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-====== BOOK NOTICES AND REVIEWS ====== +wh0cd73357 <a href=http://hydrochlorothiazide.us.org/>​hydrochlorothiazide online</a
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-{{anchor:​s3}}THE HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS OF DIARRHOEA, CHOLERA, CHOLERA MORBUS, CHOLERA INFANTUM, and all Other Loose Evacuations of the Bowels. {{anchor:​s4}}By ​//James BBell//, //M. D.// Second Edition, revised and enlarged, by Drs. J. B. Bell and W. T. Laird. pp. 271, cloth, price $1.50. {{anchor:​s5}}Boericke & Tafel: New York and Philadelphia. {{anchor:​s6}}London:​ Trübner & Co., Ludgate Hill. {{anchor:​s7}}Homoeopathic Publishing Co., 2 Finsbury Circus. 1881. +
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-{{anchor:​s8}}This little book, issued in 1869, by Dr. Bell, has long been a standard work in Homoeopathic Therapeutics. {{anchor:​s9}}We feel quite within bounds in asserting that it has been the means, under our law, of saving thousands of lives. {{anchor:​s10}}Than this, no greater commendation could be penned. +
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-{{anchor:​s11}}In this second edition, Dr. Bell has been assisted by his late partner, Dr. Laird, of Maine; also by Drs. Lippe, William P. Wesselhoeft and E. A. Farrington. {{anchor:​s12}}Thirty-eight new remedies are given; the old text largely re-written; many rubrics added to the repertory; a new feature, the “black type,” for especially characteristic symptoms, introduced. +
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-{{anchor:​s13}}This is a typical homoeopathic work, which no homoeopathic physician can afford to be without. +
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-{{anchor:​s14}}The typographical setting is worthy of the book. +
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-{{anchor:​s15}}A TREATISE ON DISEASES PECULIAR TO INFANTS AND CHILDREN. {{anchor:​s16}}By //W. A. Edmonds//, //M. D//., Professor of Paedology in the St. Louis Homoeopathic College of Physicians and Surgeons, etc., etc. pp. 300, price $2.50. {{anchor:​s17}}Boericke & Tafel: New York and Philadelphia. {{anchor:​s18}}London:​ Trübner & Co., Ludgate Hill. {{anchor:​s19}}Homoeopathic Publishing Co., 2 Finsbury Circus. 1881. +
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-{{anchor:​s20}}The author commences his task with some good advice on the hygiene, etc., of infancy and childhood. {{anchor:​s21}}Especially excellent is his advice on the mental culture of the child. {{anchor:​s22}}He believes the “first ten years should be given to the culture of arms, legs, bone and muscle, as the best guarantee for that most desirable state of ‘sound mind in a sound body.’” +
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-{{anchor:​s23}}The description of the many diseases peculiar to infants and children is good, and quite complete for a small work. {{anchor:​s24}}As homoeopathic physicians, it is chiefly the therapeutics of the subject in which we are interested; though nowhere is hygiene more important than in the subjects treated of in this book, and //must// never be overlooked. +
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-//​{{anchor:​s25}}Therapeutics://​ At first glance it is evident that our author believes in “strong medicine.{{anchor:​s26}}” His doses are large, and entirely too frequent. {{anchor:​s27}}While we believe in the greater efficacy of the high potencies—that they will cure where the low fail, yet we do not condemn the use of the low. {{anchor:​s28}}Those whose confidence or faith in the power of dilutions is too weak to allow them to use the high, should, we think, use the low; but no judicious homoeopathic practitioner can find reason or excuse for profuse dosing. {{anchor:​s29}}It is not the quantity, but the appropriate quality of the medicine, that does the healing. {{anchor:​s30}}As an instance of his heavy dosing, on page 152 our author recommends for vomiting remaining after a diarrhoea: “in such an emergency kreosote at the 2 x dilution, in drop doses, every ten, twenty or thirty minutes, on a little crushed ice, will be found a most valuable resource.{{anchor:​s31}}” “A mild sinapism over the epigastrium” is also advised for the same symptom. {{anchor:​s32}}In the treatment of cholera infantum, he says, “the list of remedies is small, but the result prompt, complete and brilliant.{{anchor:​s33}}” That “the list of remedies is small” will be news to all who use Dr. Bell’s book, with its clear indications for 140 remedies. +
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-{{anchor:​s34}}Alternation—a bad practice—is frequently advised. {{anchor:​s35}}Thus,​ at page 28, //Bell.// and //Merc.// are recommended in alternation for mammary swelling in the new-born infant; at page 100, in speaking of croup, he says: “//Tartar emetic// alternates well with //Aconite// from the start;” at page 153, //Merc. {{anchor:​s36}}Dulcis//​ and //Ipecac.// for cholera infantum with bilious vomiting; at page 265, we read: “for obstinate chronic //​furunculus//,​ I know of no prescription so satisfactory as //Sulphur// and //​Belladonna//​ in alternation.” +
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-{{anchor:​s37}}For the severe //​pruritus://​ “R.—Chloral hydrate, . . . . grs. x +
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-{{anchor:​s38}}Aqua,​ . . . . . . .z/3 j +
