Consumption: Its Nature, Prevention, and Homoeopathic Treatment, (with Illustrations of Homoeopathic Practice.)

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W. Radde, 1859 - 184 pagini

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Pagina 70 - The method of grating and pounding meat as a substitute for chewing, may be well suited to the toothless octogenarian, whose stomach is capable of digesting it ; but the stomach of the young child is not adapted to the digestion of such food, and will be disordered by it.
Pagina 64 - Lemann's biscuit-powder," soaked for twelve hours in cold spring water, then boiled for half an hour, not simmered, or it will turn sour. Very little sugar to be added to the food, and then only at the time when given. Sweets, of every kind, are most injurious, producing acidity, flatulency, and indigestion, sores in the mouth, and disordered secretions.
Pagina 65 - ... and then the milk of one, cow added cold. Solid meat is not generally required until an infant is fifteen months of age, and then to be given sparingly, and cut exceedingly fine.
Pagina 160 - Conii, is simply prepared as follows : Take of fresh hemlock leaves any quantity, express the juice in a tincture press, set it aside for forty-eight hours, pour off the clear, supernatant liquor from the fecula and chlorophylle which it has deposited, and lastly, add to it a fifth part, by measure, of rectified spirit. This preparation I have found to keep well for two years, and its uniform strength, as well as the facility with which we can increase or...
Pagina 45 - the remote and the exciting, or those which induce the constitutional predisposition, and those which determine the local deposition of tuberculous matter after such predisposition is established. The one class of causes operates by modifying the whole system ; the other, by determining in a system so modified the particular morbid action of which tuberculous matter is the product.
Pagina 169 - Take of linseed an ounce ; liquorice root, sliced, half an ounce ; boiling water two pints ; macerate for four hours near the fire in a covered vessel, and strain.
Pagina 98 - Medicus natures minister non magister est," it follows that by carefully observing the operations of nature, learning her method of cure, imitating it as closely as possible, avoiding what she points out to be injurious, and furnishing what she evidently requires, that we may at length arrive at rational indications of treatment.
Pagina 5 - In whatever organ the formation of tuberculous matter takes place, the mucous system, if constituting a part of that organ, is in general either the exclusive seat of this morbid product, or is far more extensively affected with it than any of the other systems or tissues of the same organ...
Pagina 14 - ... from the commencement to the termination, it is so little related to the extent of local disease...
Pagina 155 - ... a bad smell from the mouth ; when here and there red or blue spots appear...

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