartar emetic tr 2 p 3 43 Thuya. | 44 Veratrum alba. |Veratrum. p 3

AN EPITOME

OF THE

HOMOEOPATHIC HEALING ART.

Introduction.

Again, in some of the works there is too much confusion, the symptoms not being laid down with sufficient clearness to indicate the best remedy. Some of the works are unnecessarily large and cumbersome, while the real amount of valuable practical matter is comparatively meager, obliging the reader to pay for paper and binding without the contained value of his money. I do not claim entire perfection for this work, yet I do claim it to be several steps in advance of the books now extant.

This work is my own, being the result of my practical experience and observation. I have introduced several remedies that, though they are familiar to me, and have been used in my practice for many years, are, nevertheless, comparatively strange and new to most of the profession. Of some we have no extensive provings yet published, still the provings have been made, both upon the healthy and the sick. Their use, as directed in this work, is in strict accordance with their Homoeopathic relation to the symptoms for which they are prescribed.

In reference to the fear that is expressed that if one medicine is given too soon after another, it will antidote the former, I have simply to say, I have no confidence in the hypothetic antidotal powers of the medicines one over another, as laid down in the books. It has not been verified by experience, and has no foundation in truth. It is true that one medicine will remove morbid symptoms that might be produced by an overdose of another; but both being given in the ordinary medicinal doses, neither of them to such an extent as to produce sensible symptoms, if given alone, would not, if given in quick succession, prevent each other from acting to remove their own peculiar symptoms that exist in the system at the time. So if we have the symptoms that are found in two or more different remedies present in the same attack, as is often the ease, we may give these several remedies one after another, with confidence in their curative effects for the symptoms they represent.

ADMINISTRATION OF REMEDIES.

Bathing.

The surface of the body should be kept clean, as far as possible, and to this end, in summer, should be well bathed at least once a day. In winter, though useful, it is not so indispensable; still no one should neglect the bath more than a week, and all ought to bathe at least twice a week, if not oftener, even in winter.

The bath should be of a temperature that is agreeable, and the room warm, especially for a feeble person. It should be so applied as not to give a general chill, as such shocks are always hurtful.

Diet.

The diet of the sick should he nutricious, but at all times simple, free from greasy substances, and from all stimulating condiments whatsoever, as well as from vinegar, or food in which vinegar is used.

In short, let the food be nutritious, easily digested, small or moderate in quantity, and free from all "seasoning," except salt or sugar; and if salt is used at all, let the quantity be very small, much less than would be used in health.

Diarrhoea.

TREATMENT.

Dysentery.

This disease is caused by inflammation of the mucous membrane of the colon and rectum, generally confined to the lower part of the bowel. It is always painful. There is griping and straining in the lower part of the abdomen, and generally great bearing down when at stool, with a peculiar distress after the evacuation, called tormina.

The discharges often commence like a common diarrhoea, with copious liquid evacuations, but there is more or less griping pain, low down, from the beginning. The evacuations sooner or later become lessened, slimy or bloody, or both, the pain increasing accompanied with more or less fever, often quite severe. Sometimes the patient is costive, and has been so for several days, the dysentery coming on without being preceded by looseness. At others, especially in summer, when fevers are prevailing, the dysentery begins with a severe chill, followed by fever and the dysenteric symptoms above described.

TREATMENT.

Colic.

The symptoms of this are cramping pains in the abdomen, without fever or looseness of the bowels. The colic sometimes occurs after the cessation of a diarrhoea that had been induced by severe cathartics. The pains are cutting and straining, drawing the bowels into knots, relieved temporarily by pressure.

TREATMENT.

Bilious Colic.

This disease, in addition to the symptoms of cutting, cramping pains in the bowels, as in common colic, has great distress in the stomach, with nausea and vomiting, the bowels being costive, the feet and hands cold, sometimes cold sweats occur. There is also considerable fever, and frequently headache is present. The substance vomited is at first dark bilious matter, but if the case continues a long time, stercoraceous matter will be thrown up.

TREATMENT.

Cholera Morbus.

This disease generally comes on at night, in hot weather, and is, in many cases, induced by over eating while the patient is suffering from diarrhoea and a deranged state of the liver. It is essentially of a bilious character. It sets in with great pain in the bowels, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting of large quantities of dark greenish bitter tasting substance. At first, the vomiting will seem to afford relief, but sooner or later the stomach and bowels cramp, and the cramping may extend to other parts of the body, the feet, hands, calves of the legs, and the arms, cold sweats come on, and death terminates his sufferings.

TREATMENT.

FEVERS.

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