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-{{anchor:​s39}}Glycerin,​ . . . . . . .3 j +
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-{{anchor:​s40}}Fiat lotio. {{anchor:​s41}}Sig.:​ Moisten parts three or four times per day.” +
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-{{anchor:​s42}}For an extensive and violent eczema, he orders: “Arsenicum 2x, internally, one grain, three times per day, and the local application of an ointment, composed of one ounce of Vaselin to ten grains of Oxide of Zinc, to be applied three times daily.” +
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-{{anchor:​s43}}These few quotations are given that the bad advice of our author may be clearly noted. {{anchor:​s44}}The indications for the remedies, mentioned throughout the book, are scant and indefinite. {{anchor:​s45}}In conclusion, we would say that the practice advocated in this book differs very decidedly from that taught ​us by Hahnemann{{anchor:​s46}}Such books are an injury to homoeopathy. +
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-{{anchor:​s47}}DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.{{anchor:​s48}}—Being a treatise on Spasmodic, Paralytic, Neuralgic and Mental Affections. {{anchor:​s49}}For the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. {{anchor:​s50}}By ​//Charles Porter Hart//, +
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-//​{{anchor:​s51}}M. D// ., author of “Repertory to New Remedies,​” etc., etc. pp. 409, price $3.00. {{anchor:​s52}}Boericke & Tafel: New York and Philadelphia. {{anchor:​s53}}London:​ Trübner & Co., Ludgate Hill. {{anchor:​s54}}Homoeopathic Publishing ing Co., 2 Finsbury Circus. 1881. +
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-{{anchor:​s55}}The diseases discussed in this work of Dr. Hart’s, are among the most difficult chronic cases which the physician is called upon to treat. {{anchor:​s56}}Being most difficult, the physician needs the best advice to cope successfully with them. {{anchor:​s57}}This he will ever find by rigid adherence to our //law//; in mild, simple cases, one might, without danger, deviate from it, but in difficult chronic cases, any deviation means failure. +
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-{{anchor:​s58}}We are apt to be frightened by the terrible //names// of paralysis, epilepsy, hysteria, etc., and to think our minute doses and single remedies too simple, and insufficient to cure them. {{anchor:​s59}}These diseases are very often incurable under any treatment; but why desert our law which does offer //some// hope, for allopathic measures that have failed in the hands of their experts? {{anchor:​s60}}To do so, is irrational. +
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-{{anchor:​s61}}Our author commences his task by a short //​résumé//​ of the physiology of the cerebro-spinal centres, rightly deeming a clear understanding of the physiology of these parts necessary to any rational study of their diseases. +
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-{{anchor:​s62}}Then follow chapters on the derangement of the motor functions—convulsions,​ epilepsy, chorea, tetanus, etc.; next are described the paralytic disorders—paralysis in general, hemiplegia, paraplegia, infantile, facial, diphtheritic and other paralyses, muscular atrophy, etc.; derangement of sensory function follows next, and under this head we find neuralgias, general and special, angina pectoris, gastralgia, spinal irritation, etc.; lastly, we have moral and mental disorders. +
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-{{anchor:​s63}}The descriptions given of these numerous diseases are short, but in the main clear and sensible; the field embraced is one not well explored at present by physiologist or pathologist,​ hence, many points are yet unknown or undecided. {{anchor:​s64}}As to treatment, our author has given the remedies most frequently prescribed under each disease, and in many instances, the symptoms of the remedy are illustrated by clinical cases. {{anchor:​s65}}These cases are culled from all sources, and hence, some are of dubious character and under our law, useless, but in the main they are good. +
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-{{anchor:​s66}}The work is one that will repay perusal, and will be of assistance in many tedious chronic cases. +
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-{{anchor:​s67}}A TREATISE ON DIPHTHERIA; ITS HISTORY, ETIOLOGY, VARIETIES, PATHOLOGY, SEQUELAE, DIAGNOSIS AND HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS. {{anchor:​s68}}By //A. McNeil//, //M. D.// pp. 145, price $1.00. {{anchor:​s69}}Chicago:​ Duncan Bros. 1881. +
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-{{anchor:​s70}}This book received the prize of one hundred dollars offered by the publishers for the best essay on diphtheria. {{anchor:​s71}}In his preface, the author says of the germ theory: “The careful experiments I have quoted, show conclusively that the theory is an unreliable hypothesis.{{anchor:​s72}}” Again: “There is but one way for us to travel, viz.: that surveyed and built by Hahnemann, to give //the// remedy in the minimal dose that corresponds most nearly to the totality of the symptoms; no gargles, no swabs, no caustics, no specifics.{{anchor:​s73}}” Turning now to p. 36, we find that the author asks the question: “Are the bacteria, which exist in the diseased mucous membrane, and which penetrate even the entire system, the producers or the product of the disease?​{{anchor:​s74}}” In answering this question he has made a very intelligent collection of evidence tending to overthrow the germ theory. {{anchor:​s75}}The distrust of this theory among the old school is becoming more general every year, as a careful perusal of the medical journals will show. {{anchor:​s76}}There are not wanting surgeons of large experience who entirely repudiate “Listerism.{{anchor:​s77}}” The natural history of germ life is established beyond dispute; yet the bounds of ascertained fact are overstepped,​ and by theories built of analogy, the principles governing the existence and multiplication of germs in organic fluids //outside// of the organisms that formed those fluids are made to account for phenomena occurring in the organisms themselves. +
