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Enemas have been medically out of favor for a long time. Most people have never had one. So here are simple directions to self-administer an effective enema series. The enema bag y...
While this name is more or less unfortunate, it has long been in vogue as a designation for pains and disturbances referred by a patient to his heart. Therefore with the distinct u...
While disease of the coronary arteries may occur without general arteriosclerosis, it is so frequently associated with it that it is necessary to give a brief description of the ge...
This condition presents different symptoms in different cases, but it always includes languor, headache or dizziness, perhaps some yellow color of the skin and conjunctiva, and a g...
This is a chronic affection of the nervous system, characterized by muscular weakness, trembling and rigidity. Causes. It usually occurs after the fortieth year, and is more common...
The stomach and head affect each other powerfully, and a disordered stomach causes severe headache, known as sick headache. In many cases a few tablespoonfuls of hot water, taken a...
(Oxyuris Vermicularis.)--This common worm occupies the rectum and colon. They produce great irritation and itching, particularly at night, symptoms which become intensely aggravate...
The drugs that are mostly used to lower blood pressure are nitrites or drugs which are like nitrites, and these are nitroglycerin, sodium nitrite, erythroltetra nitrate and amyl ni...
Gum Camphor 1 dram Oil Wintergreen 1 dram Oil Origanum 1 dram Chloroform 2 drams Tincture Opium 2 drams Oil Sassafras 2 drams Oil Hemlock 2 drams Oil Turpentine 2 drams Balsam fir...
This occurs most often in men from forty to sixty years old. It is not uncommon in children. Cause. It is usually due to drinking of alcohol to excess, especially whisky, brandy, r...
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PREPARATION.--Triturate in the usual way. (The literature on these several preparations is so extensive that we must confine ourselves to the paper read by Dr. Francois Cartier, Ph...
COMMON NAME.--Chloride of Gold and Sodium. PREPARATION.--A mixture composed of equal parts of dry chloride of Gold and chloride of Sodium, triturated in the usual way. (The followi...
PREPARATION.--There are two kinds of renal calculi, the phosphatic and the uric, which should be triturated as separate preparations. (The Homoeopathric Examiner, 1846, contained t...
NAT. ORD.--Cupuliferae. COMMON NAME--European or English oak. PREPARATION.--The spirit is destilled from the tincture prepared by macerating the acorn kernals from the Quercus robu...
NAT. ORD., Caprifoliaceae. COMMON NAME, Snow Berry. PREPARATION.--One part of the fresh ripe berries is macerated in two parts by weight of alcohol. (In 1882 Dr. Edward V. Moffat r...
NAT. ORD., Synanthereae. COMMON NAME, "Bitter broom." Escoba amaya. PREPARATION.--The dry plant is macerated in five parts by weight of alcohol. (Dr. Edward Fornias contributed to...
NAT. ORD., Labiatae. COMMON NAME, Mad-dog skullcap. PREPARATION.--The whole fresh plant is macerated in twice its weight of alcohol. (The following proving of Scutellaria lat., fro...
NAT. ORD., Borraginaceae. COMMON NAME, False Cromwell. PREPARATION.--The entire plant with root is macerated in twice its weight of alcohol. (This paper was prepared by Dr. W. A. V...
NAT. ORD., Cruciferae. COMMON NAME, Shepherd's Purse. PREPARATION.--Three parts of the fresh plant in flower are macerated in two parts by weight of alcohol. (The following paper o...
A collection of symptoms from twenty-five different provers, anatomically arranged: MIND. 3 Dullness in head, with cross, irritable feeling. 2 So nervous could not study. 3 Confuse...