Enquire Within Upon Everything Part 66

The powder, No. 30, internally, sponging the face with the lotion, No.

31. Avoid excesses in diet.

604. Erysipelas.

Aperients, if the patient be strong, No. 1, followed by No. 7, then tonics, No. 27. No. 27 may be used from the commencement for weak subjects.

605. Faintness.

Effusion of cold water on the face, stimulants to the nostrils, pure air, and the rec.u.mbent position; afterwards, avoidance of the exciting cause. Avoid excitement.

606. Frost-Bite and Frozen Limbs.

No heating or stimulating liquors must be given. Rub the parts affected with ice, cold, or snow water, and lay the patient on a cold bed.

607. Gout.

The aperients No. 1, followed by No. 24, bathing the parts with gin-and-water; for drink, weak tea or coffee. Warmth by flannels.

Abstain from wines, spirits, and animal food.

608. Gravel.

No. 5, followed by No. 7, the free use of magnesia as an aperient. The pill No. 22. Abstain from fermented drinks and hard water. Another form of gravel must be treated by mineral acids, given three times a day.

609. Whooping Cough.

Wooping cough may be complicated with congestion or inflammation of the lungs, or convulsions, and then becomes a serious disease. If uncomplicated, No. 43.

610. Hysterics.

The fit may be prevented by the administration of thirty drops of laudanum, and as many of ether. When it has taken place open the windows, loosen the tight parts of the dress, sprinkle cold water on the face, &c. A gla.s.s of wine or cold water when the patient can swallow. Avoid excitement and tight lacing.

611. Indigestion.

The pills No. 2, with the mixture No. 18, at the same time abstinence from veal, pork, mackerel, salmon, pastry, and beer; for drink, h.o.m.oeopathic cocoa, a gla.s.s of cold spring water the first thing every morning. Avoid excesses.

612. Inflammation of the Bladder.

Bleeding, aperients No. 5 and No. 7, the warm bath, afterwards opium; the pill No. 11, three times a day till relieved. Avoid fermented liquors, &c.

613. Inflammation of the Bowels.

Leeches, blisters, fomentations, hot baths, iced drinks, the pills No.

19; move the bowels with clysters, if necessary, No. 20. Avoid cold, indigestible food, &c.

614. Inflammation of the Brain.

Application of cold to the head, bleeding from the temples or back of the neck by leeches or cupping; aperients No. 1, followed by No. 7; mercury to salivation, No. 15. Avoid excitement, study, intemperance.

615. Inflammation of the Kidneys.

Bleeding from the arm, leeches over the seat of pain, aperients No. 5, followed by No. 49, the warm bath. Avoid violent exercise, rich living.

616. Inflammation of the Liver.

Leeches over the right side, the seat of pain, blisters, aperients No.

1, followed by No. 7, afterwards the pills No. 19, till the gums are slightly tender. Avoid cold, damp, intemperance, and anxiety.

617. Inflammation of the Lungs.

Bleeding from the arm or over the painful part of the chest by leeches, succeeded by a blister; the demulcent mixture, No. 14, to allay the cough, with the powders No. 15. Avoid cold, damp, and draughts.

618. Inflammation of the Stomach.

Leeches to the pit of the stomach, followed by fomentations, cold iced water for drink, bowels to be evacuated by clysters; abstinence from all food except cold gruel, milk and water, or tea. Avoid excesses, and condiments.

619. Inflammatory Sore Throat.

Leeches and blisters externally, aperients No. 1, followed by No. 7, gargle to clear the throat, No. 17. Avoid cold, damp, and draughts.

620. Inflamed Eyes.

The bowels to be regulated by No. 5, a small blister behind the ear or on the nape of the neck--the eye to be bathed with No. 35.

621. Influenza.

No 4 as an aperient and diaph.o.r.etic. No. 14 to allay fever and cough.

No. 27 as a tonic, when weakness only remains. Avoid cold and damp, use clothing suited to the change of temperature.

622. Intermittent Fever, or Ague.