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-{{anchor:​s78}}Pasteur* [See Pasteur’s “Studies in Fermentation,​” translated by F. Faulkner & D. C. Robb, B. A MacMillan & Co.: London and New York. 1879.] teaches that the bacteria //feed// upon the organic fluids, extracting therefrom those elements that contribute to their own sustenance, whilst the remainder of the constituents of the fluid falls into a sort of ruin like an arch from which the keystone has been removed. {{anchor:​s79}}This //débris// then re-arranges itself into new forms, such as water, carbonic acid, the various gases of putrefaction,​ various new forms of poisonous character; or, in certain cases, alcohol. {{anchor:​s80}}If then such results follow the introduction of bacteria and other algae into the above mentioned fluids, do the same results occur in those fluids which are still contained within the living organism (the blood, for example)? {{anchor:​s81}}Assuredly not //if the organism be in a sufficiently healthful condition to resist them.// {{anchor:​s82}}This view, once peculiar to Hahnemannians,​ has lately been adopted by a few leading men in the old school. +
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-{{anchor:​s83}}“It is still a question, however,” says the learned Dr. Carpenter, in his celebrated book on the microscope (p. 10), “which has to be decided upon other than microscopic evidence, how far the attacks of these fungi are to be considered as the //causes// of the diseases to which they stand related, or whether their development (as is the case in many parallel instances) is the //​consequence//​ of the previously unhealthy condition of the plants which they infest; the general evidence appears to the author to incline to the latter view, which does not exclude their injurious action.{{anchor:​s84}}” Again, on page 393 of the same work, the distinguished author gives evidence that //every// grain of wheat has adhering to it the germs of blight, which do not develop if the grain be perfectly healthy. {{anchor:​s85}}If this view be correct, homoeopathy is sustained. {{anchor:​s86}}If it be wrong, then homoeopathic treatment must fall with it; or, as expressed by Dr. McNeil (p. 44), “we would be compelled to resort to gargling, cauterization,​ and large doses of drugs, capable of destroying the fungi.” +
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-{{anchor:​s87}}With regard to the department of therapeutics,​ it is to be regretted that there is no repertory to the remedies. {{anchor:​s88}}Nothing adds so to the value of these little monographs as a good repertory. {{anchor:​s89}}It is the secret of the success of Dr. J. B. Bell’s now celebrated book on diarrhoea. {{anchor:​s90}}Dr. McNeil should prepare such a repertory for his next edition. {{anchor:​s91}}In the pathogenesis of //Lac. Can.// The exudation is represented as going from left to right, like //​Lachesis.//​ {{anchor:​s92}}This,​ we are inclined to think, is an error. {{anchor:​s93}}The symptoms of //Lac. Can.// commence on the left side, then leave that side altogether and reappear on the right side. {{anchor:​s94}}They soon get better on the right side, and return to the left again, and so on.{{anchor:​s95}}%%*[%%See Dr. Swan’s proving of //Lac. Can.// in //The Organon//, Vol. iii, p. 405, paragraph 3d.] In the pathogenesis of //​Lachesis//,​ third line from the bottom, should read, “fluids are swallowed with //more// pain than solids.{{anchor:​s96}}” The statement in the text reads //less.// {{anchor:​s97}}This error originally appeared as a typographical blunder in Lippe’s Materia Medica, from which it was probably inadvertently taken. {{anchor:​s98}}There are a few typographical errors, as on page 37, line thirteen, the decimal point is placed to the right of the fraction. {{anchor:​s99}}It should be at the //left//, thus: .001. {{anchor:​s100}}On page 39, //Algae// is misspelled. {{anchor:​s101}}On the whole, this is an excellent little book, well worthy of the prize. {{anchor:​s102}}We congratulate the committee who awarded it upon their excellent judgment. +
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-{{anchor:​s103}}W. M. J. +
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-====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== +
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-^ Source: | The Homoeopathic Physician Vol. 01 No. 08, 1881, pages 396-400 | +
-^ Description:​ | BOOK NOTICES AND REVIEWS. | +
-^ Author: | HPhys01 | +
-^ Year: | 1881 | +
-^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | +
-^ Attribution:​ | Legatum Homeopathicum |+
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