The British Homoeopathic Review (Volume 10) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866. Excerpt: ... NOTABILIA. homoeopathy, of which I then knew nothing. I enclose a letter from Dr. Gibson, published in the Pharmaceutical Journal, which gives you fuller information; and I shall be glad if the drug proves useful. I send you some of it, and can give you more. "Yours faithfully, "Edward P. De L'hostk. "Sion Cottage, Bath." Dr. Gibson's letter is published in the Pharmaceutical Journal for 1853, page 422. We subjoin a few extracts: --"I have," he says, "repeatedly used it as a remedy in diarrhoea attended with tormina, and even with tenesmus; and I can safely say that in every case it has given relief to the symptoms. The relief has most generally been permanent, occasionally only temporary, and such as to require a repetition of the dose." "Of its effects in cholera, European or Asiatic, I have as yet only one case recorded." This case appears to have been one of severe English cholera, with watery evacuations and violent vomitings. After the first dose three evacuations occurred in the next hour and half; after the second dose no evacuation occurred; a third teaspoonful was given, and this completed the cure. This case is reported in the Pharmaceutical Journal, as a pendant to Dr. Gibson's letter. Lt.-Col. De l'Hoste has placed some of this substance in our hands, and we shall be happy to send a small quantity to any one inclined to prove it. We took a very small portion ourselves; it has a bitter taste; and though only part of a grain was taken, it induced sharp purging, with considerable pain, uneasiness in the bowels, and great sense of heat and irritation in the lower bowel.--Ed. M.H.E. THE CHEMICAL THEORY OF DISEASE. Dr. L1onel S. Beale, in the course of one of his lectures at King's College, on Physiology and General Morbid Anatomy, thus criticises t...