Homoeopathy simplified; or, Domestic practice made easyO. Clapp, 1866 - 372 pages |
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abdomen acid ACONITE action affection alternation Antidotes appetite applied ARNICA ARSENICUM attacks attended bandage bath BELLADONNA blood body bone brain BRYONIA burning CALCAREA carbonate catarrh cause CHAMOMILLA chest chief remedies Cholera chronic CINCHONA cloth COFFEA coffee cold water colic constipation convulsions cough cutaneous debility derangement diarrhoea diet digestion disease disorders dissolved disturbance DOSE drink eruption erysipelas exercise expectoration exposure external eyes febrile fever fluid fractured frequently fulness gout head headache heat hemorrhoids inflammation inflammatory injury internal IPECACUANHA irritation limbs lungs medicine membrane MERCURIUS morning nature nausea nerves nervous night NUX VOMICA occurs organs perspiration produced PULSATILLA pulse removed respiration rheumatism scarlet fever Scrofula sensation shooting pain six globules skin small pox sometimes spasmodic spoonful given spoonfuls of water stomach substance SULPHUR suppuration surface swelling symptoms table-spoon tea-spoonful thirst Three globules throat tincture tion TOXICODENDRON treatment ulceration usually vessels violent vomiting warm wound
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Page 54 - Either may be given it intervals of two, three, or four hours, according to the urgency of the symptoms.
Page 345 - A peculiarity of constitution in which a person is affected by certain agents, which, if applied to a thousand other persons, would produce no effect.
Page 286 - ... added, any magnesia present will, in the* course of a few hours, be precipitated in the form of the white ammoniacal phosphate of magnesia. " 9. Tincture of Galls. This is used as a test for iron, with solutions of which it forms an inky liquor, (tannate and gallate of iron.) If the test produce this effect on the water before, but not after boiling, the iron is in the state of carbonate ; if after, as well as before, in that of sulphate. Tea may be substituted for galls, to which its effects...
Page 82 - The lungs are two cone-shaped bodies, situated on each side of the chest, and separated from each other by the heart, and by a membranous partition.
Page 197 - ... parts adjacent. If oil or grease can be readily procured, it may be applied round the wound, and this operation should be repeated as often as the skin becomes dry ; soap or even saliva may be employed, where oil or grease cannot be obtained. Whatever is discharged in any way from the wound ought to be carefully removed. The application of burning heat should be continued in this manner...
Page 285 - ... be well corked, a yellowishbrown precipitate (sesquioxide of iron) will be deposited in a few days, if oxygen gas be contained in the water. " 3. Litmus. Infusion of litmus, or syrup of violet, is reddened by a free acid. " 4. Lime Water. This is a test for carbonic acid, with which it causes a white precipitate, (carbonate of lime,) if employed before the water is boiled. "5. Chloride of Barium. A solution of this salt usually yields, with hard water, a white precipitate, insoluble in nitric...
Page 248 - Fracture of the leg. — Apply two splints, one on the outside, the other on the inside, of the limb. When nothing better can be had, support may be given by a roll of clothing and two sticks, as shown in PI.
Page 307 - ... for very weakly persons. Generally speaking ablution may be performed in a cold room, especially where persons get through the operation quickly, and can immediately afterwards take exercise in the open air.
Page 288 - OF COMMON WATER. — The purest water is liable to become impregnated with poisonous properties when conveyed through some kinds of metallic pipes, particularly leaden ones. The air contained in very pure water rapidly corrodes lead ; distilled water, from which the air is excluded, has no action on it until air is again admitted, when a thin white crust of carbonate and hydrate of the oxide of lead is speedily formed. Rain water is often impregnated from the lead of roofs, gutters, cisterns, anc...
Page 287 - Filtration removes all insects, living beings, and all suspended impurities, but it does not deprive water of the substances it holds in solution. Boiling destroys the vitality of any animals or vegetables it may contain, expels air or carbonic acid, and causes the precipitation of carbonate of lime. Sometimes it may be advantageous to boil water first, and filter it afterward.