American Homoeopathic Review Volume 3 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Back And Neck.?Pain in the small of the back with constipation, intermittent fever, palpitation of the heart or dyspnoea. Stiff neck. Uppex Extremities.?Heat in the palms of the hands at night. Lower Extremities.?Flat ulcers on the lower extremities. Cold feet. CLINICAL REMARKS ON HIGH POTENCIES. BY DR. BATMAN, GROSSENHAOT. Carbo vegetdbilis'" in threatening Paralysis of the Lungs in Typhw.?Encouraged by my great success in treating croup, I have made further experiments with high potencies in acute diseases and believe that I have witnessed better results from them than from the lower potencies. As yet, however, I abstain from publishing the cases, inasmuch as their number and character are perhaps not sufficient to be decisive with colleagues who are, on principle, opposed to high potencies. But, inasmuch as Carbo veg.1" has rendered me most remarkable service in threatening typhoid paralysis of the lungs, whereas I have never seen any similar good effects from the second and third triturations; and inasmuch as this morbid condition is one of the most dangerous that can occur in practice, I have thought it inconsistent with my duty to withhold any longer, from publication, facts which might induce my colleges to make trial of this remedy in such cases, in which but too commonly every expedient fails us, and inexorable death demands his victim. A young man, aged 14 years, lay sick, two years ago, with a severe attack of typhus fever. His mother was ill with the same disease and was therefore unable to take care of him; so was his father, whose avocations compelled him to bealways away from home. The entire task of waiting upon the patient devolved upon a maid servant, who had, besides, to look after the dairy and general house work and therefore had, as may...