New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers

I mentioned in the beginning that it had been of great value in inflammatory rheumatism. So it has, and will give later many cases of immediate and permanent relief if it would...

After decomposition had gone on for three or four weeks it was ascetic and simply fetid to a fearful degree, and no results except nausea were apparent in any one exposed to it...

Some two years ago a patient of mine asked me whether we make any use of _Talápoka_ (cockroach) in our Pharmacopoeia. My reply was that we use many loathsome insects as our reme...

_Résumé of Symptoms._--If we boil down the matter, extracting only the symptoms and changes observed during the above experiments with _Parthenina_, we have the following: _Heav...

Alternations of symptoms of mind and bodily pains. When pains of the body are noticed, symptoms affecting the mind are suspended. The mind loses its characteristics, is clear, a...

Dr. Huber carefully collated all the symptoms experienced by his provers; he had a great predilection for the mistletoe, which he prescribed in many different ailments. He frequ...

Experience has taught me that to give it in smaller doses is a waste of time and disappointing to the patient. Two such doses, _i. e._, 60 drops a dose, are almost absolutely su...

Wednesday, May 13, 1896.--Awoke this morning after a very refreshing night's sleep, feeling as well as usual; and did not notice anything out of the ordinary during the entire d...

Let us review briefly some of the evidence of its action: Dr. S. H. Talcott, in the report of the Middletown Asylum, 1893, notes that _OEnanthe_ possesses a marked power in epil...

7 A.M., January 10, 1893. Thank God I began this day with more comfort and more control of myself; my limbs are easier to manage; a little giddiness and staggering, and stiff, b...

(In 1889 Dr. Napier called attention to _Solanum Carolinense_ as a remedy in the treatment of epilepsy, stating that it was used as a domestic remedy in the South for convulsion...

While Dr. Semple's reports do not precisely state it, I think we may safely infer a _sense of impending dissolution_ in cases I, IV and V. The girl exclaimed she "would lose her...

In the generalities we find great MUSCULAR WEAKNESS OR PROSTRATION AND TIRED FEELING OVER THE ENTIRE BODY. A feeling as though one had just gotten up from a severe spell of sick...

"CASE I.--A married man injured his testicles by jumping upon a horse; this was followed by a discharge of what was considered semen for fifteen years, during which time he was...

CASE VIII. A gentleman, the keeper of a common shop, aged forty-four, belonging to a village, had been suffering from asthma for the last eight years and had always been under t...

Dr. Cooper told me that he had relieved a case of nasal polypus with _Lemna minor_, and having several cases of the kind that had long been under my observation I thought it my...

Dr. Hannon (_Presse Med. Belge_, 1853) mentions that he had found _Thlaspi_ very useful in hæmorrhage when the blood was poor in fibrine. Dr. Heer (Berlin _Med. Zeit._, 1857) fo...

A lady living in the West, aged about fifty, had been ailing several years. Her greatest complaint was a weak, bad-aching heart. I treated her a few months with general improvem...

In cases of excessive venereal desire, amounting to satyriasis, from experience I would use this remedy first. I have seen it control the venereal appetite in a very satisfactor...

My own limited experience would throw no particular light on the subject. It has, however, served to impress me with confidence in the remedy and its future. The gist of trustwo...

Aspect of Extreme softness on Human tuberculous cultures. glycerine jelly or growths are adherent, on serum. hard and difficult to break up even with a strong platinum wire on g...

Reading the list of remedies of your "Physicians' Price Current," I was very much astonished to meet with the name _Dolichos pruriens_, which the greater and modern authorities...

Headache of brief duration, in single spots, now here, now there, with confusion. Pressure in both temples, harder on one side than on the other alternately, with violent pulsat...

During the spring of 1886 scarlet-diphtheria appeared in this place. On March 28th I was called to attend the 8-year old son Matthias, of Wernerus, a weaver, in the hamlet of Ni...

Schoeman triturates the _Æthiops antimonalis_ with _Æthiops mercurialis_ (or _mineralis_), which last consists of equal parts of quicksilver and sulphur, and says of the product...

Arsenious acid, Arsenic blanc, Arsenic oxide, Flowers of Arsenic (AsO_3) is commonly used as the only preparation in which it could be assimilated. In the Solutio Fowleri we fin...

Early in 1895 he saw a man who was suffering from a malignant growth in the nose--"a malignant tumor of the antrum, which had extended to the nose." An exploratory operation con...

CASE I.--Bruce McG., æt. 15, dark hair, gray eyes, spare habit, rigid fibre, nervous, quick, active, called at my office in the evening complaining of sore throat, worse on righ...

One day an official in Dresden brought his wife to me, who was 41 years of age. The couple, all of whose children had died soon after birth, longed once more for children. The w...

[G] Dr. J. Compton Burnett, in his book, "New Cure for Consumption," p. 129, makes this remark: "The best way to get some really good _Bacillinum_ is to take a portion of the lu...

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Feet, swollen, 334 Fever cakes, 22 " inflammatory, 87 " intermittent, 79, 87, 260, 349 " paludal, 260 " rheumatic, 87 " typhoid, 118 Fibroid of uterus, 280, 361 Fits, 289 Flux,...